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Fresh off Monday evening’s debate with Democratic rival Bob Kerrey, Republican U.S. Senate candidate Deb Fischer got a chance to stand on her own and talk to students at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Tuesday evening.

In a relatively rushed half-hour, sandwiched between two other campaign stops, Fischer laid out her beliefs and policy ideas to about 50 students and other Lincoln resi-dents, most sporting blue Deb Fisch-er stickers.

After chatting with most of those in attendance, the candidate — a rancher from Valentine, Neb., and state senator since 2004 — largely stuck to the same script she did in Monday’s debate, stressing what she said was an urgent need to cut federal spending and regulation and rein in a $16 trillion federal debt without raising taxes.

“Everything else stems from that,” Fischer said. “You talk to any business, you talk to any hospital, you talk to any school, you talk to any manufacturer, and they’ll tell you government is out of hand.”

On other hot issues, including energy, health care and defense,

Fischer agrees with her party: Use the country’s oil and coal reserves, repeal the Affordable Care Act or ‘Obamacare,’ and prevent the de-fense budget from being reduced by $500 billion.

“You have the Secretary of De-

fense (Leon Panetta) saying those cuts will be a bullet to the head,” Fischer said. “That doesn’t provide security for our nation and it cer-tainly, certainly doesn’t provide se-curity for the world.”

Fischer’s audience was largely

friendly to her message and many attendants said they were glad for the opportunity to talk with her in person.

“I hear about Fischer a lot, so I wanted to come check her out for myself,” said Maggie Glogowski, a junior elementary education major.

With Fischer’s background in education — she served on her town’s school board — Glogowski said she trusted the candidate’s judgment.

Drake McNally, a student at Lin-coln High School and self-described conservative, said attending was a way into the political world.

“This is the first real event that I’ve been to,” McNally said. “I have to say, I agree with almost all of her views.”

A handful of opponents were in the audience, as well, including Tyson Johnson, a senior in political science and economics. Johnson said he appreciated Fischer coming out to the university, but added he was somewhat frustrated by the event’s shortness.

“She continued to be very vague, specifically in her largest claim of getting a balanced budget,” he said. “I was really hoping for an

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For two years, the house at 1510 Vine St. sat empty. Construction crews came and went, people occasionally stopped by, but the house was decidedly devoid of fraternity members. This summer, the house sprang to life once again.

Three years after its suspension, Sigma Chi has returned to campus at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, though most everything has changed, but the name.

The vast majority of the house was reno-vated, its bylaws and constitution have been rewritten and only two of the original mem-bers remain in the fraternity.

“We’ve taken all the good things we used to do and gotten all the bad out of them,” said Daniel Pfingsten, a senior nutrition exercise and health sciences major and Sigma Chi president.

The fraternity was suspended for four years in September 2009 after several mem-bers were charged with hazing, procuring al-cohol for minors and sexual assault, the last

of which was dropped.Following the suspension, Sigma Chi un-

derwent a membership review and dropped nearly half of its members, Pfingsten said. The members who remained undertook the rewriting of the bylaws, constitution and pledge class materials.

“They put a lot of hard work in for very little pay off,” Pfingsten said of the members of Sigma Chi who worked on the rewriting.

Despite being suspended for four years, the fraternity petitioned for a reinstatement after two years and was able to recruit two years earlier than the original 2013 date, Pf-ingsten said.

The fraternity emphasizes quality over quantity with only 25 members, 15 of whom are pledges, Pfingsten said. This leaves the house 30 members below capacity with very few juniors and seniors.

Many of the members, though, view this as a positive.

“I can rise to power so much faster,” said Colin Costello, a freshman general studies major. “I want to rise the house up.”

During house’s vacancy period, a $2.6

million remodeling project was undertaken. Because of the renovation and smaller mem-ber size, the fraternity is one of the most ex-pensive on campus.

“We pay about eight grand with every-thing, but it’s still cheaper than regular hous-ing,” Pfingsten said. “It’s probably more pricey than the rest, but it’s worth it. The bed I got, nobody had slept in that bed before. It wasn’t a disgusting frat-house bed.”

After revamping nearly the entire fra-ternity, the chapter received the “best im-proved” award from the national Sigma Chi organization earlier this year. The fraternity has also implemented weekly Bible studies and a scholarship program for grade point average and involvement in the fraternity and around campus.

In February of 2008, a pledge told police he and others were forced to drink vodka and Tabasco sauce shots until they vomited and forced to stare at the ceiling for two hours while members verbally assaulted them. In one instance, the pledge said, a

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For Allison Skinner, a free visit to the University Health Center is every-thing.

A graduate psychology student, Skinner visits the health center about three times a semester and is enrolled in the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Healthy Option Student Plan, the health center’s insurance plan, which also allows her two free exams in the dental office.

UNL Chancellor Harvey Perl-man announced plans to privatize the health center on Sept. 11, and he sent a request-for-proposal (RFP) the following day asking local health care providers to submit bids to fund a new health center at 21st and Vine streets.

The university says it will search for a provider that agrees to offer the same services the center currently of-fers at the same or cheaper prices. But Skinner isn’t convinced.

Lately, she’s been trying to get the most use out of her insurance because she’s worried privatization might eliminate the plan and its benefits.

“I didn’t know what the changes would be, so that’s why I’m coming now,” she said.

Skinner was one of more than 15 students interviewed in the health center and around campus Tuesday who said they feel uninformed about the health center’s privatization pro-cess.

In fact, Philip Malchow, a senior psychology major, didn’t realize the center was even in a privatization process — and he uses the health center’s counseling services once a week. But Malchow said he isn’t too concerned with privatization plans.

“If it’s still up in the air, I’m alright with not being aware until it’s solidi-fied,” Malchow said in regard to the details of the services and costs the new provider will offer to students.

Some students, like freshman Elizabeth Hruska, learned about UNL’s health center privatization plans by email.

On Sept. 21, Vice Chancellor of Student Affairs Juan Franco sent an

email to students notifying them of the health center’s privatization pro-cess. Franco said students could also check the Student Affairs website for answers to frequently asked ques-tions.

It was the first time students were directly informed of the university’s plans following Perlman’s State of the University address in early Sep-tember.

Hruska, a general studies major, said the information provided was vague.

“I wish we could have more de-finitive answers,” she said.

Sophomore Jessica Carlson agreed.

Carlson, a meteorology-clima-tology major, was visiting the health center for a sinus infection. Although she only uses the health center every couple months, she said she appreci-ates the service because of its low-cost pharmaceutical prices.

And because Carlson is on her parents’ insurance and has to pay higher fees for certain services than students on the center’s student plan, she is happy she doesn’t have to pay a co-pay fee when she needs to use the medical clinic.

If a for-profit provider takes over the health center, Carlson said she is worried that convenience will disap-pear.

“It would suck,” she said. “I’ll be back to square one with paying out of pocket.”

And not everyone who uses the health center is a student.

Tom and Rebecca Randa, 31 and 28 of Lincoln, use the health center be-cause it’s the only provider in Lincoln that offers travel immunizations. Be-cause they are not students, they pay community fees.

Although they consider the cost of using the health center high be-cause they are not students, the Ran-da family said it’s a convenience not to have to travel to Omaha each time they want to travel to another country. Travel immunization services haven’t been outlined specifically in the RFP — the Randas are worried the con-venience of the center’s location will

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A resolution opposed to building private housing on top of a new parking garage spurred the first lengthy debate of the semester for the University of Nebraska-Lin-coln Residence Hall Association Tuesday.

The resolution — which passed with 13 votes yes, four no and 18 abstaining — was to show disapproval for a proposed UNL plan to build private apart-ments on top of the new parking garage at 18th and R streets. The Board of Regents tabled the plan at its September meeting, and the plan could be up for a vote at the board’s next meeting on Oct. 26.

RHA President Meg Brannen, a senior advertising and public relations major, said the private apartments would mean students living on campus could walk across the street to drink and re-turn to the residence halls, putting a bigger burden on hall staff.

It would create an unclear distinction between what is UNL property and what is private, Brannen said.

The private apartments would pay UNL $120,000 for using the space, but Brannen said she did not know which UNL department would receive the money.

Zach Christensen, a senator from the Kauffman Academic Res-idential Center and a junior bio-chemistry major, said he felt RHA was making a lot of assumptions about the effects the private hous-ing would have on the university.

Christensen said the $120,000 UNL would receive from the apartments could help keep future costs down.

“They raise our fees all the time,” Christensen said. “Money is money.”

Treasurer Nate Watley, a ju-nior computer engineering major, called the $120,000 a “drop of wa-ter in the money well.”

Christensen abstained from voting but said he didn’t know abstaining would mean the reso-lution would pass without a two-thirds majority. He said he would have liked to table the resolution for another week, pointing out the Board of Regents tabled the plans themselves.

Vice President Ryan King, a se-nior computer science major, said a two-thirds majority was only needed for constitutional amend-ments and budgets.

The resolution will be given to Association of Students of the University of Nebraska President Eric Kamler, a junior agricultural economics major, to present at the Oct. 26 Board of Regents meeting. Kamler is a student regent and will speak on behalf of RHA.

Brannen was happy with the level of discussion in RHA’s first controversial issue of the year.

“I’m so glad people were real-ly thinking and formulating opin-ions,” Brannen said. “I’m happy they asked so many questions.”

Sue Gildersleeve, director of University Housing, spoke in open forum to tell RHA senators about a market study Housing plans to do on Burr and Fedde halls on East Campus. Gildersleeve said Hous-ing has been looking to update all the residence halls, and the study will help formalize that process.

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dAn HOlTmEYER | dnDeb Fischer, Republican candidate for Nebraska’s open U.S. Sen-ate seat, chats with supporters in the Jackie Gaughan Multicul-tural Center’s Unity Room, where she briefly spoke and met with students Tuesday evening.

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There is an ever-growing religious chasm in America. That was the mes-sage acclaimed author and Harvard University professor of public policy, Robert Putnam, delivered to a packed Lied Center for Performing Arts Tuesday night.

Putnam’s presentation, “Ameri-can Grace: How Religion Divides and Unites Us,” based on his award-win-ning book of the same title, was the first in the E.N. Thompson Forum on World Issues “Religion, Rights, and Politics” series.

The book interprets collected data from “two of the most compre-hensive surveys ever conducted on religion and public life in America,” according to Putnam’s website.

Indeed, the presentation hinged on empirical and statistical data. Graphs and charts pointed to drastic changes in American religious views and attitudes over the past half-cen-tury. The power of his message, how-ever, came from the in-depth ques-tioning of what the findings mean for the nation’s future.

“We (Americans) are religiously devout and religiously divided and, in most parts of the world, that is a prescription for mayhem,” Putnam said. “The puzzle is ‘Can America be religiously devout, religiously divid-ed and religiously tolerant?’”

The answer is complicated, Put-nam admitted, but he said an increas-ing trend of tolerance in America will prevent the chaos that is evident in Middle Eastern religious clashes.

Putnam’s data pointed to a divi-sion among age groups. Many of the trends among older adults clashed with the statistics gathered on the younger generation, a finding that Putnam attributes, in part, to the oc-currence of 9/11 at an impressionable time in childhood.

According to his research, the percentage of Americans under 30 who identify as having “no religious preference” skyrocketed from 5 per-cent to 35 percent in the last 50 years.

This trend, Putnam stated, is still ac-celerating and represents a frustration with organized religion.

“College is the low point where most people are the least religious,” Putnam stated. College years, how-ever, are a time of political activism, Putnam said. This is where the polar-ization comes in. “Young voters say, ‘If that’s all religion is about — ho-mophobia and politics — then I’m out of here.’”

Veronica Riepe, director of Stu-dent Involvement at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, came to hear Putnam speak after reading his book. “I was surprised that such a large per-centage of young people are consid-ered non-religious,” she said.

Isaac Wells, a freshman chemistry major, found the findings fascinating, but not surprising.

“It was interesting to see that a lot of young people are still as spiritual as they used to be, but they don’t go to institutional religions because of politics. I wasn’t surprised by it.”

Katherine Hunt, a political sci-

ence graduate student, wanted to know more about Putnam’s claims about the generosity of those who identify as religious.

“Putnam’s findings that religious people tend to be ‘nicer’ was particu-larly interesting to me, though I think there may be explanations that were not explored,” she said.

The Harvard professor didn’t want his message to be entirely negative. “I’m an optimistic kind of guy, despite all the writing I do on problems,” he said to the group of 30 students that attended a question-and-answer session at the Nebraska Union Tuesday afternoon. “America really is a good country.”

Putnam also left the students with words of inspiration. As he sat on a desk in the front of the Union Auditori-um, slightly swinging his dangling feet, he said, “Your generation is the first spark of hope. You actually have the potential of being the first generation in a long time to fix (these problems).”

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Smoke is rising in a pillar to the sky. Sirens can be faintly heard in the dis-tance, but they’re getting closer. In-stead of a boxy, red brick cresting the hill, it’s a big black truck with flames painted on the hood.

Those with military experi-ence would identify this truck as an M35A2: a two-and-a-half-ton, six-wheeled transport vehicle used by the U.S. Army. Today, though, it is used by the Eustis Fire Department for off-road fire control.

The Nebraska Forest Service’s Wildland Fire Protection Program refurbishes used military vehicles, such as Eustis’ truck, for rural Ne-braskan fire departments.

“We’re a state agency em-bedded within the University of Nebraska-Lincoln,” said forester Don Westover. “We’re all univer-sity employees.”

In the early ’60s, the U.S. De-partment of Agriculture Forest Ser-vice started the Federal Excess Per-sonal Property (FEPP) Program, a government vehicle-recondition-ing system, according to fire equip-ment manager Lew Sieber. Sieber retired from the National Guard 23 years ago with experience working on emergency vehicles.

“We’re basically a government recycling program,” Sieber said.

The process begins in Mead, where outdated and unused government vehicles are first in-spected for damage and potential upgrades.

From there, the mechanical re-pairs and additions are made and the trucks are sent to participating departments.

“We recondition the trucks. We don’t do the paint jobs,” Sieber said. “We encourage the local fire departments to do their best (painting).”

Hence the flame-hooded M35A2.

The program has taken mod-els that include M978s, M1078s, M816s, M35A2s and M1008s, Sieber said.

“When they’re finished, they’re mainly used as grass rigs and tankers,” he said. “They haul water across fields to wherever the fire is.”

And the program doesn’t take only military vehicles.

“We also take the runway trucks that are used during emer-gency and crash landings,” Sieber said. “(They) can hold upwards of 1,000 gallons of water.”

Nebraska has 478 fire depart-ments, according to the Nebraska State Fire Marshal’s Office, and the program has at least one truck in about 50 percent of them, Sieber said.

“My personal goal is to get into the 60-70 percent range,” Sieber said.

Some fire departments have been reluctant in the past.

“People are initially timid to use (the reconditioned fire trucks), but we have had very few dissat-isfied customers,” Sieber said.

The program has taken some financial blows in the last two years.

The Wildland Protection Pro-gram has seen around $70,000 in cuts during that time, along with the loss of a reconditioning me-chanic and the Wildfire Suppres-sion Training and pre-suppression planning programs.

But Sieber doesn’t see the re-conditioning program going any-where.

“Were our program to close down tomorrow and the gov-ernment to pull back all of our trucks, the volunteer fire de-partment would have to (collec-tively) raise about $30 million to replace the lost vehicles,” Sieber said.

Westover agreed. “This pro-gram is the pride of the Nebraska Forest Service,” he said.

“At a time like this when the economy is pretty low and fire de-partments have a limited budget, this program fits their needs quite well,” Westover said.

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Gretchen Forsell has seen a differ-ence in Norfolk, thanks to the Area Health Education Center.

Now Lincoln is set to get its own.

Forsell directs Norfolk’s North-ern Nebraska Area Health Educa-tion Center, which focuses on re-cruiting and retaining health care professionals in rural or under-served communities around Ne-braska. Since the program’s imple-mentation in 2002, Forsell said she has seen an improvement in her community through the number of students pursuing health-care ca-reers.

“We have a variety of health professionals in the region … who started out in our programs when they were in high school,” she said.

With a five-year grant from the Health Resources and Services Ad-ministration, an agency in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the University of Nebraska Medical Center is building a new cen-ter in Lincoln and renewing its fund-ing for the other Nebraska centers.

There are four existing Nebras-ka centers: Norfolk, Grand Island, Scottsbluff and Omaha, according to a UNMC press release.

Dr. Michael Sitorius, chairper-son of family medicine at UNMC and director of Nebraska Area Health Education Center in Omaha, said the Lincoln center will be on the Doane College campus. The centers are part of a national program pres-ent in almost every state, he said, and they educate students, as well as offer hands-on experience.

“The focus is in rural areas spe-cifically … (and) on education,” he said. “The goal of the whole pro-gram is to try to build a health care work force … We’re hoping that the end result is more healthcare profes-sionals.”

Forsell estimated that upward of 75 percent of students who become involved in the program during or before ninth grade are still involved when they graduate high school, and they don’t expire out of the sys-tem when they graduate, either.

Forsell said some of the pro-grams offered by the Nebraska health education centers include a popular summer camp and a “huge” job shadowing program that involves professionals in over 300 different careers in the health care world. These careers range from the IT professionals who work in hospi-tals, to surgeons, dentists and more, she said.

“It’s giving us an opportunity

to show students what they (don’t) know about,” she said.

Sitorius said other events in-clude eighth grade science fairs and health fairs for fourth, fifth and sixth graders.

Nebraska centers have received federal funding for 13 years, accord-ing to the press release.

Sitorius said all federal funding must be “matched,” meaning the centers must come up with an equal amount of money, and all of it is split between the different Nebraska centers.

Sitorius also said that since the first two Nebraska health education centers were established 13 years ago, “there are more opportunities … and there has been increased in-terest.” But he added that the over-all success is difficult to quantify because many of the students who were first involved are just starting to graduate into larger endeavors and are still being tracked.

According to Forsell, Nebraska health education centers serve 26 counties in the state. To reach ru-ral and underserved students, it is necessary for staff and programs to travel, she said.

“We try to showcase careers that are going to be important in the next few years that people don’t think about,” Forsell said. “(Healthcare professionals) can make a tremen-dous difference in someone’s life.”

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COuRTESY | dnStudents learn about health at a area Health Education Center in Nebraska. a new center will be opened on the Doane College campus to serve the lincoln area.

lincoln receives grant to build health center

Speaker forecasts U.S. faiths, future

Students will receive hands-on experience at a new rural health center

COuRTESY | dna refurbished military truck that now helps Nebraska fire depart-ments fight fires is shown above. The trucks are given to depart-ments by a Nebraska Forest Service program.

Military vehicles help fire departmentsRefurbished trucks serve as useful tools for Nebraska’s fire departments

mATT mASin | dnRobert Putnam talks to a capacity crowd at the lied Center while delivering his speech, “american Grace: How Religion Divides and Unites Us,” at the first E.N. Thompson forum of the 2012-13 academic year.

vanish.Perhaps the largest concern lies

with the international students, who are required to enroll in the health cen-ter’s insurance plan unless they have a plan of their own.

Chi Kalu, an advertising graduate student as well as the center’s gradu-ate assistant of marketing, knows what it’s like to be both an internation-al student and health center employee.

“It’s going to screw a bunch of international students,” Kalu said in regard to the privatization.

Kalu came to UNL from Nigeria in 2005 as an undergraduate.

“I came here not knowing what insurance is,” she said, which is a problem Kalu says international stu-dents frequently face when they study in an unknown country.

With the center’s insurance plan,

Kalu said everything was readily available to be paid upfront through student fees, so she didn’t have to worry abou t paying out of pocket. But Kalu fears that won’t be the same with a new provider.

“I am petrified of the costs of go-ing into an emergency room,” she said.

Location was also a convenience for Kalu. The center is at the heart of campus and directly north of Selleck Quadrangle, a residence hall where international students typically live, Kalu said.

“They know where to go,” she said.

If services and location changes, international students will likely be-come confused, Kalu said.

“They really dropped the ball on this one,” she said in regard to the university not having re-

searched the effects of privatization or the current health services the health center offers.

“Nobody knows how this is going to happen,” Kalu said. “There are a lot of stakeholders in this, and (students) haven’t had a say at all.”

Tuesday morning, Perlman met with center staff to answer questions about the privatization process.

When Perlman was asked by the health center if the Daily Nebraskan could attend the meeting, Perlman re-fused, saying the Q&A session was for health center staff only, health center officials said.

The health center’s RFP bids are due Friday. A review board consisting of staff, faculty and two students will review the bids and determine which provider fits UNL’s expectations best.

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Well-dressed and seeking employ-ment, more than 300 students at-tended the Engineering and Tech-nology Career Fair at the Nebraska Union on Tuesday.

At the first of three Fall Career Fair Days, students were invited to exchange resumes and speak with professionals at 126 companies, in-cluding Cabela’s, Garmin Interna-tional Inc. and Microsoft Corp.

For some students, like Brett Thompson, Tuesday’s career fair was a familiar experience.

“This is my fourth career fair, and by this point, I’m basically just going through the motions,” the se-nior mechanical engineering major said. Although he had not received any internships or employment op-portunities in the past, Thompson arrived armed with 15 resumes to distribute to companies such as HDR, Inc. and Spirit AeroSystems.

“I’ve only given out five so far, but I did get an interview with Union Pacific tomorrow,” Thompson said.

Almost every companies’ booths had some sort of handout for students such as pens, keychains or candy. Kellogg’s representatives gave away miniature boxes of Ap-ple Jacks and Fruit Loops and Lea-seTeam Inc. distributed calculators.

Kristin Luedtke, human re-sources manager of JEO Consulting Group, Inc. and her partner present-ed students with drawstring bags.

“We hire an intern from the ca-reer fair at least once a year,” Lu-edtke said. “It’s not very difficult for our company to sell ourselves because so many students are here looking for these job opportunities.”

Outside the Centennial Room, where booths were set up, there was a “Take a Professional Photo” booth — another chance for students to con-nect with employers. The booth al-lowed job seekers to have their photo-graph taken and then uploaded onto their LinkedIn account, a website that

links employers and job seekers.On Wednesday, the career fair

continues with 126 more companies in the business, service, govern-ment, liberal arts and science fields at the Nebraska Union from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

The fair concludes Thursday in the Nebraska East Union where 66 agricultural science and natural resource companies will be on site from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

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mORGAn SPiEHS | dnJason Chambers of lincoln industries gives his card to a career fair attendee Tuesday in the Nebraska Union. Chambers is an alumnus of UNl’s teaching college.

mORGAn SPiEHS | dnZach Coppersmith, a junior civil engineering major, talks with Gallup’s Director of Talent Sourcing Jodi kennedy during the engineering and technology career fair Tuesday on the second level of the Nebraska Union. Gallup has hired three to four interns from UNl previously and is looking to double its internship opportunities.

opportunity to question her, just to have a civil conversation.”

The event was just the latest stop in the campaign for one of Ne-braska’s Senate seats up for grabs with Sen. Ben Nelson’s retirement. With Senate control hinging on each seat, both sides are watching Nebraska’s contest carefully, and Fischer said Tuesday this year’s race is the most important race in her memory.

Her talk was organized by Stu-dents for Fischer and sponsored by the Association of Students of the Univer-

sity of Nebraska and Pi Sigma Alpha, a political science honor society.

“It’s been an ongoing effort to bring political figures … throughout the year,” said Sergio Wals, an assis-tant professor of political science and ethnic studies and Pi Sigma Alpha’s faculty advisor. “All of these events are run on the students’ initiative.”

The event was possible, Wals said, thanks to the effort of Mairead Safranek, a junior studying public relations and political science, one of his students and an assistant scheduler for Fischer.

Next on the docket is to hold a similar event for Kerrey, a Vietnam veteran and former Nebraska gov-ernor and senator who is running against Fischer. Pi Sigma Alpha recently reached out to the Kerrey campaign and an event for him should come in the next few weeks, said Mike Wehling, the honor soci-ety’s president.

“Hopefully we’ll get that soon,” Wehling said. “It’s good to have both sides here on campus.”

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stripper allegedly anally penetrat-ed him with a dildo.

“I guess the thing is, the sexual assault in our eyes didn’t hap-pen,” Pfingsten said. “I was there, it didn’t happen. It got completely dropped, but as far as campus goes, we’re the ‘dildo guys.’”

Pfingsten said much of the haz-ing wasn’t as malicious as it was portrayed.

“You knew they weren’t right, but it’s such a group-think idea,” Pfingsten said. “Some of the stuff was fun. So everything they did bad to us, we did back. And that’s what built the brotherhood. They poured water on us. We’d shove them in the shower. It was fun.”

Pfingsten mentioned one such instance when the pledges were made to stand for two hours and stare at the ceiling. The pledges were also reciting bylaw and con-

stitutional information, but that part wasn’t mentioned in the me-dia, Pfingsten said.

Pfingsten is one of the two members who witnessed the house’s suspension and its subse-quent rebuilding.

“There was a lot of good guys here, it’s just the culture,” Pfing-sten said. “It was the norm to us at the time. It’s so easy to slip into a downward spiral.”

At the time, Pfingsten said he felt the activities of Sigma Chi were nor-mal for a Greek house on campus, which is why the suspension came as a huge shock to the fraternity.

“We knew it was coming about a month or two before we got charged,” Pfingsten said. “We just didn’t know the severity of it. I don’t want to say we were made an example of, but we kind of were.”

While some members left the

fraternity, most members of Sigma Chi moved to scattered houses off-campus and maintained a “pseu-do-fraternity,” Pfingsten said.

“It was a tough time for us when we found out we were get-ting kicked off,” Pfingsten said. “I’ve never seen any house be so demoralized so fast. I know a lot of the houses still haze here and not as bad, but I’d tell them, it’s not worth it. You can actually be better men without it.”

Pfingsten said the past few years have been a roller coaster.

“I’ve had my ups and downs,” he said. “Coming out of it, I’ve be-come a leader. It was weird being Greek and not recognized as being a Greek, but I’ve come out of it for the better. The easy way out was quitting.”

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In honor of LGBT History Month, it’s pop quiz time! Answer as many as you can:

1. When did the American Psychi-atric Association remove homosexual-ity from its list of mental illnesses?

2. Who was the first openly gay elected public official in the U.S.?

3. What does “LGBT” stand for?4. Where is it legal for gay couples to get

married/civil unionized? The answers are: 1. 1973. 2. Harvey Milk.3. Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender. 4. Connecticut, Iowa, Massachusetts,

New Hampshire, New York and Vermont. So, how did you score? If you’re like

most, you probably knew one. Pat yourself on the back if you answered two correctly. If you Googled some answers, at least you showed some initiative.

The LGBT community is often misun-derstood because the general population is taught nothing of its history. We learn about black civil rights and women’s suffrage in elementary, middle and high school. Yet in order to learn the basics about gay history, you have to take college-level courses spe-cifically addressing it.

Not that we discuss civil rights or wom-en’s suffrage enough – but that’s a different subject. My point is simple: those move-ments get a small chapter in a textbook. LGBT history gets nothing.

Without teaching our history, people are

left with many inaccurate impressions. The first major problem is that people perceive homosexuality and gender identity issues as something new. This is simply untrue. LGBT people have been around since history has been written. Even though there is a lot of debate and speculation in regards to the sexual oreintation of historical figures who weren’t explicitly “out”, here are a few who are considered part of the LGBT community by various scholars.

Alexander the Great: Macedonian ruler and successful commander reigning from 336-323 BC. Bisexual.

Michelangelo: Italian artist in the 15th to 16th century, most revered for painting the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. Rumored to have been gay.

Oscar Wilde: famous Irish author and playwright in the late 1800s. He was openly gay and jailed for it on multiple occasions.

Willa Cather: the woman whom Cather Hall on campus is named after. She was a fa-mous Nebraskan author and poet. Lesbian.

J. Edgar Hoover: first Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) from 1924 until his death in 1972. Gay.

Frida Kahlo: Mexican artist, most known for her abstract self-portraits. Bisexual.

Salvador Dali: Spanish artist, most fa-mous for his “Persistence of Memory” paint-ing which depicts melting clocks. Gay.

Lana Wachowski: co-director of the Ma-trix trilogy and V for Vendetta. MTF (male-to-female) transgender.

Maurice Sendak: author of the beloved

“Where the Wild Things Are” children’s book. He lived with his life partner, Eugene Glynn, for 50 years. Gay.

Sally Ride: American astronaut who flew aboard the space shuttle Challenger in 1983 and recently passed away after a battle with pancreatic cancer. Lesbian.

An issue many historians run into is the self-identities of LGBT people throughout history. Maybe people in history didn’t iden-tify as LGBT, or maybe they were closeted. Is it the historians place to “out” them?

The trials and complexities of LGBT people need to be a part of public discourse. With understanding comes acceptance, and that’s exactly what the LGBT community is looking for.

Gay history is left out of the public’s knowledge base. Oftentimes, this is done

because the discussion of sexual orientation is taboo. However, it’s the responsibility of our educational institutions to teach us about these people. This would benefit not only the general population, but would give LGBT teens a greater sense of community.

A huge issue among LGBT youth is feeling isolated, alone and alienated from their peers. People fear what they don’t understand – the definition of a phobia is the irrational fear of something. Homopho-bia and transphobia stem from ignorance. Maybe learning about LGBT people in the classroom would help bring an end to LGBT bullying and could save LGBT teens from at-tempting suicide.

That isn’t to say there haven’t been im-provements. The It Gets Better Project shows thousands of LGBT individuals discussing how coming out isn’t the end of the world. Strides have been made since gay people were tied together and burned alive, like bundles of sticks. This is where the mod-ern sense of the word “faggot” comes from. Also, LGBT people are no longer stigma-tized as being mentally ill.

There is another noticeable trend, too: more people are coming out. As we move forward through history, we begin to see more examples of prominent, out LGBT people. As LGBT individuals gain visibility, their social standing improves. An under-standing of the past leads to more legal vic-tories, laws to protect the LGBT community are made.

Knowledge of LGBT history helps with

understanding landmark victories for LGBT people in the present. These include Califor-nia’s recent decision to ban reparative ther-apy. Until this occurred, LGBT teens were subject to attending “therapy” sessions to “cure” them of their homosexual tendencies with the consent of their parents.

Knowing this part of history may spur more people into action. Reparative therapy is still legal in other states. History isn’t just the past; it’s happening in the present. Being aware of injustice is the first step toward fix-ing it — history in the making.

Simply put, LGBT people and their al-lies need a sense of history for a community to exist. A common ground. A starting point.

Without that point of origin, people are left with this impression that our commu-nity is a new phenomenon or “phase.” As if the culture itself was manufactured by the media rather than forged with the hard work and dedication LGBT individuals and their allies.

The LGBT community is simply asking for inclusion. While most imagine “inclu-sion” to mean marriage equality and other forms of legal enfranchisement, but that’s only the beginning. Include our history in the classrooms. Legitimize us in the main-stream culture.

We are more than gay pride parades. We are a culture with a history.

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Growing up, I was always aware of the existence of homosexuals. However, I never knew what I was supposed to think about them. Both of my parents are fairly con-servative Christians, and I appre-

ciate everything I learned from them. However, they failed to teach me about certain issues.

The only conversation about homosexual-ity I remember having with my mom was after I learned Ellen DeGeneres was lesbian. This talk fell along the lines of “love the sinner, not the sin,” and wasn’t particularly helpful. Don’t get me wrong, I was never explicitly told that homo-sexuality was evil. Instead, it became a coldly ta-boo topic; forbidden before I knew it needed to be. Unable to talk about it, I was lost between assum-ing it was a greater issue than it needed to be and ignoring it entirely.

Then in 10th grade one of my close friends came out. For his privacy, I’ll call him Matt. Be-fore he came out, we had chatted frequently. We’d share frustrations over relationships, expectations from parents and school assignments. I thought I knew who he was. I’d never thought he might be different. Then, as we talked and he told me what he’d been going through, I realized he wasn’t dif-ferent at all.

Obviously, he was still Matt. He still worried about how he was going to do on our Algebra II test. He still hated it when any of his friends were in a fight. He still had big dreams for how he was going to make the world better.

Thus I learned: if this great guy was the same person he’d always been, then it didn’t matter what his sexual orientation was.

Somehow, though, I was missing something. I wasn’t thinking about what being gay actually meant for him or how it would change his life.

However, Matt’s life did change. His parents refused to even acknowledge his coming out. They assumed it was another “teenage phase.” During the next few years, I saw Matt lose a num-ber of friends and get kicked out of his house. While he grew more thoroughly into himself, he had to struggle more against the world.

Our senior year, Matt was done with the life he didn’t want and the parents who didn’t know him. He dropped out, moved to New York City, and began acting and modeling. The sheltered

rule-follower in me worried about him not finish-ing school and being on his own.

More than anything, though, I was proud of him. Few of us can claim to have earnestly pur-sued our dreams without question and without giving up. Matt did this despite being alone in an unfamiliar city and despite the prejudice he faced at home and in the larger community.

Matt has since done amazingly well for him-self. He works consistently, has a fabulous apart-ment in the city and has earned his General Edu-cation Diploma.

Since then, several more of my friends have come out to me, and I have accepted them. How-ever, the beliefs I had grown up with were be-ginning to clash with my dedication to friends. I needed to reconsider and clearly define my be-liefs.

Before this realization, I wasn’t remotely in-terested in politics or current events. I found the news depressing and irrelevant. My freshman year of college, however, I became exposed to a much more politically active culture and a con-stant stream of information. When I began to write for the Daily Nebraskan, I learned that I couldn’t simply ignore political, moral, societal or religious issues. To write intelligently I had to truly consider and formulate opinions on those issues.

As I’ve formed opinions, I’ve focused on the fact that as a Christian, I believe I never have the authority to judge others. I’m one person, and I wouldn’t presume that I know everything about

what is right or wrong. I do, however, believe in the Bible’s message of love.

Many people, even non-Christians have heard John 3:16: “For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.” The bit that people forget, however, is John 3:17: “For God did not send his Son into the world to con-demn the world, but to save the world through him.”

The key is belief in God. No one is perfect and everyone sins. Christianity is not about becoming perfect. Quite the contrary, faith in God means be-lieving he will accept you exactly as you are. I fig-ure if Jesus didn’t deny the existence of people re-gardless of their style of living, then neither can I.

Jesus was all about love. Love is kindness, patience and acceptance. Love means respecting the ability of individuals to rule their own lives. Some may believe homosexuality is a sin, but that belief doesn’t give them a right to hate or to harm other people. Religious or not, every group has to respect the laws of human dignity.

I don’t get to tell someone who they should be or how they should live. I believe in God and in Jesus’ message of love. I believe that loving some-one isn’t about tolerating him or her or “loving the sinner not the sin” because that’s my Chris-tian duty. Instead, I love those people for who they are in their entirety. That means accepting homosexuality as an integral part of their identity, not dismissing it as an unfortunate disease or a corruptive behavior.

Ignoring LGBTQA issues may be easier or more comfortable than examining our beliefs. However, the struggle for gay rights will continue and citizens are going to have to learn how to talk about it. For children to become informed, active citizens, parents can’t abandon them to the world without a groundwork of understanding. Howev-er, bombarding children with a single viewpoint is equally irresponsible if it’s excluding the impor-tance of love.

I don’t have all of the answers. I don’t pre-sume to speak for the LGBTQA community. I just know I’m an ally and my friends are courageous.

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new ‘therapy’ law encourages safety, promotes equality

California will become the first state to prohibit licensed therapists from performing “reparative” or “conversion” therapy on patients under 18. Reparative therapy is used in attempts to change sexual orientation, specifically to eliminate homosexual tendencies and reinforce heterosexuality.

California Gov. Jerry Brown signed the legislation into law on Saturday night and it will take effect on Jan. 1, 2013.

“This bill bans non-scientific ‘therapies’ that have driven young people to depression and suicide,” Brown tweeted. “These practices have no basis in science or medicine.”

Despite assertions by several prominent psychiatric organi-zations of the ineffectiveness and harmful potential of repara-tive therapy, proponents of the treatment insist that the law will hinder parents’ right to seek psychiatric help for children experiencing gender confusion.

A Christian legal group even filed a lawsuit on Monday to overturn the law.

This law, which states that mental health providers who use reparative therapy on patients under 18 would be engaging in unprofessional conduct and subject to discipline by their respec-tive state licensing boards, serves two purposes. First, it protects minors from being forced into reparative therapy. Secondly, it helps reinforce the idea that homosexuality is not a disease that needs to be cured.

In cases of trauma and sexual confusion, therapy can be helpful for patients who undergo sessions willingly. However, most minors who are subjected to reparative therapy are forced into it by their parents or guardians.

The American Psychiatric Association, the world’s largest psychiatric organization, determined that reparative therapy poses a great risk to patients, including increased likelihood or severity of depression, anxiety and self-destructive behav-ior. Practitioners who approach homosexuality as a flaw that needs to be fixed can actually end up reinforcing self-hatred that patients already feel because of societal prejudices against homosexuality.

“The longstanding consensus of the behavioral and social sciences and the health and mental health professions is that ho-mosexuality per se is a normal and positive variation of human sexual orientation,” the association says.

The Daily Nebraskan would like to applaud Gov. Brown and the state of California for passing this historic law and encour-age lawmakers in Nebraska and across the country to follow his example. This law not only serves to protect minors from potentially harmful practices, but it also promotes tolerance and equality.

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The transition of video games from small beginnings to the multi-billion dollar industry they are today has spurred an interest in developing forms of study and analysis related to them.

However, the idea has yet to reach a large majority of col-leges. Some enthusiasts feel the field of study can no longer be ignored and these pockets of interested journalists and schol-ars push their passions for electronic entertainment forward. Some people want to know why Mario jumped.

Marco Abel, associate professor of English at the Univer-sity of Nebraska-Lincoln, is not a “gamer,” but that doesn’t mean he discounts them.

“I don’t see a reason why academia should not eventu-ally pay as much attention to video game culture as it did, and does, to TV or the cinema,” Abel said. “I suspect that game studies will, in a few decades from now, be fairly mainstream in academia, especially once the next generation of scholars enters academia who’ve grown up with games and, in fact, have seen it rise to a dominant cultural form.”

Nico Dicecco is a Simon Fraser University Ph.D. student of English and the project manager at mediumdifficulty.com. The website is self-described as having, “an interest in critical analysis of games and their place in a larger cultural context.” Dicecco said gaming is dominated no more by young men, but by a variety of people all playing for different reasons.

“What this adds up to is the reality that gaming culture is incredibly complex, intricate and dynamic; that means that it’s worth studying,” Dicecco said.

Kyle Carpenter, also a Ph.D. student of English at Simon Fraser and the submissions editor for Medium Difficulty sup-ported that point of view.

“Games are, without a doubt, worthy of study — largely because they command a degree of cultural influence that I think many conservative scholars miss,” Carpenter said. “I think the fact that an entire subculture where people identify themselves as ‘gamers’ attests to this fact.”

In 2009, the NPD (National Purchase Diary) released a report stating 63 percent of the US population plays video games.

Dicecco and his colleagues, Carpenter and Karl Paraken-ings, are excited about furthering the ways in which games are

Professor stresses ocean health

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David Watkins wants to save your life.

“At least twice a semester, I tell them something that can save their life,” said Watkins, a professor of oceanography and quantitative methods in paleontology at the Uni-versity of Nebraska-Lincoln.

Things like, how to survive

when you’re trapped in a rip current, what to do if your boat capsizes, and how to escape a shark attack.

First swim in the opposite direc-tion, Watkins said. And if that doesn’t work: “If you punch hard enough and fast enough, you can punch a shark in the nose and disorient it,” he said, adding, “Every class in the uni-versity ought to have something in it that can save your life.”

Current and aspiring professors, you’ve been warned.

Bobbi Brace, a graduate student in geology, can attest to Watkins’ unique teaching methods. Before becoming Watkins’ teaching assis-tant, she took three of his courses, in-cluding a “very intense” four-person class.

“There’s no hiding ... he’s always pushing you,” she said.

After becoming one of his as-sistants and working with him on nanofossil research, Brace said the work “is never dull.” She highly recommends anyone with a passing interest in geology or oceanography take a class with the professor, as he has “magic powers of persuasion” that could lead students down roads they never knew existed.

Watkins’ interest in paleontology stretches back as far as he can recall.

“Ever since I was a little boy, I knew that’s what I wanted to do ... save the world, get the girl, you know.”

After receiving his Ph.D. from Florida State University, Watkins

worked his way to the Midwest for the region’s paleontology reputation.

“There is a long series of re-nowned paleontologists that have worked here (at UNL),” Watkins said. “All through Kansas, Nebras-ka, South Dakota, Colorado (and) throughout the west are remnants of an ancient seaway that stretched from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico. Then around 95 million years ago the ocean invaded.”

What the ocean left behind for Watkins and others “are the greatest little fossils the world has ever seen.”

These microfossils or “chalk,” as he calls them, are what Watkins stud-ies.

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University campuses have long been thought of as hotbeds of liberal activism in the United States. Stereotype or not, 2009 University of Nebraska-Lincoln graduate Charles Holm recent-ly founded the only Socialist Club on campus.

Currently a teaching as-sistant in ethnic studies, Holm attended Catholic school until sixth grade, when he began tak-ing his religion seriously. He started questioning the differ-ences between rich and poor, the government and exploited workers in China, but teachers discouraged him.

“As a kid, I thought we should be taking care of the poor, because that’s what Jesus said,” Holm said. “So I found it weird that the Church was tell-ing me not to follow up on that line of thinking.”

Through fifth and sixth grade, Charles began reading about the more radical interpre-tations of the Bible: ideas such as relinquishing material pos-sessions and giving them to the poor. These beliefs led Holm to an interest in socialism, despite having no idea what the term meant at the time. At a young age, he participated in charity work and food drives.

“I guess on a basic level, that’s the point of socialism,” Holm said, “taking care of your community.”

Holm identified as a social-ist in high school. To him, the political ideology is more than just a form of government. It’s about creating a society where the majority of people make decisions about their everyday lives.

Holm has been inspired by famous poet Walt Whitman, writer Upton Sinclair and early 20th century African-American literature. He said he admires Malcolm X for his social justice work during the civil rights movement. More contempo-rary artists speak to him, as well.

“(In music) I like artists, like Lupe Fiasco, who write

pop songs but also have a mes-sage behind them,” Holm said. “Lupe Fiasco’s last album has some really radical stuff on it, challenging U.S. foreign policy, the war on public education and racism.”

Though the club is new this academic year, common mis-conceptions about socialism and communism ring in the ears of some students on cam-pus, Holm said.

In his view, the political powers that be, in China for instance, do not reflect true socialism. Chinese workers do not have control over the products they produce, which are then bought and sold in capitalist markets, Holm ex-plained.

“Socialism is working peo-ple fighting to create a better world,” Holm said. “I am a rev-olutionary socialist. I believe that capitalism fundamentally is a crooked system and that as long as it exists, there is go-ing to be mass inequality in the world. Not only that, but if it continues to exists, we are not going to have a world in which human beings can live.”

Holm’s interests and activ-ist pursuits have evolved over the years. His latest stance was the creation of the Socialist Club on campus. Events such as the Wisconsin Uprising, the Arab Spring and worker strikes in Greece and Spain persuaded him to found the club here and now.

“Right now we’re doing several things,” Holm said of the club. “We’re getting people to read Marx. We’re going to start a reading circle, and we want to support other things going on in terms of activism in Lincoln, like the Slut Walk that’s coming up.”

The club will also be bring-ing in speakers for its members and holding reading discus-sions of what they consider to be crucial texts. Information can be found weekly on the bul-letin board of the City Union, with fliers and a Facebook page coming soon.

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brianna soUkUP | dn david k. watkins poses for a portrait in his office at bessey Hall on tuesday, oct. 2. watkins is a professor in the department of earth and atmospheric sciences at the University of nebraska-lincoln, teaches a course in oceanography. He is known for his classroom passion and off-the-wall stories.

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“Games are, without a doubt, worthy of study — largely

because they command a degree of cultural influence that i think many conservative scholars miss.”

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We met at the cop shop.I realize that sounds like we

met in jail, but believe me when I say it’s far less romantic than that.

I spent the summer reporting for a local radio station, and that’s when I met him. Every morning, local television, radio station and newspaper reporters would meet with the police department for stories about crimes that occurred the night before.

At first I didn’t notice him sit-ting behind me, but as I twisted in my chair to pop my back, I caught my first glimpse. A smart smile

and just the right amount of stub-ble. He was visibly mature and, yet, a hot mess. I was intrigued.

I made a note to pop my spine in a sexier way next time, blushed and worked to focus on the police officer telling me about the mug shot projected on the wall in front of me.

The next few weeks were ag-gravatingly slow between us. We talked after police briefings, ex-changed flirty glances through re-ports of stabbings, robberies and people exposing themselves along bike trails.

Finally, after about a month, he caught me as I was leaving the police building and asked if I would get a coffee with him. I couldn’t; I had to go back to the radio station and deliver the news. I offered my number as compensation for turning him down, encouraging him to ask me out again; I would make sure I was free next time.

Still more time passed and the rou-tine continued. He seemed to find me sexiest when in a room full of journalists, police of-ficers and reports of crime. I don’t blame him; I also like to live on the dangerous side. But he didn’t text or call, and, as can be expect-ed, I began losing interest.

Then, one fateful day, an apartment building caught fire, and I was sent out to cover it. I collected interviews and scribbled

notes about the fire before packing up for the day. I hadn’t seen him at the scene and much to my own shame, I was a little disappointed. I began packing up my equipment before noticing a slight shadow creeping over me. I looked up. It was him.

He bent down and helped me pack my micro-phone. My heart was going wild.

“Want to get coffee tonight?” he asked.

“Of course,” I answered, reeling a bit.

We agreed to meet at a free jazz concert near cam-pus. The evening went unbeliev-ably smoothly. Both of us were on top of our

games; the sexual tension could be cut with a knife.

I thought it best to leave him wanting more by ending the night early, but I found myself at his apartment only a few short hours later.

He leaned in, and I gave in.Clothing piled on the floor.He said all the right things.

Dawn was creeping over the horizon, and we fell asleep for a few short hours before going to work again. Before going to the cop shop again.

He caught up with me after work, “How old are you?”

“20. And you?”“Holy shit. I’m 28. I thought

you were at least 25.”“No,” I responded. “I thought

you were closer to 25.”We looked at each other and

he assured me he didn’t care. A si-lence fell between us that we both knew no casual conversation, no reports about shootings or teenag-ers masturbating in parks could cut through. He looked down; I looked away. We filed single-line into the briefing room.

And that was the last conver-sation we had.

At first I drove myself crazy trying to figure out what I had done wrong, but I finally gave up. He and I continued to see each other during cop briefings, but did our best to casually ignore each other.

And that coffee date? It never happened; we moved a little fast-er than that.

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If you’ve ever seen the movie “Ti-tanic,” you remember the scene where Jack and Rose ditch a first-class dinner party for a night of dancing below deck with a steerage band, complete with high-energy percussion and an Irish fiddle.

It’s no surprise their evening took a turn for the better.

Bill Stephan, Executive Director at the Lied Center for Performing Arts, said Gaelic Storm has that kind of effect on a crowd.

Gaelic Storm brings a unique blend of traditional Irish and rock music to the stage. A one-time Celtic pub band made famous by its ap-pearance in the movie “Titanic,” they find themselves at or near the top of the Celtic/world music genre.

“They are an amazing group of talented musicians,” Stephan said. “Plus, they are true entertainers. They have a party on stage.”

Gaelic Storm came together in 1996. Band members Patrick Mur-phy, Steve Twigger and now former members Steve Wehmeyer and Bri-an Walsh performed at an Irish pub in Santa Monica, Calif., where Mur-phy worked. The group experienced

major success in 1997 after appear-ing in “Titanic” as the steerage band performing “An Irish Party in Third Class,” and has since added mem-bers Ryan Lacey, Pete Purvis and Jessie Burns.

The group plays Celtic music that hearkens back to its roots in Ireland, as well as drawing worldly influence and giving its music an American rock and pop feel.

Gaelic Storm will be performing at the Lied on Wednesday at 7:30 p.m.

This is the third time Gaelic Storm has come to Lincoln; first in 2004 and again in 2010.

“Last time they were here, we had a huge response,” said Mat-thew Boring, the marketing and sales coordinator at the Lied. “240 students have already purchased tickets for this year’s perfor-mance.”

Both Stephan and Boring agree that Gaelic Storm is a great oppor-tunity for University of Nebraska-Lincoln students to experience what the Lied has to offer.

“Gaelic Storm is a night of great entertainment,” Stephan said. “Stu-dents have busy and sometimes stressful lives. This concert is a midweek break from the books that they will remember far into the fu-ture.”

But students shouldn’t expect the usual fare from the Lied, Boring said.

“It’s not every year we have these big shows,” he said. “It’s high-energy Celtic rock with a concert at-

mosphere. It’s timely and relevant, and of course, it’s recognizable from ‘Titanic.’”

Gaelic Storm has now had three albums debut at No. 1 on the Billboard World Albums Chart, including 2012’s “Chicken Boxer.”

“‘Chicken Boxer’ has a little bit more of an acoustic feel,” Boring said, “But it still has that layered sound with unique instru-ments.”

In recent years, Gaelic Storm has performed on the same bill as acts like Zac Brown Band and the Goo Goo Dolls, and at events as varied as the Telluride Bluegrass Festival and Milwaukee’s Sum-merfest.

Stephan is confident Wednes-day’s performance is a must-see.

“Gaelic Storm will put on one of the best entertainment concerts of the year in Lincoln.”

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Gaelic Storm

when: wednesday, 7:30 p.m.where: lied center for Performing artshow much: $29 (public), $11 (students)

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“out of the Past” lecture

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jourdyn kaarre

The Lincoln Children’s Zoo is the dingleberry Omaha’s Hen-ry Doorly Zoo and Aquarium dropped on its way to becoming one of the top attractions of its kind in the world.

If you college students are considering visiting the Lincoln Children’s Zoo, you should save those monies and distribute them elsewhere in your budget. Anywhere else in your bud-get. You could visit the Omaha zoo, enjoy a Monday through Wednesday cocaine bender, buy Amigos soft shell tacos, adopt a cat, buy a flu shot, make ori-gami or just throw the money in a garbage can.

I don’t like to diminish the hard work of oth-ers, so I’ll blame my lack of enthu-siasm for the zoo on: a) sleeping on a tile floor the night prior and b) the absence of the West African dwarf crocodiles.

Because of Meg’s ever-growing depen-dency on bath salts, she missed out on this rivet-ing adventure. I can’t be liable for endangering the lives of others.

However, I coerced my other accomplice, Ringo, into joining me. Ringo is more a girl of the diva/debutante variety. She said things like, “That little girl just fondled my ass,” or “Hey, little bitch, stop chasing the pea-cocks,” or “Hey, kid, I like your Bulls jersey.”

Because I see most of the zoo animals on my daily walk to class, I’ll just highlight the best offerings.

The naked mole rats. We spent a great deal of time look-ing at these penises with teeth and legs. They are also maybe the dumbest creatures on the planet. They ran forward and backward down the tubes and sometimes wedged themselves into a helpless position, like ly-ing on their backs and scram-bling to flip over. I can’t be sure, but I think one of them was having sex with a stick? Another was running toward

the glass and kicking up shred-ded paper. It was a scene out of a crack house. I guess I would act the same way too if I bore an uncanny resemblance to a dick and lived in a plastic tube.

Outside shortly after begin-ning our zoo journey, we found the bobcat. The cat mostly just stood there, being a bobcat and such, and did a couple of howls for us. A man next to me told his young son, “He’ll tear your face off, man.” No doubt the son is in counseling now.

Next we headed to a hut and bought 50-cent tattoos. I about lost it when I found a tat that read, “Go Meat!” which was ac-tually “Go Team!” but after such a horrific letdown, I decided not to make the 12-year-old volun-teer apply the tattoo to my neck.

After one of the more disap-pointing moments in my life, we carried on to the penguins. However, we could only stand the stench of fish sticks for 17 minutes, so we left.

The white-handed gibbons. Do not fux with them.

Ringo and I were enjoying our last leg of the journey in

front of the glass at the gibbon ex-hibit. One gib-bon was chillin’ and swinging on the ball and the other was eyeing us from the tree. Like a bat out of hell, the gibbon in the tree swung full force and slammed into the glass right in front of us. He did it four times. We screamed ev-ery time. Loudly. Those guys were bastards.

You can feed camels at the Lin-

coln Children’s Zoo if that is something you’re into. Ringo liked that.

The West African dwarf crocodiles. There were none.

To really end our experience with a bang, we hopped on the train. The locomotive circles the perimeter of the zoo twice, so at least you don’t get your mon-ey’s worth. I thought about ca-sually falling out and/or stick-ing my arms and legs out of the train at all times just to get any sort of juices flowing.

The zoo is great if you’ve fornicated and procreated. For asshole, childless 20-year-olds maybe donate some cash to the zoo and spare yourself from be-ing surrounded by bad hair and dad jeans.

joUrdyn kaarre is a jUnior joUrnalism major.

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MISADVENTURES OF MEG & ME

Gaelic storm brings fiery, upbeat world music to lincoln wednesday night

coUrtesy | dnthe celtic rock band Gaelic storm found international attention and acclaim in the wake of an ap-pearance in the blockbuster “titanic.” the group will play at the lied center on wednesday evening.

to really end our

experience with a bang, we hopped on the train. the locomotive circles the perimeter of the zoo twice, so at least you don’t get your money’s worth.

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relationship could have gone better for short-lived couple’s junior member

i spent the summer reporting for a local radio station, and that’s when i met

him. every morning, local television and radio stations and newspapers would meet with the police department for stories about crimes that occurred the night before.”

lincoln children’s Zoo bores, robs non-children, Jourdyn and ringo

He bent down and

helped me pack my microphone. my heart was going wild.“want to get coffee tonight?” he asked.

First Friday reception:

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rachel staatsdn

Disney’s animated movie “Mu-lan” may not be a truly accurate representation of Chinese culture or tradition, but it has made more people in Western culture aware of a popular Chinese character.

“The figure of Mulan is such a globally recognized figure at this point,” said Kristine Harris, as-sociate professor of history at the State University of New York at New Paltz and a scholar on the history of early Chinese film.

Harris will be this year’s speaker for the third an-nual Mary Martin McLaughlin Me-morial Lecture, where she hopes to illustrate the changes between Chinese and West-ern interpretations of traditional char-acters — like Mu-lan — at her talk on Thursday.

Harris’ lec-ture, “Out of the Past: Women of the Middle Period Re-imagined in Chinese Film and Visual Cul-ture,” will focus mainly on Chi-nese characters created during the Middle Period and how they have been changed and adapted to be used in contemporary Chinese vi-sual art.

“What’s really interesting to me ... is the way they get revised and re-imagined in the modern period and why they become rel-

evant again,” she said.Her talk will involve a num-

ber of still images and some film clips, including some rare seg-ments of films from before 1949.

While the Mary Martin McLaughlin Memorial Lecture has always been sponsored by the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s medieval and renaissance studies program, this year’s lecture is co-sponsored by a number of other groups, including UNL’s women and gender studies programs, the department of history, the Ne-braska Humanities Council, the Confucius Institute and the Asian Community and Cultural Center.

“I wanted this year to show that we are very interdisciplin-

ary and also global in our approach to medieval and re-naissance studies,” said Carole Levin, director of the me-dieval and renais-sance studies pro-gram at UNL.

The interdis-ciplinary nature of this lecture is a change for Harris, as well.

“It’s a little dif-ferent (from other lectures) because I’m speaking to a broader audience,” she said. “I want to make some connec-tions between what they might be fa-miliar with already and the phenom-enon of the celebra-tion of these medi-

eval women in the modern period in another part of the world.”

Harris has been interested in Asian culture since her earliest years when she lived in Japan.

“I’ve always been fascinated by Asia,” she said. “I was particu-larly fascinated by Chinese char-acters.”

It was this fascination that lead her to study abroad in Bei-jing in college and now to share

her knowledge with others. She was asked by Levin some time ago to come and give a lecture as part of the medieval and renaissance studies programming, but sched-uling has been difficult because of Harris’ teaching schedule.

This year, however, she is conveniently on sabbatical and said she looks forward to visiting UNL and sharing a slice of lost or under-recognized culture and his-tory.

“China had this rich tradition of legends and mythologies and a very long history — thousands of years of history — so it was draw-ing upon all that even as it was modernizing,” Harris said. “That, in a way, is kind of the subtext of this talk.”

Levin, whom Harris has known for a number of years and whom Harris cites as a mentor for her teaching career, said she be-lieves this year’s talk will be more accessible to students of other disciplines, making the memorial lecture even more successful.

“This is something that’s drawing on many different inter-ests and disciplines,” Levin said. “I hope that makes it very acces-sible and very exciting to a range of students.”

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tyler keown

“Vanity is the heart of creativity.”Do you know who said that? (Me. It was me who said that.)As I walk the sidewalks, I am

aware of the camera that follows me. I like to act like I’m unaware, a la The Truman Show, but the twinkle you see in my eye isn’t as

spontaneous as you think.I’m just kidding, of course.

My life isn’t a television show, as much as I wish it were.

Rational thoughts have never af-fected how I think overall, however. My mindset is a blur of “You’re the star, Tyler!” and “Why didn’t any-one email me last week about that being-carried-by-owls thing?”

I’m not really sure what I’m writing about. I have plans in about an hour with a friend, and really, I’m just phoning this col-umn in. Feel free to go read some-one else’s work if you want now. I bet whatever Jourdyn wrote for today was good.

I’m sorry for this (and for ev-erything else). Here is what this column is about this week: me

listening to music while I walk to class and how it becomes a soundtrack for my life.

I recently bought a pair of Sony MDR-XB500 headphones (the “XB” stands for ‘xtra bass) and while they are very large, giving my already oversized head a Mickey Mouse look, I’ve enjoyed them so far.

I wear them a fair amount, and they’ve led to situations of note.

I’ll list them for the sake of content.

I was headed to class, listen-ing to “Hurt” by Johnny Cash. I watched a guy fall off his long-board at the same moment Cash croons “You can have it all/ my empire of dirt/ I will let you down/ I will make you hurt,” and if I didn’t know better, I would

have said the spirit of Cash was living in that longboard.

Last week, I was sitting out-side the Union, soaking up the sun and listening to Roy Orbi-son’s “You Got It.” I looked across to the fountain, where a boy sat with a girl that was presumably his ex-girlfriend, because she was both crying and furious.

That one wasn’t as funny. It was just interesting that there was such contrast between the song I was enjoying and the life events of that couple. This column can’t be all humor all the time. That just isn’t realistic, and if I am any-thing, I am realistic. I am also re-ally good at puns. You could say I am reallyistically good at puns.

The other instance of music af-

fecting my thoughts happened a few weeks back. I was listening to Skrillex (hey, what’s the good in having ‘xtra bass if you’re only lis-tening to a ‘ormal amount?) and no-ticed about 30 yards ahead me was a student with a half-shaven head of hair and a small, bony frame.

How could it be anyone other than Skrillex himself? A divine power had brought us together. I lengthened my stride and got clos-er to him, still like 89 percent sure that I was standing near the guy re-sponsible for all the bass that’s been dropped on campuses everywhere for the past couple years.

It wasn’t Skrillex. It wasn’t even a male. I shortened my stride in disappointment.

Reading that anecdote, it

wasn’t as funny as I thought it was, but hey, it’s already typed out. You get what you get in life. You almost never get Skrillex.

Check with me next week when I’ll explain why even the preachers in front of the Union won’t talk to you.

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joUrnalism major. reach him at arts@

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A STUDY IN SCARLET

new headphones come with great responsibility

examined. However, they under-stand the difficulties in establishing entire areas of study.

“To install a new department of study — particularly in these trou-bled economic times — will require a massive degree of public aware-ness and perception, similar to the fight to make English Literature its own study in the early years of the 20th century,” said Parakenings, the editor-in-chief at “Medium Dif-ficulty.”

Laura White, professor and Vice Chair of English at the UNL, said curriculum takes time to develop because of the many levels of ap-proval it must undergo, ranging from departmental committees to the university, as a broader institu-tion.

“The bulk of courses have to already be there,” White said of the potential for games studies classes. “So, the chance of having a major or minor in 10 years is slim.”

Aside from the challenges creat-ing new classes and programs pres-ent for proponents of game studies, the actual methods for breaking down video games appear complex, as well.

According to Parakenings, games are an interdisciplinary me-dium that must involve several departments of a school working together to successfully explore games.

“Similarly to a theater produc-tion, hundreds of people work to-

gether from different fields to pro-duce a video game,” Parakenings said. “Examining it from the view-point of only its narrative, only its game design, only its filmic framing, etc., seems less than appropriate.”

Elements from the technical side of development, social sciences and humanities are all considered when analyzing games. The University of Michigan’s video game studies web page mentions the employment of “media studies, popular cultural studies, American studies, psychol-ogy, sociology, education and litera-ture departments.”

“At the moment, it’s a pretty nebulous field, but it’s coming to-gether more and more each year,” Dicecco said.

Through the efforts of websites such as “Medium Difficulty” and a general rise in awareness, the poten-tial for classes, minors and majors for the analysis of games is rising.

The University of Southern California and the University of Michigan are moving toward inter-disciplinary courses that can apply to the diverse ways in which games and the surrounding culture can be understood.

“We need critical analysis of games to better understand the role that games play in our culture,” Di-cecco said. “Half of the equation is looking at how we play games, the other half is looking at how games play us.”

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“Chalk doesn’t come from fossils, chalk is fossils,” he said.

The microfossils Watkins studies are more important than just chalk, though. If one looks closely, “a hell of lot of closer,” Watkins said, one can see thousands of tiny skeletons that make up that fossil, or piece of chalk. In the professor’s experience, these fossils are crucial to our lives. “They provide you with most of the oxygen that you need to survive, through photosynthesis,” he said. “The hard part of the fossil provides oxygen, while the soft part provides oil and gas.”

Without that soft part, there are no fossil fuels, and, thus, no modern life. Watkins described our use of fossil fu-els as an addiction.

“It’s like alcohol,” he said. “It’s like

heroin. We know one of these days it’s going to do bad things, but we keep using them because they’re abundant and relatively inexpensive ... but they are doing us harm.”

The ecosystem of the seas and the oceans are a big part of Watkins’ life. He’s gone on many drilling expedi-tions, trying to decipher the secrets and details of the ocean.

“(I’m trying to find out) how warm is the water, how old is it, when (ocean-dwelling organisms) had lived and died, how salty was the water, how nutrient rich was the water, keys to reconstruct how the ocean worked in the past.”

After spending six weeks to two months at a time at sea and having traversed every ocean except the Arctic, Watkins is more comfortable

being wet than dry. He’s been to the Southern Ocean (where waters from the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans converge), which is so far from land that he dealt with “40, 50, 60-foot waves” and unpredictable wind patterns.

Watkins said the health of our oceans is serious to our future, not only because it represents 70 percent of our planet, but because it’s such a large part of our food chain.

“Once our whole system begins to change, we may be unable to change it in some way,” he said.

In his view, we’re dealing with the problems we are now because too many people in the world take the atti-tude of ambivalence or disdain toward the planet. Despite Nebraska’s land-locked status, Watkins said he believes

that citizens here have a serious envi-ronmental responsibility to the oceans, as well.

“Even the actions we take in the middle of the continent can make a dif-ference,” he said.

Watkins cited Midwestern farm-ers using too much fertilizer and the excess of vehicle-produced air pollu-tion from Chicago, causing huge areas of the Gulf Coast to become hypoxic, “dead zones” which cannot support life.

Watkins’ “saving lives” rhetoric is more than just classroom banter. It’s the current that runs through his aca-demic and professional life.

“Our actions do have consequenc-es,” he said.

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oceanograPhy: from 5 stUdies: from 5

lecture to address roles women in chinese art

if yoU go:out of the PaSt: women of the middle Period re-imaGined in chineSe film and ViSual culture

when: thursday, 5 p.m.where: Great Plains art museum, 1155 Q st., Hewit Placehow much: free

‘out of the Past’ to address western interpretations of chinese culture

rachel hohlendn

Rian Johnson’s “Looper” is a futur-istic science-fiction thriller that tells a multi-layered tale of ethics and ad-venture through time travel.

In the universe of “Looper,” time travel has been invented, but its use is just as complex and ille-gal as the ethical dilemma it pres-ents. As a result, time travel is used only by crime organizations under wraps. In 2072, the mob employs assassins, “loopers,” who live and work in 2042. The mob captures its targets in 2072 and beams them back to 2042 masked and attached to a sack full of silver. There, loopers are waiting to blunderbuss the target, dispose of the body and collect their

silver salary.Because of the illegal nature and

sticky implications of time travel, loopers work with an understand-ing that their employment is tempo-rary. When it’s time to terminate his or her position, or “close the loop,” the looper finds his or her latest victim from the mob is themselves and is strapped to a pack of gold, rather than silver. The gold gives the looper the next 30 years to live in as much luxury and lewdness as they please – and many do.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt plays Joe, a looper and junkie who cares for little more than his next fix, his next assign-ment and his 30 years of freedom. But when 2042 Joe is finally assigned 2072 Joe, his world both in the present and in future begin to unravel.

Joe’s confrontation with himself results in the core of the message of “Looper.” Beneath the booming gun fights, street chases and time travel, “Looper” is a requirement for Joe to confront not only himself in the present and the future, but the choices he’s made in between.

“Looper” is more a picture about priorities, love and loyalty than it is about future technological innova-tion. As Joe is required to confront his present and future, it’s also a reflection on his past and whether his decisions have truly made him happy, much less successful.

The greatest attributes to “Loop-er” are Gordon-Levitt’s and Bruce Willis’ performance as Joe. Gordon Levitt’s role as Joe is a nice follow-up to his foray into darker roles with Christopher Nolan’s “Inception” and “The Dark Knight Rises.” Willis’ role as “future Joe,” checking his golden pocket-watch for assassination ap-pointments, is done nearly as well as when he checked his golden pocket-watch in “Pulp Fiction” years ago.

Overall, the fast-paced action and suspense drive “Looper” for-ward, though its just under two hours long. However, its consider-ation of ethics and morality, in both the present and the future, extend far beyond that.

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Questions of morality drive ‘looper’

“i want to make some

connections between what they might be familiar with already and the phenomenon of the celebration of these medieval women in the modern period in another part of the world.”

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Latest Rian Johnson film transcends stale action, raises ‘what if’ questions

He recommitted to the Crim-son Tide and enrolled at the school in 2009, the same recruit-ing class as current Alabama starting running back Eddie Lac-ey and Cleveland Browns starting running back Trent Richardson.

The trio became roommates and good friends. However, Mar-row needed another kind of con-nection other than friendship. He needed a family connection. He was too far from home in Hol-land, Ohio.

“Once I realized that no one could make it down because of busy schedules, that’s what made me want to transfer and be closer to home,” Marrow said.

Marrow transferred to East-ern Michigan after redshirting his first year at Alabama. However, when Marrow went to school at Eastern Michigan, his dad, Vince Marrow, took a job as a graduate

assistant at Nebraska. Mike fol-lowed his family there the next year.

Adjusting to Nebraska has been easier for the junior fullback, especially with the amount of Ohio connections in the program. NU coach Bo Pelini is from Ohio and played high school basketball with Vince Marrow.

Nebraska also recruits heav-ily in the Ohio area, particularly near Mike Marrow’s hometown of Holland, which is a 15-minute drive from Ohio Stadium, “The Horseshoe,” where Ohio State plays its football.

“I think because of my ties, there are probably some areas of Ohio that we are going to recruit harder than other areas of Ohio,” Pelini said.

“Kids are comfortable com-ing here,” Marrow said. “You are always more comfortable when you have people here from your hometown.”

Nebraska already has nine Ohio players, including Marrow. Sophomore defensive lineman Kevin Williams is also from Mar-row’s hometown of Holland.

All of those Ohio guys return home this weekend when Nebras-ka takes on Ohio State in Colum-bus Saturday night. Marrow said as many as 30 of his close family and friends will be at the game.

“It’s going to be crazy and a lot of fun,” Marrow said. “I know a lot of the guys on the Ohio State team.”

Experiencing the Horseshoe won’t be as big of a deal for the Husker players from Ohio, espe-cially Marrow.

Growing up, Vince Marrow mentored Ohio State football players. Vince Marrow enabled Mike Marrow to interact with the Ohio State players. A couple play-ers especially close to the Marrow family were Maurice Clarett and Heisman Trophy winning quar-terback Troy Smith.

Vince Marrow’s job also en-

abled him to get tickets for his family. Mike Marrow said he went to many games in the Horse-shoe growing up, especially rival-ry games against Michigan and Penn State.

Mike Marrow’s Nebraska teammates ask him what the at-mosphere is like at the legendary Buckeye stadium. Marrow tells them the truth.

“I told them that it’s going to be the loudest stadium they’ve played in,” Marrow said. “It’s big here, but Ohio State is just as big if not big-ger.”

Marrow is ready to go for Saturday night’s game, according to running backs coach Ron Brown. At 6 feet 2 inches and 250 pounds, Marrow is ideal for short yardage situations.

Brown said Marrow could be-come a dangerous weapon for the Huskers in big time games.

“He’s got the potential to be an outstanding fullback,” Brown said. “He shows explosive power. When he understands what’s go-

ing on, he will smack you around. He’s a big, physical guy.”

Marrow also has the advan-tage of talking to his former Ala-bama teammates, who know a thing or two about becoming big-

time football players.

Hightower currently plays linebacker for the New Eng-land Patriots and Ingram plays running back for the New Orleans Saints.

T h o u g h Marrow talks to the duo that hosted him

when he stepped on Alabama’s campus four years ago, their talks usually aren’t too serious. How-ever, he still learns from them in their own way, he said.

“They just tell me to keep working hard and stay focused, everything else will work itself out,” Marrow said.

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brady Hoke, micHigan

On Dennard Rob-inson’s poise - “His poise has improved. There are still things we are all working toward, we need to get better at. Us playing on the road is something we all have to get better at as a team.”

On Purdue’s offense - “They’ve got a lot of play-makers on offense. The guys up front have a lot of ex-perience on the offensive line. Caleb TerBush is mak-ing good decisions. They are very skilled. They can run with good team speed. They seem to be in a good rhythm offensively.”

mark dantonio, micHigan state On growing up in

Ohio - “You grow up on football in that state. It’s very organized from the bottom up. There are a lot of strong high school programs and strong traditions throughout the state. It’s just one of the things you grow up with.”

On depth on the of-fensive line - “We lost two very good players. Travis Jackson is lost for the season. We do have six players who are available and have started for us in the past. We got some guys with some different things we can work with. We need to go on and make things work.”

bo pelini, nebraska On playing Big Ten

road games this year - “Every week is differ-ent. Every challenge is different. I don’t think it really matters where you are, but you have to play your best football. We have a challenge for us on Saturday playing a good football team.”

On the play of the linebackers against Wisconsin - “We haven’t played much base going into that game. For the first extended amount of time we were forced to, and really needed to play that kind of defense – our guys responded well.”

pHil parker (defensive coordinator), iowa

On defense against Minnesota - “Our kids have really focused on playing hard and improve every week. What we try to do is get them in the right spots. I think they were play-ing smart football and being physical. We still have a lot of improvement to do.”

On Anthony Hitchens’ play - “He’s a very active player. He’s been around the ball and been a produc-tive player. He’s still working on the things he needs to work on, just like everyone else. He’s done a good job with the tackles so far. We just got to keep improving what he is already doing.”

Jerry kill, minnesota

On intercep-tions for Max Shortell - “Well after looking at the film only one of those intercep-tions was his fault. It’s a consolation of working with young receivers. We have to do a better job of knowing the offense and run-ning better routes and catching the football.”

On what to work on in the bye week - “We are going to do exactly what we did last year. There are some fun-damental things we need to do. We got to clean things up fundamentally and we got to get healthy. Those are the two things we have to do.”

pat fitzgerald, nortHwestern

On the play of Michael Mauti - “Michael is terrific with his key reads. He’s a great tackler, physical at the point of attack. He’s been able to overcome two major injuries. That is the hallmark of his career. He’s a two-way player, great in the run and pass game.”

On Matt McGloin’s suc-cess against the Wildcats - “Matt’s had a ton of success against us. He’s killed us. We have to be gap sound. He’s got the ability to escape and move in the pocket. He understands where to go with the ball and the protection of the line. He’s very crafty.”

tim beckman, illinois

On bouncing back from back-to-back losses - “The things that we continue to stress is trying to take our program and get it better each and every week. There’s things that have happened these last two weeks that have really bitten us. We’ve really been our own worst enemy.”

On Penn State quarterback Matt McGloin - “He progressed in our football game. Just standing there on the sidelines, you could see the leadership that he possessed and the command he had on the foot-ball field also.”

kevin wilson, indiana

On defending the run heavy Michigan State at-tack - “If you stack it up, you better be able to hold up out there one-on-one. It’s just the dynamics of playing a good team.”

On the Indiana quar-terback situation - “We don’t want to have a re-volving door. I personally like them both, though I need them to both signifi-cantly improve. That’s all we’re asking them to do.”

Urban meyer, oHio state

On taking deep shots in the passing game - “After our players have prov-en to me that we are capable of do-ing it, from spring practice and what I’ve seen last year, my only concern is that you can take all the shots you want, but if you don’t hit them, you are wasting time.”

On the process of exchanging video with oppo-nents - “It’s very standard. That’s between the video coordinators, but it’s very standard from everything I know.”

bill o’brien, penn state

On if he considers the emotional state of his kicker before de-ciding to kick a field goal or go for it on fourth down - “I don’t think about that at all. I think about having a good play. If I have a play to call there, I think about where the ball is, what the situation of the game is. I really don’t think about how (placekicker) Sam (Ficken) is going to feel next week if we kick a 12-yard field goal.”

On the leadership of senior linebacker Michael Mauti - “He’s a leader and a guy that works really hard, but there’s a lot of guys there. He’d be the first to tell you that he is a member of strong senior class that loves Penn State and works extremely hard.”

danny Hope, pUrdUe

On what he thought of his quarter-back - “I was pleased by the play of our quarterback, Caleb TerBush. We were able to manufacture some drives on offense, and I thought it was his best performance of the season.”

On what he has learned about his team thus far - “I think we’ve done a lot of great things already through-out this season. We’re obviously a competitive football team, a team that cares about winning. We’ve beaten the teams we were supposed to beat like we were sup-posed to beat them and played a top ranked Notre Dame team down to the wire.”

brett bielema, wisconsin

On the loss to Nebraska - “We had some success, but we had some failures that ended up costing us a chance to win on the road in a very tough environment.”

On defending the spread offense - “It’s unique be-cause I think everyone in this league runs a different type of spread. A lot has to do with what that quarterback wants to do, you know, what his strengths are.”

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Eric Sock has had quite the career at Nebraska.

The senior has been playing tennis since the age of 10, but has known his inspiration for the game of tennis all of his life — his brother Jack, the 2011 US Open mixed dou-bles champion.

“(My biggest inspiration is) probably my brother honestly … he’s always had like a natural tal-ent for the game and sort of a big passion for it,” Sock said. “From an early age … it’s always kind of like pushing boundaries and like get-ting better and winning.”

Sock puts his inspiration for the game along the lines with his favor-ite tennis player.

“Obviously Roger Federer is one of my favorites, one of the best of all time and a great ambassador to the sport and always handles himself really well,” Sock said. “Be-sides him, I cheer for my brother like all the time but besides him, Federer.”

Sock said that if it were not for tennis, his life would be very differ-ent.

“It would change dramatical-ly,” he said. “(Tennis) gave me an opportunity to try to pursue some-thing.

“Before I started playing tennis, I was not that athletic — not that coordinated.”

Sock also recalled some of his favorite moments playing tennis, one of which being Nebraska’s trip to the NCAA tournament two seasons ago. His top memory, how-

ever, tracks back to high school.“Winning a high school state

championship with my brother was one for sure,” he said.

During his career as a Husker, Sock has established his own rep-utation, a separate one from his brother.

Sock has made quite an impres-sion on both his teammates, but also on his head coach Kerry Mc-Dermott.

“He’s a very hard worker, loves tennis and he’ll give you 100 per-cent on and off the court,” McDer-mott said. “He’s been a good char-acter, good guy.”

McDermott knows that Sock represents a lot to his program.

“I think his experience and be-ing around for four years for the program is going to help, especially our young guys coming into the program this year and show them what it’s all about and he’s a pretty positive kid.”

McDermott detailed the num-ber of ways Sock has changed his program in his time in Lincoln.

“By his dedication … everyday coming to practice and gives it 100 percent, he commits to the pro-gram,” he said. “I think others have seen how dedicated he’s been to the program.

“He’s been in and out of the lineup over the last three years.”

McDermott acknowledged what he will miss about Sock once he graduates this year.

“His smile, he always has a smile on his face,” McDermott said. “When you see Eric … he talks about like, ‘Hey, did you see the football game last night or how do you think the football team go-ing to do or did you see women’s volleyball?’ He’s always bringing something to practice, something to communicate and a good smile on his face, a good character.”

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Maggy Lehmicke’s family is what brought her to Nebraska, even though she may be more than 1,600 miles away from them.

The freshman Nebraska wom-en’s tennis player from Kirkland, Wash., said that she always knew she wanted to play for a Big Ten school. Both of Lehm-icke’s parents were from Minnesota, and she knew the Midwest would be a good fit for her.

While taking official visits at a few other Big Ten schools, between the atmosphere and the peo-ple, Lehmicke knew that Nebraska was the one when she visited.

And so far, she be-lieves that she has made the right choice.

Lehmicke said that while it was hard adjusting to col-lege life and being away from her family at first, she has adapted pretty quickly.

“It’s been a pretty smooth transition so far,” Lehmicke said. “I feel like I fit right in, it hasn’t been too much of a struggle.”

Lehmicke got her first chance to compete at the collegiate level in the Racquet Club Collegiate In-vitational in the middle of Septem-ber. Lehmicke teamed up with se-nior Patricia Veresova for doubles and put together a strong match in the first round before losing to the tournament’s top doubles seed in the second round. Lehmicke also competed in singles as well, again losing in the second round.

Despite some difficulties, Lehmicke believes that for her first collegiate tennis match, she had a strong start.

“All that really mattered was fighting and doing well,” Lehm-icke said.

Despite only being a freshman, Lehmicke has the chance to make an immediate impact and much more. Coming out of high school, Lehmicke was a four-star recruit and ranked No. 74 nationally.

“I think the thing that drew us to her was how she competed,” NU assistant coach Hayden Perez said. “We figured she was going to be a great person for our team.”

Perez said that Lehmicke’s desire to compete has already brought her success and will

continue to do so. Perez said that while the Huskers had been looking at Lehmicke since her ju-nior year of high school, she still worked to improve upon her game all the way throughout her high school career.

“She’s all what a Husker is about,” Perez said. “She’s a real fighter on the court.”

That competitive fierceness of Lehmicke has had Perez compare Lehmicke to one of her teammates who has had a great deal of success in her time: senior Mary Weatherholt.

“She reminds us of Mary Weatherholt in that she competes with no fear,” Perez said. “She will abso-lutely compete with anyone you put her against.”

With that style of play from Lehmicke, she said she hopes she can accomplish a great deal while at Nebraska. Among her list of goals include making it to NCAAs, but she said that she really isn’t sure where she will end up in her career here. Lehm-icke said her main goal is to just find a balance between tennis and academics.

“I’m not sure where that will be, but I’m excited about all the possibilities,” Lehmicke said. “I want to give it my all on the court and be the best player I can be.”

Despite being on the team for a short time, Lehmicke said she wants to have success with the team as well as individually. Lehmicke said she didn’t get to experience a real team atmosphere with playing club tennis in high school, and has enjoyed that so far at Nebraska.

“It’s been mainly positive just to have a team there to support you,” Lehmicke said.

But as Lehmicke has just start-ed her young career, she said all she can do throughout her four years here is just continue to work as hard as she can. Everything else will come from there, and that is all Perez said he wants from his tennis players.

“They are going to accomplish what they are meant to accom-plish,” Perez said.

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file pHoto by matt masin | dneric sock returns a serve. sock has played four years at nebraska, sliding in and out of the lineup. this season is sock’s final year at nebraska, which allows him the opportunity to leave one last impression on a program that allowed him to grow independently.

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bUckeyes rising witH meyerOhio State coach Urban Meyer has the Buckeyes on

the rise, according to members of the Nebraska coaching staff.

Meyer is off to a 5-0 start in his first season as the head man in Columbus. He has the Buckeyes winning games, even with a postseason ban hanging over its head. Husker defensive coordinator John Papuchis said on Tuesday he isn’t surprised by the coach’s immediate impact.

“I have a tremendous amount of respect for him as an offensive coach, and as a coach in general,” Papuchis said. “His team is really well disciplined, and they play well.”

Nebraska coach Bo Pelini seconded that notion earlier in the week at his weekly press conference.

“When (Meyer) was a graduate assistant at Ohio State, he was energetic and a hard-nosed football coach

then,” Pelini said. “It’s carried over into who he is today.”

miller tHe focUs of nebraska’s defense

Buckeye quarterback Braxton Miller is the focal point of Nebraska’s defensive preparation this week.

The sophomore signal caller is leading the team in passing and rushing yardage through five games, and has the Buckeyes off to a 5-0 start and a national No. 12 ranking in the AP poll. His production accounts for much of the team’s offensive success, according to Ne-braska defensive coordinator John Papuchis.

“We’ve got to always know where he is,” the coach said. “He is like 67 percent of their total offense, I think. He does a great job making plays, improvising, making something out of nothing. He’s obviously a talented

runner, but he throws the ball, too.”Long passes have characterized Miller’s game thus

far this year. His arm strength and ability to locate re-ceivers downfield make him a dangerous player.

“Probably the thing that impresses me more than anything is his ability to throw the deep ball,” Papuchis said. “He does do a good job with that, and we have to limit the big plays as well.”

Miller’s legs are obviously threatening as well, Pa-puchis said. The Huskers need to stay the course with a quarterback like him. Over pursuit can kill the defense, he said.

“We’ve got to have 11 guys flying to the football,” the coach said. “And we’ve got to make sure we tackle well when we get our shots.”bUckeyes to spread tHe field

Nebraska’s defense will use a smaller personnel

package this week when they face off against the Buck-eyes.

The team will see another spread offense this week after playing its first traditional opponent a week ago in Wisconsin. The defensive backfield must be ready for the task, according to Papuchis.

“Versus their open looks, we’ll put more defensive backs out there,” he said. “That’s all dictated by what they are doing, but if they stay with what they have been doing, we will play more nickel personnel this week.”

The coach went on to say he thinks the Buckeyes will spread the field more this week than Wisconsin did. Ciante Evans, the Husker nickel back, figures to play more snaps because of this, Papuchis said.

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Sophomore Mattie Fowler had a break-out freshman season.

She started all 55 games for the Huskers, one of only three players to do so. This season hasn’t had the same hot start that last season had.

This year, Fowler is starting off her season injured. During the summer, she tore her ACL while playing soft-ball. She is on track, as of now, to play in the spring season.

Even though she changed posi-tions multiple times — playing third base, pitcher and shortstop — she fi-nally settled in as shortstop, her origi-nal position. She produced a .248 bat-ting average and 27 RBIs during her freshman campaign.

Fowler is adjusting to watching from the dugout. She has been mak-ing the most out of her time there and is doing what any loyal teammate would do.

“I have been cheering my team-mates on,” Fowler said. “It has been re-ally exciting seeing everyone compete during our games.”

Her teammates have been helping her get through not being able to play and having to watch from the side-lines. They have been encouraging her to get better and to have high spirits.

“They have provided a great sup-port system for me to rely on,” Fowler said.

Fowler continues to learn from the sidelines. She is getting a different

perspective of plays that she didn’t get last year because she was usually

on the field. Sitting out has made her realize a few things as well.

“It makes you appreciate the game a lot more than you would have

if you weren’t injured,” Fowler said.Head coach Rhonda Revelle ac-

knowledges that Fowler’s injury hurt the starting lineup. She would like to keep a positive attitude toward it and she knows that other girls will step up, while Fowler is injured.

“It is never easy when you lose a starter to an injury,” Revelle said.

Fowler’s injury has been a detri-ment to the team, but the team has recovered and is having a good start to its offseason. They have won three out of the four games they have played so far.

With Fowler returning before February, the team will have a fresh look that will benefit it during the be-ginning of the regular season. Fowler has the potential to be a secret weap-on the team will unleash on unsus-pecting opponents.

The spring season is when the softball team has its competitive play. During the fall is when the games serve as more of a practice. This al-lows the team to ease into competi-tion and figure out how its system is going to work.

She is eager to get back on the field particularly because the Husk-ers will be hosting the Big Ten tour-nament for the first time this season. Fowler’s dedication to softball and to her teammates has motivated her to get back onto the field by February.

“I am excited to get out there and play,” Fowler said. “I want to help the team go farther than we did last season.”

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self-inflicted wounds hurt

Huskers hardest

file pHoto by anna reed | dnrex burkhead fumbles on the second offensive possession of saturday’s game. the huskers fumbled six times in the contest.

file pHoto by morgan spieHs | dnmattie Fowler throws a softball before tearing her acl. Fowler, who started all 55 games for nebraska as a freshman, is aiming for a return during the spring season, when the softball season begins in full swing. Fowler has made three position changes while at nu.

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As Wisconsin pulled away from Nebraska in the first quarter of Saturday’s football game, there was an air of confidence on the Nebraska sideline. Although down by 17 points at one point, the team felt like it was still in control.

Fumbles and a few other un-forced errors gave the Badgers the lead early on, but Nebraska felt like it could put an end to those mistakes.

Running back Ameer Abdul-lah is glad they did.

“Thank God we came back,” he said. “We don’t want to be put in those predica-ments, so we have to do the right things. If we do those things, you know, carrying the ball well, being conscientious, the sky is the limit.”

Nebraska has a penchant for beating itself. Saturday’s per-formance versus Wisconsin was merely the latest example of the phenomenon, and the Huskers are working to fix those mistakes.

“I’m sure a lot of teams say it, but it’s been a testament to us this season,” Abdullah said. “Last week really opened up my eyes that we could be really great if we don’t turn the ball over. We came all the way back from 20-3. When we locked the ball up, you saw what happened.”

Nebraska has great potential, according to offensive coordina-tor Tim Beck, but avoiding the kind of plays that allow a team to beat itself is key. The Huskers feel like they hold the key to their eventual success.

“If we don’t take care of the

football and take care of the pen-alties, we’re not going to beat anybody,” Beck said. “I don’t care if we are good, bad or whatever.”

Abdullah likes where the Huskers sit right now. They got the win against Wisconsin and have time to fix their mistakes be-fore the Ohio State game. That’s all a team can ask for, he said.

“If you look at the statistics, when we are not turning the ball over, when we are in the plus category, we’re very hard to stop offensively,” Abdullah said. “But when we turn the ball over, we make it very hard to win like you saw on Saturday.”

With the Buckeyes looming on Saturday, Nebraska can’t afford to continue beating itself early if it wants to come out on top at the end. “Fixing us” is the mantra echoed around the Husker prac-tice field.

“It’s been a conscious effort since the season began, but it’s starting to become a necessity with league play com-ing up,” Abdullah said. “One or two plays are going to decide a game, and we don’t want to be on the losing end of that.”

Abdullah said the Huskers know how to “fix us”; they just have to focus ear-lier in the game than they did this week.

Coach Bo Pelini said it is a matter of execution at his week-ly press conference on Monday. There isn’t anything wrong with the Nebraska pregame routine, he said.

Ohio State brings a similar challenge to the Huskers this week, according to Abdullah. He and the rest of the Huskers aren’t intimidated by the Buckeyes’ No. 12 ranking.

“There beatable, you know. They’re not world beaters,” he said. “They’re quick, they’re ath-letic and they’re a good ball club, but no one is a world beater.”

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Mike Mar-row knew Alabama was the place for him when he

stepped on campus in 2008. He already commit-

ted to Penn State, but when Alabama coach Nick Saban called, Marrow couldn’t re-sist.

The top five football pro-gram, five-star players and a prestigious head coach could

have sold Marrow to the school on its own.

But when All-American linebacker Dont’a Hight-ower and future Heisman Trophy winner Mark Ingram hosted Marrow for his visit, that was all Marrow needed to change his mind.

“I just wanted to do my own thing, go out and grow up on my own,” Marrow said. “When I took that visit, I loved Alabama.”

when we are not

turning the ball over ... we’re very hard to stop.”

aMeeR aBdullahsophomoRe Running Back

once i realized that no one could make it down

because of busy schedules, that’s what made me want to transfer and be closer to home.”

Mike MaRRowJunioR FullBack

Fumble issues costly for team despite strong offensive showing in 2012

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file pHoto by Jon aUgUstine | dnFullback mike marrow blocks a wisconsin player in saturday’s win. marrow, who’s father Vince is a coach at nebraska, is a holland, ohio, native.

file pHoto by Jon aUgUstine | dnnebraska coach bo pelini participates in an interview. pelini is a youngstown, ohio, native and former ohio state defensive back returning home.

file pHoto by anna reed | dnreceiver tim marlowe carries the ball. marlowe is a graduate of cardinal mooney high school in ohio. marlowe was added to the team’s travel ros-ter as the 71st spot, an exemption by the ncaa.

story by andrew Ward

former-alabama recruit Marrow leads wave of

Ohioans returning home

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