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Tom Winter has kept his head right where it belongs, despite newfound Internet glory: in the clouds.

While a photo of the Uni-versity of Nebraska-Lincoln professor skateboarding continues to circulate on the website Reddit.com, Win-ter is partaking in another one of his favorite hobbies, flying over Nebraska in his 1967 Cessna 150 personal airplane.

The University of Nebras-ka-Lincoln classics and reli-gion professor garnered In-ternet fame last week when Marisol Saldana, a junior in-ternational business major, snapped a photo of Winter skateboarding to class and uploaded it to Facebook.

“I was walking from Bur-nett Hall, and I had my phone in my hand and just took the photo,” Saldaña said. “It’s not everyday you see a 68-year-old man in his work clothes on a skate-board, and that’s why I took the picture.”

Kevin Luparello, a junior political science major, saw the photo on Facebook and uploaded it to Reddit, a so-cial news and link-aggregate website on April 4. By April

5, it became the top item on the site, spawning its own meme and hundreds of im-age macros.

“I’m pretty proud of it; It’s just this feeling of over-whelming happiness,” Lu-parello said. “It’s another reason for UNL to be this big amazing school. Look, we have a 68-year-old who skates. I wanted to show

how cool he was to every-one on the Internet.”

Winter isn’t sure what all the fuss is about.

“There’s something about seeing a person of my years skateboard; that makes peo-ple happy,” Winter said. “I couldn’t tell you number of times I’ve gotten the feed-back, ‘It makes my day.’ I can roll, but I can’t hide.”

James Brown, a sopho-more mechanical engineer-ing major, saw Winter in An-drews Hall and asked if he was aware he was famous. Winter just laughed.

“I freaked out when I saw (the photo) was from Ne-braska,” Brown said. “I’m

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With one day of nego-tiation left, the Nebraska Unicameral Legislature is nearing its close, but the conflicts are far from over. In response to numerous vetoes, both threatened and realized, from Gov. Dave Heineman, Speaker Mike Flood elected to delay the Legislature’s final day from today to April 18 — effec-tively giving the body the last word on a number of controversial bills. After bills are delivered to the governor, he has five days to veto them. Heineman has used that right for several bills and threatened to use it for even more. The body may then override Heine-man’s veto with 30 votes.

lb 806 — Historic Horse racing

Vetoed by the governor on Monday, this bill would permit gambling on horse races that have already taken place, through the form of machines at race-tracks. Heineman said he vetoed the bill because he

viewed it as an expansion of gambling, but Sen. Scott Lautenbaugh of Omaha said the bill would preserve the jobs and revenue associat-ed with horse racing. Laut-enbaugh said he would at-tempt to override the veto.

lb 599 — Prenatal care

Heineman has promised a veto on this bill, which leg-islators advanced Wednes-day with a 31-15 vote. The measure would provide prenatal care to women who lost coverage in 2010. The governor has dubbed it “an illegal immigration bill” because undocumented mothers would be included in the affected group. Sup-porters say the mothers de-serve coverage regardless of their citizenship status and that their children deserve coverage because they will be American citizens.

lb 357 — sales tax increase

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Canadian pipeline developer TransCanada and the Nebras-ka state government are set to begin working together, once again, on the final route of the Keystone XL oil pipeline.

Wednesday afternoon, the State Legislature voted 44 to 5 to approve LB 1161, a bill that will kick-start a $2 million route review process.

The state’s Department of Environmental Quality will be at the helm, with the Public Service Commission ready to jump in if needed, according

to PSC director Mike Hybl.The bill’s passage and like-

ly signature from Gov. Dave Heineman appear to settle, at least for now, a months-long saga over the controversial pipeline and its path through the state.

“I’m hopeful that the laws that have now passed are go-ing to satisfy the needs of Ne-braskans,” said State Sen. Jim Smith of Papillion, a member of the Natural Resources Com-mittee and the bill’s sponsor. “At every turn we’ve tried to address the concerns that were brought up.”

TransCanada proposed the pipeline to the U.S. State De-partment almost four years ago because it would’ve

neb. legislature votes to restart negotiations with transcanada

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dan holTmeyer | daily nebraskanState Sen. jim Smith, whose bill to restart the keystone Xl pipeline review was approved Wednesday, speaks with another senator in the legislative chamber shortly before the day’s session began.

kyle bruggeman | daily nebraskanProfessor tom Winter stands next to his 1967 cessna 150 at Silverhawk aviation on Wednesday. “i never make a habit of leaving an airport too early,” Winters said.

heineman’s vetoes force legislature to lengthen session

Surrounded by supporters of lB 599, a bill that would rein-state funding for prenatal care for low-income women, executive director of Building Bright Futures john cavanaugh speaks to news media Wednesday evening on the west steps of the capitol Building. earlier that afternoon, the State legislature approved the bill with 31 votes, sending it to the governor for approval. the bill restores funding that was removed two years ago and has sparked controversy because undocumented, pregnant im-migrants would be eligible for the prenatal care. Gov. dave heineman has promised to veto lB 599 because of the provision, while health care officials and anti-abortion groups — typically allies of the governor — have lined up against him in support of the bill. most of the funding for the prenatal care of more than 1,000 illegal immigrants and about 40 prison inmates would come from the federal government. heineman has protested the financial break for “illegals,” saying the cost will only go up when the policy attracts more im-migrants. Opponents counter that prenatal care is cost-effective, using less funding than emergency medical care for births with complications. if heineman carries through his veto threat, lB 599 will go to a second vote next Wednesday. it takes 30 votes to override a veto. if the votes remain the same as Wednesday’s, an override will suc-ceed.

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Steven Craig, a sophomore management major at the University of Nebraska-Lin-coln, is teaching the people who teach him.

Every year during the sec-ond week of April, the Na-tional Student Employment Association (NSEA) encour-ages all colleges and uni-versities to hold a Student Worker Appreciation Week as a show of gratitude for students with on-campus jobs.

Craig claims he has one of the coolest stu-dent jobs of all.

Craig com-pleted his first paid computer repair when he was 10 years old and de-signed his first paid website at age 15. Today, the 20-year-old Hartington, Neb., native puts his knack for comput-ers to use as a Help Center technician in the College of Business Administration.

Craig works about 20 hours a week assisting and educating CBA faculty on computer and technical is-sues, as well as solving any classroom and lab problems that arise. Tasks range from fixing large-scale malware attacks to changing printer

toner or replacing projector bulbs.

“I like that each day is dif-ferent than the day before,” Craig said. “Sometimes a re-quest takes multiple days to complete, but a fresh per-spective helps me tackle the problem more effectively.”

His job also gives Craig an opportunity to get to know professors, which is especially valuable because most of his classes are large lectures, he said.

At UNL, student workers are recognized by a break-fast, banner, certificate of

appreciation or features on depart-ment web-sites, de-pending on the depart-ment, ac-cording to Emily Wil-ber, assis-tant director of career services.

“Depend-ing on the s t u d e n t , on- and off-campus jobs

are chosen according to the student’s interests and life-styles,” Wilbur said.

For Craig, the people he works with are the best part of his job.

David Hartline, a se-nior biochemistry major, is Craig’s supervisor. He’s been a role model and guide for Craig over these last few months, Craig said.

Hartline is one of the many reasons Craig chose to stay with CBA during the sum-mer, rather than completing an internship with a com-pany, he said.

“I am very impressed with Steven as a person and as an employee,” Hartline said. “He is a very reasonable employee who frequently goes above and beyond the call of duty.”

Hartline said Craig once stayed hours past the Help Center’s closing time to help diagnose an issue with a video conference.

“My experience with Ste-ven shines a great light on the work study program,” he said.

The Help Center is staffed solely by undergraduate students, but Craig said the level of professionalism, hard work and knowledge they brought to the college has astounded him from the day he started there.

“I feel that I have a lot to learn before leaving (the College of Business Admin-istration),” Craig said. “The college and my supervisor are facilitating the means for me to continue learning about corporate computer systems and networks while allowing me to enhance my professional communica-tion skills.”

His job goes hand in hand with his career goals, he said, and he is able to work around his class schedule, even if the extra hours can be stressful.

He said his freshman year

became so difficult, be-tween a demanding class load and work, he decided he needed to learn to enjoy life.

A little over a month ago, a drunk driver killed one of Craig’s best friends. Since then, Craig said he has made monumental changes in his life. He has placed more emphasis on spending time with family and friends and relaxing.

“I still plan to work just as hard in all my classes, but if

my GPA suffers a little, that is one change I will (have) learned to accept,” he said.

Eating healthy and go-ing for late-night runs have helped Craig manage his stress levels.

A quote from Albert Ein-stein keeps him going, he said: “Learn from yester-day, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The impor-tant thing is not to stop questioning.” He said these words taught him to do the best he can each day and to worry less about some of

the trivial things in life. Craig thinks Student Ap-

preciation Week draws at-tention to the number of students who balance a professional work life with their social lives and class-es. Student workers allow faculty and staff in higher authority to focus on the true demands of their jobs, he said.

“It’s nice to have a week where we are recognized,” Craig said.

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sales taxes by half a cent. The legislature advanced the bill to the governor last week on a 30-15 vote, and Heineman, a vocal propo-nent of decreasing taxes, has promised to veto it. The sales tax increases would be up to voters in each city. The current limit

is 1.5 cents per dollar.

lb 1072 — cHild Welfare contracts

Last week, Heineman ve-toed this bill, which would pay subcontractors that the state didn’t compensate af-ter ending a child welfare contract with the Boys and Girls Home and Family

Services. But the legisla-ture overrode the veto, se-curing 31 votes in favor of paying about $2.5 million to subcontractors. Heine-man had argued the state already met the require-ments of the contracts and should not have to pay.

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A quick roll-call question of, “What band should sing a song about the University of Nebraska?” marked the beginning of the second meeting of this year’s new Association of Students of the University of Nebraska administration.

“Bon Jovi,” said Eric Kam-ler, president of ASUN and a junior agricultural busi-ness major, after some de-liberation.

Other notable sugges-tions included “Megadeth,” from Michael Dunn, a ju-nior communications stud-ies major, and “T-Pain,” from Natalia Santos, a ju-nior nutrition and health sciences major and speaker of the senate.

The Wednesday meeting featured only one piece of emergency legislation and was mostly devoted to showing the new members the ropes of how a meet-ing is organized. The emer-gency legislation was a last-minute voice of approval from ASUN for the Resi-dence Hall Association’s bid for the 2013 Midwest Affiliate of College and Uni-versity Residence Halls No Frills Business Conference.

After the first round of bidding went by without any entries, RHA decided to place a bid to host the

regional conference. The conference brings residence hall associations from uni-versities around the Mid-west to share ideas.

“Basically we’re just ask-ing for your support on this and to support your student leaders,” said Megan Bran-nen, a junior advertising major and RHA president.

According to Brannen, the event would not cost the university anything, though various departments would likely sponsor the event. By Monday, RHA will know if UNL made it into the top three and the winner of the bid will be announced by the end of May.

The bill was passed near-ly unanimously except for one abstaining vote.

Wielding a red Sharpie and a large pad of paper, Santos explained to the fresh senators how to sub-mit a bill, how to under-stand the legislation and why attending ASUN meet-ings is important.

A large number of

appointments were ap-proved — 29 in total — as committee seats and chairs began to fill up.

Next week, the Environ-mental Sustainability Com-mittee will be holding Focus Nebraska, a weeklong Earth Day celebration. Events will include crafts in the Nebras-ka Union Square on Mon-day, a wildlife display in the Union Plaza on Tuesday along with speaker Joel Sar-tore, a National Geographic wildlife photographer, and a free yoga class in the Sell-eck Quadrangle greenspace and tree-planting on Friday.

After hearing about the planting of trees, bushes and flowers around cam-pus, Kamler couldn’t help but ask, “How about some corn?”

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i am very impressed with Steven as a person and as an employee ... He is a very reasonable employee who frequently goes above and beyond the call of duty.

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crossed the United States-Cana-da border on its way from Al-berta’s extensive oil sand mines to oil refineries in Texas.

The proposed route took it diagonally through Nebraska, which became a flash point of opposition to the project. Land-owners, ranchers and environ-mentalists alike were concerned with the pipeline’s potential effects on the groundwater-rich and ecologically sensitive Sandhills across the state and the Midwest’s massive Ogallala Aquifer.

Some called for the route to change; others wanted the project scrapped entirely. Dur-ing a special session of the Legislature called to tackle the problem, TransCanada agreed to move the pipeline out of the Sandhills, and Nebraska set up a review process for the Key-stone XL and future pipelines.

But as one hurdle for the project was cleared, another appeared at the national level. Congressional Republicans, seizing on energy security con-cerns and the several thousand temporary jobs the project would bring, compelled Presi-dent Barack Obama to come to a decision on the pipeline’s permit ahead of schedule.

In February, Obama turned it down. The review of a new route through Nebraska needed more time, he said, but Trans-Canada could still reapply or begin building other pipeline segments within the U.S., which wouldn’t require government approval.

That’s when Nebraska’s De-partment of Environmental Quality, which had been pre-paring for its role in that review, was stuck in its tracks. LB 1161

amends the route review bills that came out of the special session to get the ball rolling again, Smith said.

“Things have happened on the federal level that we can’t control,” said Sen. Amanda McGill of Lincoln, who voted for the bill. McGill supports re-newable en-ergy alterna-tives to oil, she said, but she echoed Smith in saying the state needed to follow through on the process set up in last fall’s special session.

“We still need to make sure we have a working process here,” she said.

But the bill’s opponents re-mained unconvinced the bill was necessary. Many saw it as little more than a favor to the Canadian company.

“From the very beginning, I didn’t feel we needed to do anything,” said Sen. Annette Dubas of Fullerton, Neb., who joined Speaker Mike Flood, Sen. Ken Haar of Lincoln and two other senators in voting against the bill.

“This was a mess that was made by TransCanada and politicians in Washington, D.C.,” Dubas said. “I think they could’ve still reapplied and (the special session bills) would’ve still applied to them.”

About a dozen opponents gathered in the Capitol’s ro-tunda just outside the legislative

chamber to voice similar criti-cism.

“It just kind of confirmed our suspicions that this bill was on behalf of TransCanada,” said Ben Gotschall, a rancher from northern Nebraska and energy

director of Bold Nebraska, a polit-ical organization that has rallied the pipeline’s op-position.

“We’re disap-pointed, espe-cially with the kind of hurry-up, last-minute ef-forts some of our senators gave,” Gotschall said. “We’ll have to

see how it all shakes out.”In a statement, Shawn How-

ard, a spokesman for Trans-Canada, said the company was ready to resume the pro-cess within Nebraska’s bor-ders.

“We will be consulting with the (DEQ) very soon to dis-cuss next steps and to present them with our thoughts on a re-aligned route around the Ne-braska Sandhills,” Howard said. “Our customers are solidly be-hind this project, and TransCan-ada remains strongly committed to seeing both the Keystone XL and Gulf Coast Project built.”

The bill’s opponents said they were as resolute.

“There’s a lot of citizens against it and who will continue to be against it,” said April Se-gura, a Lincoln mother of three who stood with other oppo-nents in the Capitol. “The pipe-line fight isn’t over.”

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kyle bruggeman | daily nebraskanWinter closes the hangar containing his 1867 cessna 150 at Silverhawk aviation on Wednesday.

mad someone beat me to it.”Sidnie White Crawford, a

classics and religious studies professor who has known Winter for 15 years, said she and others who know Winter have found the entire thing entertaining.

“It’s great publicity for the university — we’re trying to increase our enrollment,” said Crawford.

As long as Crawford has known Winter, she said he’s always been on the move.

“He’s always riding his bike or skateboard,” Crawford said. “Some of it is for ecol-ogy reasons, but he always gets around under his own power.”

Winter said he didn’t know who the photographer was, but has no hard feelings about his Internet fame. He finds it quite amusing.

“It’s a great picture. I’d be proud to take that picture,” Winter said. “The big risk with the skateboard is having to have one knee bend and have the other one scooting and the transition from the propulsion to the ride. The photographer caught that deep moment of transition. My hat is off to the nameless photographer.”

Saldana has never taken a class from Winter and didn’t even know what he taught at UNL.

“I wouldn’t mind talking to him,” Saldana said. “I thought about stopping by his office, but what would I say?”

Winter drives to work and parks off-campus, then

skateboards to class. He used to ride his bicycle to work but realized a skateboard would be more convenient and, more importantly, more fun.

“I started realizing I was having fun,” Winter said. “I started wishing I had parked further away so I could have more fun. At that point I treated myself to a new board. Arbor Pocket Rocket and it just fits inside a desk drawer. Slick. My parking place is a steel-cased draw-er.”

Winter estimates he’s been skateboarding for 12 to 15 years, and he said he doesn’t

believe he’s been out of shape in any of his 68 years. He finds vigorous activities that he loves and loves to do — even though he broke one of his ribs doing a wheelie on his skateboard once.

“In my 20s, it was tennis,” Winter said. “I cured my ten-nis elbow by quitting tennis. The next was swimming. I lapped up my lunch for years, and then my skin rebelled from all the chlorinated wa-ter, so I gave that up. Then I discovered racquetball, then handball at 40. Then the hip joints forced my retirement from all court games. The

next fun vigorous exercise was skating.”

In addition to his vigorous physical exercises, Winter has performed in seven plays at the Lincoln Community Play-house, played violin in the Lincoln Civic Orchestra and he is the founder of Linc-In-Liners In-Line Skating Club, to highlight just a few of his numerous accomplishments.

“Live long enough and you get around to everything,” Winters said. “I didn’t get my pilot’s license til my mid 50s.”

Winter, in his 42nd year at UNL, has no plans to stop skating or to stop teaching

anytime soon.“Well, I think the students

and I are still having fun learning,” Winter said. “I’m still learning new things in my field and making new re-alizations. If I read Homer for maybe the 60th time, and get nothing new out of it, then I’ll know it’s time to retire.”

If the comments on Reddit are any indication, Winter can except students to flock to his classes in the fall.

“I’ve had many people say ‘I don’t care what class he teaches, I want to take that class,” Saldaña said.

For now, Winter said he

will keep rolling with his In-ternet and campus fame.

“I’m living my life the only way I know how to live my life,” he said. “Gee, it’s not my fault — I could quote Lady Gaga — ‘Born This Way.’”

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live long enough and

you get around to everything.”

Tom WinTerunl classics and religious studies

professor

ANNETTE DUBASstate senator

i think they could’ve still reapplied and (the special session bills) would’ve still applied to them.

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University of nebraska basketball coach tim miles held a meet and greet at the hendricks training complex for University of ne-braska-lincoln students Wednesday evening. Free pizza and drinks were provided for the first 250 students to arrive, as well as door prizes. Students toured the husker men’s basketball locker room, hawks Players lounge and Bus Whitehead Practice court. the event also gave Unl students a chance to purchase 2012-2013 red Zone men’s Basketball tickets for only $40 as part of the early Bird Basket-ball Special offer. after the tour, miles introduced his staff, consisting of Ben johnson, ronald coleman, jayden Olson and jim Shaw and took questions from the student-filled audience. miles was introduced as the head basketball coach for the husk-ers on march 23. he comes to the husker program with 17 years of experience under his belt — most recently five years at colorado State University. in 2011-2012, he led the rams to 20 victories and their first ncaa tournament berth in nine seasons. coleman and Ol-son both previously worked with miles at colorado State, while john-son hails from northern iowa and Shaw was the first member hired on when former coach doc Sadler first came to nU.

dan holTmeyer | daily nebraskanailani Segura and her brother, jaylen, stand with other opponents to lB 1161, holding signs accusing several senators of voting for the bill as a favor to transcanada. the com-pany announced it would soon restart the process of working with the state on a route for keystone Xl.

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I’ve learned something recently: tell a person you’re a humanities student and prepare to be laughed at.

Once they get over the laugh-ter, you’ll then be asked how you

plan to find a job after graduation.It seems the humanities, because

these subjects don’t have a clear path that leads directly into a corporate posi-tion, are thought to be less valuable than other disciplines.

Other than the obvious, that is, pursuing an academic career — career options for humanities students are not clear to many people. Neither are the reasons for which people pursue these degrees.

But the opportunities are great, and the beauty is the development of a wide range of skills applicable to many jobs.

One of my previous philosophy professors had a career as a journal-ist before settling into academia. His degree prepared him to approach stories objectively and to look at politi-cal issues from both a practical and a theoretical standpoint. His experience as a journalist also helped him with his teaching. It gave him real world experi-ence that allowed him to see the value and influence of academia. This helped him both encourage students to pursue what they were interested in and gave him a unique teaching method.

And as for the worries regarding employment, most of my friends with humanities degrees have taken on quite interesting roles, including financial advising, teaching and administrative roles in various corporations. They’re employed.

A degree in the humanities also prepares the student for professional

school. These disciplines develop problem-solving and analytic thinking, which help on entrance exams such as the GRE, LSAT and MCAT. These skills are also valuable to employers. Con-stantly completing papers also develops strong writing skills and articulation. All of these points can be effectively used in an interview.

Of course, it’s probably a good idea the student have some technical background, strong computer skills or a non-humanities minor, if he or she plans on pursuing a corporate position. It’s also important to realize internships and work experience count. It seems most employers are more interested in a candidate’s work experience than the subject of his or her degree. Hence, the employment situation isn’t really as bleak as people like to think.

A humanities degree is valuable for personal reasons as well. These skills develop objective thought and teach students to judge situations and other people’s views from a third-person per-spective. This helps in adjusting to new environments and cultures, especially when living abroad.

They also help you justify your own belief system. You come to college to gain independence, not just physically, but also intellectually. You have the chance to explore the belief system in

which you’ve been raised and decide if it’s coherent or whether you just believe it because that’s what you’ve been taught. The humanities teach students to think independently.

It’s not that students won’t learn these skills in other degrees. It’s just, as a law-yer once told me, “the humanities teach people how to think.”

I concede that it might not have the obvious career path that other disci-plines offer, but it allows the student to be creative and choose their own path. It’s also easier to argue your case for a seemingly unrelated job through trans-ferable skills.

The point I wish to make is that the humanities are valuable both an intel-lectual and practical standpoint. They shouldn’t be disregarded just because they don’t have a path that directly leads to some business or corporate role. We should value knowledge, and the human-ities teach us to do this. And, as I men-tioned, they’re also valuable for personal development.

Clearly a college education should be well-rounded, which is an advantage to taking courses in other subjects. The humanities contribute to this well-round-edness in the university system. It adds to the diversity of subjects available and teaches students to think on their own, which helps with other coursework.

So the next time you start to mock your friend who studies history, step back and think about the valuable skills he or she is obtaining. Understand the reasons he or she is pursuing his or her degree. Appreciate his or her love of reading and writing.

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The most publicized incident of what’s been called a racially motivated miscarriage of justice since the Rodney King beating of 1991 took a step toward con-clusion Wednesday evening.

Forty-five days after Sanford, Fla., teen Trayvon Martin was shot and killed by George Zimmerman, the neighborhood watchman has been charged with second-degree murder.

It’s a decision that has arrived in the wake of a month characterized by national media frenzy about whether unjust racial politics played into Martin’s death and the absence of charges filed against Zimmer-man.

Superficially, it’s disconcerting to think the publi-cized opinions of everyone from President Obama to the Miami Heat swayed Florida officials, despite claims from prosecutors that they didn’t. But what’s far more apparent than the perception that law enforcement can be swayed by public and celebrity opinion is that local prosecutors and the Sanford Police Department voided the claim that they could be objective when Zimmer-man went uncharged in the weeks following the shoot-ing.

But this too-little-too-late trend seems to be the case with the handling of Martin’s death as a whole. Florida State Attorney Angela Corey, who was recently appointed as a special prosecutor in the case, still maintains that law enforcement officials displayed no racial bias. But if charging Zimmerman was the correct choice in the eyes of the law in the beginning, what forces accounted for the six-week delay?

There’s no question that even barring the racially motivated hate crime that many claim took place, the shooting of Trayvon Martin was a fatal escalation of an incident of violence only Zimmerman himself claims took place. A claim of sorrowful ineptitude from the Sanford Police and the original prosecutors would be the rosiest they could muster at this point.

Practically, of course, the charging of Zimmerman, who was taken into custody on Wednesday, is a step toward justice and closure for Trayvon Martin’s fam-ily and community. The Daily Nebraskan encourages students to continue to follow and discuss this incident and what it entails for both race and law relations. We just shouldn’t have seen this day in the first place.

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Last week, Google an-nounced Project Glass, an ambitious new proj-ect that aims to attach a smartphone to your eyes.

Google released a con-cept video for Project Glass via a Google+ page. The video displays a day in the life of a hip, young New Yorker (let’s call him Rob), aug-mented by Google’s new glasses. As Rob yawns and begins his day, a heads-up display (HUD) plinks into his peripheral vision, a row or two of chic little icons.

Rob goes through the motions of his day, and the glasses assert helpful reminders such as, “See Jess Tonight — 6:30.” The glasses check the weather. Text messages pop into Rob’s visual field and he dictates his replies out loud.

The glasses are controlled by a reportedly intuitive system that senses specific head motions to scroll through menus and select items. They also respond to vo-cal commands reminiscent of the iPhone’s Siri.

Thanks to the Google glasses, Rob’s alerted of a subway closure, is given on-screen alternative walk-ing directions, photographs street artwork and checks in to the loca-tions he visits — all with his face. Rob’s life becomes a streamlined, sleek version of its former self.

My first reaction to Project Glass was to assume an April Fools’ prank gone a bit too long. Google’s augmented reality tech recalls stuff of the film “Minority Report,” with

its ocular scans, face-recognition software and floating, manipulable HUDs.

Project Glass’ Google+ page puts it this way: “We think technol-ogy should work for you — to be there when you need it and get out of your way when you don’t.” Google wants to integrate a gamut of technologies into one hands-free device.

Reports from Google and its employees as to when Project Glass might make the jump from mere concept to mass-market product vary. Some report as early as this winter. Others say they are still months or years away.

The indistinct timeline is ideal for Internet pundits, who have already taken to the web and seized upon Project Glass. Many Internet com-menters and article writers have declared the glasses terrible things.

One fears that those people who yak and text on cellphones behind the wheel will happily, terrifyingly switch tech, wearing the Google glasses on the road. If the pub-lic gets ahold of them, Google’s glasses may turn driving on public roadways into a homicidal affair, full of vehicular negligence and woe.

A second concern is privacy. The glasses possess face-recog-nition software that would allow the glasses to identify the people around you. In theory, this technol-ogy could be used to pull up all kinds of information about you. For example, a job interviewer could

peruse an applicant’s social net-working history and other informa-tion with a literal glance. Positive applications include never having to worry about forgetting what’s-her-name’s name again.

It gets better. The glasses also scan to see if any of your friends are nearby, based on locations provided via things like Facebook, Foursquare or Google+. The impli-cations for the erosion of privacy are enormous.

A third concern is advertising. Project Glass’ concept video pres-ents the glasses as an adless experi-ence, but the fact is Google’s profit stems largely from ad revenue. This awareness has generated several video parodies in which Rob’s eye movements and spoken words trigger Google-generated ads in the corners of his vision.

These parodies are effective be-cause they’re probably close to the truth. Google would benefit enor-mously from the ability to tailor adverts based off both your spoken and seen input.

Fourth, a poetic concern — the loss of adventure. With

satellite-based directions, Wikipe-dia, friend locators and a video camera available at the twitch of your head, where’s the room for chance? Our fortuitous discoveries, run-ins and confusions are part of what makes life worth living, part of the daily excitement and un-knowing.

Finally, many say the glasses aren’t pretty enough. These people will likely wait to endorse aug-mented reality glasses until Apple perfects an alternative gadget that comes first in black, then switches to white when iGlass 1.5 is re-leased.

So, should you be afraid of Google’s big dreams for 21st cen-tury eyewear?

Probably not. All of the concerns above — from the practical ones regarding privacy to the poetic loss of spontaneity — are real, important and worth being conscious about on a daily basis. But we already have to navigate these same concerns every day.

Smartphones already provide instant directions, intrusive text mes-saging and plentiful distraction on the road. GPS units require you to look away from the road and man-age navigation in a potentially more dangerous way than an HUD would.

Serious concerns about privacy and autonomy are already justified in our current social networking cli-mate. While many don’t realize this, several free apps exist to compile public Facebook profiles’ Four-square check-ins, then use them to

display the live locations in the app user’s area. The potential for abuse of this public info is staggering.

If you’re logged into either site, Google and Facebook have a huge amount of latitude to track your activity online and use it to fine-tune their advertising. Employers can look up your public Facebook profile, embarrassing wall posts and pictures, Project Glass or none.

Google’s glasses represent a powerful way to meld all of these dubious effects in an especially acute way. But ultimately, the glasses are on our faces. Individual consumers dictate the way and extent that tech-nology impact our lives.

It’s easy to demonize new technol-ogy. It happened to cameras, televi-sion and microwaves alike. Whether Project Glass succeeds as a product doesn’t change the fact that a very similar product is the likely culmina-tion of PalmPilots, smartphones and tablet PCs.

People are the ones who use technology, responsibly or not. We need discretion, awareness and self-limitation either way.

Project Glass won’t fundamentally change human nature. We’ll still be capable of infringing on each other’s privacy, autonomy and safety. But we’ll also be capable of discretion, of using our tools to improve and elevate lives, and if necessary, choosing to forgo those tools entirely.

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ACTINGTheater-performance majors Mike Lee and

Devon Schovanec agree that acting is largely about the in-depth creation of a character, how to channel different energies and being convincing.

Lee recalls a story that an old director used to tell about being convincing.

There was a play set in England. The joke was that the character asks for cof-fee. Everyone thought it was hilarious

because people in England typically drink tea. As time passed, the amount of laughs that the actor was getting started to dwindle. As he began to realize that he was no longer making people laugh, he approached his director.

“Why is nobody laughing at this funny line anymore?” the actor asked.

The director explained the performer was asking for the laugh and not asking for the coffee.

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COSTUME/MAKEUP When “The Musical Comedy Murders of

1940” opens tonight, Julie Douglass’ skills will be displayed on stage — on the bodies of the actors.

Douglass, a graduate theater arts major, be-gan working on the show’s costumes on and off last spring, but crunch time set in last No-vember.

Long before actors are cast, multiple steps

are taken to make sure the department can begin sewing as soon as they have people’s measurements. Douglass began her hunt for costume pieces last summer, knowing it would be similar to a treasure hunt.

“Back in the 1940s, people were smaller; their feet were narrower,” she said. “People have just changed, evolved.”

Like each character, each costume has a unique personality on stage. Douglass began

DIRECTINGThe directors of any production make all

final decisions, large and small.Carrie Lee Patterson, a University of Nebras-

ka-Lincoln theater professor, is the lead director of “The Musical Comedy of Murders of 1940.”

Patterson started developing ideas for the play last summer and has since been involved in every detail of the production.

“Anything that ends up on that stage is be-cause we either helped come up with it our-selves or because we said ‘yes’ to somebody,”

Patterson said.Last summer, Patterson read over the script

and started giving ideas to set designers. In Jan-uary, a cast was chosen that now rehearses 24 hours each week.

Jake Denney was chosen as the only under-graduate assistant director this year and helps Patterson think of ideas and suggestions for improvement.

“It’s nice to have an intelligent sounding board to bounce ideas off of,” Patterson said.

“The most challenging thing is that there’s

SET DESIGNJust as important as any actor on the stage, the set of “The Musical Comedy Murders of 1940” provides the tone for every scene.

After designing and building the set for nearly five months, Aja Jackson, junior the-atrical design and production major and as-sistant scenic designer, said she thinks the set will thrill the audience.

“The set in this murder mystery is a

character in and of itself,” Jackson said. “The actors interact with the set as if there was a constant dialogue between them and the bor-ders. This looming mysterious library gives the actors a place to tell their twisted but hu-morous stories.”

Laurel Shoemaker, assistant professor of lighting, said the scenery contributes to the mystery of the play.

“This play is a ‘whodunit’ that has many

Tonight the Johnny Carson School of Theatre and Film’s final Mainstage performance of the season will open with “The Musical Comedy Murders of

1940” in the Howell Theatre at 7:30 p.m. It will run through Saturday night, as well as next Wednesday through Saturday.

The play possesses a “Clue-esque” am-bience, as all the characters gather in the mansion of the wealthy Elsa Von Grossen-knueten to convince her to help fund their production. The ensemble consists of ac-tors, a producer, director, composer, lyricist, tenor and comedian. The show begins with a bang when Von Grossenknueten’s maid, Helsa, is murdered. The play covers a span of 24 hours in which the characters begin their hunt for the Stage Door Slasher and try

to answer the timeless narrative question: “Whodunit?”

“One of the things that we do when we decide on a season is we make sure we are teaching our acting students the skills they need to go out in the world and get work,” said director Carrie Lee Patterson, a Univer-sity of Nebraska-Lincoln theater professor. “I proposed because it (“The Musical Comedy Murders of 1940”) really does teach you the rules of comedy.”

But theater students aren’t the only ones whose skills will be featured in the show. Patterson also enlisted the help of School of Music graduate student Matthew Holman to score the production. Performers also worked with Harris Smith, an associate the-ater professor, on stage combat for the play.

Patterson said she worked especially hard

to make sure each character was devel-oped beyond their comedic stereotypes and punch lines.

“It’s been tricky,” she said. “I’ve really been working with them throughout the process on creating real people as characters.”

But the long hours put into the rehearsals and technical design are for one thing: the audience. Patterson said she is sure the play

will be enjoyable with its combination of physical comedy, word play and, of course, murder.

“You might see some violence,” she said with a smile. “It’s a combination. There’s something about live theater that isn’t quite like anything else, and there’s a sense that anything can happen.”

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kaylee everly | daily nebraskanJosh Rajaee, a technical design grad student and prop master, teaches the cast of “The Musical Comedy Murders of 1940” various props Tuesday at the Temple Building.

kaylee everly | daily nebraskanDirector Carrie Lee Patterson instructs the cast of The Musical Comedy Murders of 1940 which consists of, left, Maggie Austin, Mike Lee and Jenny Holm, senior theater and Spanish major, at dress rehearsal on Tuesday at the Temple.

DIElaughing‘The Musical coMedy Murders of 1940’ To bring MysTery

To howell TheaTre as MainsTage season coMes To a close

dan holtmeyer | daily nebraskanMike Lee (left), a senior theater-performance major playing struggling comic Eddie Mc-Cuen, flirts with fellow performer Emily Martinez as Nikki Crandall. The two characters are searching for their big break throughout “The Musical Comedy Murders of 1940.”

kaylee everly | daily nebraskanFrom left, Emily Martinez (a senior theatre and management major), David Rubio (a junior vocal performance major) and Mike Lee (a senior theater-performance major) portray actors in a play within a play at a dress rehearsal Tuesday for their upcoming show, “The Musical Comedy Murders of 1940.”

kaylee everly | daily nebraskan Maggie Austin (a sophomore theater directing, management and performance major), who plays Marjorie Baverstock, applies foundation before dress rehearsal Tuesday at the Temple Building.

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Last year they brought Big Boi to the University of Ne-braska-Lincoln. This year, the University Program Council will settle for noth-ing less than a star-studded spring for UNL students.

Mike Posner and The Brain Trust will perform on the Nebraska Union green space on Thursday at 8 p.m.

“We made a huge step in the right direction with Big Boi last year,” said Jason Dunn, a senior film studies major and one of the main coordinators of the event. “We wanted that to contin-ue and we wanted an even bigger name.”

A few students suggest-ed Posner and after look-ing into other options, it seemed Posner’s name was just the right size, Dunn said. Last year, Big Boi brought a crowd of more than 5,000 attendees and UPC is hoping for an even bigger turnout this time.

Posner was discovered as a musician while he was a student at Duke University. In 2010, he graduated and released his album “31 Min-utes to Takeoff.” Three of

the album’s tracks were hits: “Cooler Than Me,” “Please Don’t Go” and “Bow Chicka Wow Wow,” which features Lil’ Wayne.

In addition, Posner was nominated for an American Music Award for Breakout Artist.

Originally from Michigan, 24-year-old Posner has trav-eled across the United States and around the world, but he said he feels at home when he’s performing on university campuses.

“(I) absolutely love to play shows at universities,” Posner said. “In my heart, I feel like I’m still a college student and sometimes I wish I still am. It’s really nice to play with my peers.”

The show will be open to members the public, as well as students. Posner has played in Nebraska once before with a show in Oma-ha, but he said he expects tonight’s performance to be “a bit crazier.”

“And that’s a challenge,” he said. “Shows are like moments in time. I look forward to creating that mo-ment with the students.”

The show is also being sponsored by the Jack-ie Gaughan Multicultural

Center, the Association of Students of the University of Nebraska, the Residence Hall Association, the Stu-dent Money Management Center and 106.3 KFRX. Be-fore Posner takes the stage, the Gaughan Center will have a DJ in front of the Union from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. as part of Gaughan Week. In addition, KFRX will be doing a live broadcast from the event. Dunn said one of their disc jockeys is expect-ed to sing as well.

“I’ve heard it’s very high-energy,” Dunn said of Pos-ner’s concerts. “I’ve been told he likes to play to the crowd a lot.”

But Posner said his show will not be restricted to the stage.

“Let’s just say I’m not a stranger to university bas-ketball courts,” Posner said,

adding he may be hanging out around UNL campus un-til show time.

However, he wouldn’t re-veal much more.

“I apologize for my ambi-guity, but it’s ambiguity by

design,” he said.No matter where Posner

will be during the day, the audience on Thursday night can expect to see him on stage, rain or shine.

“If students want to

continue to get big concerts, they need to come out and support it,” Dunn said. “It’s going to be the hopping place for the evening.”

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the project by delving into those personalities by read-ing the script “several million times.”

She then began extensive re-search on clothing from 1940, looking for images of regular people as well as learning as much as she could about the movie stars of the time.

But history threw yet anoth-er wrench in her way — war. The play is set in 1940, right on the brink of World War II. Clothing in America — specifi-cally women’s clothing — was changing. Skirts were shorter and narrower due to fabric rations in Europe. And so, to keep some of the glamour around, Douglass rolled back the clock by one year and based most of her costume off of 1939 styles and even some from early 1940.

“The glamour era, as you can see,” she said, pointing to the various pictures taped to makeup mirrors. “The movie stars were really big and the

makeup was really overdone and the guys’ hair was slicked back. It’s really a glamorous time.”

After completing her re-search, Douglass took the images to director Carrie Lee Patterson and the two worked to combine their vi-sions for the costumes.

Then it was time to design. She created a series of pre-liminary sketches and, once again, had them approved by Patterson. By the time the show was cast, Douglass was ready to begin sewing. All women’s costumes in “The Musical Comedy Murders of 1940” were sewn and the college rented or bought all of the men’s suits.

But an actor in costume is only half-ready to take the stage. Junior theater major Amy Avila is in charge of ac-tors’ makeup and hair for the show.

Although the show is about actors, directors, producers,

etc., Avila wanted to keep the makeup natural, but she did add red lipstick for all fe-male characters. Fortunately, most of the actors in this show have taken classes on how to do their “basic cor-rective” makeup.

“Instead of doing actu-al makeup charts, I hung up pictures of movie stars around the dressing room,” she said.

However, hair is an en-tirely different matter and Avila has armed herself with a crew of five makeup and hair artists who are up for the challenge.

She said the hardest part of the show is keeping the women’s hair from looking the same.

“We practiced with the hair last night and it looked pret-ty fantastic,” she said. “I sat through a performance yester-day and I was like ‘wow, they all look so glamorous.’”

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plot twists and turns,” Shoe-maker said. “So the atmo-sphere that the lighting de-signer and I, along with the performers, create helps to keep the audience wonder-ing what will happen next.”

Using mostly wood, foam, paper and molding, more than 20 students helped de-sign and build the scenery. The set is made to look like more expensive materials — rich cherry wood and marble

— to limit production costs.“Moving from a small, one-

fourth scale model to the ac-tual size is always exciting, but I love every step of the way from the design team collaboration, to the research and the seeing the finished product function on stage with the action,” Shoemaker said.

Jackson compared the design process for “Musical Comedy Murders of 1940” to

the challenge of designing a funhouse.

“Just when the audience thinks that he or she knows the lay of the set, it will sur-prise them with an unexpect-ed entrance or exit,” Jackson said. “It is a very involved set. The design needed to in-corporate all the needs of the play and still look and feel authentic and period.”

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“The actors on stage cannot know that they’re funny,” Schovanec said. “It’s important to make big choices and then make them come to life and look real.”

Lee and Schovanec have been honing these skills and working on “asking for the coffee” in their upcom-ing roles in “The Musical

Comedy Murders of 1940,” a wild tale about a creative team trying to solve the murders of fellow actors.

The rehearsal process starts as soon as the actor is awarded a role, before set rehearsals even start. The actor decides how the character holds himself, what his energy is like and whether he has a specific

dialect.“Once you define the

character’s desires and his life experiences, you can decide the way he is, the way he talks and the way he carries himself,” Lee said.

In some cases, the charac-ters have psychological rea-sons for why they do what they do. Other playwrights are simpler and more vis-ceral about defining the characters.

Carrie Lee Patterson, the show’s director and a pro-fessional actor, said the en-ergies are a large part of de-fining a character.

“Energies are a charac-ter’s tempo-rhythm,” Pat-terson said. “Not everybody moves, thinks or speaks at the same tempo as every-one else. That would be in-credibly boring.”

Both Lee and Schovanec are playing characters with different energies and tem-po-rhythms than their own.

“The character that I’m playing has a little bit more of the energy in his hips,” Schovanec said. “The way that he moves is different from the way that I move, so I really need to get in-volved with the character.”

Schovanec said it has been a blast creating “The Musical Comedy Murders of 1940.”

“I might walk into re-hearsal in a bad mood, but I’ll leave smiling and joking with the cast,” Schovanec said. “We have so much fun performing it and I don’t know how anyone could come and not have a great time.”

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lIGHTING/SOUNDWhen thinking about pro-

fessions in theater arts, most people consider the actors, musicians and directors, and often fail to appreciate the workers behind the scenes. The collaborative team of de-signers, technicians, directors and performers all play an in-tegral role in creating a perfor-mance.

“People don’t realize that doing lighting is more than just turning a light switch on,” said junior theater major Chris Stepanek, the lighting design-er for “The Musical Comedy Murders of 1940.” “We put in a lot of hours to get things to look the way they do and I

think some people just don’t realize it’s an art that required lots of thought.”

“The Murder Comedy of Murders of 1940” is set in a mansion on the East Coast. Laurel Shoemaker, lighting and sound faculty adviser, did extensive research on the time period and studied the architecture. The preparation for “The Musical Comedy of Murders” started before win-ter break. The rehearsals be-gan with a read-through of the script, making notes on technical changes in the story, while the lighting designers would jot down which colors corresponded best with each scene.

For Stepanek, selecting the different colors for each scene is the most difficult part of be-ing in charge of lights.

“Choosing color for the lights is very important be-cause lighting helps set the feeling and mood for the show,” Stepanek said. “Color can make or break that feel-ing. The color needs to work well with the set, as well as the costumes, but also pro-vide effective mood and face lighting.

The task of a lighting de-signer spans from making the color choices, deciding on light cues and deciding where the lights are hung.

“No one show will look the

same (as another),” Stepanek said.

Lighting, sound, set produc-tion and costuming all play into whether the audience member feels a part of the era and scene.

As the designer of the scen-ery for the show, Shoemaker was charged with the task of adapting the large scenic de-mands of the setting into a small space.

“The challenge is to provide for all of the requirements of the play in an artful manner and can function well for the production team,” Shoemaker said.

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so much stuff going on in this show,” said Denney, a senior theater-performance, direct-ing and management major. “It’s prop heavy. It’s a lot of set. There’s a lot of things hap-pening that you have to be on top of, so that’s been challeng-ing, but it’s been rewarding be-cause it’s fun when everything is working.”

Patterson said coordinating all parts of the production has been the hardest part of this

play because there’s singing, choreography and set pieces that all need to work together.

“This has been a great group of people to work with,” Pat-terson said. “The students that have been in every rehearsal put forth so much energy and focus to this piece. They don’t complain, they do their work and they work well together, so this has all been very co-hesive.”

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dan holtmeyer | daily nebraskanLuke Thiele, a freshman theater student and assistant mas-ter electrician of the production, seen here facing the stage, controls more than 170 individual lights on the set.

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Apts. For Rent2 bedrroom-1 bath. Near East Campus. $510+electric. Move in June 1 or earl ier through August 31. Questions 402-277-0179.3 bedroom, 2 bath. NICE. N/P, N/S. East Campus/City Campus location. On FaceBook at Starr Street Apartments (402) 430-4253.

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Roommates

Two females to share a 4 bedroom townhouse north of 14th and Superior, $287.50 plus utilties. Call Autumn at 402-612-1316.

Houses For Rent

721 N 30th. 6 bedroom, 2 bath, wood floors, Available May/2012. $1350/month. 402-430-9618.

Duplexes For Rent

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Looking for 2 roommates. $200/month. Pay electric, gas and internet. 1236 Goodhue Blvd. (940)229-2345

Looking for 6 people that would like to sub-lease a room for the summer, house is availble as early as May 7 and would go until August. The house has 6 bedrooms and 3 bathrooms, the house 5 minutes away from East campus in a very friendly neighborhood. Rent is $287 per person plus electric and gas, if interested please e-mail me at [email protected]

Looking for female roommates for 5 bed-room/3 bathroom house in great neighbor-hood, only 10 minutes north of campus. 2-3 bedrooms available. Ample street parking. Smallest bedroom 10’x11’ with large kitchen, living room, and family room. $300 rent plus utilities. No smokers. Call/text/email Megan at 402-310-5917, [email protected] if in-terested.

Looking for one roommate to live in four bed-room house with 2 female and one male room-mates beginning August 8th. 29th and Or-chard. Rent $275/month plus uti l it ies. Call/Text/Email Elizabeth at 630-470-4143 or [email protected]

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Need one roommate to finish apartment lease at Claremont Park Apartments May-July. 3 bedroom, 2 bath. Rent $350 per month, plus utilities, please contact Annie at 402-980-1420 or [email protected]

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Roommate ads are FREE in print and online. E-mail yours to [email protected] and include your name, address and phone number.

Two females, one male looking for someone to move into a 2008 4 bedroom, two bath duplex. Gender doesn’t matter. Close to campus over in the Turtle Creek area. $300 per person plus electric a month. No internet, cable, water, or trash bills. Can move in ASAP. Cleanliness is preferred. If interested, email malnmeier @gmail.com or text 308-390-0457.

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1 or 2 female roommates needed to fi l l an apartment at The View Apartments from June until the end of August. $284 plus cable and electric. Email Amanda at [email protected]

1 room for rent in 3 bedroom, 2 bath home. Washer/dryer, dishwasher included. Room is in basement with own bathroom. TV, Internet and utilities included in rent. Rent is $400 a month. Home is in a friendly neighborhood with street parking that is a 5 minute drive from campus. Room is available in May. Email [email protected] if interested/for more information.

Four females looking for 1 or 2 people to fill a master bedroom with a walk in closet. Room big enough for two double beds, dressers, and desks. Amazing, split-level apartment located in the Grand Manse downtown, just a couple blocks from campus. Newly refinished kitchen and washer/dryer available. August-August lease, move in date set for Aug. 6th. Rent would be $550/month for one person, and $409/month for two, plus a very small utilities. Cheaper than campus living but just as close! Contact Sarah at 605-228-4613 if interested.

I am a 22 year old female undergrad UNL col-lege student looking for roommate. I am a non-smoker, clean, and responsible elemen-tary education major. Looking for roommates to find an apartment or looking to rent a room. If interested e-mail me at [email protected].

Looking for 1 female roommate to sublet apartment for June 1 through August 31. $397.50/month, all utilities except electricity in-cluded (about $30/month extra). Located at Hayward Condos on 9th and Charleston- very close to campus. 2 bedrooms, 1 bath. Laundry facilities in building. Wood floors, tall ceilings, parking available. [email protected] if interested or need more information.

Looking for 1, 2, or 3 females to rent rooms in a nice duplex on 1st and W. Irving. Fully fur-nished (beds, t.v., dishes etc) washer, dryer garage included. $287 plus electric and cable. Contact Jill (402)619-6560 or [email protected]

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The Interdisciplinary Arts Symposium will continue to follow its yearlong theme of immigration, migration and transplantation when it welcomes “This is Tango Now: ‘Identidad’” to the Lied Center for Performing Arts.

“This is Tango Now” is a creative collaborative proj-ect by tango artists Fer-nanda Ghi and Guillermo Merlo, as well as musician Alfredo Minetti, dedicated to performance and edu-cation in the tango dance style.

The three-day event will feature a series of tango history lectures by Minetti, a handful of demonstrations and a final performance.

Rhonda Garelick, director of the symposium, said tan-go is a far-reaching dance

form that exemplifies the interpretation of multicul-tural artistic experiences for audiences.

“Tango has a very diverse, multinational background,” she said. “It combines Af-rican, Latin and European traditions.”

“This is Tango Now, fur-thermore, is a multimedia production that uses tango to tell a highly dramatic sto-ry,” Garelick said.

“Identidad” is a narrative told through dance, which promotes identity, freedom and passion. The story fo-cuses on a marionette, her puppeteer and their fluc-tuating relationship. The performance dares the au-dience to take a risk and be free in an ensemble of movement, energy and col-or through Minetti’s music and choreography by Ghi and Merlo.

The specific form of

Argentine tango used in “Identidad” is a personal approach to the dance with partners moving chest-to-chest in many dances.

There will be an open session to teach the finer points of tango to the Uni-versity of Nebraska-Lincoln campus and local commu-nity. The tango class will be held today at 4:30 p.m. in Westbrook Hall, room 119. Minetti will offer a lesson today in history and back-ground of the genre, along with a demonstration by the “Identidad” dancers.

“The goal of the Interdis-ciplinary Arts Symposium is always to educate and in-form people about the arts, to create a deeper, more criti-cal experience.” Garelick said. “Therefore, we always present the performing arts in a con-text.”

Tickets for the capstone Lied performance, held Saturday at

7:30 p.m., are $18 for adults and $9 for students and youth. Free tickets for the perfor-mance of “Identidad” are available for students through the Arts for All program.

For lecture and session reg-istration information, contact Petra Wahlqvist, IAS Associate Director, at [email protected].

The Interdisciplinary Arts Symposium is sponsored by the Hixson-Lied College of Fine and Performing Arts and is presented in part by the Lied Center for Performing Arts.

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the defense they’ll be able to remember and apply to game situations.

“I just want our guys to gain a better knowledge of overall what we’re doing.” Papuchis said. “We can get better in a lot of the aspects of what we’re doing on the mental side of things.”

But Papuchis wasn’t hired to be the defensive coordina-tor of a Big Ten program be-cause he could write a good test.

According to NU coach Bo Pelini, he was promoted from within after the departure of former NU defensive coordi-nator, Carl Pelini, because he went through the school of hard knocks and earned an opportunity at coaching the defense.

“You have to play to your strengths and work on

weaknesses,” Bo Pelini said. “J.P., when you think about it, has had a pretty meteoric rise in this profession. He has earned getting to where he is today.”

“Meteoric rise” is no hy-perbole.

Papuchis earned his bach-elor’s degree from Virginia Tech in 2001 and his mas-ter’s in sports administration from Kansas in 2003 while serving as a graduate assis-tant for the Jayhawks.

Afterward, Papuchis left Lawrence, Kan., for the 2004-05 season to serve as a graduate assistant at LSU under Les Miles.

And that’s where Papu-chis met Bo Pelini, who ar-rived a year later to serve as the Tigers’ defensive co-ordinator. During that time the two bonded, along with

Joseph who also served on the staff as a graduate assis-tant with Papuchis in 2006.

And the relationship Jo-seph built with Papuchis and Pelini during that time played a major role in his decision to come coach in Lincoln.

The people who wanted to keep Joseph at Tennes-see before his departure to Nebraska wanted him to re-member that Pelini and Pa-puchis would probably still treat him like a subordinate instead of as an equal at NU, Joseph said.

But Joseph and Papuchis had stayed in contact and he never lost sight of what Pa-puchis and the Huskers had to offer.

“So that made me want to come to Nebraska,” Joseph said. “Because Bo never

treated us like (graduate as-sistants), he let us coach and teach. It was a big step in my career because he let us coach so much at such a young point in our careers.”

Pelini was so fond of his graduate assistant Papuchis that when the time came for him to take the Nebraska job, he took Papuchis with him as NU’s defensive line coach and special teams co-ordinator.

And that’s where Papu-chis sat until Carl Pelini left the Huskers to take a coach-ing job at Florida Atlantic this offseason.

This left his brother Bo Pelini in a tough spot. He turned to Papuchis in his time of need, and Papuchis was there to take the job.

A job that won’t be easy.Nebraska is looking to

replace its leading tackler Lavonte David, defensive tackle Jared Crick and a projected early round draft pick Alfonzo Dennard at corner.

“Obviously there’s a void

there,” Papuchis said. “But it won’t be just one guy who steps up and fills each spot. It’s going to be a group ef-fort. And I think we have a few guys looking to prog-ress during the spring and fall camp and I’m looking forward to see their pro-gression.”

But one thing Papuchis won’t do is take a whole lot of credit for how the Black-shirts operate.

His Huskers are part of a bigger whole, and Papu-chis will stay humble for his squad.

“I wholeheartedly believe in the team and the we con-cept of what we do,” Papu-chis said. “I’m going to per-form my role to the best of my ability ... hopefully that is the result of our effort.

“I’m not interested in put-ting my stamp (on the de-fense) I’m worried about winning. And if that’s the re-sult of our effort then we’re doing the right thing.”

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PRACTICE NOTES FOOTBALL

Pelini squashes arkansas rumors

ESPN reported Wednes-day that Nebraska coach Bo Pelini was a possible candidate for the vacant Arkansas coaching job.

When asked about it after practice Wednes-day, Pelini said he was surprised to hear he was mentioned for the job.

“I didn’t even know my name got thrown around,” Pelini said. “I don’t even know how that stuff happens. I’m here and I’m happy to be here.”

Pelini said he had not received any calls from Arkansas on the matter. He also said he doesn’t know why anyone would think he would leave Ne-braska.

“I always say this is a destination job and they can throw my name around but at the end of the day we are trying to win a championship here,” Pelini said.

huskers finish out good week be-fore sPring game

Nebraska will take the field today with no pads as Wednesday was its last fully padded practice before Saturday’s spring game.

After Wednesday’s practice, Pelini said he was pleased with the way the Huskers finished out the week.

“Thought it was a good week,” Pelini said. “Good Monday, good Wednes-day, I thought we really came out and practiced well today. We are ready to go for the spring game on Saturday.”

The Huskers will just be divided up evenly for Saturday’s game. When asked about a potential draft with the coaches, Pelini said they would not be doing that. Pelini said because the game is being broadcast on televi-sion, Nebraska will play a very simple game Satur-day.

“We’re going to be as basic as you can get and we aren’t going to run our full stuff on both sides of the football,” Pelini said.

Players ready for saturday’s game

Junior Cole Pensick is ready for Saturday’s game.

“I’m excited and ready to have some fun,” Pen-sick said.

Pensick is not the only one with that thought. Many other players ex-pressed their readiness for Saturday’s game after Wednesday’s practice. Senior Tim Marlowe said it has been nice to get back to the fundamentals, though.

“Spring is a time for younger players to devel-op and older guys to per-fect their skills,” Marlowe said. “It’s a big funda-mental period and great time to grow as a football player.”

One player developing at a new position is soph-omore Braylon Heard. He made the switch from running back to corner-back this spring and he is ready to showcase his new talents.

“I’m sure everyone is excited with the game be-ing on TV and all,” Heard said. “It’s the spring game and everyone is always excited for the spring game.”

other notes:•Pelini said starting

quarterback Taylor Mar-tinez would most likely play just a quarter in Sat-urday’s game.

•Pelini said I-back Rex Burkhead would see lim-ited action as well to take a look at the younger backs.

•Defensive linemen Thaddeus Randle and Kevin Williams will not see action on Saturday because of injuries, ac-cording to Pelini.

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The last lecture in this academic year’s Humani-ties on the Edge series is geared toward engaging its audience with a new spin on some old ideas.

Cesare Casarino, a pro-fessor at the University of Minnesota in the depart-ment of cultural studies and comparative literature, will present his lecture “Universalism of the Com-mon” on Thursday night at 5:30 p.m. in the Sheldon Museum of Art auditorium. Casarino works in the dif-ferent disciplines of phi-losophy, literature criticism and the cinema in line with the series’ goal of promot-ing cross-disciplinary dia-logue.

Launched in the fall of 2010 by UNL English pro-fessors Marco Abel and Roland Vegso, the Humani-ties on the Edge is a cross-disciplinary s p e a k e r series fo-cusing on theoret ica l r e s e a r c h in the hu-m a n i t i e s . This year’s theme is b i o p o w e r and biopoli-tics.

The lat-ter refers to philosopher Michel Fou-cault’s argu-ment that power in contemporary so-ciety happens at the level of life and populations.

Jessy Ohl, a graduate communication studies major, said the lecture will be a relevant cross-disci-plinary affair.

“The shift to biopolitics is associated with many important issues that im-pact our everyday lives,” Ohl said. “The broadness and significance of biopol-itics creates an excellent opportunity to connect

multiple disciplines in con-versation over our current social condition.”

Casarino’s lecture “Uni-versalism of the Com-mon” will respond to other speakers from this year, particularly Michael Hardt, who presented at the Shel-don earlier this month.

“Some of my work is in dialogue with some of the other thinkers that have been invited throughout this year,” Casarino said. “We arrive with each oth-er’s works in mind, in a back-and-forth response to each other.”

Casarino and Hardt share some common ground and their theories and both have coauthored books with philosopher, Antonio Negri.

In the lecture, Casarino will define the concepts of “the common” and uni-versalism. Casarino said the common, which he de-fines as “thought, language

and affect,” has been f r e q u e n t l y d i s c u s s e d in different d i s c i p l i n e s , pa r t i cu l a r l y political phi-losophy and theory.

“I don’t be-lieve there is such as a thing as an i n d i v i d u a l thought or i n d i v i d u a l l a n g u a g e , ”

Casarino said. “We may ex-perience them in this way, but the capacity for talk-ing, speaking and affecting and being affected, or hav-ing emotions, are shared common features of hu-man beings.”

Casarino’s definition of the common is a human one, not of nature.

In the second part of the lecture, Casarino will ad-dress universalism.

He said the concept has garnered a bad reputation

for good reason, as a means for the continued consideration of white Eu-ropeans as being the ideal human being. Casarino argues that it’s time to re-think universalism.

“We need concepts (that speak to) how we are all united and intercon-nected,” Casarino said. “We need some universal thoughts to bring us all to-gether.”

Casarino proposes the idea of the universality of the common and what hu-mans share is potential.

He said Karl Marx called the common “labour pow-er,” or the ability to work and reproduce ourselves, and this basis might make universalism conceivable. Furthermore, the speaker said he feels capitalism and individualism pit humans against each other and that the common is just the op-posite. The concept of the common used to be related to communism. Casarino is now rethinking it and its political possibilities.

Casarino claimed previ-ous attempts at commu-nism have largely been “disastrous.”

“But I think there is po-tential in those ideals that might have potential now-adays,” he said.

Josh Ewalt, a graduate communication studies major, said lectures like those hosted by Humani-ties on the Edge are im-portant intellectual oppor-tunities for all students. He said the series has the potential to strengthen our intellect and critical think-ing capacities.

“This is an unbelievable opportunity,” Ewalt said. “Students get to listen to and engage with some of the most prominent think-ers in our world. That is an intellectual privilege we should not take lightly.”

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Sprinter Mara Weekes is trying to elevate her talents to the na-tional level.

The Nebraska sophomore, who runs in the 100-, 200- and 400-meters, is building on a successful indoor season that featured a third-place finish in the 200-meter dash at the Big Ten Championships.

“She’s got a world of poten-tial,” NU assistant coach Matt Martin said. “She’s just got to unleash it.”

In two meets this season, Weekes posted two per-sonal records in the 100- and 200-meter dashes.

“Right now we’re worried about her being consistent and running consistent times,” Martin said. “She just needs to continue to work on her sprint mechanics.”

Martin said Weekes has the potential to run in the low 23-second range in the 200, her top event. If Weekes can improve her starts and work on reducing fatigue in her short runs, Martin said she can reach that time.

Weekes came to Nebraska after competing at the Junior World Championships as high schooler in Barbados.

“The experience that you get running for your country in the Caribbean Islands is good,” Martin said. “You get a sense of what a big meet is like.”

For Weekes, there was a pretty big change between Barbados, where they don’t run indoor track, and Ne-braska, where aside from this year’s unseasonably warm spring, the Huskers practice outdoor track indoors for the first month.

For fellow sprinter Miles Ukaoma, the change wasn’t as drastic.

Ukaoma came to Nebras-ka from Maize, Kan., only a 215-mile move compared to Weekes’ 2,931-mile trek.

In his first season with Nebraska in 2011, Ukaoma earned second-team All-Amer-ican honors at the NCAA Out-door Championships.

“He’s a person with All-American potential,” Martin said.

Through three meets, Uka-oma sits in the No. 6 spot nationally in the 400-meter hurdles, an event in which he placed 16th at the NCAA’s last season. Martin said the ex-perience of competing at the NCAA meet as a freshman is a huge boost to a young ath-lete’s confidence.

“It makes all the difference in the world,” Martin said.

This week, Ukaoma will likely stay in Lincoln, rest-ing from the previous three weeks. Martin said Ukaoma is focusing on fixing technical issues with sprinting and hur-dling in his week away from competition.

Meanwhile, the rest of the team is heading to Wichita, Kan., just minutes from Uka-oma’s hometown, for the K.T. Woodman Classic. Martin said the team will bring its full travel roster to the event ex-cept the jumps squad, which will be heading for the Univer-sity of Texas at El Paso for the UTEP Invitational.

“Some of what we do is to chase performance,” Martin said. “Coach (Gary) Pepin felt like that was a good place for that group.”

The reason the jumpers are heading to UTEP, Martin said, is because the altitude and tailwind, which produce ideal conditions for high marks in jumps events. That isn’t the case for every event, Martin said, so the rest of the team will head to Kansas.

Although this weekend’s competition likely won’t fea-ture any athletes competing for spots in the Olympics like the last few meets have, Martin

maintains the meet will still be competitive for Nebraska.

“Like any meet we go to, there’s somebody who’s good in every event,” Martin said.

The K.T. Woodman Clas-sic provides the Huskers with a chance to compete near home. Most meets require lengthy bus rides, with only two home meets this outdoor season (one is a mini-meet).

For athletes like Weekes who are trying to work toward a Big Ten Championship, spending less time away from home can help tremendously. The shorter travel time allows for more sleep and less fatigue as the team approaches the home stretch of the season.

“That’s always our goal — seeing how far we can get be-fore conference,” Weekes said. “Right now I’m ranked fourth in the 100 and second in the 200. The season is still young. That can change.”

Martin said Weekes has the ability to be great at Nebras-ka. The possibility of taking the conference crown in the 200-meter dash from Illinois’ Ashley Spencer or edging out Ohio State’s Christina Man-ning, though, might be anoth-er story.

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Liz Kuhlkin might be living her dream this weekend.

A freshman on NU’s bowling team, Kuhlkin will compete at the NCAA Championships in Cleveland, which start Thursday and run through Saturday.

Kuhlkin has seen the action before. She watched senior Valerie Calberry and NU win the national championship in 2009 on television.

“She always comments on my reactions,” Calberry said.

Then she watched NU place second the next year.

“She said she watches them all the time and just has a ball watching them,” Calberry said. “And that’s her dream. She’s really passionate about it.”

Along with Kuhlkin, two other underclassmen will be competing: sophomores Yan Ling and Amanda Burau.

The youth of the team will not affect how NU will com-pete.

The women continued to grow throughout the season despite adjusting to new start-ers after four seniors gradu-ated last year, said coach Bill Straub.

Calberry notices the growth too.

“I think now there’s more communication between us and within ourselves and with the coaches,” Calberry said. “I think we’ve become better friends as well, with the new girls coming in.”

NU heads into the national

championship coming off a first place finish at the Music City Classic in March — its only win of the season.

In the past, NU has always been a top competitor through-out the season. After taking first at the national championships in 2009, NU placed second in 2010 and tied for third last year.

NU heads into the tourna-ment ranked third behind Arkansas State and Fairleigh Dickinson.

Kayla Johnson feels the pressure to win. Being a se-nior, it’s Johnson’s last tourna-ment and her last chance for a national title.

“Individually, I just want to be able to go out there and walk away from my last tour-nament knowing that I’ve put everything out there that I can and hopefully that benefits my team,” Johnson said. “And I want a national title. That’s one of the reasons I came to this school was they’re winners and I haven’t had the opportu-nity to win a national title and so for me knowing that this is my last chance I want it more than anything. And I know that it takes not just me, but me and all of my teammates.”

And it’s not just the tradition of winning for NU bowling that will help them this week-end. Everyone has been doing their part to prepare for the national championships, John-son said.

“Everyone is just clicking,” Johnson said. “We’ve all worked hard on the lanes putting the ex-tra hours for our fundamentals

and it’s really paying off. And I think that we’re going to be able to make the shots that need to be made this week. In the long run that’s all we can do — make up our shots and hope that that puts us in the right spot.”

N U needs to adapt to the “scor-ing condi-tions” and control its thoughts, actions and reactions in order to suc-ceed in Cleveland, Straub said. He said if the Huskers do just that, “they get to come home with their head held high re-gardless of the outcome.”

A trophy isn’t necessary for a ticket back to Lincoln. It might make the trip home more upbeat, but NU is look-ing to reach its potential as a team.

“Our goal is team-oriented. If we play well as a team and we do everything that we can do and we don’t win, then we’ll be satisfied,” Calberry said. “We will be content with our results if we bowl to our potential as a team. The tourna-ment has nothing to do with in-dividuals; it’s all about our team and how our team does. And so if we happen to bowl the best we can and win the national championship, that’s amazing.”

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wants to wrap up spring prac-tice on a high point, but also that the team has clear focal points for the spring game.

“We should be at our peak, but we kind of pull back in the game plan. We run basic plays,” Marlowe said. “We just want to be real crisp in our ex-ecution.”

Because the team is not dis-playing its full arsenal, Reed said the scrimmage is not a good gauge of regular-season performance.

“It’s a game, but it’s five months before the first game,” he said.

Marlowe concurred, saying the game is more important for other reasons.

“It’s all about the execu-tion — the fundamentals. We’re not showing much of our playbooks on either side of the ball,” Marlowe said. “So it really has no real correlation to next season, but it’s just a way for us to get fundamen-tally better.”

He also mentioned the ma-jor directive the coaching staff has for him and his teammates.

“No mental errors,” Marlowe said. “That’s what the coaches are really focusing on, so hopefully Saturday we’ll have a clean game and put on a good show for the fans.”

And that’s important to the Huskers. NU coach, Bo Pelini, said being able to strut their

stuff for the fans does have meaning for his team.

so while the Red-White Game does not carry the ex-citement of a season opener, the excitement of a rivalry game or the weight of a con-ference contest, it does have a fair amount of significance to the players and coaching staff. At its core, the spring scrimmage is an opportunity to showcase the fundamentals the Huskers have worked on throughout the spring.

“Spring game’s just pretty much another practice,” Reed said. “Just happens, the fans are able to come out and watch us.”

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Flash back to the end of the 2011-12 Ne-braska football sea-son.

Halftime is com-ing up fast. The Huskers are about to head into the locker room up 13-9 on a top 10 SEC South Carolina team. All they have to do is keep the Game-cocks from scoring on a last second heave to the end zone to close the half.

South Carolina quarterback Connor Shaw drops back and unloads a bomb toward the end zone. South Carolina receiver Alshon Jeffery pulls down the pigskin just shy of the goal line and dives in to score a touchdown with ze-roes on the clock.

That infamous play might

have cost NU the game. Af-terward, South Carolina had all the momentum and a 16-13 lead headed into the lock-er room. From then on, the Huskers looked flustered as the Gamecocks scored two more touchdowns and won the game 30-13.

But why did that play hap-pen?

It was the result of a blown coverage, something NU’s first-year defensive coordina-tor John Papuchis has no in-tention on allowing this year.

That’s why since the start of the offseason, Papuchis, alongside secondary coach Terry Joseph, have been mix-ing it up in NU’s secondary meeting room.

“A lot of things have

changed since he’s got here,” senior safety P.J. Smith said. “The way he’s teaching us now is totally different. We have a test when we go in the meeting room.”

The tests have three ques-tions and are all short answer. The tests ask players how they should react in a cer-tain situation — like how to defend a receiver when he’s streaking down the field in a Hail Mary situation.

The tests are designed like something from a “political science 101” course. They’re supposed to teach the defen-sive backs something about

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Saturday afternoon, a taste of game day will return to Memo-rial Stadium. Football fans will file into the Red-White spring Game in swarms for the first morsel of Nebraska football since November.

To the Husker faithful, the scrimmage presents an oppor-tunity to reunite with their foot-ball team and get a glimpse of the program’s future.

But for the team, the spring game takes on a different kind of significance.

“It’s definitely a time to show out and show our coaches what this spring was all about and how hard we worked,” senior wide receiver Tim Mar-lowe said.

The contest is the culmina-tion of spring practice for the squad, and although it lacks the excitement of a regular-season game, the players find a large amount of value in the Red-White Game.

“I think all the players put a lot of stock into it,” Marlowe said. “Everyone wants to do a good job and show the coaches that they’re ready for the fall.”

senior tight end Kyler Reed added that spring practice has even more importance for younger players on the roster.

“a lot of guys get reps,” Reed said. “Young guys that don’t know exactly what they’re do-ing, it’s a chance for them to learn. It’s 15 extra practices for guys to learn what they’re do-ing.”

Reed said the game itself is more valuable for the players who lack experience.

“As a young guy, it helped me get used to being in a game situation as much as possible before you can actually step in a game,” he said.

One of the outstanding differ-ences between the regular sea-son and the spring game is the fact that it has a focus on getting back to the fundamentals.

“It’s a good time to work on the basics,” Reed said. “We put in a good percentage of the of-fense, but it’s not everything. This is a good time to get a lot of people reps, get some fun-damental work, get a good start for the season.”

Marlowe and Reed said they place additional stock in the spring game since it’s the last chance the football team will have to practice until the sum-mer.

“You want to just finish the spring strong. You don’t want to leave on the last day with a lot of mistakes,” Reed said.

Marlowe agreed, saying he

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An unfortunate sickness turned into a positive Wednesday night at Bowlin Stadium for the Nebraska softball team.

The flu has infected many of the Husker play-ers, including junior Brooke Thomason, who wasn’t even in attendance for the team’s matchup against Creighton. Her absence left the door open for true-freshman Jor-dan Bettiol.

The last time Bettiol start-ed a game for Nebraska was March 4 against Texas State. In that game the freshman went 1 for 2 with a stolen base in the loss against the Bobcats.

Her performance against Creighton on Wednesday looked similar, but the re-sults were far from the same.

In Wednesday night’s showcase against CU, Bet-tiol went 1 for 3 with an RBI to assist in the Huskers (25-14, 7-2 Big Ten) victory over the Bluejays, 3-0. Nebraska is now 79-36 all-time against its in-state rival.

nU coach Rhonda Revelle said she was pleased with her decision of starting the freshman.

“(Bettiol) didn’t know she was going in until this afternoon,” Revelle said. “We’re pleased with how she contributed today.”

Bettiol didn’t know she was starting until she

received a text from Rev-elle a few hours before the game.

The freshman said she was far from nervous when her coach told her to play right field.

“I was very excited,” Bet-tiol said. “Any chance I get to be on the field I’m there. When I got the text from coach I said, “‘Absolutely, I will be there.’”

Bettiol, who added nerves are part of the game, showed none as she knocked in an RBI with her single in the second inning that gave the Huskers a 2-0 edge over CU.

“She came up with a clutch RBI which was huge at the time,” Revelle said. “She’s fast. She’s our first or second fastest kid on the team so her speed also gave pressure to the pitch-er.”

In the circle for Nebras-ka, Ashley Hagemann did something she’s done all season, according to Rev-elle — she pitched with consistency.

The senior pitched a complete game, blanking the Bluejays on one hit and two walks through seven innings of scoreless soft-ball. Hagemann’s 14 strike-outs tied her season-high, her first being set against another in-state team, University of Nebraska at Omaha.

The win improved the Elkhorn native’s season re-cord to 17-11 on the sea-son.

Bettiol said her team-mate’s outstanding pitch-ing helped calm the of-fense down at the plate.

“Whenever you can have a solid defense and good

pitcher that’s in rhythm, that just gives the offense a boost,” she said.

Although Bettiol rec-ognized that the 115th match-up between the two Nebraska teams had some significance, she said she treated the game like any other with the mind-set to win.

Revelle was pleased with how the team performed under the sudden health circumstances they’ve been facing.

“This is a great rivalry and I feel it was a great softball game tonight,” the coach said. “With both team’s having the offensive gears they’ve had all year and to see a pitcher’s duel was probably something the fans weren’t expecting.

“Both pitchers through very well. Hagemann had great command tonight and I tip my hat off to Becca (Changstrom, CU starting pitcher) as well.”

Hagemann’s counterpart

pitched six innings and al-lowed just two earned-runs on five walks while striking out four NU batters.

Although the sickness comes as bad news to the Huskers, there was also good news after the final pitch — another victory.

The win extended the team’s home winning streak to 11 on the season, and 14th overall, a streak that began at the end of last sea-son. The victory set a new record for most games won at Bowlin Stadium since the field was built in 2002.

Bettiol said she’s enjoyed the win streak and added whether it’s as a starter or coming off the bench as a pinch runner, she’s thrilled to contribute in any way she can for Nebraska.

“I’m where I’ve wanted to be for years,” Bettiol said. “Every opportunity I get to help this team I’m there.”

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Many things start to grow during the spring. Flowers, trees and other plants bloom during the months of March, April and May.

For the Nebraska volley-ball team, spring is a time for players to start growing into not just good, but great players. Senior Hayley Th-ramer could be that player this coming fall, according to assistant coach Dan Conners.

“This being her fourth year with us, she is looking very comfortable on the court so far this spring,” Conners said. “Look for big things out of her come fall.”

This spring, Thramer has shown she is ready to build

on her already solid career at Nebraska. Her stats in the first two spring games are solid, highlighted by a 10-kill per-formance in Nor-folk on Saturday a g a i n s t N o r t h D a k o t a State.

T e a m -m a t e P a i g e Hubl said T h r a m e r could be good enough for not only all-conference hon-ors, but All-American hon-ors.

“Since she has a Big Ten season under her belt now,

she can be a go-to player for us in addition to her already good leadership,” Hubl said.

Both Thramer and the rest of her teammates now look to continue a strong spring with two more matches on the schedule, the first of them this weekend.

The Huskers return to the Nebraska Coliseum for a match Saturday for the first time since being upset in the second round of the NCAA tournament last season. Ne-braska hosts Wichita State in a match that will be a little old school, according to Conners.

“We spoke with their coach earlier this spring and we are going to play a little differently Saturday,” Con-ners said. “The teams will

only be able to score if they serve and each game will go to 15 points. The rally point is taken away as it’s set like the old rules used to be so the players can experience what it was like.”

The players don’t really care about the old rules, though, according to Hubl. She said they are just happy to play at home again.

“We are really excited, there is no place like the Coliseum,” Hubl said.

The Huskers’ opponent won’t be scared of this strong Nebraska team, though.

Wichita State was an NCAA tournament team last year. It played in the Coliseum and lost to Kansas State, the same team that beat Nebraska, in the first round. Conners

said this team could give the Huskers problems.

“Wichita State is a nice team,” Conners said. “They took us five sets last spring before we beat them, but we are going to treat them just like any other Big Ten oppo-nent.”

That match Conners men-tioned was played in Grand Island, and all of the sets were close until Nebraska finally pulled away in the final set to get the victory.

The Shockers also have a Nebraska player who will be playing with a little more motivation in her home state. WSU’s Chelsey Feekin is from Papillion, Neb. and was re-cruited by the Huskers before choosing the Shockers, Con-ners said.

If the rest of the Shockers rally around Feekin, Nebraska could have difficulty stopping the WSU attack, according to Hubl.

“They are a good challenge for us,” Hubl said. “They’ve played in the Coliseum before and they have some offensive threats. The Nebraska girl will want to play big against us as well so we have to be pre-pared for that.”

Hubl said the fan support will help the Huskers against any type of surge by the Shockers.

“We get such great sup-port in the Coliseum, it’s hard not to play with emo-tion so we will be ready,” Hubl said.

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