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In her will, Willa Cather stated she never wanted her letters published. Today, they are.

In a presentation held at the Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Cen-ter Tuesday night, Janis Stout and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s

own Andrew Jewell presented a book they co-authored titled “The Selected Letters of Willa Cather” featuring 566 of the letters Cather wrote throughout her life.

Jewell and Stout sifted through 3,000 of Cather’s letters, struggling to decipher her handwriting, and selected those that reflect a side of Cather – a Nebraska native and UNL alumna – many are unable to pick up while reading her novels.

“What a happy day this is,” said Stout, an emeritus professor of English at Texas A&M University. “And a happy occasion.”

Stout said now, instead of traveling to 75 some odd archives scattered across the nation, each maybe containing two letters, the intimate life of Cather can now be contained in a single volume.

Guy Reynolds, director of the Cather Project and a professor of English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, explained that a volume like this has not been published in the last 40 to 50 years.

“This (project) has been going on for a long, long time,” Reynolds, who delivered the introduction to the presentation, said, “and will continue to go on as well.”

Considering that Cather forbid the publication of her letters, and even tried to destroy them once, this book is even more unique, according to Jewell, editor of the Willa Cather Archive and an associate professor of digi-tal projects at UNL. He said readers will be able to see a different Cather in the letters, a Cather that dons “her prickliness, her character and her loving qualities.” In reading thousands of Cather’s letters, Jewell feels as though he, in turn, has spent time with Cather, and it’s been very enjoyable, he said.

“How funny she could be, how pointed and how affectionate and open-hearted she could be,” Jewell said. “That’s not something I really ap-

preciated before working on this.” Jewell said the strength and confidence he noticed in Cather’s personal-

ity has, after “having her around” for so long, enriched and strengthened his own personality.

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Representatives of the Association of Students of the University of Nebraska lobbied in Washington, D.C., last week on a number of fed-eral issues affecting students at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

The students advocated during the Big Ten on the Hill conference, an annual three-day gathering of Big Ten student governments. Before the conference begins, the student governments decide which federal issues they will lobby for as a whole to their state representa-

tives.This year, they chose to advo-

cate for keeping Stafford Loan in-terest rates affordable by stopping interest rates from doubling to 6.8 percent on July 1.

If Stafford Loan interest rate doubled this summer, the cost for the average student would be $2,800 more, according to the U.S. Public Interest Research Group. The Big Ten student representa-tives want to see “a more gradual process to any kind of raise,” said ASUN President Eric Reznicek, a junior marketing and finance ma-jor.

Forty-four percent of Big Ten undergraduates receive federal student loan aid, according to sta-tistics collected by the University of Iowa’s student government. On average, students receive $6,671 in federal aid, and the Big Ten itself re-

ceives $1.2 billion in student loans.“If it wasn’t for these loans,

I wouldn’t be going to college,” Reznicek said.

And so Reznicek, ASUN exter-nal vice president Jeff Story, former ASUN senate speaker Natalia San-tos and former ASUN Government Liaison Committee chair Mike Wehling met with two of Nebras-ka’s three U.S. Representatives, Jeff Fortenberry and Adrian Smith, as well as U.S. Sen. Mike Johanns.

Nebraska’s representatives were “very receptive” to their con-cerns, according to Reznicek.

“It’s very exciting that they’re putting that amount of consid-eration into us as students,” said Story, a sophomore political science major.

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The Nebraska Union of the future could include a suspended multi-story coffee shop.

This idea, along with oth-er renovation concepts for the union, were presented during a redesign forum in the Nebraska Union Tuesday from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.

The plans were developed and presented by Workshop Ar-chitects, an architecture firm based in Milwaukee. Representa-tives of the firm visited campus twice to collect data before devel-oping the three concepts.

Jan Van Den Kieboom, princi-pal architect for Workshop, said the firm wants to capture the legacy of the university and the strong spirit of innovation and entrepreneurship on campus.

“We’re talking about com-pletely shuffling the deck,” Van Den Kieboom said. “In the future, nothing will be where it is now.”

One of Workshop’s goals is to make the union a comfortable, in-clusive and inviting place where students want to spend all day, he said.

“Right now, students come to access services, then leave,” Van Den Kieboom said.

In the UNL Campus Master Plan, the union serves as a front door to the university, he said.

“The vision is that this build-ing will become a main transpor-tation hub between City and East campus,” Van Den Kieboom said.

The first renovation concept, with a price tag of $55 million to $65 million, would involve a windowed expansion to the west slightly above ground level, which would add square foot-age and bring daylight into the building, Van Den Kieboom said. It also entails an interior renova-tion of the building, including ex-panding “peer interaction space.”

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andrew Jewell and Janis stout read letters from “The selected Letters of Willa Cather” Tuesday night at the Mary riepma ross Media arts Center. Willa Cather, an internationally celebrated writer, graduated from UnL in 1895.

Janis stout, a professor emeritus of english at Texas a&M University, answers questions from the audience after read-ing selected Willa Cather letters Tuesday night at the Mary riepma ross Media arts Center.

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POLICE RESPOND TO FALSE FIRE ALARM early sunday morning, University of nebraska-Lincoln police were called to the Phi delta Theta fraternity house for a fire alarm. But there wasn’t a fire. When two members of the fraternity took a fire extinguisher from its holding unit, the fire panel in the house automatically alerted Lincoln Fire & rescue, police said. When officers arrived at the house, they immediately went to the third floor where the fire supposedly occurred. The officers noticed fire-retardant powder on the ground and found an empty fire extinguisher. richard kruse, a sophomore mechanical engineering major, and Tra-vis davidson came forward and admitted to using the extinguisher when there was not a fire, police said. kruse took a preliminary blood test and had a blood alcohol content of 0.12. kruse and davidson were cited for false reporting, and kruse was also cited for minor in possession by consumption.

STUDENT CITED FOR VANDALISM Police cited a UnL student for vandalism early sunday morning after Community service officers reported the student kicked over a parked moped near 16 and r streets. The Csos called UnL police after they watched the student and believed he was intoxicated. When police officers approached the student, he started running north on 16th street, police said. officers caught up with spencer Lindley, a junior civil engineering student. Police said Lindley had bloodshot watery eyes, slurred speech and smelled of alcohol. Lindley refused to take a preliminary blood test and then failed a horizontal gaze nystagmus, which is a method officers use in determining whether someone is intoxicated, police said. Lindley was transported to the Lancaster County jail where he was cited for obstructing a peace officer, MIP by consumption and criminal mischief.

DRUNK STUDENT FOUND NEAR ABEL In the early hours of sunday morning, UnL police saw a student throwing up on the east side of abel Hall, police said. officers noticed nicholas kappen, a freshman biological sciences major, had bloodshot watery eyes and slurred speech. They also smelled alcohol coming from kappen, officers said. kappen had a BaC of 0.10. He was cited and released for MIP by consumption.

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APRIL 17, 2000CAROLINA IN MOESER’S MIND UnL Chancellor James Moeser made it official Friday — he’s leaving the Cornhuskers for Tar Heel land. sporting a Carolina blue tie, Moeser was at the University of north Carolina at Chapel Hill after the UnC Board of governors voted to appoint him the school’s ninth chancellor. Moeser said he wasn’t looking to leave nebraska but was inspired by UnC’s “audacious vision of de-siring to reach the pinnacle of higher education.” His last day ay UnL will be July 15, and his first day at UnC will be aug. 15. He will make $255,000, compared with his $180,000 salary at the University of nebraska-Lin-coln.

APRIL 17, 1991PAy-hIKE RATES FOR FACULTy TOP INFLATION RATES although the average professor’s salary raise nationwide cannot keep pace with spiraling costs of living, UnL professors’ salaries are increasing above the inflation rate, UnL academic senate President James Mcshane said. The average salary for professors is 5.4 per-cent higher nationwide than last year’s average, according to a study by the american association of University Professors cited in The Chronicle of Higher education. But that hike is not enough to keep up with the cost of living, which is projected to increase by 6 percent. according to the aaUP survey, the average salary for the 1990-1991 academic year at a doctorate-grant-ing institution is $49,320, while the average salary at the University of nebraska-Lincoln is $46,700.

APRIL 17, 1956KNOTEK NAMED MISS LINCOLN diance knotek, the only Miss Lincoln finalist who was a Lincolnite, has been named Miss Lincoln. Judges selected her on the basis of intelligence, personality, poise, talent, face and figure beauty. Miss knotek, Pi Beta Phi, is a junior in arts and science, majoring in French. she is active in many campus organizations and has appeared with many University musical groups.

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maTT masiN | DNHandmade books are currently on display in the second floor study area in Love Library. The books come from artists in 23 states across the U.s. and Canada.

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Handmade artists’ books from 23 states across the U.S. and Canada are now on display in Love Li-brary.

The 47-book showcase is a part of the “Heart & Hands 2013: A Fourth National Juried Book Art Exhibition for Students,” which runs through May 31 and was started about 10 years ago by University of Nebraska-Lin-coln art professor Karen Kunc.

“The purpose is to bring outstanding examples of artists’ books to campus so my own students can benefit by looking at works by other artists from around the country,” Kunc said.

These books feature high-quality craftsmanship and de-sign as well as interesting visual and literary content, according to Katherine Walter, chair of UNL Libraries’ Digital Initiatives & Special Collections. Walter said some of the featured works might be letterpress editions, altered books, digitally printed books or “one-of-a-kind books.”

Some of the books are hand-made traditionally with paper covers sewn together, while

other books have a more unusual structure, such as a multi-dimen-sional pop-up display.

“One artist used a stick to hold all the pages together,” Kunc said.

Fifty-six artists from 34 uni-versities submitted 82 works for the show. The juror, Barbara Tetenbaum, selected the best works from the submissions to be displayed in the show.

“The show always has a well-known book artist as judge,” Walter said.

Tetenbaum is an artist working in printed books and installation and also a professor at the Oregon College of Art & Craft. According to the art de-partment’s website, Tetenbaum founded her imprint, Triangu-lar Press, in 1979, and it can be found in many private and public collections in the U.S. and abroad.

“It’s custom with jury ex-hibitions to have the jurors re-view the works without know-ing who the artist is,” Kunc said. “That way, they’re really responding to the art piece and not from who it is or where they’re from.”

Tetenbaum is the recipient of two Fulbright lecturing awards to teach in Germany and the Czech Republic, and she has re-ceived other honors including a Koopman Distinguished Chair at the Hartford Art School and a Sally Bishop Fellowship at the Center for Book Arts in New

York City.“She came with an objec-

tive eye and national reputa-tion, which became an important draw to attract students to enter this competition,” Kunc said.

Tetenbaum based her book selections on if the book read easily, if the book worked as a whole and the book’s material and design, according to Kunc.

The four UNL students with art accepted to the show in-clude Jamie Aldag, a senior art major; Mikaela Davis, a senior art major; Camille Hawbaker, a graduate printmaking student; and Adrienne Smart, a graduate printmaking student.

Students studying book de-sign and the visual arts benefit most from the exhibition, accord-ing to Kunc.

“It gives them more ideas for inspiration and shows them how challenging a book can be (to make),” she said.

Walter’s role is to choose from among the exhibition’s books to add to UNL’s Archives & Special Collections. The works that aren’t purchased are sent back to their artists.

“Through the purchases, UNL Libraries supports educa-tion in the book arts, the talented work of up-and-coming book artists, and we add unique and beautiful books to our special collections,” she said.

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ground level and would add en-trances.

“We want people to be able to spill in and out of the building easily,” he said.

The third renovation con-cept, with a project budget of $75 million to $85 million, would re-move a large portion of the mid-dle of the building and create more openings between floors. Light roofs would be added to “bring daylight deep into the building,” he said.

One of the main changes Van Den Kieboom outlined was a tran-sition from a food court model to a micro-restaurant model, where each eatery has its own seat-ing area. As part of the redesign, Workshop suggested bringing in a better variety of food offerings, including a farm-to-table concept where local producers offer the food they grow, Van Den Keiboom said.

The union coffee shop would also be redone.

“The coffee culture in Lincoln is huge,” Van Den Kieboom said. “If we create a coffeehouse here, it has to be awesome.”

Van Den Kieboom proposed a floating, suspended, multi-story coffee house.

Today’s union has several hallways that make it confus-ing for visitors to navigate, Van Den Kieboom said. There is also a lot of unused space. All three of Workshop’s concepts included rearranging office space on the union’s second floor.

“The building is so fragment-ed because of the way it came to-gether,” Van Den Kieboom said. “Our mission is to create that uni-fied vision that really knits those pieces together.”

Van Den Kieboom said the vi-sion for the union is to match the direction the university is headed.

“This is important for stu-dents now, but it’s also impor-tant for recruitment and retain-ment,” he said.

Erica Lam, an accountancy graduate student, attended one of the first open forums for the union redesign.

“Based on that initial meet-ing, I’m really impressed with the designs because it really seems like they took some of that initial feedback and applied it,” Lam said. “This will hopefully make us more competitive and at-tractive since we’re trying to grow our student body, and we’re now in the Big Ten.”

UNL joins six other Big Ten institutions that have recently fin-ished or are developing student union expansion or redesign proj-ects, Van Den Kieboom said.

To view the three design con-cepts, visit http://go.unl.edu/b9r.


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also advocated for the continu-ance of federal research funding. In the Big Ten, $3.2 billion in fed-eral research funding is allocated annually, according to a 2011 fig-ure by the Committee on Institu-tional Cooperation.

“Federal research is really big for us,” said Wehling, a senior political science major. “Not only does it bring people to the uni-versity, but it grows our city and state’s economy. We don’t know where the next great innovation is going to come from, but we should be growing it, not hinder-

ing it.”They also pushed for preserv-

ing Pell Grants and the Fulbright program as well as lobbied Con-gress to enact a mandatory re-quirement of the Financial Aid Shopping Sheet for all colleges and universities. The sheet would allow students to easily compare financial aid packages and make informed decisions on where to attend college. Finally, the Big Ten representatives advocated for expanding the number of green cards offered to foreign students graduating from universities in

the U.S.When meeting with other Big

Ten schools, Reznicek and Story said it was surprising how simi-lar they found the problems at UNL and at the other conference schools.

“It was really an opportunity for all of us to meet up in one place to make sure we’re on the same page,” Reznicek said. “We were able to advocate as a fight-ing force instead of just Nebraska saying, ‘We want this or that.’”


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“She said at the end of her life, ‘being around remarkable people gives one the courage to be honest and free,’ and I feel a little smidge of that,” Jewell said.

A different side of Cather is not something only Jewell will experi-ence.

Joanne Kissel, who attended the event, said she will share that experience.

“I find her a fascinating wom-an, and every time I find out more about her personality, it puts a whole different slant on everything that she’s written,” Kissel said.

Kissel attended the celebration of the releasing of “The Selected Letters of Willa Cather” with her daughter Alexandra, who said that the event was “a great new intro-duction to who she is.”

After Nancy Busch, dean of libraries, and Chancellor Harvey Perlman delivered the opening remarks, Jewell and Stout alter-nated reciting letters. The letters moved the attendees through Cather’s life, from her first move from her birthplace of Red Cloud, Neb., to Pittsburgh, Penn., where she worked as managing editor for a magazine, and on to New York City, where she continued to work as journalist in a busy magazine newsroom.

An excerpt Stout read quoted Cather as saying “it’s catch the bar at the right minute or it’s in the net you go,” about her life as a maga-zine journalist. The letters Stout and Jewell then took the attendees to when Cather received an honor-ary degree from UNL, nearly 40

years after earning her bachelor’s degree.

Stout and Jewell took questions from the audience and offered their own insight into how they tran-scribed the nearly illegible letters. First, Stout would transcribe the letters, and then Jewell would check them against the originals.

“Of course there were some difficult moments,” Jewell said. “But not as many as I expected.”

Now that the book is released, Jewell is appreciative that he and Stout have produced something that people care about, he said.

“The combination of Cather and the great experience we’ve had making the book has been real em-powering,” Jewell said.


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University of Nebraska-Lincoln professor John Hibbing was recently named a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship. Hibbing is one of 175 re-cipients out of 3,000 applicants from across the United States and Canada who received the honor.

Hibbing said he plans to use the grant to continue his work study-ing the physiological differences between Americans who do and do not vote.

The basis of Hibbing’s research revolves around levels of the hor-mone cortisol, which is associated with stress. Hibbing has found that those individuals with higher levels of the hormone were less likely to vote in an election. His study was funded by a grant from the National Science Foundation for the last few years, but the grant recently ended.

“This grant from Guggenheim came at a very good time,” Hibbing said.

The grant from the Guggenheim Fellowship will be worth about $40,000, and the majority of the funds will be put toward incentives for lab participants and the use of laboratories, he said.

Elizabeth Theiss-Morse, profes-sor of political science and chair of the department at UNL, said that Gibbing’s research will be both ben-eficial and controversial, thanks to

its political subject. “John’s work is trying to un-

derstand the biological and physi-ological connections to voting,” Theiss-Morse said, “pri-marily looking for factors in adulthood attitudes.”

Theiss-Morse added that these attitudes are ei-ther shaped by society or early life influences.

Hibbing and his main collaborator, political science professor Kevin Smith, began the study in late 2010. The prelimi-nary study used the sali-va samples of 500 people, then compared the corti-sol levels with those who voted in elections.

“We found a strong relationship

with people who are prone to high levels of stress and their likeliness to vote,” Hibbing said. “We would like to see if more absentee voting

would help the non-voting problem that we have.”

The grant money will be used to further the study — exploring other specific areas.

“We want to be able to use a bigger sample of people to see if what we’re find-ing is gender specific,” Hibbing said.

He added that this research may be able to help discover if corti-

sol levels are relevant to other social anxieties.

“We want to see if these lev-els are why people do or don’t do things like going to church, joining soccer clubs or a choral group,” Hib-bing said.

In addition to saliva sampling, Hibbing said the study will use UNL’s new nanoscience metrology facility to do brain imaging.

“This will allow us to actually see what is going on inside the brain as people are making decisions,” Hib-bing said. He added that he hopes this study will be able to help solve the larger problem of public anxiety.

Theiss-Morse added that this is a well-deserved award for Hibbing.

“I’m really proud of John. This award brings recognition and pres-tige to the department,” she said.


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Big Red Movie Box falls short to

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morgaN sPieHs | DNThe Big red Movie Box is located in the southwest wing of the nebraska Union. The movie rental service was installed in december 2011.

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Compared to the likes of Net-flix and Redbox, the Big Red Movie Box, tucked in the south-west wing of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Nebraska Union, sometimes struggles to com-pete.

The movie box, which was installed in December 2011, is more about of-fering movie rental services to students rather than bringing in revenue, though, said Charlie Francis, director of Nebraska Unions.

“We are provid-ing a service to stu-dents,” Francis said. “We’re happy about that. It’s never going to be as successful as a Redbox because you don’t have that same flexibility of returning a movie anywhere, and you don’t have the big company name.”

Francis said about 3,700 movies and games are rent-ed from the Big Red Movie Box each year, bringing in about $4,000 to $5,000 in self-generated revenue for Nebraska Unions.

Students are able to pick from a number of newer releas-es and older movie titles and pay about $1.50 per day to rent the movie, similar to the popu-lar Redbox movie kiosks.

University officials origi-nally wanted to install an ac-tual Redbox on campus, Francis said, but the Redbox company was not interested in expanding to the university market.

“We basically let it drop af-ter Redbox wasn’t interested,” Francis said.

That’s when Neighborhood MovieBox, LLC, based in Oma-ha, contacted UNL.

Francis said there aren’t any plans to install more of the

movie boxes around campus yet.

Neighborhood MovieBox, LLC, operates five movie boxes around the state, including two in Omaha, one in Louisville and another in Syracuse.

“We thought we would just wait and see how it went and see how much use the movie box got,” he said. “If we get to the point where we’re able to expand, I would definitely like to see one of the movie boxes at the East Campus union.”

Comparatively, there are about 34,600 Redbox locations across the United States that

saw an aver-age of 62 mil-lion monthly rentals in 2012, accord-ing to the Redbox web-site.

S e v e r a l UNL stu-dents said they haven’t used the Big Red Movie Box because they’d never heard about it before.

“I have never used it,” said Graham Williams, a ju-nior nutrition and health sciences ma-jor. “I never even knew it existed. Plus, I have Netf-lix so I would probably just

watch movies on there.”Casey Gieseking, a junior

natural resource and environ-mental economics major, said a new movie channel in the dorms started by the Residence Hall Association this year might also be causing more competi-tion for the Big Red Movie Box.

“The new movie channel is hooked up with housing so you can watch movies for free in your dorm room,” Gieseking said.

Francis said it’s too soon to tell if the new movie channel is affecting rentals at the movie box.

“I’m not sure if we would see a trend in the short amount of time that we’ve offered the service,” he said.


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above: nadja Madden, 3, and Judah Madden, 4, play shaker eggs at the Casnr Week Community night at the nebraska east Union Tuesday. Casnr Week kicked off april 13 with various events being held to celebrate the College of agricultural sciences and natural resources.

rigHT: Makenzie Watkins, 7, bangs on a makeshift drum in the music corner at the Casnr Week Community night at the nebraska east Union Tuesday.

beloW: Jayden Madden, 6, picks a prize for playing a game of miniature Jenga at the Casnr Week Community night held in the nebraska east Union Tuesday.

We are providing

a service to students. We’re happy about that. It’s never going to be as successful as a redbox because you don’t have that same flexibility of returning a movie anywhere, and you don’t have the big company name.”

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Discovery

Spring is here, sort of, which means it’s the season of engagement. A time where Facebook feeds are flooded by engagement announcements or “in a relationship” updates. Such joyous declarations of love always make me

a little uneasy. These engagements, and the committed relationships that produce them, come at a cost: A collegiate in a committed re-lationship sacrifices the opportunity to experi-ence serious and sustained personal growth.

To clarify: by “committed relationship,” I mean one in which you make most of your decisions based on or in consideration of one other person.

It’s really easy to lose your individuality in a relationship in college, because for the most part, you’re still a kid. As a result, you end up spending more time performing a role or func-tion for someone else. You’re never completely yourself, and neither is your significant other. In reality, neither party ever has enough time and space to become who he or she is. Neither has done the work it takes to develop and understand one-self. This is what college is for.

College is a short, hazy transition phase in between adolescence and young adult-hood. We’re all inside this bubble standing on this au-tomated track that moves steadily toward the hostile and unforgiving young adult-hood.

But while we’re in this bubble, we’re largely shielded from the trappings or inani-ties of the real world. The best part about our time in this bubble is that it grants us the opportunity to carry out some serious soul-searching. This is the time in our lives when we most need it.

Until college, few of our decisions have been our own. We’ve been told what to do, when to do it and why we’re supposed to. We arrive here as a collage of all the things we were told to be, and we’re informed that we now have a say in the matter. We’re told that

this is our time to be selfish. That this is the time to be unapologetic, because these four years will bear heavily on the future outside the bubble.

When you’re in a committed relationship, your ability to be unapologetically selfish becomes complicated. Decisions to study abroad or take an out-of-state in-ternship get a little messy because of the effect it might have on the relationship. Balancing a full life schedule – class, extracurricular activities, friends, “The Walking

Dead” – is hard enough. You shouldn’t have to worry about someone else’s schedule as well.

Of course, there are people who make long-term study abroad or internships work for their relationships. There are also students

who have a talent for making time for every-one and everything. But they shouldn’t have to. Another person’s wants, needs, opinions or libido shouldn’t be part of the equation used to make decisions. Not in the bubble.

But the truth is life in the bubble is a spe-cial type of hell. There’s something hellish about knowing you’re quickly approaching an actual hell (i.e. the real world), and have to prepare. This causes crisis that occurs, and in response, people seem to fall into two camps. Some search fervently for a significant other to face the fire with. Others spend time build-ing their own internal foundation, fortifying themselves for the special type of hell that awaits us.

I fall into the second camp, and I wish I could say that we’re less afraid of life outside the bubble. I wish I could say I truly felt pre-pared.

But that’s not true. The truth is that I’m deeply afraid of what

comes next. I’m not sure that confronting the rest of my life without a companion is the best strategy. On the other hand, I cannot say that I’d feel any less afraid with a partner in crime.

What I can say is: I’ve been through a hell before, indeed still going through one.

What I can say is: I’ve had the time and space to come to fuller understanding of my-self.

What I can say is: the three years I’ve spent in a bubble, out of a committed relationship, were spent selfishly.

But here’s to the couples that will soon be wed and to those that plan to make similar an-nouncements. I hope your love burns bright and long in the coming years. You’ll need it.

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Dead and finals week are fast ap-proaching. If you’re like me, the idea of studying sounds about as appealing as spooning a porcupine. However, retaining your motivation is important.

Don’t do what I’m doing. In fact, do the opposite.

Do not watch Netflix. Do not watch HBO. In fact, avoid everything that vaguely resem-bles a television or laptop screen. If you don’t, you’ll end up watching entire seasons of TV shows in one setting. When you’re finished, you’ll make sure you’re home to watch the next episode as it airs weekly.

Case and point: “Game of Thrones,” my new addiction.

Instead of watching Netflix or HBO, imag-ine the look of disappointment on your mom/dad/parental figure/guardian/mentor’s face if they learned you failed a class. More im-portantly, if he or she learned the reason you failed was because you watched every episode of “Game of Thrones” in one week instead of focusing on that final paper.

Because understanding fictional political intrigue is more interesting than international relations.

More than likely, students are frequenting Hulu and Redbox, watching the same amount of unnecessarily TV as me. At best, it’s free, and at worst, it’s only $1 per movie rental.

Do not start planning summer activities. Do not daydream about summer. Instead of re-alizing that summer is right around the corner, pretend that your next two weeks is more like two millennia. Because it should feel like that.

Those poolside beers and margaritas? Don’t think about them. Because if you drink a few before you’ve finished up with school, you’ll realize that doing homework inebriated is damn near impossible. Also, doing hungov-er homework is oxymoronic in nature.

You’re unlikely to produce anything of substance until the hangover subsides, and by the time it does subside, you’ll more than likely lose any desire to finish anything on a deadline.

I know it’s tempting. Happy hour assists college students in being economical drunks. It’s a beautiful thing…until the end of the semester. Dollar drink Tuesdays at Bison

Witches and half-priced kamikazes at Cliff’s on Sundays sound like a good idea.

And they will be in two weeks. Just not now.

Prioritize. It’s always going to be difficult to balance your social life with academics. Just remember that soon enough, you won’t have to. That is, unless you’re taking summer class-es. Even still, the first summer session doesn’t start until May 20. This means you have two weeks to chill be-fore throwing yourself back into schoolwork.

If you must daydream, do so constructively. What I mean is spend time imagining what your life would be like without a col-lege degree. If you dropped out right now, what would you be doing? If your answer is “work-ing a dead-end job I hate” or “living in my childhood room,” don’t let those options become your reality.

Daydreaming constructively does NOT include researching grad schools or Googling pro-spective post-grad employers. Especially if you’re not graduating in May. Even if gradua-tion date is quickly approaching, you won’t be getting into those grad schools or getting a job if you don’t pass your classes and finish your degree requirements now.

Do not log into Facebook. You don’t really need to know about a former high school class-

mate getting divorced. You don’t need to talk to your out-of-state friends about their new hot significant others. All the gossip about that can wait until summer.

I’d recommend deactivating your Face-book account, but let’s be honest, that’s prob-ably not going to happen. Instead, maybe click the “Turn Off Chat” button so you can creep without the added distraction of communica-tion.

Actually, if you use the term “social me-dia” to describe something, avoid it. No good comes to your grade point average on Twitter, Tumblr or StumbleUpon

Do not play games on your smartphone. Candy Crush Saga will draw you in and won’t release you until your grades aren’t salvage-able. Words With Friends might seem like a good idea. After all, it’s boosting your vocabu-lary, right? Except you’re no longer spelling words, and are earning big points for “words” like “qi.”

Do not try new stations on Pandora. Spe-cifically, do not try the Biggie Smalls or Skril-lex station. Nothing productive happens be-tween sessions of old school rap and dubstep. I

promise. You’ll wish someone nicknamed you Big Poppa and you’ll dance provocatively.

Dancing and studying have an inverse relationship. Meaning you can’t study while dancing. (Yes, I’ve tried, don’t ask.)

If you need productive music, try classical. If you still need something modern, try Vitamin String Quartet. They do orchestral remakes of pop classics, such as Lady Gaga’s “Poker Face” or Blink-182’s “I Miss You.” Also, look up Lind-sey Stirling.

If you’ve read this far, good job. You’ve successfully procrastinated doing everything else you should be doing. Which I guess defeats the whole purpose of a column meant to help students learn how to study.

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Proposed union renovations would help recruitmentA suspended, multi-level coffee shop. Restaurants with

their own seating. Farm-to-table eating.These are some of the improvements that could become

a reality for the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Nebraska Union. Monday and Tuesday, Workshop Architects present-ed potential plans for a future renovation of the Nebraska Union. And the plans look pretty cool.

The architects want to make the union more of a hang-out. They want it to have more natural light, more eating options, more entrances. They want it to have a floating coffee shop.

The Daily Nebraskan supports a union renovation and these plans.

A modern, aesthetically pleasing and useful union is important. It’s important to have a functional space for students. It’s important to have a visually appealing space for recruitment.

UNL needs to keep up with the unions of its peers. Six other Big Ten schools have recently completed or are in the process of completing their own union renovations. UNL needs to stay competitive.

In 1936, former student body president and then-Daily Nebraskan editor Jack Fischer played a big part in creat-ing the Nebraska Union and University Foundation. The University of Nebraska Publications Board donated $10,000 to the Nebraska Union Fund in support of Fischer. A plaque nearing his name remains on the union’s second floor today.

The DN supported the union at its inception and it encourages support of it, and improvements it may need, today.

But we acknowledge the need to keep costs reasonable. While students, most likely, should be willing to shoul-

der some of the burden, they can’t be expected to carry it all. The university should seek funds from as many private donors as possible. Student fees should remain reasonable.

A union with a suspended, multi-level coffee shop may not seem like a necessity, but with enrollment goals that remain elusive, the university should be looking at all av-enues for improving recruitment.

Besides, who really doesn’t want to order coffee while “floating”?

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When you’re in

a committed relationship, your ability to be unapologetically selfish becomes complicated.”

Instead of realizing that

summer is right around the corner, pretend that your next two weeks is more like two millennia. Because it should feel like that.”

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Directing-writing duo collaborates on laugh parade

Shelby FleigDN

Cory Soukup wrote his first play quickly. It was formatted wrong and had no stage directions, but he submitted it to the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s New Artist Festival (NAF) anyway.

Dominic Ciofalo then submit-ted his first NAF director appli-cation, admittedly drunk, in which he included emoticons and demanded the only play he would direct was Soukup’s “Every-one is an Asshole in Hell.”

Soukup, a ju-nior film major, and Ciofalo, a junior film and econom-ics double major, pulled off their first writing, direct-ing and acting roles in the UNL theater world last week to much acclaim from both friends and strangers. Their film backgrounds and shared sense of humor made the production a learning experi-ence they want to continue in the future.

Just in trying to explain “Ev-

eryone is an Asshole in Hell,” the duo laughs hysterically.

A family Christmas celebra-tion is plagued by arguments when the Mayan apocalypse be-gins, forcing the family into a bunker where they must work out their multiple issues.

Ciofalo and Soukup stop ex-plaining the plot to hold hands and lock eyes across a table at Sam and Louie’s Pizza.

“A true apocalypse is what happens when a family falls apart,” Ciofalo said.

The duo credits the profanity and raunchy jokes throughout the play to their success as a newbies in Theatrix, UNL’s student-run

theater.“It’s profane,”

Soukoup said. “It’s kind of a dick-and-fart-joke play.”

“No, it’s wittier than that,” Ciofalo said. “It’s like a dick with a mono-cle.”

The two first met on their film school tour before freshman year even began. They didn’t like each other.

The duo next met when they were put in the same small group for a 72-hour film festival, where their entire group started the proj-ect hating each other, but finished good friends.

Stacie Hecker | DNcory soukup, a junior film major, and dominic ciafolo, a junior film and economics major, produced their first play together, “ev-eryone is an asshole in Hell.” the play showed at the new artist Festival in theatrix in early april.

Juniors cory soukup, dominic ciofalo combine writing, directing skills

Duo: See page 7

i f the glass ceiling exists, it doesn’t af-fect Abby Rosenquist.

The part-time stand-up comedian, part-time construction engineering ma-

jor has been infiltrating male-dominated activities for years, but not necessarily on purpose.

“I don’t think about it until people ask me about it,” the University of Nebraska-Lincoln junior said. “I get that all the time, ‘Oh, what’s it like being a girl in engineer-ing?’ and it’s kind of the same, except for people ask me that question. It’s the same with comedy; I never really notice it. “

Rosenquist, who performs Mondays at Duffy’s Tavern and most Wednesdays at Barley Street Tavern in Omaha, first

tried stand-up comedy after a friend and UNL alumnus, Annie Hildebrand, experi-mented with open mic last year. Hildeb-rand suggested Rosenquist try, and once Rosenquist agreed, there was no backing out.

“She kind of held me to it,” Rosen-quist said. “Over Christmas break I start-ed thinking of jokes, and then halfway through January I started doing it.”

The two girls still attend most of their shows together, a guaranteed familiar face in an unpredictable crowd. But each maintains her own individual brand of humor.

“Mine are stories from my own life of me being super weird and awkward,”

Hildebrand said. “A lot of that, but I’ve been trying to work on more ... jokes. Ac-tual jokes. It’s very self-centered, because it’s all about me. If you’re a comedian you have to be a little self-centered.”

Hildebrand said in contrast, Rosen-quist’s jokes are fast and furious observa-tions about the more bizarre elements of life.

“Hers is kind of an anything-goes hu-mor,” Hildebrand said. “She’s not afraid to talk about anything, whether its bodi-ly functions or things that some people might find offensive. She’s like, ‘Well, this is comedy, and I’m going to try it. If peo-

story by anna Gronewoldphotos by brianna soukup

abby rosenquist performs during the improv section of comedy night at duffy’s tavern on monday. rosenquist, a Univer-sity of nebraska-lincoln junior construction engineering major, has been performing stand-up routines since January.

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rapportStudent comic tackles

stand-up scene with ‘fast and furious’ routines

roSeNquiSt: See page 7

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kids really don’t consider working with the theater side of things.”

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effects artists call out exploitation

cameron mountDN

When “Life of Pi” accepted its Os-car for Best Visual Effects in Feb-ruary, there were more than a few

dark ironies at work.The visual effects company

responsible for the lauded effects, Rhythm & Hues, had filed for bankruptcy just three weeks prior. Outside the ceremonies, hundreds of artists were protesting their treatment. And the award for Cin-ematography arguably ignored the artists perhaps most responsible for achieving the film’s look. A maze of factors allowed so much to go so wrong, but it was hardly a problem unique to “Life of Pi,” so much as the uproar repre-sents an industry in tense, dramatic flux.

“What we are witnessing is evolution of an in-dustry,” said Tom Capizzi, a Rhythm & Hues employee who filed a class-action lawsuit in the wake of the company’s complicated fall. Since then, Legendary Pictures has given Rhythm & Hues enough money to complete their next films (“Percy Jackson & the Sea of Monster” and the Jeff Bridges-starring “Seventh Son”), but the company’s future is uncertain.

“Just like our relatives worked in factories making cars and sweat-ers, we are going to be getting our VFX from the internet dealers from now on,” Capizzi said.

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Capizzi, a 16-year employee, al-leges that he and others were fired from Rhythm & Hues without the written notice or cause required under federal law. The case is only the tip of the iceberg for an industry Capizzi said needs massive over-haul.

“It makes me just shake my head when I hear directors say ‘this movie has zero CGI in it,’” he said. “Like when Fede Alvarez, the di-rector of the remake of ‘Evil Dead’ announced that earlier this year. Almost every modern film process from pre-viz to DI (Digital Interme-diate) is digital in some way. Just because you are not making talking zombies or flying machines using CGI, does not mean you are not us-ing computer-enhanced imagery.”

But how does an industry so

i n t e -gral to the films people love fall so under the radar? Steven Kolbe, as-sistant professor of film and new media at the University of Nebras-ka-Lincoln, attributes part of the problem to the very goal of visual effects, which is quite unlike that of other industries.

“The point of visual effects is to not stand out,” Kolbe said, whose visual effects credits range

from “Jimmy Neu-tron: Boy Genius” to “Boz.” “A visual effect’s artist’s ul-timate goal is the same ultimate goal of everyone who works on the film, from the director down to the crafts service person — it’s all in service of the story.”

He said it’s this paradox — the need for studio rec-ognition all while staying behind the scenes — that make the struggle of these artists so difficult.

“Don’t call them ‘technicians,’” he said. “That’s one of the calling cards for visual effects artists being pissed off right now. Hollywood in general, the studio managers in general, and many of the directors consider them technicians. But they are artists, they are craftsmen.”

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As visual effects play more and more of a role in films, that artistry becomes more entwined with the production process.

“Traditionally, a cinematogra-pher, or the director of photogra-phy (DP) is in charge of the place-ment of the camera, the framing of the shot and the lighting elements,” Kolbe said. “With the advancement of visual effects, this area becomes grayer and less defined. Visual ef-fects supervisors are tasked more and more with not just completing shots from a live-action shoot, but often generating entire shots out of a pile of parts.”

This leads to gray areas in de-termining who gets credit for what, especially as visual effects artists are tasked with recomposing entire shots.

“It’s kind of like playing with Legos, or if someone drops a puz-zle on the floor and says ‘Go! Make art!’” Kolbe said. “Often a visual ef-

fects super-visor is now on set work-ing with the DP to set up the shots for the live ac-tion elements. They’re grab-bing data and notes from how the scene was shot, so that the data can be used to set up the shot in the computer layer in order to match CG and live action elements.”

The more complex the visual component in blockbuster films, the more it tends to be done in post-production by visual effects.

“To some degree, the require-ments of VFX dictate what the cin-ematographer can do,” said Rich-ard Endacott, associate professor of film production and screenwriting. “It is still up to the cinematogra-pher to determine how the final shot should look. But it also means that the cinematographer has to start planning much earlier in the process and communicate effec-tively with the VFX team.”

Capizzi said while the artistry of visual effects can be creatively satisfying, this is usually hampered by the hierarchy of control on a given film.

“Creativity is in the decision making process of the super-visors,” Capizzi said. “The artist’s ability to meet those requests are a satisfying result, but it does not ‘feel’ creative when the shot is being revised four times a day in the screening room by su-pervisors.”

This works out best for visual effects artists, paradoxically, when a film is most in trouble and is in need of the most help,” Capiz-zi said. He cited “Mummy 3: Curse of the Dragon Emperor” as an ex-ample of a film rewritten on the fly as shots were being finalized.

“The title creature, the dragon the emperor turned into, was de-signed originally to have Jet Li’s face on three dragon heads and was supposed to be red,” he said. “The studio executives saw the trailer one week before delivery, and they told us that the Jet Li head had to go. The entire character went back to modeling, and we were able to

get a red dragon with very cool dragon heads out for the trailer.”

With lines blurred between artistic, technical and supervis-ing roles, even institutions like the Academy Awards are unsure or unaware of who should be recog-nized.

“Many shots are recomposed in post in the visual effects process, so that they are not even framed simi-larly to how the DP may have shot them on set,” Kolbe said. “So while the DP for ‘Life of Pi’ won for Best Cinematography, I kind of have is-sue with that. I think that should have been a shared award with him and the four visual effects supervi-

sors. Ultimately, they’re in charge of the final framing and the light-ing and the look of the shot.”

Capizzi agreed there was a discrep-ancy in the “Life of Pi” awards, and expressed his frustration.

“I know firsthand that there were many shots that were re-framed, recomposed, recomposited, and there were a huge percentage

of shots that were completely re-lit to match the CGI environments,” Capizzi said. “How can a camera-man get the Oscar when the deliv-ered shot does not even vaguely resemble what was shot on the live action set?”

When the visual effects award was accepted and the time ran out, “Jaws” music ushered the artists offstage, a particularly harsh choice considering the movie’s special ef-fects legacy.

“The ‘Jaws’ music was infuriat-

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With ‘pines,’ cianfrance raises gripping stakes

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Before we start calling Derek Cian-france — as some critics have — part of the 21st century great American director’s club, he needs a little something.

“Blue Valentine,” while bril-liantly acted and beautifully shot, lacked a storytelling hinge beyond the sheer passage of time. With that debut in 2010, Cianfrance com-manded attention, deservedly so, as a great visual talent and a giving actor’s director.

In a sense, “The Place Beyond the Pines” is an expanded version of that previous film’s strengths and weaknesses. This movie is bigger than “Blue Valentine” as Cianfrance tries to vice-grip and transpose crime drama story arcs into something we might recog-nize more as everyman realism. The stakes are higher (bordering on the epic) and, thus, the holes are more glaring.

Quick note on the world of trail-ers: if there was ever a way of reducing expectations for movies into types and genres, this is it. Audiences have been pitched misleading trailers before and “Pines” is hardly the cat-and-mouse game the trailer promotes. It’s, instead, a sins-of-the-father story parcelled into three very clearly defined dramatic acts.

To start with, the dashing, bleach-blonde criminal with the drop-of-blood eye tattoo, Ryan Gosling, brings Luke Glanton to miserable and ear-nest life. The well predictably over-flows for Gosling, who worked with Cianfrance to great effect in “Blue Val-entine.” Glanton is good inside, but troubled all over his inked-up surface as a daredevil motorcycle rider turned bank robber to support his infant son.

Bradley Cooper as policeman Avery Cross is a perfect mirror im-age of Glanton, a boyscout cop with a million-dollar grin. Cross is in-wardly traumatized by the corrup-tion around him and his tacit accep-tance of it.

Both leading men disappear into their roles easily — not tough to imagine Gosling as the lovable crim-inal and Cooper as a slimy goody-two-shoes — but not to the point of indulgence, further proof that in his sophomore effort Cianfrance makes character portraits easy on his ac-tors. From the stars on down, the cast members have no compunction about relishing in their spotlights.

It’s a shame, though, that the film doesn’t treat Eva Mendes with the same human microscope as Cianfrance did Michelle Williams in “Blue Valentine.” Instead Mendes

is little more than a sounding board for the ambitions and insecurities of Gosling and later, his son. She is half romantic interest and half mother, developed only by the resentment of the men around her. Despite the shortcoming, she falls into the soft net of an excellent supporting cast which features Ray Liotta as sleazy cop, Ben Mendelsohn as Gosling’s stuttering partner in crime, and Ma-hershalalhashbaz Ali as Mendes’ de-voted husband.

Mostly, there’s no room for Mendes because of the cataclysmic masculinity the film touts across two generations. Via the strong per-formances and resoundingly Amer-ican crime stories, the film reaches its broadest narrative as Cooper and Gosling’s characters — bound by their fateful decisions — become the imprints and models for their sons.

There’s a line of thought here in which Cianfrance, with “The Place Beyond the Pines,” could be one film behind Ben Affleck the director.

“Gone Baby Gone” and “Blue Valentine” as debuts, were abso-lutely stirring. “The Town” and “Pines,” while thematically similar for starters, up the adrenaline, but leave the bulk of the plot’s forward motion up to coincidence and cir-cumstance. What environmental evidence do we have in “Pines,” for instance, that the sons will become their fathers? It’s a hole made more obvious by Cianfrance’s finely con-trolled realism, who is then left to rely on broadscale thematic impli-cation to link the families.

Of course, the Affleck compari-son breaks down when we consider

that Cianfrance is his own writer, perhaps more impressive in its own right. But we’re still waiting on a film like “Argo,” which will com-bine the young filmmaker’s beat-for-beat virtuosity with a full story that’s driving somewhere under its own power.

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courteSy pHotoryan Gosling stars in the new drama “the place beyond the pines” as luke Glanton, a motorcycle daredevil who takes to robbing banks to support his infant son.

THE PLACE BEYOND THE PINES

DIRECTED BY DEREK CIANFRANCE

STARRING RYAN GOSLING, BRADLEY COOPER, EVA MENDES

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In our technology-saturated world, the idea of going 24 hours with no screens sounds intimidat-ing at best, downright frightening at worst. I have to confess, this baby wasn’t my idea.

It started out as an assignment for class that I decided to take on with the kind of gusto normally re-served for things that aren’t assign-ments for class, like watching tele-vision or thinking up particularly creepy text messages. I said to my-self, “Self, you can do anything you put your mind to. What’s a measly 24 hours anyway?” It turns out that while 24 hours isn’t so measly af-ter all, ditching digital for a day is a freeing experience I recommend for all.

First, let’s lay out the ground rules. We had two options: Option A was no Internet-based technol-ogy, e.g. Facebook, Twitter, email. Option B was basically no tech-nology at all, no television, no computer, no phone and no civili-zation. I decided to tackle Option B. I knew I was going to have to choose my window wisely, using some strategic planning. I could just see myself choosing a 24-hour period where something insane happened like President Obama being assassinated or a girl calling me.

I knew if I chose a school day I’d be craving the sweet, sweet ca-ress of my laptop every moment. I’d look around at the class, jeal-ously ogling my peers’ faces as the glow of the screen washed over them like holy water. It’s quite disconcerting to know that technology has invaded my life in such a way that I wasn’t com-fortable without bringing my computer to class, but so it goes. I settled on a day when I’d be at work during the afternoon; I just had to find something to do at night. Challenge accepted.

I started the 24 hours at 1 a.m. Friday morning. I had the perfect plan; start the clock, chug some Nyquil, both to help get over my cough and more importantly to zonk me out until the morning, and boom, before I knew it was 10:30 a.m. and I was almost ten hours into the challenge. Usually

I’ll throw on some headphones and drift off to some Radiohead or the like before bed, but that was the night the music died, for one night anyway. With a tummy full of cough syrup though, who needs music? On the way to work I hit my first real obstacle; no iPod in the car. For a while I tried rolling the windows down and breathing in the day, but between the fierce wind and my coughing, that ex-periment died a quick death. Also, I don’t know if you guys know this, but cars are loud. So that was kind of a bummer. Thankfully the drive to work was as short as my ruined attention span.

Usually at work I’ll plug my iPod into the speakers in the back and put on Pandora Shuffle. I was unable to do so, and therefore was subjected to hours of KFRX, dubstep, country and silence. I’m still trying to decide which was most painful. Between 2 p.m. and 5 p.m., when things get slow, I’d normally turn towards ESPN or Twitter to numb my brain for a bit. Alas, I had to actually open a book, something I’m told used to be popular when people didn’t have electricity. It took me back to my childhood, when I didn’t have my own laptop, cell-phone or televi-sion to occupy my time. I shared a computer with the entire family, shared a television with my brother and raced to an-swer the landline home phone so I could say “Yellow?” It was during that formative period that I tore through books like “Harry Pot-ter,” “The Lord of the Rings” and “Catcher in the Rye” and discov-ered my passion for reading and writing. This little experiment made me really question whether I would have turned out the same if I had grown up today, with the world and every possible distrac-tion at my fingertips.

Luckily, I had thought ahead and made plans with a buddy to

meet up downtown Friday night to drink away the last remnants of my 24 hours. After work I went home, shot some hoops, rediscov-ered the beauty of naps, gussied up and headed towards Jake’s Ci-gars & Spirits. I was a bit afraid that something horrible would happen to me downtown and I would end up puking myself to sleep in detox with no way of let-ting anyone know where I was, but all’s well that ends well. It was actually liberating to be down-town with just a few buddies and no phone to use as a crutch when things got slightly boring or awkward. With no phone to hide your face in, the only option is to plunge ahead and actually have conversations with people, which is kind of nice sometimes. That phrase “time flies when you’re having fun” is quite accurate, es-pecially when said fun involves libations.

It turns out that laughing with friends makes technology rela-tively forgettable. There’s always that “what if,” nagging feeling

in the back of the head, like check-ing basketball scores or a pos-sible family emer-gency. Mostly, it’s akin to streaking; that adrenaline-boosting, excitedly naked feeling, or so I’m told. I didn’t end up reconnect-ing with my phone until around 3 a.m. I went a full 26 hours with no phone, no televi-sion and no Inter-net. Suck it haters!

My DVR survived its dormancy, my email was mostly unscathed, and oddly enough, I only missed two calls — one from a friend mocking me for not being able to answer and another from my brother’s friend telling me my tail light was out. My worst night-mares turned out to be fantasies. Maybe I should do this more of-ten. Probably not though.



No-tech day reinforces humanity, despite slight rough patches

26-hour break from phones, computers leaves more time for real conversations

with no phone to

hide your face in, the only option is to plunge ahead and actually have conversations with people, which is kind of nice sometimes.“

morgaN SpieHS | DNa&e staffer andrew larsen undertook the seemingly impossible challenge of spending 26 straight hours without access to screen-having technology. He learned a lot, but just barely made it.

advice For your oWn 24-hourS-Without-ScreenS experiment:

Do:• enjoy the finer parts of natural life• relish in your mom thinking you could be hurt and loving you more than ever• dance like no government agency was watching you through your screens• probably check your texts once, just to see what’s up

Don’t:• stare at that black of yours screen for too long• schedule anything remotely important the day of the experiment• wonder if this is what being “off the grid” means• Forget to have your phone charged when the 24 hours are up

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When it was time to cast the play, they held open auditions instead of simply picking their friends to fill the roles, like many productions do. Including Sou-kup, who acted in the play as the father, all but two of the actors were film majors with limited act-ing experience.

Brenna Hill, Meghan Mo-drovsky, Logan Lee and Nathan Hansen were cast after auditions. The two women in the play were the only performance majors in-volved, which greatly improved the acting quality, they said.

“We (film majors) did well enough that it wasn’t distractingly

bad,” Soukup said.The separation between film

and theater students hurts both majors, Soukup and Ciofalo said, and in Ciofalo’s view, collabora-tion could improve the acting value in student film work and framing and lighting on stages in the student theater.

“We’re a part of the same school, but no one ever thinks of it that way,” Ciofalo said. “You have to actually walk outside to get to the theater side, so I feel like that’s part of the psychological barrier. It’s just that the film kids really don’t consider working with the theater side of things.”

Soukup particularly enjoyed the boundaries of theater com-pared to film.

“With film, it’s almost daunt-ing because you can literally do anything as long as you have time,” he said. “The limitations of theater help you focus on the char-acters and jokes.”

Clearly, the film duo’s collabo-ration with theater was a success. Compliments about the play have come from strangers recognizing Soukup’s roommate and other unexpected sources — the favor-ite being two “frat bros” Ciofalo overheard at NAF gradually ad-mitting their love for “Every-

body is an Asshole in Hell.”“That wasn’t so bad.”“Yeah, I kind of liked it.”“Yeah, the last one was pretty

good.”“I liked the last one a lot.”“It was so good.”“That one part was hilarious!”“I loved it!”As Ciofalo and Soukup are

working on very different cap-stone projects, their ideas for more plays are taking form. Ciofalo said working together on another play is “unavoidable whether we like it or not.”



Duo: From 5

effectS: From 5

ple laugh, then I’m glad I decided to bring it up.’”

While Rosenquist stays away from full-length stories on stage, she said she uses comedy to ad-dress her own experiences, spe-cifically from growing up in a devout Catholic household.

“When I first started out I had more of a focus,” she said. “I grew up religious and I’m not re-ligious, so a lot of my jokes kind of spurred from there. But now I’m trying to move away from that. I still have plenty of those, but now there’s more observa-tional and random thoughts, quicker punchlines — in between a story and a one-liner.”

But don’t expect Rosenquist to launch into any impromptu rou-tines.

“I am the worst joke-teller in real life,” she said. “I can’t tell a joke to regular people. I stumble my words. But something about being on stage and having prac-ticed helps a lot.”

Preparing for a routine, even a five-minute time slot, takes time and concentration. A joke could come at any time and Rosen-quist keeps a file of material on her phone for reference. Perhaps contrary to popular belief that co-medians are eternal fountains of effortless humor, Rosenquist said stand-up routines are meticulous-ly planned, sometimes at the 11th hour.

“They’re open mics; I have class right before that and instead of paying attention, I think of all the jokes I want to do that night,” she said.

And though it started rec-reationally, comedy quickly be-came more than an occasional hobby for Rosenquist.

“When I first started doing it, I thought, ‘Oh this could be fun every once in a while,’” she said. “But then I’ve been getting a lot of shows, and it’s been going re-ally well, and I’m taking improv classes, now. So I want to keep doing it.”

A consistent stand-up sched-ule, combined with duties as a resident assistant at The Village campus apartments and engi-neering coursework (notorious as one of the most demand-ing majors on campus) means Rosenquist rarely slows down.

“I’ve always been really in-volved in several things and sometimes it’s super stressful, but when I have time I’m less produc-tive, because then I just waste it,” she said.

But calculus and limited sleep aren’t the only conflicts Rosen-quist confronted when commit-ting to comedy.

“Comics in general are kind of jealous, competitive,” she said. “Normally you’d think it’d be ‘Oh, you’re funny too; let’s all be funny together,’ but with this

stuff, it’s competitive like, ‘I don’t even like his jokes! How is he get-ting laughs?’ There’s plenty of cool people and everyone gets

along generally, but there’s a lot of cattiness that goes into come-dy. I did not think it was going to be that way, but apparently it is.”

But initially, the biggest oppo-sition came from herself.

“I have serious stage anxiety,” Rosenquist said. “That’s another

reason I’m doing it, too, to get over that, and it helps a lot. Now I feel more comfortable on stage because it’s gone better, and I’ve gotten laughs, and it’s not as scary as it used to be.”

Regardless of the success she has seen in both Lincoln and Omaha, as well as emerging as a serious contender for the up-coming competition, Clash of the Comics, Thursday at Omaha’s Funnybone club, Rosenquist said she’s not counting on a ca-reer in comedy.

“It’d be cool, but I don’t want to put all my eggs in that bas-ket,” she said. “So I’ll just keep doing both, and keep pursuing comedy too, and see where it takes me.”

Rosenquist said she can’t de-scribe exactly what draws her to stand-up comedy, but slowly and surely, the once-intimidat-ing stage at Duffy’s on Mondays is becoming her second home.

“Hearing laughs on stage is one of the best feelings and it definitely keeps me coming back,” Rosenquist said. “The first set I ever did, the lights were so bright I couldn’t see anything. It’s like that every time, now, which is good, because I can’t see peo-ple‘s faces, so I’m just in my room again.”



roSeNquiSt: From 5

Dead week requires faith

tyler keoWN

The skies have filled with fire.Look up. It’s an omen, the dark

smoke clashing with the white clouds. The birds can hardly fly, their vision so impeded by the flames. The smell is unbelievable, like burnt hair and ammonia.

Dead Week is coming.I am not prepared. You are not

prepared. How could we be? School is always busy, no matter who you are or what you study. In a month already ruined by a stubborn Mother Nature, it’s easy to get lost in work, only to look up and see Dead Week approaching fast, your wide eyes re-flecting its headlights.

But that’s (sort of) OK. I’m reappropri-

ating my column to help you get through Dead Week. Dur-ing the actual Dead Week, I’ll be back to the norm, a familiar comfort to you as you slug your way through the worst moments of the semester.

The first rule of survival is to keep your eyes closed whenever you can. Dead Week is all around you, but is it inside you? It depends.

Are you a weak person? Stop be-ing a weak person. Dead Week will seep into your mind and you will lose all that you’ve come to love.

In reality (and also in space), it’s important to not let Dead Week con-sume you. You should focus and deal with what you need to deal with, but find time to think about other things, like an episode of whatever on Netflix, or how long it’ll take you to explain your grades to your par-ents.

Actually studying is something

that will help you out. Vultures may be circling overhead, but the more you study, the more they will be-gin to understand their meal is not yet ready. Find interesting places to study, like at a coffee shop you’ve never been to, or at the beach. Studying is great at the Nebraska beaches.

If things aren’t going well, try and focus on the bigger picture. Re-member that we are but specks in the eye of the universe. Remember that when we have all died and faded to the finest dust, tests will not matter. Love will also not matter. And memo-ries? Nah. All that stuff doesn’t mat-ter, but Dead Week especially does not matter when you are but dust in the swirling cosmic wind.

If that doesn’t work, maybe con-sider giving in. There’s no shame in losing if you were never favored to come on top. We’re all gonna fall down eventually, might as well trip now, under your own control. You can try to have grace and poise, then.

If you’re reading and thinking “No way, Jose, I’m gonna stay in col-

lege and be a doc-tor one day!” then you’re probably go-ing to survive Dead Week. You have the spirit of a champion, like a prize fighter or an angry bee. You are going to walk up to Dead Week and sting the hell out of

it. The big key to getting through

next week will be having faith, mostly in yourself.

Make sure you understand that this week is part of the process. For a life of success, love and hap-piness, you need a college degree. And money. You need both of those things.

Check back next week when I watch an elementary school play-ground from afar, then report my findings.

tyler keoWN iS a SopHomore jourNaliSm

major. reacH Him at artS@ DailyNebraSkaN.com.

A STUDY IN SCARLET

as the semester comes to an end, it is important to hold on, not give up

dead week ...doesn’t

matter when you are but dust in the ... cosmic wind.”

Stacie Hecker | DNcory soukup and dominic ciafolo wrote and directed “everyone is an asshole in Hell,” their theatrical debut, shown at the new artist Festival earlier this month.

ing,” he said. “But Ang Lee standing up there taking all the credit for cre-ative work done by Bill Westenhofer and crew, and then, the biggest slap, the Cinematography award going to the bluescreen photographer, that was just insane.”

Capizzi said the confusions that allow such scenes to happen evince a dramatic oversight on part of the Academy and in general.

“I am not in the Academy of Mo-tion Pictures Arts and Sciences, but ... I have seen firsthand the lack of technical knowledge these people possess,” he said. “It is probably good publicity that ‘Pi’ got the Oscar for Cinematography, but it makes my stomach hurt when I think about why this happened. It happened be-cause the voters saw the shot and thought, ‘Wow, great photography.’”

labor laWleSSCompounding the issue, in the

industry as a whole, is that this vi-sual effects work is done in some of the most demanding of conditions.

“Here we are living in the United States and we keep thinking ‘Well, we’ve got all these great labor laws,’” Kolbe said. “But in animation and visual effects or in gaming, those guys are working 120 hours a week, every week. They’re done with their 40-hour work week by Day Two. It’s very, very taxing. And they give a lot of themselves in order to make those movies look the way they do,

because they love what they do.”The industry is set up so that

work is done by visual effects art-ists for a blanket fee, Kolbe said. Re-gardless of the length of a shot or how much work each shot takes, the num-ber of shots determines the charge. If shots are added later, there is no over-age compensation.

“If you go to McDonald’s and say ‘this is my order’ and they go ‘this is how much the order is’ and you go ‘oh, can I have one more cheeseburg-er?,’ they’re going to charge you,” he said. “But the visual effects houses aren’t necessarily allowed to do that.”

While Rhythm & Hues has recent-ly become the face of this issue, the problem is industry-wide. Digital Do-main, the visual effects company be-hind “X-Men,” “Titanic” and “Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End” filed for bankruptcy last year, and Kolbe said no company is immune.

“As visual effects artists, or ani-mators or game designers, we’re all keenly aware that any one of these companies can go down at a mo-ment’s notice,” he said. “The profit margins are so narrow for the people who actually work on the film. The people who make all the money aren’t the people who work on the movies, the people who make all the money are the studios. Yes, they’re footing the bill, but they can easily afford to share some of that market.”

Subsidies complicate the land-scape even further. Companies have

incentive to contract overseas visual effects companies, though this fact alone is just a piece of the puzzle.

“The problem is not that some of these scenes or films are being done overseas,” Kolbe said. “They have

talented artists as well. The problem comes in with the other globalization problems that happen in other in-dustries. They’re being sent overseas not because they have more talent. They’re being sent overseas because

they don’t have the labor laws and they can actually work people around the clock with no overtime.”

Studios get a kickback for making a project in these locations that offer subsidies. The visual effects houses, though, don’t see these bonuses.

“This is where it gets infuriating,” Kolbe said. “The studios are getting a kickback from whatever country is saying ‘hey, we’ll pay you to come here and make this movie,’” he said. “Then the studios go ‘we want you to make this in Vancouver because they’re going to give us a great kick-back. Well, if Rhythm & Hues doesn’t have a studio in Vancouver, it is up to Rhythm & Hues to spend money to go put an office in Vancouver and fill it with artists, thereby taking up more of their money.”

‘tHe SNake eatS itS tale’

The fact that studios are now so mobile speaks to the increasingly low-er cost of production in general.

“Hollywood is no longer the ab-solute Mecca for making movies,” Endacott said. “The industry still re-sides there, but with more and more states offering incentives, robust film communities are becoming the norm across the country.”

But Kolbe said it’s the transient way of operating that is bad for artists and affects entire communities.

“Studios, because of subsidies, are facilitating this environment that

makes it very hard for these people to have families,” Kolbe said. “It’s very hard for communities to grow. Because the way that a community grows is by having people that live there and want to be there and that work there, and whose jobs keep them there so they can be a member of the community and helps it grow.”

As Rhythm & Hues finishes up its last two projects — Capizzi said the crews are “down to a skeleton final-izing the final shots” — the company is officially under new ownership. Though the international offices are not now in danger of closure, Capizzi said the plan now is to get the Los An-geles office as small as possible.

“The cat is out of the bag on get-ting digital assets over the internet,” he said. “The unions, the guilds, the will of the collective people will not stop this. If we want a champion that will get VFX jobs to stay in the USA, we should hire ‘Anonymous’ to shut down the pipeline to international stu-dios.”

With studios as the only winners, the hope is that the cycle of the current visual effects system ends soon.

“This is hurting an entire indus-try,” Kolbe said. “Then it’s hurting the countries that are bringing the jobs them, because if someone outbids them, that country’s screwed. It’s a never-ending cycle. It’s the snake eat-ing the tail of the same snake.”



briaNNa Soukup | DNrosenquist sits in a corner booth at duffy’s tavern before her stand-up performance. she does open mic comedy twice a week at duffy’s and at barley street tavern in omaha.

courteSy pHotoclaudio miranda of “life of pi” accepting the 2012 cinematography oscar was a specific point of contention with visual effects artists, who emphasized the vast digital work performed after shooting.

basketball conference. If that’s not enough, at least come for a chance to throw a crumpled up Runza wrapper at Tom Izzo’s troll of a son, who heckles opposing fans from court level.

There’s nothing quite like watching basketball within ear-shot of the players.

You’re also within earshot of the Haymarket, downtown Lin-coln’s not-so-hidden gem that’s about to get a lot better with Pin-nacle Bank Arena’s debut.

The bars, hotels and restau-rants will come, don’t worry about that. For the time being, it looks like there will be wings, pizza and Twin Peaks (for those of you into mediocre food and shame).

The real fun hangs in the bal-ance of the fate of “The Yard,” an open-courtyard collective of bars and restaurants similar to Kansas City’s Power & Light district. Af-ter spending a St. Patrick’s Day inside this beautiful, U-shaped venue, I’ll take the stand and testify for the allowance of open alcohol containers in this “Yard.” Thanks to some legislation from Sen. Colby Coash, that decision is

in the hands of city council now (which is a good thing).

Count me in for a beer and buffalo wings after a little Big Ten basketball on a Friday night. Make that a Boulevard Wheat with a lemon if ya got it.

Don’t care about the Big Ten? Fine. Can’t afford a beer on a pa-tio after the game? I’ve been there.

At least go for the chance to be a witness. This season, I saw Dylan Talley sink Iowa in the waning seconds of a home game. I got to watch Nebraska upset Min-nesota in the final Husker game in the Devaney Center. No one can

steal that from me.Don’t you want to be there

when the Huskers drop a buzzer-beater on Michigan or when Wal-ter Pitchford posterizes some fool from Iowa?

You can thank me after the game.

I’ll be the one in “The Yard” checking Twitter on my phone with a Boulevard Wheat and a plate of wings.

Grant Muessel is a senior news-editorial

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High jumper James White’s condition is undisclosed, but Pepin did have a comment.

“James hasn’t been able to practice virtually any, or very, very little since before the in-door conference meet,” Pepin said.

Dapo Akinmoladun and Bjorn Barrefors are not going to compete this week. Janis Leitis will be a game-time decision.

“We still have a few walk-ing wounded,” Pepin said,

Despite loosing a few top competitors, the Huskers are optimistic about the four-day meet. Going into the meet, the competition appears to be stacked, but the Huskers are ready for the challenge.

“My goal would be to hit 53 feet again, like I did last week because after you have a big PR (personal record) it is hard to replicate that again,” Jackson said. “It would be great to go out and PR again, but I know that doesn’t always happen.”

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1. indiana (26-7 overall, 8-4 biG ten):although the hoosiers were swept in a series against michigan state, they only lost by one in each game and indiana still has the most confer-ence wins. plus, the hoosiers are the only ranked team in the big Ten conference, coming in at no. 19 this week. if indiana has trouble with michigan this weekend, the discussion for the no. 1 team in the big Ten will begin; right now there is no clear conference leader.

2. ohio state (23-11, 7-5):The buckeyes made a statement defeating ne-braska in two out of the three games last week-end. closing out the series was senior left-hander brian king, who pitched seven shutout innings against the huskers sunday in the 7-4 victory. king also received the honor of big Ten co-pitcher of the week for the first time in his career.

3. Minnesota (22-13, 7-2):not only did the Gophers sweep northwestern last weekend, but minnesota coach John anderson, the winningest coach in big Ten baseball history, won his 500th career game sunday against the wildcats.

4. MichiGan (20-14, 7-2):michigan went 4-0 last week, including a sweep against penn state. receiving big Ten Freshman of the week was shortstop Travis maezes. maezes hit .545 in the weekend series against the nittany li-ons. it was also the first time he was named fresh-man of the week, and is the second week in a row that a wolverine was given the honor, last week being evan hill.

5. MichiGan state (21-11, 5-4):The spartans turned a lot of heads in the big Ten when they swept indiana. senior ace andrew waszak went eight innings in the 2-1 win against the former no. 12 team in the country. he threw five strikeouts and only surrendered one run against the hoosiers.

6. nebraska (14-19, 8-4):nebraska, a team that usually has its way at home, gave up two out of three games in a home se-ries against ohio state. The huskers hit the road against purdue before hosting a conference series against indiana.

7. illinois (22-10, 5-4):another team that was fortunate enough to get a sweep against a conference foe this past weekend was the Fighting illini. helping illinois in the sweep against purdue was big Ten player of the week, se-nior outfielder Justin parr, who hit for the cycle in the series finale, going 4-5 with four rbi and four runs scored.

8. northwestern (14-13, 4-8):The wildcats, one of three teams to be swept last weekend, struggled at home against minnesota by allowing 17 runs in the series. The next conference series for northwestern is another at home against michigan, who has won nine of its last 10 games.

9. purdue (11-22, 4-8):last weekend, purdue’s pitching staff had its hands full against illinois, giving up 17 runs in two out of the three games on the road. next on the confer-ence schedule is a home series with nebraska.

10. iowa (12-18, 2-7):The only team that didn’t face any big Ten oppo-nents last week was iowa. instead, it was swept by kansas state in a weekend non-conference se-ries. The hawkeyes return to big Ten play this week on the road against penn state, and if the team is swept again, iowa will be dead last in the big Ten conference.

11. penn state (7-24, 0-9):last week, the nittany lions failed to get their first conference win again, this time at the hands of michigan. This week, the team will try to catch fire in a home series against iowa, who has also had its own struggles in big Ten play.

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no. 18 nebraska takes over 2nd place in big ten

ryann lynn | dnbrook Thomason (18) celebrates with teammate Taylor edwards (12) during Tuesday’s double-header against minnesota. The huskers knocked off the Gophers in both games.

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The No. 18 Husker softball team swept the Minnesota Gophers at Bowlin Stadium in Lincoln Tues-day in a doubleheader that was postponed from last week.

Both teams are in the top tier of the Big Ten conference. Nebraska entered the night 30-9 overall and 8-3 in Big Ten play, and the Go-phers were 26-13 overall and half a game ahead of the Huskers in the conference standings with a 9-3 re-cord in the Big Ten. The winner of the first game would take second place in the Big Ten conference. The Huskers ended up on top with a 3-2 victory.

The Gophers struck first in the top of the third inning after fresh-man Kayla Wenner hit a ball deep over the center field fence for a solo home run after battling in a 3-2 count with NU freshman right-hander Emily Lockman.

Later in the inning, there was another solo home run, this time from sophomore Kaitlyn Rich-ardson to give her team a 2-0 lead over the Huskers.

Nebraska answered back in the bottom of the frame with a bunt from freshman Hailey Decker

to bring in junior Taylor Edwards. Then in the fifth inning, Edwards hit a solo home run to give her team life by tying the game up.

Later in the inning, with the bases loaded, Husker freshman Dawna Tyson came in as a pinch hitter and was hit by a pitch to drive in a run, giving Nebraska a 3-2 lead. The Huskers retained their lead behind the Lockman, who earned her 12th win of the season in the first matchup. Ne-braska coach Rhonda Revelle was impressed on how game one ended.

“The way we closed out the first game with what seemed like a base hit when Brooke threw the runner out at first was a real mo-mentum changer,” Revelle said. “It was good softball from both teams.”

Game two started out slow, but Nebraska came out on top 4-0.

On the mound, keeping the Gophers in check was junior ace Tatum Edwards. Edwards, the team’s leader in wins (19), was in command against Minnesota’s lineup, using a deadly changeup to give her nine strikeouts on the mound and only allowing three hits in the outing.

The game was scoreless up

until the bottom of sixth inning. Nebraska loaded the bases with two outs and Tatum Edwards at the plate. On the first pitch, she hit a grand slam to give her team the 4-0 lead and eventually the win. The grand slam marked Tatum’s eighth home run of the season, second most on the team.

With a double play and a strikeout in the seventh inning, the Huskers retained its lead against Minnesota. Tatum Ed-wards earned her 20th win of the season and is now 20-6 after a solid performance both offen-sively and defensively, which wowed her teammates, including senior outfielder Brooke Thoma-son.

“It was very exciting,” Thom-ason said. “Minnesota is a very good team. We knew coming into this game that it would be a good game. Our pitchers did a good job throwing strikes and Tatum Ed-wards did very well, especially hitting.”

After the doubleheader, the Huskers sit in second place in the Big Ten and will continue confer-ence play on the road against Pur-due this coming up weekend.


andrew barry | dna nebraska pitcher throws toward the plate Tuesday night. kyle kubat, Tyler niederklein and dylan Vogt pitched a no-hitter against no. 10 arkansas Tuesday night, the first no-hitter in 20 years for nu.

of that. Kyle’s been through a lot. It’s been frustrating for him, he’s been working his tail off to get healthy and throw strikes and have a good outing.”

The No. 10 Razorbacks, who held the best ERA in the country (1.72) go-ing into Tuesday’s doubleheader, al-lowed three Husker runs on five hits.

“As shocked as I was that we no-hit them,” Erstad said, “I was more shocked that we got five hits off of them. They’re just a phenomenal pitching staff.”

Making a season debut, a com-bined no-hitter with no atypical sore-ness is a confidence boost for pitch-ers, but Kubat credited the win to an all-around team effort.

“That’s something pretty spe-cial,” Kubat said of his no-hitter. “It’s good to be a part of it and good to get a team win.”


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Grant MuesselTo anyone who can explain to me why there’s still thousands of Nebraska basketball season tickets left: I’m all ears.

There are just too many good things to come from snatching up a seat at that new arena, and this is coming from someone who doesn’t consider himself a big basketball fan.

You’ve got a college-level sporting event in second-most popular sport in the NCAA, which alone is reason enough to dive in head-first. The price isn’t bad; it’ll leave room in the budget (yes, a poor college un-derling’s budget) for the ameni-ties going up around the arena. And if this Tim Miles character is half as good as I believe him to be, you could witness the re-

constructed era of strength in Nebraska sports.

Did I mention that it’s a col-lege basketball game?

For us poor college students, the cost comes out to less than $3 per game. If my math is right, that’s about six fewer Keystone Lights each week. For the foot-ball loons, it comes down to this: Less than one-third the price of your student football tickets for nearly three times as many games.

And it’s college basketball!You may not see the resur-

gence of Husker basketball in the arena’s first year (Miles is a good coach, not Anne Sullivan), but you’ll get to see almost all the teams from the nation’s best

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The Nebraska track and field team will be attending the Kan-sas Relays, one of the largest meets in the country. The meet will begin on Wednesday and finish Saturday. The Huskers will travel down to Lawrence, Kan., where some of the top teams in the country will compete.

Action will begin at 10 a.m. Wednesday and the meet won’t be scored. The event is four days because there is a wide range of competition. Nebraska track and field coach Gary Pepin under-stands the magnitude of these meets for the schools hosting them.

“The reason that they last so long is because typically it isn’t just for university athletes,” Pe-pin said. “It is for high school athletes, junior college athletes, professional athletes that are out of school, and they have all the events, plus additional relay events and the multi events.”

Kansas is ranked No. 1 on the women’s side and is hosting the meet. Texas A&M, Oregon, LSU, Florida, Arizona, Texas, Arizona

State, Stanford, Arkansas, Clem-son, Georgia, UCF, Washington, Texas Tech, Iowa State, Baylor, Il-linois, Auburn, UCLA, Colorado, Oklahoma and Penn State are all attending the meet. Every team is ranked in the top 25 in the na-tion for either men’s or women’s. Nebraska is one of three Big Ten teams, while five Big 12 squads and five SEC teams are compet-ing.

The Huskers are coming off a strong weekend at home where the team won 20 event titles and achieved multiple season-bests. Annie Jackson won the women’s shot put with a season-best throw of 53-1. She is currently ranked No. 25 in the nation and second in the Big Ten.

“I feel excited because I know that there is going to be some good competition at KU,” Jack-son said.

Jackson is still working on transitioning to outdoor compe-tition, but this last home meet helped her.

“I’m continuing to work on the same things since transition-ing to outdoors,” Jackson said. “I hope that by continuing to work on a couple of things each week, they will become a habit and I won’t have to really think about it anymore.”

Some Huskers are still not competing due to injuries, but most will be competing at ei-

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file photo by kaylee everly | dnhusker track and field coach Gary pepin shakes hands with jump-er James white. nu competes in the kansas relays this week.

Kansas hosts event with a number of track and field teams this week

razor sharphuskers shock arkansas in Two Games Tuesdaystory by lanny holstein | photo by andrew barry

blake headley follows through on a hit during the eighth inning of the second game against no. 10 arkansas Tuesday night. headley’s hit ended up over the right-field fence to give nebraska the lead against the razorbacks, completing the two-game sweep.

There are just too

many good things to come from snatching up a seat at that new arena.”

w ith the help of a staff no-hitter and some timely hitting, Nebraska pulled off a doubleheader sweep of Arkansas Tuesday night.

The Huskers - facing the preseason No. 1 team in the nation led by their former coach - churned out a gritty performance on a cold night at Haymarket Park. Facing the No. 1 pitching staff in the nation (by ERA), the Huskers knew they were in for a dog fight, and the team used a couple of its best all-around games of the year to beat the Razor-backs 3-0 and 4-2.

“I told our guys, I’ll give you the bad news first,” Nebraska coach Darin Erstad said after the game. “Now, you’ve just shown me what you are capable of in a mid-week game. On the good side of it, I’m proud of my boys. They came out and battled through some tough weather.”

In the first game, Nebraska only recorded five hits - but it was able to push three runs across the plate - more than enough to beat the hitless Razorbacks.

Sophomore Kyle Kubat - making his first appearance and start of the season - went five innings for the Huskers before giving way to seniors Tyler Niederklein and Dylan Vogt, who closed the game without allowing a hit.

The no hitter was Nebraska’s first since March 6, 1993, when the staff combined to throw one against Peru State. Erstad said the way his pitchers played caught him a bit off guard, especially Kubat, who was coming off a bout with shoulder soreness.

“Kyle’s been through a lot,” the coach said. “He’s been working his tail off, and to see him go out there healthy and throw strikes, have a good outing, I’m really proud of him to get through all of this.”

Behind three early runs, the Huskers coast-ed to victory in game one.

In game two, Brandon Pierce started for Ne-braska on the hill, and was aided by the Husker offense in the fourth inning when the Huskers broke out to a 1-0 lead with an RBI single from first baseman Kash Kalkowski. The hit knocked designated hitter Michael Pritchard in from third base after the sophomore had reached base on a rare infield double.

The Razorbacks struck right back in the next half inning. A solo homer from leadoff man Ja-cob Mahan tied the game up at one apiece in the top of the fifth, and the score stayed that way until the eighth.

“They were the top pitching staff in the na-tion, so we knew they were going to be good,” Husker first baseman Kash Kalkowski said.

“With our hitters, it was just about compet-ing.”

It took a pinch-hit bomb from Blake Head-ley to break the tie in the bottom of the eighth. The sophomore’s shot over the right field wall gave Nebraska a 2-1, and the Huskers would add another couple runs before the end of the inning to make it 4-1.

“I was telling Ty Kildow that once Blake gets to first, you are going to run for him, and Jake Placzek was going to play first,” Erstad said of his actions immediately prior to Head-ley’s home run. “But lets just say Blake blew that up, and I’ll take that. That’s fine.”

Josh Roeder didn’t exactly make quick work of Arkansas in the ninth, giving up a run and three hits, but his stuff was good enough to give Nebraska the win and complete the doubleheader sweep.

“Now our guys have been there,” Erstad said. “They’ve beaten a ranked team, been in a tight game and found a way to get it done. The more experience you have in those situations, the more confident you can be when you are in them again.”

Nebraska is back in action Friday night when it goes on the road to take on Purdue for a three-game weekend series.


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For being out 33 games with shoulder soreness, Kyle Kubat’s arm held up just fine against the No. 10 Arkansas Razorbacks Tuesday.

After the sophomore left-handed pitcher turned away the first six Ar-kansas hitters, Kubat knew he had something special.

Working only a fastball and changeup, Kubat’s five innings and three strike outs combined with se-nior pitcher Tyler Niederklein’s two-and-a-third hitless innings and senior pitcher Dylan Vogt’s inning-and-two thirds gave Nebraska the eighth no-hitter in school history.

The last time Nebraska recorded a no-hitter was in 1993 against Peru State, while the most recent Division 1 team the Huskers no-hit was Okla-homa in 1981.

“We were a little antsy,” Kubat said. “We were just trying to keep our composure. I don’t think anybody said, ‘We have a no-hitter,’ which is good. If they did, we’ll find out and we’ll probably beat them up or some-thing.”

Other than a walk in the third inning, Kubat threw a perfect game through four innings. To start the fifth, the Waterloo native retired two bat-ters before hitting Arkansas’ Isaach Hellbusch.

Kubat turned to the next batter, Jean Ramirez. Kubat’s pitch was out of control and Hellbusch advanced to second. The no-hit bid remained alive, however, as Ramirez grounded out to end the inning.

Because Kubat was just coming back from shoulder soreness, Nebras-ka coach Darin Erstad didn’t want to overthrow him. Through five innings, Kubat had thrown 60 pitches – the target Darin Erstad had set previously for his pitcher. So in the sixth inning, Erstad brought in Niederklein.

“(Kubat) hasn’t thrown that much,” Erstad said. “There was no chance we were going to throw him any longer today.”

While Erstad had no second thoughts about pulling the lefty hurler, Kubat was itching for more, he said.

“I wanted to get out there, but I understand the coaching staff,” Kubat said. “It was good to get out there for five innings, did all I could, I left it out there and came out with a win.”

As the starter left the game, he had no worries about losing a no-hit-ter bid, he said. In fact, the only words of advice he gave his teammate were to “have fun” and “throw strikes,” Kubat said.

“I didn’t say anything about the no-hitter,” Kubat said. “But if it didn’t happen, then it wouldn’t have both-ered me. Just get a win.”

Niederklein, an Omaha native, picked up right where Kubat left off in the fifth inning, as he shut down seven batters, including a strike out.

In the eighth inning, Erstad went to the bullpen one more time, calling in the senior right-hander, Vogt.

Vogt finished the no-hitter by turning away four batters, walking one.

“I think Kyle really set the tone early,” Erstad said. “Guys just fed off

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