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Siamese twins who were sur-gically separated at age 2, a city built around a coal mine and the homelessness of a country. These are just a few of the heavy issues covered

by 10 University of Nebraska-Lincoln journalism students who recently trav-eled to Kyrgyzstan to report on issues facing the population of the country.

Tonight at 6 p.m. in the Mary Ri-epma Ross Theater, the public is in-vited to hear those stories as told by the students. The free show will run until 7:30 p.m. and will feature mul-timedia presentations put together by the students who traveled to the ex-soviet nation over winter break.

“We worked on one or two sto-ries and from that we compiled sto-ries with audio and photos in order to make it captivating for audiences,”

story by Elias youngquist

students react to RA’s testimony, DN coverage

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rha votes in favor of Housing

chris dorwArt | dAily nEbrAskAnABOVE: Zita Rezakhanova, left, and Gita Rezakhanova write on the windows of their family car on the way to their house in the village of Dzhany Dzher in the Chuy Province of Kyrgyzstan. Zita and Gita used to be conjoined twins. They attend school and live at an orphanage in the village of Voenno-Antonovka because their family can’t afford to properly care for them.

courtEsy Photo by AshA AnchAnTOP: Jyldyz Abdyzhaparov feeds her newborn baby boy, Alinur, in her two-room apartment Jan. 1, in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. This was Abdyzhaparov’s third pregnancy, and her heart problems forced the doctors to perform an emergency C-section. She and her family have little money because her hus-band, Maksat, cannot work after being injured during the revolution in Kyrgyzstan in April 2010.

bringing it homejournalism students to present work, tell stories from trip to

kyrgyzstan at the ross wednesday night

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Opinions of how Univer-sity of Nebraska-Lincoln Housing handled the situa-tion involving one RA and some bedbugs varied largely across the campus Tuesday.

Some were in full sup-port of senior meteorology-climatology major, Amanda Wekesser — the Selleck 8200 resident assistant who said she had been asked to hide her room’s bedbug

infestation from residents. Others condemned Wekess-er for speaking out.

Ashley Schlake, a ju-nior advertising major, said Housing handled the situa-tion poorly.

“In college, a student ex-pects to be treated like an adult,” Schlake said. “So they deserve to know what’s going on.”

Michaela Hough, a fresh-man English major, agreed, saying bedbugs are a health concern and should not

be kept hidden because students have the right to know.

“There are a lot of things I like about this university,” she said. “I hate to see such a seemingly simple mainte-nance issue come up like that.”

Some students used num-bers to make sense of the situation.

Chris Langenberg, a junior sociology major, said stu-dents pay a lot of money to go to the university.

“We deserve a chance to have our services brought to use,” he said.

Other students defended Housing.

“I understand that bed-bugs are a serious issue, but I think that some people are kind of freaking out about it; overacting,” said Logan Hepp, a sophomore phys-ics major. “I feel like the university is doing a pretty good job keeping it under control.”

Hepp said in the Daily

Nebraskan article it didn’t sound like Housing was forc-ing Wekesser to keep quiet and that she could have told her residents about the bed-bugs in her room.

“I think she was overreact-ing, as well, to the Housing staff wanting to keep it un-der wraps,” he said. “I un-derstand where the Housing staff is coming from.”

Wekesser said on Tuesday she did not regret her deci-sion to come forward.

“I’m a role model for my

floor,” she said. “They en-trusted me with 30 to 40 girls, to be a leader for them. If I’m not doing that and not being true to my-self and not being open and honest with them when it’s my room, then that’s not a role model.”

Wekesser didn’t want to be in a situation where she would have to tell her

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Two and a half hours passed and one thing was certain — the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Residence Hall Association fully sup-ports University Housing’s handling of the bedbug situ-ation.

“As a body that represents all of the residence halls, we want to make sure that we are putting the word out there that we approve of what they’re doing,” said RHA President Kevin Rush, a senior special education major.

The legislation was titled “Senate Bill XX,” stating that RHA planned to back Housing in its endeavors to defuse the bedbug situ-ation that has been causing campus-wide complications throughout the month of January.

Most of the senators were in favor of the bill.

“I’m 100 million percent in support of this legisla-tion,” said chairman An-nie Hildebrand, a senior marketing major. “With all the negative info out there about Housing, it’s impor-tant to counteract some of that negativity.”

However, others did not see eye-to-eye with Hildeb-rand.

“I’m 100 million percent in not supporting this,” said Sen. Tyson Nickerson, a ju-nior pre-criminology and criminal justice major. “If the DN (Daily Nebraskan) has any truth in today’s ar-ticle, then I don’t think it’s fair for what that RA had to go through. I just don’t think they handled the pub-lic well.”

RHA Treasurer Ryan King, a junior computer science major, said after reading through several DN articles, comments and talking to a friend on the bedbug-infest-ed floor in the 8000 building of Selleck residence hall, he

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Officers observed a car with four people in the front seat make an improper turn on Jan. 26 at 1:11 a.m. Officers stopped the vehicle along north Antelope Valley Parkway. The officer smelled alcohol coming from the car and David Cook, a freshman management major, was cited with a minor in possession of alco-hol. Cook had a blood alcohol content of 0.233, and was transported to detox. The driver of the car was also cited for making an improper turn.

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Officers were called to Abel Hall on Jan. 27 at 2:48 a.m. Three students were having an argu-ment and appeared to be under the influence of alcohol. After the argument was broken up, Brett Waggoner, a sophomore business ad-ministration major, and Emma Olney, a fresh-man international busi-ness major, were cited for MiPs and transport-ed to detox. Waggoner had a BAC of 0.239 and Olney a 0.210. Stefanie Alther, a freshman foren-sic science major, was also cited with an MiP with a BAC of 0.138, she was released to her sober roommate.

stuDeNt walks iNto parkiNg meters, arresteD

late Saturday eve-ning, Hannah luber, a junior elementary education major, was observed to be under the influence outside of Cather and Pound Resi-dence Halls on north 17th Street. Officers ob-served luber walk into a parking meter, and then into another one a few minutes later. She was cited with an MiP and was taken to detox. She had a BAC of 0.269

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iF yOu GOservice trip information meetingswhen: Today at noon and Feb. 2 at 5 p.m. where: Nebraska Union, Room 222

trips to offer volunteer opportunities for break

SARAH MillERDaily NebraskaN

While some students party on beaches during spring break, others will be do-nating their time.

The Center for Civic En-gagement is hosting a va-riety of alternative service trips during the Univer-sity of Nebraska-Lincoln’s spring break in March. The trips are open to all stu-dents, staff and faculty.

“We try to provide stu-dents with a safe, healthy, service-oriented trip over their major breaks,” said Linda Moody, director of service learning for the Center for Civic Engage-ment.

From March 17 to March 23, students will travel to Kansas City, Mo., Joplin, Mo., Pine Ridge, S.D., Den-ver and Minneapolis.

Moody said students can expect to dedicate 28 to 32 hours to service.

The trips will be service-oriented during the day

and will be focused on reflections during the eve-nings, said Alicia Domin-guez, project coordinator at the Center for Civic En-gagement.

The Denver trip will be one of the most popular trips, in Sjogren’s opinion. The group traveling there will be working with Habi-tat for Humanity to help build homes.

“It’s a lot of hard manual labor and people actually like that,” Sjogren said.

The service trips are meant to help other com-munities, Pressler said, but it’s also about bringing back what is learned.

Dominguez said her first service trip to New Orleans inspired her to work more intimately with service trip planning.

“I was just so impacted,” she said. “It was very edu-cational and the diversity on the trips, just within the students that go, is really eye-opening.”

The cost of the trips will

range between $225 and $280, Moody said, and will cover transportation, lodg-ing, food, a T-shirt and most educational and cul-tural activities during the trip.

There will be informa-tional sessions in the Cen-ter for Civic Engagement in the Nebraska Union, Room 222 today at noon and Feb. 2 at 5 p.m., Moody said. Applications are due Feb. 10.

Dominguez encourages all students to take a ser-vice trip.

“I don’t think there’s a better high than a natural high.”

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Class focuses on healthy eating,

grocery shopping

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Bouncing back from college weight gain can be a challenge. Coupled with busy schedules and tight budgets, the idea of a healthy diet can go down the drain pretty quickly.

The first of the “Eat This, Not That” series, an event hosted by University of Nebraska-Lincoln Campus Recreation, sought to inform attendees about how to navigate the aisles of the gro-cery store and buy healthier foods. The series is based off the book, “Eat This, Not That,” by David Zinczenko, editor-in-chief of Men’s Health.

Registered dietitian Karen Miller presented what she found most useful from Zinczenko’s book. According to Miller, Zinc-zenko’s main concern is often fewer calories, which “doesn’t necessarily mean it’s the health-ier choice.”

“He may choose a food that is lower calorie but that is much higher in sodium, so you have to pay attention to that,” Miller said.

Miller also took her audience into account when preparing the presentation. “I tried to pick out foods I’ve seen at the gro-cery store in Nebraska,” Miller said.

Senior environmental studies major Brittney Albin said she came to the class hoping for some tips on eating healthy on a busy schedule.

“I’m always on a time crunch, going back and forth, to and from campus and I thought this would be helpful,” Albin said.

The class covered meal plan-ning, grocery shopping, label reading and tips for purchasing different categories of food.

One theme constant through-out the class was portion size.

“Portion size is huge,” Miller said. “Today we have portion distortion — what we think a portion is compared to what a serving size is.”

Miller said the increase in por-tion sizes has caused people to eat more and gain more weight.

“There’s nothing wrong with a cookie, but the serving size becomes distorted,” Miller said. “They’ve gotten huge.”

An online resource Miller recommended was choosemy-plate.gov, which has informa-tion about meal planning, calo-rie information and the new food-guide system that replaced the food pyramid.

Miller said the site is especial-ly helpful for those who want to know how many calories they should be eating by using the site’s Super Tracker.

She also provided informa-tion on how to navigate a gro-cery store when shopping. She said meats, grains, fruits, veg-etables and dairy are almost al-ways found along the edges of the store.

Overall, Miller said people knowing their tastes and bud-gets, as well as being aware of portion sizes and ingredients, are key when grocery shop-ping. She also said it’s not good to only focus on lower-fat and lower-calorie foods.

“Eating should be enjoyable to us,” she said. “I’m not going to eat something that’s lower in fat but I won’t enjoy.”

Miller is presenting another class about cooking for one or two people on Feb. 14 at the Campus Recreation Center. She said she feels it’s important for everyone, not just students, to be informed about healthy eat-ing.

“I don’t think it’s just col-lege students (who struggle to eat healthfully). There’s just so much misinformation. I think it’s good to know resources are available,” she said.

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residents that she let them down.

“I still fear my job,” she said. “I did the right thing, as far as where I thought the right thing was concerned. Whether Hous-ing thinks that is another story. My decision is something I can live with.”

In response to the Daily

Nebraskan’s Tuesday article, University Housing is hosting a media briefing this morning.

Housing administration will be present for the gathering, said Kelly Bartling, news man-ager for the University of Ne-braska-Lincoln.

Bartling said Sue Gilder-sleeve, director of University

Housing, will attend the brief-ing in the Van Brunt Visitors Center at 10 a.m.

Gildersleeve left for an undis-closed conference Monday and was not scheduled to return un-til Feb. 6. She came back Tues-day evening.

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What would they gain from (not

informing residents)? That’s the question everyone’s asking. it’s the million-dollar question.”

John Ruelasjunior biology major

Even though they

don’t want us to freak out, they should tell us.”

KiRsten leasfreshman chemistry major

it’s a betrayal by

the university. Residents have a right to know if it’s their property that’s going to be damaged.”

ameRica oRnelaschild, youth and family studies major

i’m a little disappointed

in the RA … her employers told her to keep quiet. it seems like Housing was trying to do all they could.”

tyleR GRuttemeyeRjunior music education major

suspects miscommunica-tion.

“Sue was doing the best she could do with the infor-mation that she had,” King said. “I don’t think that Housing could have acted any faster or done anything better without compromis-ing student privacy.”

RHA Vice President Mike Dunn, a junior communica-tions major, said Housing is not launching an effort to hide information. He said a lot of people found out about the bedbugs in Sell-eck from Tuesday’s article in the Daily Nebraskan.

The bill passed with 20 approvals, 12 denials and three abstaining.

Assistant director of Housing, Keith Zaborows-ki, thanked RHA for its support, Rush said, after he received a phone call from Zaborowski during the meeting.

After a paper ballot vote, the senate chose Rachel Platten as the opening art-ist for the University Pro-gram Committee’s spring concert with 21 approving votes.

“She seemed to have the happiness of Owl City and a different kind of style compared to Mike Posner, so it’ll be a good fit for the students who may not like his type of music,” said Sen. Jarred Vogel, a junior biological sciences major.

The next piece of leg-islature to be passed was “Budget Bill 03,” which was RHA’s spring semester budget. The bill was ap-proved unanimously.

Then the heated debate began.

Dunn introduced a piece of legislation titled “Con-stitutional Revision 02,” which was essentially revi-sions regarding the execu-tive board’s structure.

With this bill, the secre-tary position of the execu-tive board would be elimi-nated and replaced with a chief of staff position that would no longer require an election procedure, but would simply need an ap-pointment and a vote of confirmation from the sen-ate.

Dunn also moved to eliminate the Diversion

and Wellness Group and Sustainability Committees, because he said he be-lieved they have dual rolls, causing an overlap of duty.

His solution was to take the remaining committees and create a large-scale events committee, a small-scale events committee and then a residential enhance-ment committee.

Rush said he was in sup-port of the constitutional change, however, current RHA Secretary Sarah Elwell, a senior animal science ma-jor, was not.

“I’m against the chief of staff position because there is much more to the position of secretary than just record-ing minutes,” Elwell said. “We should never strive for the bare minimum. The reason we switched to vot-ing from appointment in the first place was to avoid what can happen when you’re just taking in an ap-pointed person.”

Other senators were strongly against the idea of these changes because they didn’t see a problem with the current commit-tees and executive board structure.

King had to call a 60-sec-ond recess for senators to calm down. And at two

points during the debate, Dunn left the room.

Soon, one of the sena-tors made a motion to move straight into voting on the bill, but Dunn felt that more discussion was needed on the bill because it would effectively change RHA’s entire structure.

The senate moved to “ta-ble” discussion on the bill until RHA’s meeting next week, to make new points to the legislation and save time on the voting process.

The table motion passed unanimously. Discussion on RHA’s structural revi-sions will continue next Tuesday.

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1. uPC legislation: A vote on the opening music artist for uPC’s spring concert.

2. SRXX: Emergency legislation on Bedbugs. RHA would completely stand behind university Hous-ing’s efforts to eliminate the bedbug problem.

3. BBO3: Spring Semester Budget

4. CR02: Revisions Regarding Executive Board Structure. A bill to eliminate the position of secre-tary among the executive board members as well as eliminate current committees and replace them with new ones.

RHA MEETinG, JAn. 31

BillS

VOTES

1. Rachel Platten was chosen with 21 votes.

2. The bill passed with 20 approvals, 12 denials and three abstaining.

3. Passed unanimously.

4. Tabled until next week.

[Rachel Platten] seemed to

have the happiness of Owl City and a different kind of style compared to Mike Posner, so it’ll be a good fit for the students who may not like his type of music.”

JaRRed VoGeljunior biological sciences major

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said Asha Anchan, a junior news-editorial major.

From Dec. 18 to Jan. 9, the students found topics of importance in Kyrgyzstan to cover and photograph.

“We worked on a piece on homelessness and our piece is structured around the fact that the govern-ment doesn’t see the prob-lem,” said Patrick Breen, a senior news-editorial major.

Anchan, designated the “trip writer,” became close with one Kyrgyz mother throughout the course of her story.

“I ended up hanging out in maternities and I met a woman that I followed through her C-section and after and just photographed her daily life,” Anchan said. “I spent a lot of time at her house and with her family. In addition to the one she just had, there are now five of them in this small apart-ment.”

Anchan said the family she followed in her sto-ry gets by with very little

because the husband is un-able to work. Throughout the course of the group’s stay in Kyrgyzstan, she, like many members of the group, grew attached to the people of the country.

“It was definitely a relief to be back around family but it was kind of a mixed bag of emotions,” Anchan said. “You invest yourself in people over there. It took a while not to just get over jet lag but also to realize the finality of probably never seeing them again.”

The trip itself had been in the works since June 2010; however, plans were put on a hold when Kyrgyzstan was placed on the travel advisory list.

“Originally, we were go-ing to go to Kyrgyzstan over a year ago and there was a revolt, riots, people were killed,” said Bruce Thorson, a news-editorial associate professor and the accompanying faculty member on the Kyrgyzstan trip. “Anyway, I can’t take

students to a country that has a travel warning.”

Now that they’re back in the United States, the students hope to inspire change with the stories and work they have compiled by showing their media to-night and also publishing a magazine at a later date.

“It always changes you; it makes you want to make a difference and we hope that when we show these pieces that people that see them will also want to help to make a change,” Breen said.

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jon AuGustinE | dAily nEbrAskAnA miner picks coal off the top of a cave outside Tash-Kumyr, Kyrgyzstan on Jan. 2. Coal mining has become a rogue, dangerous and deadly trade in Tash-Kumyr since the col-lapse of the Soviet union in 1991.

you invest yourself in

people over there. it took a while not to just get over jet lag but also to realize the finality of probably never seeing them again.”

asha anchan junior news-editorial major

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In early January, a teenage girl won a legal battle against her school. The public school had dis-played an 8-foot tall prayer banner in her high school auditorium for 49 years.

The girl’s community went rabid. Classmates, townspeople and even elected officials called her cruel names, bullied her, threatened her, harassed her and, in general, decided to make her life miserable. Some did so in the name of their religion.

Guess where in the country the latest battle between separation of church and state took place? Texas? Alabama? Missis-sippi? Nope. Try Rhode Island.

Rhode Island is primarily known for being the smallest state in America, not as a hotbed of religiosity and intoler-ance. The northeastern part of our country is the least religious region, according to the Pew Forum. However, the girl’s town, Cranston, is predomi-nately Roman Catholic, and Rhode Island is more religious than other northeastern states.

The girl, Jessica Ahlquist, rightly chal-lenged the banner, which read, “Our Heavenly Father, Grant us each day the desire to do our best, To grow mentally and morally as well as physically, To be kind and helpful to our classmates and teachers, To be honest with ourselves as well as with others, Help us to be good sports and smile when we lose as well as when we win, Teach us the value of true friendship, Help us always to con-duct ourselves so as to bring credit to Cranston High School West. Amen.”

If that’s not overtly religious, what is?Alhquist, who happens to be an atheist,

said of the banner, “It seemed like it was saying, every time I saw it, ‘You don’t

belong here.’”The banner’s presence also is illegal,

according to the establishment clause of the First Amendment, which reads, “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion.”

And Alhquist’s challenge of the ban-ner showed many of the residents in her town thought she didn’t belong either.

Many of Alhquist’s harassers took to the Internet. Users on social networks like Facebook and Twitter posted com-ments like “May that little, evil athiest (sic) teenage girl and that judge BURN IN HELL!”, “shes (sic) not human shes (sic) garbage,” and “gods (sic) going to f--- your a-- with that banner you scum-bag.”

Less predictably, the flower shops in her community refused to deliver flowers from the Freedom From Religion Founda-tion.

Apparently, the florists were afraid of being harassed for delivering flowers to Ahlquist. No heroes among florists, it would seem.

Worse than the cowardly Cranston florists and the Internet trolls, a state representative, Peter G. Palumbo, a Democrat, called Ahlquist “an evil little thing.”

The behavior of Ahlquist’s harassers is

absolutely atrocious. The fact that many did so in the name of their religion (in this case, Christianity) is horrible.

I’m certain that at least one of you, dear readers, is saying or thinking, “But not all Christians are like that!” One of you may be writing a mean-spirited email right now.

Rest assured, 13 clergy members in Cranston stepped up to defend Ahlquist. And they stepped up after receiving requests from those in their clergy. They did the right thing.

Believers and non-believers un-derstandably have difficulty seeing eye-to-eye on some issues. However, it should be agreed that harassing, bullying and threatening someone whose actions you disagree with is wrong. Further, harassing someone in the name of your religion is unac-ceptable. And perhaps more than a bit ironic, given that many Christians say their faith is based on love.

Church and state are meant to be separate because (ideally) it protects the integrity of both institutions. Though many of those in political office use their faith as a means to obtain power, that doesn’t mean it’s required or that the U.S. is a Christian nation.

We’re not a Christian nation. We’re a nation of people of many different faiths, creeds and backgrounds. Yes, ours is a nation dominated by Chris-tians, but we must respect the presence of those who aren’t.

Public places belong to all people, even those you may not agree with. No one should feel unwelcome.

Rhiannon Root is a senioR news-edi-toRial and histoRy majoR. FolloweR

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Beliefs never justify bullying

‘My Plate’ plan needs to realize

full potentialPart of the college experience is properly utiliz-

ing university-provided opportunities where they are available, before real life sets in and the hand-holding ceases.

The University of Nebraska-Lincoln Dining Services’ adoption of the United States Department of Agri-culture’s “My Plate” program, which aims to provide Americans with a simple, customizable dietary plan is one such example.

The Daily Nebraskan supports this decision by Dining Services and encourages students to give the “My Plate” model a try. It’s no secret that the dietary decisions we make at age 18 or 22 will lay the groundwork for our quality of life as adults. That Dining Services is attempting to advise students on the value and specifics of a balanced diet is com-mendable, considering the impact it could have later in life.

That said, Dining Services should take all neces-sary steps to mandate that the healthy, less-pro-cessed foods aren’t the least appealing options from night to night. This is a challenge, yes. It requires more effort to keep fresh spinach available than it does cookies, more effort to present fresh vegetables than french fries. But if Dining Services is truly com-mitted to the “My Plate” program, they’ll take the necessary steps to making the presentation of quality, healthy options more than a nominal effort.

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Just over two decades ago was a horrible time for my family. My 21-year-old cousin, Shane, had been brutally murdered. My mother sat through the trial. She still has a difficult time coping

with the loss.Despite the grief, she and my uncle

never wished for the death penalty. They only hoped for life without pa-role.

Some will find this strange, but my family has good reason to be opposed to capital punishment.

They would never want to take away from another family what was taken from them. In no way would another family’s loss make up for their own. Life in prison without parole was enough.

Currently, 34 states use the death penalty, including California, Connecti-cut, Texas, Virginia and Wyoming. Since 1976, 1,279 people have been killed in the United States, while only 82 inmates have been set free because of inno-cence. There are currently 11 people on Nebraska’s death row.

There’s no proof that there’s any ad-vantage of keeping capital punishment versus replacing it with life in prison.

First of all, the death penalty doesn’t work as a scare tactic. If it really did prevent crime, states with the death penalty would have lower violent crime rates. States such as Florida and Loui-siana have the death penalty yet still have high rates. Crime in the United States tends to be higher than in devel-oped countries that have banned capital punishment. The death penalty isn’t do-ing anything to resolve this problem.

Second, there needs to be an intrinsic difference between capital punishment and murder to justify its use. It’s not

apparent this is the case. If ordinary citizens who witnessed a crime were to take justice into their own hands, then the state would punish them as well. There seems to be little difference in the government pursuing justice.

Most important is the concern that there have been cases where innocent victims have been put to death. This shows unreliability. If guilt was obvi-ous and there were no unanswered questions, there would be no need for such lengthy trials. A prisoner can always be set free. Once someone is killed, there’s no way to correct the mistake.

A judicial system should aim to pro-tect, not solely hold a punitive function. Killing in the name of justice is not an appropriate response, as it doesn’t serve a legitimate purpose. Life in prison pro-vides a solution to the problem.

One non-moral consideration that concerns many is cost efficiency. I think this is a bad defense, but many use it. The truth of the matter is that it’s actu-ally more expensive to continue with the death penalty than to use life in prison. The trials for death row cases cost on average 70 percent more. Even this defense fails.

There needs to be an argument to justify the continued use of capital

punishment. It’s unclear that such an argument can be formed either through moral or preventative measures. If we have another method that avoids the is-sues above, then we should implement it. Replacing capital punishment with life in prison seems to do this.

Capital punishment rests on the as-sumption that those who commit mur-der are in a normal frame of mind. It does not take into account mental illness or other considerations. If punishment were enough to deter, life in prison would be enough to achieve this. But there’s a point where logic ends. If one contemplates murder, they are probably beyond the reach of logical thought.

We also cannot believe mankind is capable of infallibility. Certainly, we can’t create something as intricate as a perfectly reliable legal system. We must realize that it is irresponsible to continue using capital punishment.

If there are no valid arguments against this institution, it’s unclear why we still have it. Contribution could be due to a misunderstanding of the arguments in favor keeping it.

The final contribution could be due to the belief that those who kill deserve the same. This completely discounts the interest of the victim’s family, and they are the ones who must deal with the consequences. It is in their interest that capital punishment is ordered, either for punitive means or done in the name of justice. Otherwise, it’s preventative, which would not war-rant such an extreme measure.

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Greek bedbugs also need consideration

I read your coverage about the bedbug infestation in the dorms and the subsequent reports of the UNL Housing cover up. I must say, while I applaud the Daily Nebraskan for taking a strong stance and calling for the housing direc-tor’s resignation, I think you are missing an important angle in your reporting.

Your stories have covered the bedbug problem at Sell-eck and Abel residence halls, but you’ve said next to nothing about the reports of bedbugs at Phi Delta Theta fraternity. Why?

I think I know why: because of the continued prejudice the Daily Nebraskan has against the UNL greek system. It is troubling to know that because of your biased coverage, some truly great stories about greek bedbugs have gone unreport-ed. Case in point:

Did you know that greek bedbugs have not only a rich tradition at UNL, but also played a significant role in de-veloping institutions for higher

learning around the world?Did you know that greek

bedbugs benefit from social interaction with other greek bedbugs and display an over-all higher social aptitude than their independent counter-parts?

Did you know that, because of active member status re-quirements and the encour-agement of rigid study habits for pledges, greek bedbugs have a higher cumulative GPA than independent bedbugs?

Did you know that greek bedbugs hold more campus bedbug leadership positions than non-Greek bedbugs?

Did you know that greek alumni bedbugs often provide internship and career place-ment assistance for undergradu-ate greek bedbugs?

It seems to me that you either do not know these generally ac-cepted facts about greek bed-bugs, or you choose to ignore them. My question is: Why? Were you denied membership in a greek organization? Are you intimidated by greeks?

Thanks for hearing me out.

derek liPPiNcottunl class oF 2004

Jan. 30 birth control column discounts human dignity

I challenge the author and any reader to research the dangers associated with birth control. The Roman Catholic Church recognizes Natural Family Planning (NFP) as a safe and ethical method of fertility regu-lation; it doesn’t endorse a “pro-birth at any cost” position. Also, to cite population concerns as

a reason why to promote birth control demonstrates a naivete in the understanding of popu-lation growth trends. Lastly, describing abortion as a charity that prevents the suffering of poor children discounts dignity of human life, regardless of their socioeconomic situation. The Church wants to be able to pro-tect this dignity; that is all.

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Given the amount of innutri-tious food that is available to students every time they walk into the University of Nebras-ka-Lincoln dining halls, it is easy to compile an unhealthy plate.

UNL Dining Services took some measures to help stu-dents make more nutritious food choices by adopting the new “My Plate” program at the beginning of the fall 2011 se-mester.

The United States Depart-ment of Agriculture replaced the well-known food pyramid with the “My Plate” model in early June 2011, on the grounds that the pyramid model was outdated and too complicated. According to Assistant Direc-tor of Housing, Pam Edwards, “My Plate” makes for an easier way for individuals to under-stand the fundamentals of eat-ing healthy, the primary reason UNL Dining Services imple-mented the new program.

“It’s a simple, basic way in

making a good choice for a plate,” Edwards said. “It’s sim-ple for the user to incorporate more healthy eating habits.”

Part of Dining Services’ ob-jective in implementing “My Plate” is to coach students in the realm of nutritious eating before they leave the university and are no longer privy to any kind of institutional guidance. This means thinking of a meal as a whole, rather than the in-dividual foods on the plate.

“There is no such thing as a perfect diet,” said Karen Miller, Coordinator for Nutri-tion Education and Wellness at the Campus Recreation Center, adding that students are better off looking for their most nutri-tious option as opposed to fall-ing victim to all the available offerings.

Besides being aware of por-tion size, both Edwards and Miller recommend more physi-cal activity in for the average student. According to Miller, a student should complete at least 30 to 60 minutes of physi-cal activity a day.

Later this semester, Dining

Services is unveiling a second step in the “My Plate” program. This addition to the program will show how “My Plate” can be tailored to a diner’s specific dietary requirements.

“We will take three different people,” Edwards said, “a man, a woman and a vegetarian to show what a plate for each of them looks like. This will show how a student’s ‘My Plate’ is

different from others.”A lot of the factors go into

creating a customized “My Plate” for a student, including a person’s daily activity, height, gender, weight and calorie in-take.

“There is not a cookie cutter

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For most university music departments, meeting the chal-lenges of the future means fo-cusing and refining on recruit-ment efforts.

John Richmond, tenured professor and director of the Hixon-Lied College of Fine and Performing Arts at the Univer-sity of Nebraska-Lincoln, said music students are recruited in three major ways.

TasTe of collegeFirst, UNL’s Westbrook Mu-

sic Building hosts a number of concerts and festivals for high school students. These events include concerts for choirs and chamber choirs, a show choir competition and the Winter Winds Festival. Westbrook also offers several summer camps

to teach middle school concert band, high school marching band, high school jazz and high school show choir.

“Those are things where we bring students to campus so they can be here, work with our faculty, meet our students and kind of see what it’s like to be here at UNL,” Richmond said.

on The roadNext, many professors visit

high schools in the region. They travel to Kansas City, Des Moines, Sioux Falls and Colo-rado Springs, among others cit-ies. Other faculty travel to des-tinations farther away such as Minnesota, Alabama, New York and Connecticut.

These faculty members put on small concerts for students and teach them new concepts during their visits. They also re-cruit students for the Nebraska-wide All State band, orchestra and jazz band competitions.

“It’s really quite a reach we have and that has a positive af-fect,” Richmond said. “We go to where the students are and encourage the students to come to us too.”

Making connecTionsFinally, Westbrook professors

reach out to local high school students. Many are involved with the Nebraska Music Edu-cators Association or the Ameri-can Choral Directors Associa-tion, Richmond said. Because other members of these orga-nizations are high school music teachers, professors can make simple yet meaningful connec-tions.

“When a student goes to their high school choir or band direc-tor asking for advice, then those teachers often will think of us because of all the exposure they’ve had to our faculty.”

Max Oehlertz, a senior at Lincoln East High School, has taken private lessons for three months from associate pro-fessor of viola, Clark Potter. Even with this short exposure, Oehlertz knows he wants to take classes at Westbrook in the fall.

Oehlertz cited many reasons for this decision. First, he grew up in Lincoln, loves the city and plans to live at home to save money on room and board. Since his church, Indian Hills Community Church, is such a big part of his life, he is happy

to be staying nearby. Oehlertz also thinks West-

brook’s music program offers benefits that other schools do not. He looked at other Nebras-ka schools like Kearney, Doane and Southwest Community Col-lege but said they didn’t offer a music education program like the one found at Westbrook.

“I really like the music teach-ers at UNL,” Oehlertz said. “I know a few of them and I just really like their personalities and teaching styles. I also like Westbrook Music Building be-cause it feels inviting and cozy.”

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Potter thinks tours of the building are important for students. He also thinks the 10-minute audition, required for all applicants, is a necessary evil. Those auditioning for the program must play for the fac-ulty in their field, whether that is strings, winds or choir. Then Westbrook students and faculty give the prospective student a tour of the building, feed them lunch and have a question and answer session with parents.

Making audition days mean-ingful and special is a good way

to calm students’ nerves. Potter knows students won’t play per-fectly due to nervousness dur-ing their audition and said he’s not interested in perfection.

“We can tell in a 10-minute audition what kind of prepa-ration they’ve had and their likelihood for success,” Potter said. “But we can’t really pre-dict how hard they will work and how much they will im-prove. Nobody makes it based on the past; they make it based on how hard they are willing to work.”

And the course load at West-brook is indeed strenuous, ac-cording to Potter.

“We try not to sugar coat what life as a music major is like,” Potter said. “It’s a lot of hard work. You don’t really want people who don’t have a pretty clear idea of what they want to do, but if they’re able to pass the audition, we can help them.”

For his audition, Oehlertz played “Seitz’s Concerto No. 3 in C Minor” and “Bach’s Cello Suite No. 2 – Gigue” for director of orchestras Tyler White and members of the Chiara String Quartet. He said he felt good about the audition and really

showed the faculty the depth of his abilities.

However, in some ways a great audition does not guar-antee acceptance at Westbrook. Richmond said they generally accept 80 to 100 students each year, but they focus on admit-ting students who play different instruments to achieve a bal-ance throughout the building.

There is only one professor to teach instruments like trom-bone, saxophone and clarinet, Potter said. If this teacher’s classroom is full, some prospec-tive students may be turned away.

“This may change year to year depending on who gradu-ates,” Potter said.

Luckily for Oehlertz, violas are in high demand. Because orchestras are so large, many need at least 30 violas, com-pared to only one or two trom-bones.

While Oehlertz loves nearly everything about Westbrook, he did have a small complaint regarding the recruitment pro-cess.

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Described as “dashing,” “flam-boyant” and having a “child-like exuberance” throughout his life, conventional wisdom suggests that the cult of Leon-ard Bernstein is more than cause for the tribute show put on by University of Nebraska-Lincoln music faculty and stu-dents on Monday evening.

Bernstein was not only one of the world’s most accom-plished composers of the late 20th century, with countless symphonies and musicals to his credit, but penned iconic scores, like that of “West Side Story.” Bernstein is also re-nowned as a conductor, as well as a concert pianist.

The UNL School of Music’s “Leonard Bernstein: A Celebra-tion of American Song” aimed to recognize the composer’s

various talents and accomplish-ments. Designed to be a musi-cal performance in two acts, the songs, performed in a sort of cabaret-style, were punctuated by the recounting of Bernstein’s life by Alisa Belflower, the di-rector and narrator of the show.

“This is the only event in our state that offers such an intimate look into a single composer’s life, music and career,” Belflow-er said. “Leonard Bernstein was chosen this year because he made remarkable contribution to the American Songbook … as an ambassador passionate in his unflagging work to teach every person crossing his path how to hear and feel the joy that music brought to his life.”

Erica Johnson, a history ma-jor at UNL, who attended the concert Monday night, agreed.

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What do you get when you cross pyrotechnics with mu-sical artistry? Pyrotechniques, of course. Except without the actual flames and with the emphasis instead on fi-ery musical techniques.

On Wednesday at 7:30 p.m., the Nebraska Jazz Or-chestra (NJO) will hold the third installment of their four-part annual concert series at the Cornhusker Marriott hotel. The show is dubbed “Trumpet Pyrotechniques.”

The NJO, founded in

1975, is a Lincoln orchestra, comprised of local musicians. Although Wednesday’s show won’t actually incorporate fire. The NJO and the Young Li-ons All-Star Band (YLASB), an ensemble of high school and college jazz musicians, will be performing with renowned trumpet player, Kirk Garrison, who certainly has the musicians fired up.

Garrison, a trumpeter from Chicago, possesses a wealth of musical experience in the high-est echelon of jazz trumpeting, including membership in the Lt. Dan Band and formerly the United States Air Force Band.

“He’s a pretty big deal,” said Ed Love, music director for the NJO. Love finds performing with guest soloists to be in-spiring because collaboration bodes well for the continual learning process that comes with being a professional mu-sician.

“Our guest soloist is a very strong, energetic, fiery player,” Love said. “He’s going to do some amazing things on his trumpet that not many other people can do, hence the name (‘Trumpet Pyrotech-niques’).”

This particular concert will be divided into two parts. The YLASB and Garrison will be performing in the first, followed by the NJO (featur-ing Garrison) in the second. With very few rehearsals, the YLASB and the NJO had to learn the 12 pieces of music Garrison arranged and com-posed on the fly.

Love finds the lack of re-hearsals “stimulating for those of us who play jazz music,” not-ing that if the music becomes over-rehearsed, it “gets stale and boring.”

For the members of the Young Lions All-Star Band, the opportunity to play with a mu-sician of Garrison’s caliber is a treat.

“It’s kind of awe-inspiring and a little overwhelming,” said Lincoln Southeast High School sophomore and YLASB mem-ber Ben Bird of playing with Garrison. “But it’s really cool.”

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chAncE “lEAvE ME AlonE”

solEM-PfEifERI do not care what you do. And if my apathy as it re-lates to you is a spectrum, then my concern with what you wear is somewhere up by what you eat (prob-ably a lot of turkey burgers) and what you think of “The Voice.”

I like that it doesn’t dis-criminate based on looks, Chance.

You’re missing my point.I’ve never subscribed

to the idea that clothes re-ally have any effect on any-thing. And all the idioms that relate, like, “Dress for success,” are idiocy.

“Dress well to test well?” Most rhyming quips are lies, you know. “The love you take is equal to the love you make?” Lie. Impossible to quantify. Also, no one really loves anyone else. “Zero to hero?” Hero isn’t even a number. God, this day is terrible.

Try “stave off self-loath-ing to test well.” It’s a much more fitting expression even though it’s also impos-sible to do.

But you want me to move past all this to tell you how I feel about your clothing choices. Why don’t I just conjure some truth out of thin air for you too. What a fun conversation we’re hav-ing. I’ll break it down item by item for as long as I can.

Fedoras — If dressing like Hayden Christensen in “Takers” makes you feel ful-filled, then kill some Sand People too, but not before you appropriately dehu-manize them.

Jeggings — Some people

like these bastardizations of jeans and leggings. Some people like themselves too.

Bowler Hats — Kafka wore those. He’s the only person I really respect.

Beater Tees — You might as well give the impression you’re capable of fighting back, since life is going to beat your ass regardless. But not if you have upper arm hair. I draw the line somewhere and it’s with your upper arm hair.

Lensless Glasses — The only reason you would even need lenses for your eyes is if you assume that which you consider to be real is worth magnifying.

Ornamental Scarves — It’s an extra layer of protec-tion against vampires, who I assume are everywhere. With this many white peo-ple around, it would only make sense.

Sweater Vests — Sure.Boat Shoes — Most of us

don’t realize that this con-tinent is just an especially large sea-faring vessel that could careen off the edge of the earth at any moment. You’ll be ready.

Jean Shorts — Don’t you change for anyone, strange person you insist on being. Not for anyone.

Just wear whatever really. Just don’t have an agenda because there’s this thing about agendas. In a world where achieving individual-ism is like finding that kid wearing jean shorts outside in January, the agenda is never your own anyway. It’s from your overlords, and they keep themselves warm at night with the har-vested pelts of your ambi-tions.

I think Kafka said it best when he wrote, “Just put on some pants, vermin.”

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Your mother wakes you up 45 minutes before the sun rises.

You sit at the breakfast table, eating raw eggs and dirt, the traditional peas-ant breakfast. You go out to do your chores as the sun begins to appear over the plains. After the cows have been milked, the land sown and the potatoes cleaned, you go back to your room, where your mother has laid out your outfit for the day. You smile at the wool-and-feather sweater, the wool-and-feather-and-leather jeans and the wool-and-feathers-and-leather-and-wood shoes, knowing how much work your mother put into making them.

This may sound conceited, but please realize that I was raised in the lap of luxury, with Japanese-made cars and life insurance. That makes it all the more impressive that I was able to so accurately describe your childhood, doesn’t it?

Fast-forward to now. You’re in college, where wool-based clothing is con-sidered garish and insulting to common sense. Fash-ion is a confusing world of brand names, ill-fitting gar-ments and expensive ac-cessories. It’s OK, little one. Come in from the rain; I’ll make you some hot choco-late and try to explain.

Fashion is all about con-fidence. You can pull off any outfit so long as you believe you can. Even ri-diculous items, like lensless glasses and Uggs, can seem

like they look good. It’s a doubled-edged sword, however. If you wear ex-travagant things and look scared, people will see you for the husk of a hu-man you are, trying to hide your lack of a personality behind leg-warmers and nipple hats.

Here’s a fun experiment: Next time you walk about campus, try to spot peo-ple wearing only Husker apparel. You may have to squint and hold your head at a certain angle, but with the right light, you’ll see them. Over time, you can train your eyes to see them regularly. You’ll be amazed how often they’re just standing in plain day-light. Using Husker-brand-ed sweatshirts and pajama pants, you can disappear from everyone and every-thing.

Speaking of pajama pants, stop wearing them in public. This is your one warning.

Normal pants need to be addressed too. More specifically, they need to be undressed. Tyler-tip: I have it on good authority that the Catholic Church will soon be updating their list of Cardinal Sins to include ever wearing the same pair of pants for more than two days in a row. You may want to get into the habit of regu-larly changing your pants, even if you’re not reli-gious. You shouldn’t have to read an advice column to know that.

Fashion can be hard, but don’t let it get you down. I’ll leave you with the best tip you’ll ever get on fash-ion in Nebraska: So long as the back of your jeans are bedazzled, you can never get in too much trouble.

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KATiE “do ThE RighT Thing”

nElsonYour alarm goes off and you wake up — already your biggest accomplish-ment this week.

You get out of bed, drag yourself into the shower, groggily hoping you don’t fall asleep and nearly drown yourself again.

Upon re-entering your room, you glance at the clock and feel a streak of panic as you realize you only have 15 minutes to finish getting ready, eat breakfast and get to class. For the sake of this col-umn, we’re going to pre-tend you also have a test.

Within 30 seconds, you have cast your towel off to one corner, your show-er caddy and shoes off in another. You are franti-cally digging through your closet for the perfect out-fit. You’re no fool; you know that everyone you see today will make infer-ences about your personal-ity based upon the clothes you are wearing. Say good-bye to that party invitation if you think you can bring back combinations of black and brown, or forest green and construction orange. (No one wants to associate with the color blind.)

The very best way to figure out what to wear begins with categorizing yourself. The fact that you like to pour salt on snails does not make you unique. In fact, it is kind of psycho-pathic. So don’t try to be creative when you dress yourself.

Try categorizing yourself

using your major, friends and weekend activities for guidance: jock, hipster or normal.

If you’re a more athlet-ically-inclined guy, you probably only have the op-tion of sweatpants in your drawers anyway. Pair those with a tight-fitting shirt or sweatshirt, flat-brimmed baseball cap, athletic shoes and an arrogant attitude.

Ironically, you guys will dress strikingly similarly to the biddies who fre-quent the gym with you. Ladies, you have the op-tion of leggings or sweats on the bottom and a shirt or sweatshirt on the top. Also, because you have spent so little effort putting clothing on, you can spend at least 20 minutes teasing that I-just-got-out-of-bed-hairdo to perfection. And make sure to slather on the makeup. After all, natural beauty is not going to get you anywhere.

If you’ve categorized yourself as a hipster, you clearly aren’t one.

Finally, if you’ve put yourself in the “normal” category, you’re probably going to apathetically pull on a pair of jeans while re-viewing facts for that rap-idly approaching exam. Maybe you’ll throw on a flattering shirt; maybe to-day you’ll drown your body in an extra-large sweatshirt.

For the ladies: Little makeup is required and a ponytail always does the trick.

And for any of you con-sidering throwing on a pair of large-frame glasses “to stand out,” don’t. The only attention you’ll attract is from the crew of TLC’s “What Not to Wear.“ And maybe the color-blind kids.

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dining hAlls: FRoM 5approach,” Edwards said. “The main goal of the ‘My Plate’ pro-gram is to help them (students) put together healthful plates.”

Dining Services is showing more interest in what a student puts into his or her body, but the question remains: is this interest reaching the students themselves?

In September, Dining Ser-vices sent out a survey to UNL

students who eat in the dining halls. The main objective of the survey was to gauge whether or not students are participating in the new program. The results of the survey, according to Ed-wards, were a mixed bag. Some students chose to abide by the “My Plate” dietary guidelines, while others ignored it entirely. Ultimately, though, Edwards was pleased with results of the

survey.An informal poll of students

eating in the Abel and Selleck Dining Halls on Jan. 27 re-vealed that while the majority of students polled were aware of the “My Plate” recommenda-tions, they did not follow these recommendations.

“I’m glad they’ve heard of it, but we have a lot of work ahead for us,” Edwards said.

“With anything new, it’s going to take some time to have stu-dents start following it.”

In addition, only a small mi-nority of the respondents were aware that their “My Plate” guidelines could be individually customized. Edwards hopes as the second part of the “My Plate” program is implemented, more students will be made aware of its flexibility.

Still there are exceptions.“I don’t really follow the

program specifically because

I’m on a gluten-free diet,” said Brooke McWhirter, a sopho-more elementary education major. “I substitute soy milk for dairy and oatmeal for protein. I knew the program could be in-dividualized because we had a representative come and speak to my nutrition class about it.”

Miller detailed how students can customize “My Plate” easily by visiting choosemyplate.gov and the “My Daily Food Plan” page. Students can enter their age, gender, height, weight and

daily amount of physical activ-ity to find their recommended portions from each food group.

“The intent of second part of the ‘My Plate’ program is to make it known to students that their plate can be individual-ized,” Edwards said.

In Miller’s mind, the easiest way to eat healthier in the din-ing halls is to select the least processed foods, like whole grains, fruits and vegetables.

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“I liked that the show was centered around one composer,” Johnson said. “If there would have been more composers, it would have been more jumbled and the story line wouldn’t have come through so clear-ly.”

The show, which spanned two acts, 20 different Bern-stein songs and more than 10 different Bernstein pro-ductions, offered both the high and low points of the famed musician, an artistic blend of individual strengths interspersed with often jilted, awkward or stunted speech.

Presentation aside, the star of the narrative show was, of course, Bernstein himself.

The multimedia clips featur-ing his interviews, which were shown throughout the narrative, portrayed Bern-stein as the energetic, youth-ful musician that he was, highlighting the many quirks of his personality.

The music was, for the most part, eclectic, includ-ing Natalie Tavin’s “I Can Cook Too,” Deanna Davis’ “100 Easy Ways,” and Stan Brown’s “Somewhere,” just to name a few.

“Leonard Bernstein was generously brilliant,” Bel-flower said, “both in mind and in talent.”

Indeed, the Celebration of American Song displayed this to be true, showcasing

some of Bernstein’s best and most entertaining works with the overall aim being that the vocalists repre-sented Bernstein’s creations

enthusiastically, leaving au-dience members with little room to question the genius of Leonard Bernstein.

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hs MUsic: FRoM 5“I never really got anything in

the mail that was very specific about the various programs of-fered in music,” he said. “They all dealt with the main depart-ments of Hixon-Lied College such as theater, music, dance. Something specific to the mu-sic program would have been nice. However, I did get that when I came in for a tour.”

Richmond advises stu-dents and parents to start the

audition process early. He said they should visit the building during the student’s junior year of high school, meet some collegiate musicians and spend a day on campus or come to a music event or festival. Then it’s time to start the application process during senior year of high school and schedule an audition for Janu-ary or February.

“Getting all that worked out

and ready to go is very smart,” Richmond said. “There are certain kinds of scholarships that students can be consid-ered for only if the applica-tion has been completed in January. You don’t want to wait until the spring because too many doors close, at least at our school.”

Potter recommends students take music lessons if they plan to apply in the future. He said

it’s important not only to take lessons on their chosen instru-ment, but also on the piano because it will likely aide them in learning music theory.

“Other than that, work hard, keep practicing, do practice performances and auditions,” Potter said. “Have your friends listen to you play. I think that’s a real plus.”

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Following Saturday’s victory against Iowa State, Nebraska swimmer Natalie Morris was filled with energy and enthusi-asm. Morris was happy with the outcome of the meet and her individual successes. But Mor-ris’ greatest excitement wasn’t about these accomplishments — it was about her teammates.

“I am so blessed to be on this team. Everyone here is so nice,” Morris said.

The freshman from Olathe, Kan., has been a vital ad-dition to the Husk-ers’ lineup this sea-son. She s h o w e d her strong p o i n t -s c o r i n g presence last week-end when Morris finished first in the 200-yard butterfly with a time of 2:06.65, and a second-place finish in the 100-yard but-terfly behind teammate Shan-non Guy with a time of 58.04.

Her performance in the 200-yard butterfly exemplified her improvement throughout this season. After racing neck and neck with Iowa State’s Eliza-beth Kleiner for the first half of the event, Morris quickened her pace to surge ahead of Kleiner at the 125-yard mark, finishing an almost full three seconds ahead of her.

And for motivation in that race, Morris looked toward her teammates.

“When I saw all of my team-mates cheering for me at the other end of the pool, it helped keep me going,” Morris said. “They were definitely the ones that got me through it.”

As a freshmen competing for some of the top spots on the team can be intimidating at the college level. But Morris says that the welcoming atmosphere at Nebraska made for a smooth transition.

“Just like the team was there for me this year, I don’t want the incoming freshmen next year to be scared of the college level,” Morris said.

Morris had her fill of achieve-ments in high school, preparing her for the college competition. Morris earned All-State honors her senior year and accumu-lated three Kansas state swim-ming championships. Two of these came in the 100-yard butterfly, while the other came with some of her team-mates in the 400-yard freestyle relay.

With those accomplish-ments, Morris had a tough choice with her college de-cision — swimming for the Huskers or for her home state school Kansas. But for Morris, it was Nebraska’s team atmo-sphere that sealed her deci-sion.

“I chose Nebraska because of the team and the coaches. Nev-er have I had coaches as nice as these ones,” Morris said.

While Morris said she came from a difficult club team which helped her prepare for swim-ming with the Huskers, her fel-low teammates have made all the difference. The most diffi-cult part of coming to the col-lege level according to Morris has been all of the dry land and weight training aspects, but the motivation of her teammates has helped her get through that.

NU coach Pablo Morales also recognizes the valuable team chemistry in the Huskers’ lock-er room.

“Swimming is made up largely of individual aspects, but the team aspect is such an important element,” Morales said. “You really start to see a difference when you use that team aspect.”

With such a long compe-tition-filled season, it can be hard to find room for im-provement.

“Swimming is such a delay of gratification,” Morales said. “Sometimes you can work so hard throughout the season but may not see the results you are looking for until the end of the season.”

After not seeing the times that she wanted the last couple of meets, Morris perseverance started to show some improve-ment this week, and this was due in large part to her team-mates continuing to push her.

“People here motivate you day in and day out,” Morris said. “Sometimes I’m not so fo-cused, but then I remember the team and all of the goals that I want to accomplish to bring me back into focus.”

With Morris’ long swimming career that began at age seven, it can be especially hard to con-tinue to keep that focus. Mor-ris says she has made so many friends and has so much pas-sion for the sport that she never really thought about quitting.

“I just want to keep improv-ing every year and continue to place higher and higher,” Mor-ris said.

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1. Purdue (18-4 over-all, 7-1 big Ten) The Boilermakers suf-fered their first conference defeat this season, losing by 17 at Iowa. Purdue managed to stay in first place, though, with an Ohio state loss. If the Boilermakers want to keep first-place status they must beat no. 16 nebraska Thursday.

2. ohio sTaTe (20-2, 7-2)Minnesota shocked every-one on sunday, knocking off the highest-ranked Big Ten team. The Buck-eyes would have been in first place if they hadn’t lost. A team that looked so dominate in straight conference wins, now has some questions to answer before it hosts Wisconsin on Tuesday.

3. nebraska (18-3, 7-2)The Huskers avoided Illinois’ upset-bid this weekend, as they took care of business in Cham-paign. nebraska was the only team in the top-four of the Big Ten to come out of the weekend with a win. A showdown with Purdue for first place in the confer-ence looms ahead for a dangerous Husker squad.

4. Penn sTaTe (16-5, 6-3)Penn state was another squad that fell to an upset-minded team this week-end. The nittany lions can score with anyone led by their two guards Maggie lucas and Alex Bentley. The question mark for PsU though is if it can get stops on defense. It gave up 83 points in a loss to Michigan state on sunday.

5. Michigan sTaTe (13-9, 5-4)Just when the spartans looked like they were going to fold in the middle of the conference season, they came up with a much-needed win against Penn state. Though MsU still has some work to do to get back in the title race, it took a step forward on sunday. A battle with in-state rival Michigan highlights this week for the spartans.

6. MinnesoTa (12-11, 4-5)The gophers own the big-gest upset in the conference season so far. Minnesota knocked off then-no. 9 Ohio state at home sunday, handing the Buckeyes just their second loss of the sea-son. The gophers will look to use that win to boost their season when they travel to Illinois this week.

7. iowa (12-10, 4-5)If Minnesota had the big-gest upset, Iowa was a close second. The Hawk-eyes dominated Purdue on saturday, handing the Boilermakers their only Big Ten loss. If Iowa can play defense the way it did against Purdue, the Hawk-eyes will be a dangerous team in the second half of the conference season.

8. Michigan (16-6, 5-4)A pair of losses this week does not bode well for the Wolverines. If Michigan is not careful, the losses could mount as it takes on northwestern and Michigan state this week. One of the reasons for the losses is Michigan’s lack of abil-ity to shoot the three. The Wolverines rank 10th in the conference shooting just 30 percent.

9. wisconsin (8-13, 4-5)The Badgers are the hot-test team in the Big Ten right now. Wisconsin has won three straight, includ-ing victories over Michigan and Minnesota last week. This week will challenge the Badgers further when they take on another hot team in Iowa. But right now, no team wants to play the Badgers.

10. norThwesTern (13-9, 3-6)The Wildcats struggled against the Big Ten’s worst team in Indiana this week. northwestern managed just a seven-point win against a team that loses conference games by an average of 19 points. The rugged confer-ence schedule does not get easier for the Wildcats as they hit the road for two games this week in Michi-gan.

11. illinois (7-15, 1-8)Illinois finally got a con-ference win at Michigan state on Thursday. The Illini closed out an overtime victory against the spar-tans. They did not stay in the victory column for long, though, as they were blown out by nebraska at home on sunday. A hot Minnesota team comes to Champaign this week.

12. indiana (5-17, 0-9)Another week and Indiana is still the worst team in the Big Ten. The Hoosiers lost their closest game of the year by seven points against northwestern on sunday. Indiana’s first Big Ten win probably won’t come this week as the Hoosiers take on Penn state.

— compiled by andrew ward

women’s basketball homeroom

1. ohio sTaTe (19-3 overall, 7-2 big Ten conference)While most of the country focuses on the exploits of Jared sullinger down low — for good reason — coach Thad Matta’s Buck-eyes have a very balanced roster. With three players (sullinger, William Buford and Deshaun Thomas) averaging at least 14.6 points per game and point guard Aaron Craft toss-ing in eight points and five assists a game, OsU has four players who would be the best player on many of its opponents’ rosters. no wonder the team is ranked no. 3 in both polls.

2. wisconsin (18-5, 7-3)The Badgers have re-turned to the top 20 of the polls after reeling off six straight conference wins, including victories against Purdue, Illinois and Indi-ana. The Kohl Center will be rocking as the Badgers host Ohio state with first place on the line saturday afternoon. The Badgers are absolutely destroy-ing the conference right now, and have only three games left where they won’t be heavy favorites.

3. Michigan sTaTe (17-5, 6-3)Tom Izzo has had some fine teams and players as head coach of the spartans, but this year’s squad is shaping up to be one of the better ones, Tuesday night’s Illinois loss notwithstand-ing. Draymond green (15.3 points, 10.4 re-bounds, 3.7 assists per game) looks like a strong player of the year candi-date, and Keith Appling leads the strong sup-porting cast. MsU’s two showdowns with Ohio state could decide the Big Ten title.

4. Michigan (16-6, 6-3)seven RPI top 50 wins, third place in the confer-ence and wins over Mich-igan state and Wisconsin have Big Blue sitting pretty right now. still, re-cent road losses to Iowa, Arkansas and Ohio state haven’t been encourag-ing, but the backcourt duo of Tim Hardaway Jr. and Trey Burke (29.3 points, 7.5 assists per game combined) have a

great chance to bounce back this week as they host Indiana and travel to Michigan state.

5. indiana (17-5, 5-5)Indiana is the last of the sure-fire nCAA Tourna-ment teams. The Hoo-siers have struggled in recent weeks, especially in close losses to Minne-sota and nebraska, but nothing can take away victories over Kentucky and Ohio state, two of the top three teams in college basketball. A fa-vorable schedule the rest of the way gives Indiana a great shot at 11 confer-ence wins, though games against both OsU and Wisconsin loom.

6. illinois (16-6, 5-4)The Illini are one of two Big Ten schools with a bad Penn state loss, but coach Bruce Weber’s team is actually in pretty good shape right now. They have a great point guard/center combo in Brandon Paul and Mey-ers leonard, plus wins over Ohio state and Michigan state. The Illini are going to have to earn a Big Ten bye or tourney appearance on the road, as road trips to OsU, Michigan, Indiana and Wisconsin remain. some more offense (Illinois ranks no. 8 in the confer-ence at 67.9 points per game and scored just 42 in Tuesday’s MsU win) might do wonders.

7. Purdue (15-7, 5-4)Coach Matt Painter has two great chances to improve his squad’s tour-nament resume — home against Indiana on sat-urday with a road trip to Ohio state the Tuesday after. Which is good, as PU lacks strong wins and has a horrible 20-point loss at Penn state.

8. MinnesoTa (16-6, 4-5)Despite losing its best player, Trevor Mbakwe, for the season around Thanksgiving, the go-phers have hung in there. Minnesota is still more likely to fall in the stand-ings than rise, but a 16-6 record and RPI of 38 are both significantly better than many had hoped. Two road wins at Iowa and nebraska could re-

ally move the needle for what could be a 18-6 team by next Monday.

9. norThwesTern (12-8, 2-6)It’s too bad for coach Bill Carmody that almost only counts with horseshoes and hand grenades. nW almost beat Illinois, Michigan (road) and Purdue. Had the Wild-cats done so, they’d be a lock for the nCAA at this point — as it stands, they are an extreme long shot. John shurna and Drew Crawford form a potent duo, combining for 36.2 points per game, but they will need to do even more for the Wildcats to reach the tournament for the first time in school history.

10. nebraska (11-9, 3-6)The Huskers are one of just two teams in the Big Ten with a negative scor-ing margin (Penn state being the other) due to their anemic offense, which sits at dead last in the conference at 61.7 points per game. Improv-ing the league’s worst turnover margin would help nU on its quest for ninth place — as would a win at northwestern Thursday.

11. iowa (11-11, 3-6)Talk about a Jekyll and Hyde kind of team. The Hawkeyes have wins at Wisconsin and Minnesota and at home over Michi-gan, but they’ve also lost by 20 points five times, which doesn’t include a 16-point home blasting by Campbell. Five games against Penn state, northwestern and ne-braska down the stretch give Iowa an outside shot at a respectable confer-ence record.

12. Penn sTaTe (10-13, 2-8)There’s a reason former lions coach ed DeChellis fled for navy — he saw the writing on the wall after Taylor Battle and company made a shock-ing trip to the nCAA Tournament last season. This team is just bad. Their wins may just keep Purdue and Illinois from the nCAA Tournament.

— compiled by sean whalen

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File photo by kyle brUggeman | daily nebraskannatalie Morris, who received multiple achievements in high school, is having continued success with the Huskers.

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The recent rise of Nebraska men’s tennis started about a decade ago when coach Kerry McDermott recruit-ed an 18-year-old Ger-m a n n a m e d J o e r g Barthel.

“I think the best t h i n g I ever did was when I recruited him,” McDermott said.

After his college tennis career, Barthel signed on as McDermott’s assistant coach following graduation from UNL in 2007. Less than three years after Barthel became assistant coach, in 2010 the Huskers reached the NCAA team tournament for the first time in McDer-mott’s tenure as the head coach. They returned in 2011.

“If I didn’t recruit him we’d probably be where we were eight years ago,” Mc-Dermott said. “We were av-erage, we just weren’t very good, never making the NCAA team tournament.”

Having Barthel as an as-sistant coach has opened

doors into recruiting inter-national players to Nebras-ka unlike before, according to McDermott. He said a coach from Germany gives Nebraska a foot in the door that he couldn’t achieve as an American coach.

“He’s allowed the expo-sure for our tennis program overseas with the coaches he’s met, it’s made a big dif-ference,” McDermott said. “We’re not just talking Ger-man guys but I’m talking like Polish Kids and Czech kids or Romanian kids. He’s allowed for better athletes, better tennis players to have a chance to at least look at our school.”

Currently, five of Nebras-ka’s nine tennis players hail from Germany. During Bar-thel’s tenure, players from countries all over the world have played tennis for Ne-braska, including England, Brazil and Belgium, in ad-dition to the United States where McDermott handles the recruiting.

“It’s tougher for (Mc-Dermott) to go to a place like Germany or Poland or whatever,” Barthel said. “They’re going to relate to me better.”

One of Barthel’s top re-cruits Christopher Aumuel-ler comes from Bayreuth, Germany, where the high school-level athletics differ from their American coun-terpart.

“Sports and athletics in general are barely support-ed in high school,” the se-nior captain said. “We don’t

have anything similar to the American high school sys-tem.”

Aumueller said while many NCAA tennis teams have plenty of international players, Germany’s lack of collegiate athletics discour-ages the idea of playing sports after high school. Of all the tennis players to come through his home-town tennis club, he was the first recruited by any American college teams.

Aumueller became the first recruited by a U.S. col-lege when Barthel called him in high school.

“I was pretty much saying ‘OK’ to every single ques-tion because I had no idea what he was talking about,” Aumueller said. “I knew the opportunity existed but I had no idea what it meant at first.”

Aumueller said his cu-riosity took over and he couldn’t help but listen to Barthel’s interest to bring him to America to play ten-nis for Nebraska.

“The call was amazing — he told me a lot of things,” Aumueller said. “I was al-ways the type of person who wanted to experience a whole lot and never want-ed to look back and say I was sorry I didn’t do some-thing.”

Six colleges showed in-terest in Aumueller not long after he heard from Nebras-ka. He researched the col-leges finding out everything he could about what he could get out of American

tennis at the college level. At the end of his recruit-ment, Aumueller saw Ne-braska as the “perfect op-portunity” to earn a degree, develop his tennis talent and be part of a rising ten-nis team. His sophomore year, Nebraska made the NCAA team tournament for the first time under McDer-mott.

Sophomore Tom Black-well saw Nebraska’s im-provements and turned down scholarship offers from Florida State, South Carolina and Purdue to contribute at Nebraska. Re-cruited by McDermott from his native Florida, Black-well said the other sports at the school were important to him too.

“I really wanted to be part of a team that was go-ing up,” Blackwell said. “The football team’s kind of coming up again, the tennis team is kind of coming up again, I believe Nebraska in the last few years has con-tinued to move up in every way. When I came here, ev-erything was on the rise.”

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“Division I wrestling re-ally is a crime. It’s tough matches week in and week out,” NU assistant coach Tony Ersland said.

Ersland said that one aspect of Nebraska wres-tling Nakashima had to adjust to was the condi-tioning.

“We train very hard here at Nebraska,” he said.

Perhaps that is a factor in Nakashima’s ability to come out on top in long matches.

“Throughout my whole wrestling career, condi-tioning has always played a major factor,” Nakashi-ma said.

Then again, Nakashima hasn’t been doing it all year. Before his current winning streak, he had amassed a record of 12-6 on the season. But Ersland said this is Nakashima’s first season competing at 197 and collecting experi-ence through the year has helped him learn more about the weight class.

“I think that’s why you’re seeing, maybe, a little bit more success from him as of late,” Ersland said.

In Nakashima’s first year with the Huskers, he wrestled in the 165-pound division. He said the dif-ficulty in cutting weight from his previous class was magnified because he was away from home.

“That was a really tough year for me,” Nakashima said. “Academically, it got harder. Wrestling Division I is a lot tougher than ju-nior college. I was really hurting at that weight.”

But rather than getting down on himself, Na-kashima used the year to motivate himself.

“I could go two ways. I could go down or up. I decided to pass,” he

said. “During that season I learned a lot about my-self. I learned a lot about my life, what I wanted to do with my life.”

Redshirting last season helped Nakashima make the transition to the higher weight class. From there, Ersland said it is all about experience.

“Part of it’s figuring out what he can and can’t do in the weight class,” Er-sland said. “The wrestler’s just a little bit different. The guy’s a little more physical.”

Now with that experi-ence under his belt, Na-kashima has more belief in his abilities.

“I feel real good at 197. I think it’s an open weight class,” he said. “The per-son that stays on track can really create their own destiny.”

As for Nakashima’s suc-cess in extra time matches, Ersland said confidence has worked wonders.

“I think James has the confidence that he’s in shape and that he can fin-ish matches out,” Ersland said. “Once you’ve done it once or twice, I think you actually get more comfort-able with the situation.”

Nakashima wants his next victory to come a little more easily, though.

“I’m still hungry to get on the mat again so I can wrestle the way that I should,” he said.

And a four-match streak is not enough. Nakashima wants more.

“I’ve always been a real confident wrestler,” he said. “I definitely think that if I step on the mat and put it on the line that I can compete with any-body in the nation.”

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File photo by kyle brUggeman | daily nebraskannebraksa men’s tennis coach Kerry McDermott said one of the best decisions he has made as coach was recruiting Joerg Barthel. now a Husker assistant, Barthel has helped the Huskers with his ability to recruit in europe.

to come to an end. Ne-braska only has nine reg-ular season games left on the schedule and those games and the career of Spencer and his senior teammates will be over in the blink of an eye, ac-cording to NU coach Doc Sadler.

There is a light at the end of the tunnel that is his seniors’ basketball ca-reers.

“Is the light on?” Sadler asked. “Or is it a train coming at us at the end of the tunnel? Either way the light is on.

“I’ve told them this may sound like a tough run, but it’s going to go by so fast.”

That run down the stretch won’t be a cakewalk either. Only four of NU’s oppo-nents are in the top half of the conference, but there won’t be rest for the wea-ry as Nebraska plays eight games in the month of February.

But the grind of the Big Ten is something Spencer feeds off of.

Even though there aren’t too many fundamental changes in Big Ten play (as opposed to the SEC), the senior welcomes the opportunity to be tested in a league that features five Associate Press Top 25 teams.

“Basketball is basket-ball,” Spencer said. “At the end of the day they all shoot the ball the same way. But the guys are a lot better. The caliber of the talent is a lot differ-ent than the SEC ... Every night in and night out you have a game that’s hard to win.”

And Spencer has ex-ecuted offensively for the Huskers all season long mostly through his stroke.

He’s taken 12.9 shots

per game in Big Ten play and only had 2.8 assists over that stretch.

But Spencer contends those numbers are a result of what he’s seen on of-fense rather than a thirst for the bucket.

“I would just rather put myself in a position to do whatever the team needs me to do,” Spencer said. “If the team needs me to shoot the ball or find some-one open and get them the ball to take the shot that’s what I’ll do.

“I don’t like to pre-med-itate what I do for a game, I just take what the defense gives me.”

Spencer sees himself as a leader for the team. After all, he’s been to gymnasi-ums across the country and played in games against elite teams.

“I’ve been in a lot of tough games,” Spencer said. “It gives me tough-ness. I try to bring the guys together in case I ever see them lose any confidence deep down in themselves I tell them, ‘We’re capable. I’ve been there. It can be done.”

And that encourage-ment can go a long way for the Huskers.

Nebraska needs to win games down the stretch and in the Big Ten tourna-ment if it wants to be danc-ing come March.

And Spencer is the key to getting the Huskers post-season ready, according to junior forward Brandon Ubel.

“We’ve gotta go on a run and he understands how to win basketball games since he’s been in these games before.” Ubel said. “So he’s definitely been a plus for us.

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Barthel aids in program turnaroundHe’s allowed the exposure

for our tennis program overseas with the coaches he’s met.”

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bo Spencer is all over the court for Nebraska basketball.

This season, Spencer’s played 667 minutes. That’s 74 min-

utes more than Brandon Richardson, the Husker with the second-most minutes. The senior point guard from Baton Rouge, La., isn’t simply the Husker who has seen the most playing time. Spencer leads Ne-braska with 96 field goals, an 88 percent free throw average and an average of 14.9 points per game.

Despite this being Spencer’s first sea-son dressing in white at the Bob Devaney Sports Center, it isn’t the first time Spencer

has been a leader on a team.As starting point guard for Louisiana

State, Spencer led the Tigers to the SEC regular-season championship and a NCAA Tournament berth.

But after a dismissal from LSU for aca-demic reasons, Spencer didn’t have many options as far as basketball went. So what was he to do?

“Nebraska has a place in my heart for giving me this opportunity to play,” Spen-cer said. “I wanted to finish my career and graduate and further my career with bas-ketball.”

Of course that basketball career is about

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James Nakashima was down 5-4 against Wiscon-sin’s Jackson Hein. But on the road, in the second tie-break period of extra time, the Nebraska senior came back. A takedown gave him the lead. An escape shut the door.

Nakashima won the match 7-5.

It was just another day on the mat for Nakashima, who has seen four of his last five matches go to ex-tra time. Of those, he tri-umphed in three. Even in victory, though, he critiques himself.

“I don’t feel that I wrestled

my best this weekend,” Na-kashima said. “I didn’t wres-tle the Wisconsin match the way I wanted to wrestle it, but it was important for me to get the win.”

Nakashima, wrestling at 197 pounds for the Husk-ers, is now on a four-match winning streak since losing to Iowa’s Grant Gambrall 3-1 – in extra time.

“It’s important wins for me and I knew I had to go get them. Every single match, I grow,” Nakashima said.

Three years ago, Nakashi-ma was wrestling at Lincoln College in his home state of Illinois. He decided to make the move up to an NCAA Division I program after winning a junior col-lege national championship at 174 pounds as a sopho-more.

“That was the biggest win

I’ve ever had in my life,” he said. “That really gave me a lot of confidence to go on and really challenge myself at a high level, the Division I level.”

Nakashima chose NU when he and his junior col-lege coach attended the NCAA Championships in 2009.

“We talked about what would be one of the best schools to go to,” Nakashi-ma said. “And Nebraska had a really strong show-ing. I thought that would be a good program for me to jump into.”

But making the transition from Lincoln College to Lin-coln, Neb., and a higher level of competition proved difficult.

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It happens every year.A row of hats bearing dif-

ferent college football lo-gos sit on a table. A high school star grabs a hat, says something similar to what LeBron James said two years ago and chooses his college destination. Those packed into the high school gym applaud and the re-cruit puts on a big smile. These high school seniors have yet to play a down yet at the college football lev-el, but, for a single day, the nation is intently watching.

Wednesday is national signing day when seniors are able to sign binding National Letters-of-Intent. Nebraska currently has 14 players in its 2012 class — 13 being verbal commit-ments and one a junior col-lege transfer who enrolled at UNL in January. As of Tues-day, NU had the 34th-ranked 2012 class in the nation. with six of those recruits be-ing four-star players, seven three-star and one two-star, according the 247sports.com.

The Huskers will look to improve their class stand-ing Wednesday. Five players who still have a Nebraska hat on their table of choices will make their announce-ments today. The most high-profile player is Andrus Peat, a 6-foot-7, 305 pound of-fensive tackle from Tempe, Ariz. 247sports.com rates Peat as the No. 4 player at his posi-tion and the No. 64 player overall in the 2012 c l a s s . P e a t ’ s is also s t r o n g l y considering S t a n f o r d and Southern California. Ne-braska could benefit from the depth that Peat would provide to an offensive line that lost start-ers at the tackle position in Yo-shi Hardrick and Marcel Jones. Defensive tackle Aaron Curry, athlete Alonzo Moore, corner-back Devian Shelton and de-fensive tackle Vincent Valentine all still have Nebraska on their radars and will be making their decisions Wednesday.

Nebraska coach Bo Pelini will hold a press conference today at 2:30 p.m. to speak on the Huskers’ 2012 recruiting class.

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nebraska point guard Bo spencer leads the Huskers this season in scoring at 14.9 points per game.

File photo by morgan spiehs | daily nebraskansenior James nakashima notched a comeback victory against Wisconsin this weekend.

tUrning the cornerIf the huskers, who stand at 3-6 halfway through BIg ten play, want to extend theIr season late Into March, Bo spener wIll Be key In takIng theM there.

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BRANDON UBELnebraska forward

“We’ve gotta go on a run and (Spencer) understands how to win basketball games since he’s been in these games before. So he’s definitely been a plus for us.

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