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Starting Out the Right Way

Nebraska volleyball kicked off its NCAA tournament run with a 3-0 sweep over Maryland Eastern Shore at the NU Coliseum. The

Huskers will take on UNI in the next round Friday. Nebraska lost in the second round of the tournament last year to Kansas State.

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In Thursday’s five-minute meet-ing, the University of Nebraska Board of Regents approved the program statement and budget

for the construction of a $370 mil-lion cancer research center at the University of Nebraska Medical Center.

The center will include a hos-pital tower, research space, an outpatient cancer clinic and an inpatient cancer unit. A new am-bulatory care clinic will provide additional space for outpatient care. A $110 million cancer re-search tower portion of the ven-ture will receive $50 million from the Nebraska Legislature.

Lincoln Regent Tim Clare, the

Board’s Business Affairs Com-mittee chairman, approved of the research center’s statement and budget.

“There was unanimous ap-proval and excitement about this project, and what not only it will do for the University of Nebras-ka, but what it will do for health care in Nebraska,” Clare said.

Construction on the center, which will be located opposite the Durham Research Centers at UNMC in Omaha, will begin in November 2013 and is scheduled

to be mostly complete by April 2016, according to the meeting agenda. The project will displace Swanson Hall, which is currently used for research labs and clinical faculty office space.

According to the Oct. 22 pro-

gram statement, the center is “proposed to increase the health of Nebraskans by providing ad-ditional infrastructure for cancer research, cancer drug discovery,

Regents approve budget for cancer research centerAt Thursday meeting, board also approves name of athletic complex

There was unanimous approval and excitement about this project and …

what it will do for health care in nebraska.”TIM CLARE

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Kendra Haag (center), president of Unl’s native american group UnITe, stands flanked by other group members for a portrait. na-tive students make up a fraction of Unl’s enrollment – the university is home to more students from China than from the United states’ first nations.

Kendra Haag (right) inspects the texture of her frybread dough for Indian tacos on Tuesday evening in the Jackie gaughan Multicultural Center’s kitchen. The taco fundraiser was one of the group’s final events marking native american Heritage Month in november.

One Tuesday eve-ning this month, the University of Nebraska Inter-Tribal Exchange – a group for Na-tive American

students – gathered in a kitchen full of stainless steel appliances, wooden cabinets, fluorescent lighting and conversation.

Kendra Haag, her long, dark hair in a loose braid, kneaded a basketball-sized blob of gooey dough in a black tub – destined to become Indian tacos for a fundrais-er the next day. Six other UNITE members pressed and folded their own dough-blobs, while two more chopped lettuce and tomatoes.

Ashley Fast Horse and Chan-dler Hunter, freshmen from Oma-ha working on the same dough, chatted together on one side of the room, frequently bursting out with laughter. Haag, UNITE’s president, asked the group at large if her dough needed more flour – she’d never made a batch this big. Zach Watson, a sophomore mar-keting major, nonchalantly tested the group’s dough consistency with his little finger, prompting more laughs.

Then the subject of other Na-tive American students at UNL – those not in the room – came up. Tewentenhawihtha Aldrich, a Winnebago from the reservation north of Omaha whose friends call her Wihtha, spoke up from her chopped tomatoes.

“Where are they?” the fresh-man general studies major asked bluntly – most of the others she had met at UNL were standing in the room. “I want to know.”

For almost all of Nebraska’s Native college-aged people, the answer is simple: not here.

Among the more than 24,000 students currently enrolled at UNL, 266 – about 1 percent – iden-tify themselves as at least partly Native American, according to In-stitutional Research and Planning Associate Director Mary Werner.

Only 74 – 0.3 percent, or one-fourth of their proportion of the state’s population – identify as Na-tive American only. UNL is home to twice as many students from both India and Malaysia. Almost 1,000 others are from China.

A comparison to past numbers of Native students is impossible, Werner said, because the univer-sity changed the way it counted students by ethnicity in 2010 to match new federal guidelines. Many agree the number is too low.

“That’s pretty depressing,” said Fran Kaye, an English profes-

story and photos by Dan Holtmeyer

sor who teaches Native Amer-ican literature and maintains connections with several Na-tive students. “This is a land-grant university. Whose land was granted?”

For the Native students who are here, attending UNL requires navigating a cultural and economic obstacle course that they say predominantly explains why their numbers are so low here. Even after ar-riving, the university proved a lonely place for several Native students, and many said they rely on whatever others they could find as family.

Quarters for laundry

Haag, a Kickapoo and a senior biology and sociology major, left her home in Kansas to come to UNL. Her family and many others can’t con-tribute much to her schooling,

she said, but after arriving she ran into an unexpected prob-lem.

“I couldn’t afford to do laundry,” Haag said, laugh-ing at the memory. “All my friends felt bad and gave me quarters.”

Money is a big concern for any low-income college stu-dent, but Native students and their families in particular of-ten have a hard time covering higher education’s ever-rising costs – a wall that rises before college is even in the picture.

Half of Nebraska’s Native households make less than $27,000 a year – a median in-come almost $25,000 less than that of the state’s white house-holds, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, and lower than any other ethnic group, except blacks.

The story of why that’s the

thelonely fewNative students confront economic obstacles, invisibility at UNL

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Study: Female college graduates earn less than male peers

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The pay gap between men and women begins early, with female college graduates earning 82 per-cent of their male peers’ salaries just one year after entering the workforce, according to a recent study released by the American Association of University Wom-en.

The AAUW report “Graduat-ing to a Pay Gap” shows women are less likely than men to secure full-time employment one year after college graduation and, when they are fully employed, earn less. Across all occupations, women with bachelor’s degrees earned an average of $35,296, compared to their male peers’ average salary of $42,918, ac-cording to the study.

“I think (the pay gap) is defi-nitely still an issue,” said Jan Deeds, associate director of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Women’s Center. “We still have to figure out why that is. Is it because there’s actual gender discrimination going on? Is it because women aren’t trained to ask for what they’re worth from employers?”

The study sample included 15,000 students who received a bachelor’s degree between July 1, 2007 and June 30, 2008 and who took the survey in 2009.

The AAUW conducted a simi-lar gender pay gap study in 2010, when it was found that women earned an av-erage of 80 percent of what men earned.

Educational and occupation-al differences between men and women help explain some of the gender pay gap, according to the report. For example, women are more likely to choose lower-pay-ing careers in the education and social science fields while men are more likely to pursue careers in higher-paying math and sci-ence areas.

The study’s researchers con-trolled for some of these factors, though. Of students who ma-jored in computer and informa-tion sciences, women earned an average of $36,618 compared to an average of $51,296 for men. Among those who worked 40-hour weeks, women earned 84 percent of men’s earnings.

The study said women tend to be less likely to negotiate for higher salaries, which also con-tributes to the pay gap.

“When you apply for a job, you quote what salary you’re looking for,” Deeds said. “I don’t know that women always ask for the most. You may not know what you’re worth or you may be cautious about asking for the most. I think that’s part of it.”

The AAUW study shows that after considering variable fac-tors in employment and educa-tion, women earned an average of 93 percent of what their male counterparts earn. The 7 percent difference appears to be attribut-able solely to gender, according to the study.

“It’s really hard to pick (gen-der discrimination) out,” Deeds said. “I know there are still people who think women only get a job until they have children or that the women’s income will just be a second income since they will most likely be married. There’s still some of that mindset. It’s re-ally hard to pinpoint, though.”

Chris Timm, associate direc-tor of UNL Career Services, said she doesn’t hear very much about gen-der discrimination occurring in the workplace.

“I’ve spent more time talking to women who are pregnant about how talk to em-ployers about that,” Timm said. “And

about both men and women who are in relationships and are enter-ing the work force.”

Timm said Career Services doesn’t currently offer any gen-der-specific programs but does broach the topic when it’s more relevant, such as when they con-duct presentations for the Society of Women Engineers.

The study emphasized that be-cause women earn less right after graduating college, their student loan debt is more of a burden than it is for men.

According to the study, a man-ageable student loan debt burden is 8 percent or less of a person’s salary. In 2009, 20 percent of wom-en paid more than 15 percent of their annual earnings to student loan debt compared to 15 percent of men.

Timm said she believes soci-etal norms are changing, though, and becoming especially more accepting of men and women tak-ing non-traditional roles – which could help diminish the gender pay gap.

“We’re seeing more men be the stay-at-home dads and that seems OK,” she said.

Deeds agreed that things seem to be getting better, but she said attitudes still need to change.

“I think in part, people feel powerless to create change,” she said. “(The pay gap) has the ef-fect of lowering women’s abil-ity to take care of themselves and achieve as much as they could.”

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University of Nebraska-Lincoln stu-dents mirrored the Nebraska popu-lation in a recent poll analyzing the political beliefs and ideological divi-sions at UNL.

The third annual UNL Politi-cal Attitudes and Associations Poll, conducted by political science grad-uate student Mike Gruszczynski’s elections, political parties and spe-cial interests class, asked questions regarding domestic, foreign and campus-related issues. Thirty-two students created and promoted the poll, and the results were released Thursday.

The poll was emailed to all stu-dents on Oct. 31 and remained open until Nov. 5. About 2,000 students participated, said Michael Sholes, a senior broadcasting major.

Of the students polled, 34 per-cent identified as Republicans, 30 percent said they were Democrats and 26 percent identified as Inde-pendents. Additionally, political ideology followed a bell curve. A majority of students identified as moderates, with relatively equal amounts claiming to be liberal or conservative. Also, 10 percent of respondents claimed to be “very liberal,” compared to 7 percent who claimed to be “very conservative.”

The survey also categorized students’ political affiliation within their colleges. The College of Agri-

cultural Sciences and Natural Re-sources had the highest proportion of Republicans, followed by the College of Business Administration and the College of Engineering. The College of Arts and Sciences, the College of Journalism and Mass Communications and the Hixson-Lied College of Fine and Perform-ing Arts had larger proportions of Democrats.

“When people talk about the liberal bias in the media – well, here you go,” said Andrew Brey, a junior political science major who intro-duced the results at a press confer-ence.

Additionally, the poll asked questions about the election. The poll results predominantly stayed along party lines with support for President Barack Obama and former presidential candidate Mitt Romney. Among students who identified as political Independents, more than half supported Obama.

“Obama may have won the pop-ular vote on campus,” Sholes said.

Approval ratings of the presi-dential candidates followed party lines as well. All political groups disapproved of Congress’ actions by a margin of more than 50 percent, mimicking national poll numbers. According to Gallup numbers re-leased Monday, about 18 percent of Americans approve of Congress’ actions.

On issues, most responses fell along party lines. For abortion, the

results showed significant polariza-tion. Students claiming to be on the ideological extremes either greatly supported or opposed it, while few people had mixed opinions on the issue.

Legalization of marijuana saw similar splits as well. Sixty-one percent of “very conservative” re-spondents said it was “not at all fa-vorable” compared to 43 percent of “very liberal” respondents who said it was “very favorable.”

The survey also asked questions about Obama’s religion. One-half of respondents were asked “What is Barack Obama’s religion?” and another half were asked “What is Barack Hussein Obama’s religion?”

Students asked the first ques-tion overwhelmingly said Obama is a protestant Christian, with only 32 people claiming he is a Muslim. Students receiving the question that included his middle name still chose the correct answer, but 149 people said he is a Muslim.

Sholes said the size of the poll was similar to polls conducted by presidential campaigns. The results had about a 1.5 percent margin of er-ror, Gruszczynski said. He noted the poll results likely depicted the views of the more politically engaged stu-dents on campus.

“People responding are students who are actively engaged as well,” Gruszczynski said. “That may be shown in some of the results.”


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clinical trials, translational re-search and clinical service.”

The center is slated to create about 1,200 new jobs by 2020 and channel an annual $100 million into the state economy, according to a university press release.

“This is a transformation-al project for all Nebraskans,” UNMC Chancellor Harold Maur-er said in the press release. “These facilities will elevate our cancer services, enhance our educational programs and provide a central location and synergy that not only will benefit our clinicians and re-searchers but, most importantly, patients.”

Regents approved the pur-chase of a $700,000 mass cytom-etry instrument, which sorts cells and identifies the structure of chemicals on the surface of cells,

for UNMC. Maurer said the in-strument is critical for immunol-ogy, among other things.

In other business, regents ap-proved naming University of Ne-braska-Lincoln’s Nebraska Athlet-ics Student Life Complex the Dick and Peg Herman Family Student Life Complex in honor of Dick and Peg Herman and a donation to the university from the Herman family. Dick Herman is a former NU regent.

NU President J.B. Milliken said it gave him a great deal of pride to recommend the naming of the athletic complex after the Hermans.

“The Hermans have been long-time friends,” Milliken said. “From the time Dick was doing business in Fremont, he’s been a great supporter of the University

of Nebraska. He’s been a tremen-dous friend of the university.”


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THE gENDER pAy gAp• female college graduates earn 82 percent of their male counterparts’ earn-ings• across all occupa-tions, women with bachelor’s degrees earn about $7,500 less than men with equivalent degrees• Women who reported working 40-hour weeks made 84 percent of men’s 40-hour earnings• Women were more likely to choose lower-paying career fields like education and social science• Women also were less likely to ne-gotiate for higher salaries

source: american association of

university women

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A familiar fair-food staple was available for students dining in the Nebraska Union at the Uni-versity of Nebraska-Lincoln dur-ing lunch hours on Thursday. For $5, students could consume a fry-bread Indian taco, with proceeds going toward a spring powwow for the University of Nebraska In-ter-Tribal Exchange (UNITE). The group usually holds an Indian taco sale twice a semester, UNITE President Kendra Haag said, but this was the only Indian taco sale held by UNITE this semester.

“We always have people who look forward to the event and who are asking us a couple of weeks in advance, ‘When are you having your next one?’” said Haag, a senior biology and sociol-ogy major.

Indian tacos consist of Indian frybread in place of a taco shell. Toppings included refried beans, taco meat, tomatoes, lettuce, salsa, onions, sour cream and cheese.

UNITE member Chandler Hunter said she was surprised by the sale’s popularity.

“I like Indian tacos, but I didn’t know anyone on campus would,” said Hunter, a freshman hospitalities, restaurant and tour-ism management and advertis-ing and public relations major. “They’ve gone really fast.”

Hunter said being a member of UNITE is a way for her to be connected to her Native culture.

“I know I’m part Native American,” Hunter said. “I

haven’t been able to trace what tribe I’m from.”

Haag said the group spent two hours making the dough for the frybread on Wednesday eve-ning and started frying bread at 8 a.m. on Thursday.

The group tried a new fry-bread dough rec-ipe this year. The sale was original-ly scheduled for Wednesday, but was postponed because the dough didn’t turn out. Haag said for the next Indian taco sale, they will go back to the familiar recipe.

“It’s a lot of fun, but it is stressful to run the event,” Haag said.

Because of UNITE’s small size, Haag said her mother was helping. Haag’s mother, Phyl-

lis Stone, a lecturer with the Ne-braska Humanities Council, was filling in for her granddaughter, freshman history major Alana

Stone, who was un-able to help at the Indian taco sale.

“She has class all day,” Phyllis Stone said.

Proceeds from the taco sale will go toward UNITE’s Academic Achieve-ment Spring Pow-wow, which will be held on the greens-

pace outside of the Nebraska Union. Haag said the proceeds are used to pay for things like drums and dancers for the pow-wow.

The next Indian taco sale will likely take place in February, Haag said.


stacie hecker | dnKendra Haag, a senior biology and sociology major, prepares a homemade Indian taco for a customer. The proceeds from the taco stand go toward a powwow being held in the spring.

UNITE hosts Indian taco sale

educational differences account for some, but not all, of pay gap

I think (the pay gap) is

definitely still an issue. We still have to figure out why that is.”

JAN DEEDS associate director, unl women’s center

Proceeds will go toward Academic Achievement Spring Powwow

We always have people

who look forward to the event.”

KENDRA HAAgsenior biology and

sociology major

CANCER RESEARCH CENTER By THE

NUMBERSconstruction budget: $370 millionnew buildings: fourinpatient beds: 108total facility size: 695,000 square feetnew jobs created by 2020: 1,200

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case begins with the long history of conflict between Native peo-ples and European-Americans.

That history would likely re-quire thousands of pages to ad-equately explain, but it can be symbolized by the country’s 310 reservations: plots of land, often rural and of poor quality, that were allotted, often forcibly, to Native tribes by the U.S. govern-ment as its settlers and armies expanded the U.S. into Native homelands.

According to the state govern-ment, more than a third of Ne-braska’s Native Americans live on the state’s three reservations: Winnebago and Omaha to the northeast, and Santee Sioux on the northern border. The Winnebago reservation, just more than 100 miles away, is the closest to Lin-coln.

With lives uprooted, poverty soon set in, like a football penal-ty that a team would need to try even harder to overcome.

As a result, many Native UNL students are the first in their fami-ly to make it to college. Many par-ents can’t help with applications or financial aid.

For Haag and others, reserva-tion and public schools – many went to Lincoln or Omaha’s dis-tricts – weren’t much help, either. Advisers and teachers offered little preparation for applying to college or succeeding once there, they said.

Many high schoolers simply give up before they arrive, start-ing the cycle all over, if they even make it to high school gradua-tion. Almost half drop out before then, according to Nebraska’s Coordi-nating Commission for Postsecondary Education. Hope of getting into college is low all around.

“You’re kind of on your own,” Haag said, if col-lege is the plan. “It takes a lot of initia-tive. It’s not to say they can’t. They just don’t know how.”

Once college appears on the ra-dar, money becomes a more ob-vious barrier to coming to UNL. Since 2008, Nebraska has banned any scholarships from taking race or ethnicity into consideration. Again, because the counting method changed, it is impossible to say whether this impacted Na-tive numbers here.

But a number of students said that because of this, many Native students are more likely to con-sider more affordable tribal com-munity colleges like Little Priest Tribal College in Nebraska and Haskell Indian Nations Univer-sity in Kansas.

“Prior to the affirmative action ban, UNL had several scholar-ships specifically designed to re-cruit and retain Native American students,” said Amber Hunter, director of UNL admissions, by email. “Due to the ban, we no lon-ger have these scholarships avail-able … Our ability to be competi-tive financially has diminished.”

But that alternative is often hardly an equal option. Many students said Native community colleges can’t match the oppor-tunities and intellectual growth a public university offers, nor do they prepare students to transfer to those universities. Some spoke with relief when they said they managed to avoid those schools.

“A community college is a good option – if your heart’s not in getting a degree,” Haag said.

‘you can’t understand it’

Three years ago, when UNL was still part of the Big 12 Confer-ence, Oklahoma University’s foot-ball team traveled to Lincoln for a November game.

Sam Bradford, a Cherokee, was their quarterback, though

he was out with an injury. A few students in the stands came to the game wearing feathered head-dresses, which carry sacred signif-icance to original Native cultures, and other dress.

Native students – and prospective students – noticed.

“It was on na-tional TV, all over ESPN and stuff,” said Tobias Grant, a Native student pursuing a busi-ness degree at Doane College. “I was thinking about coming to UNL at the time.”

The episode – and what many Na-tive students said was a lackluster re-

sponse from student government and university administration at the time – is just a part of a cul-tural chasm between many Native students and the dominant Ameri-can culture, several students said.

Describing a pattern of ste-reotype or invisibility, Haag said she has encountered students who were surprised to learn Native people were still alive or were al-lowed off of reservations.

“It’s a heavy burden to be Na-tive, just FYI,” Payton Canku, a sophomore from South Dakota studying sociology, said with laugh. “If you’re not Native, you can’t understand it.”

One professor, who’s tasked with recruiting Native students and spoke strictly off the record, said he’d actively encourage Na-tive students to consider tribal colleges instead of UNL to be more at ease.

Grant went to Haskell in Kan-sas before transferring to UNL, then to Doane almost two years ago. Though he eventually left Haskell for a year at UNL, Grant said his experience was much more comfortable in the tribal university, and not only because the professors gave more time to clear up students’ questions after lectures.

“It’s kind of hard to find (Na-tive students at UNL) if they’re not in your dorm or class,” he said. “At Haskell, they’re every-where.”

Transferring to UNL left him overwhelmed, especially with the job he needed to keep to pay for it, Grant said. So he tried the smaller Doane.

The narrative of sticking to smaller, tribally controlled col-leges and retreating from more difficult, faster-paced and cultur-ally separate public institutions is

common, many Native students said. Several other UNITE mem-bers who said they knew Native students who made it to UNL only to drop out later.

“We like to be enclosed and around family a lot,” said Gerald Little Owl Jr., an undeclared fresh-man from South Dakota. “At times, I have thoughts, I feel like going home.”

UNL doesn’t do enough to shrink this cultural gap, said Kaye, the English professor. Even small matters like finding a parking spot in a relatively large town like Lin-coln become opaque cultural walls for prospective students from reser-vations or their parents.

“It never occurs to them that some junior in high school might be scared shitless by trying to park here,” Kaye said. “If you’re not comfortable in white society any-way, the university is the last place you’ll feel comfortable.”

To counter this, the university sends recruiters to reservations and public schools with high Native populations, meeting students on their home turf, Hunter, the admis-sions director, said. Each year UNL also hosts the American Indian Leadership Sympo-sium for high school students. Several current UNITE members said they’d seen these ef-forts at work.

“UNL has worked very hard the last few years to make sure middle and high school stu-dents take college preparatory course work so UNL has the ability to recruit them,” Hunter said. “The Office of Admissions will continue to recruit aggressively with the aspirations to increase Native American student enrollments at UNL.”

Still, none of these recruiters are devoted solely to Native recruitment, Hunter said, and she declined to say if any came from a Native back-ground – potentially problematic if cultural bridge-building is the goal.

“The university hasn’t activated Indian studies faculty in recruiting,” said John Wunder, a retired UNL history professor who specialized in Native history. “That’s something that should happen.”

The university could also be-come actively involved in groups for Native students like UNITE, as it does for athletes, Wunder said.

“There’s some support group ac-tivity for students, and it could be a lot stronger,” he said. “I think that’d be a good thing for the university to invest in.”

the image of success

The fact remains, despite all of these trends, patterns and ob-stacles, that many Native students make it to college and earn some success.

Nearly all of those interviewed gave at least some of the credit to their parents – for many of them, skipping college was never an op-tion.

“College was just the next step for me,” said Jade Farmer, a sopho-more psychology major from Win-nebago who wants to be a positive, independent role model for her brothers.

“My mom said, ‘You’re going to college or going to the Army or something,’” Farmer said, adding with a laugh, “So, college for me!”

Watson, the sophomore mar-keting major, also took inspiration from his parents, though in a very different way. When he was 6, Wat-son and his little sister were taken from their mother and put in a fos-ter home. Five more foster homes followed. At 10, he was adopted, like his mother had been.

Watson doesn’t know his spe-cific tribal heritage but has always identified as Native, he said. He hopes to go into community politics, perhaps continuing to law school and higher levels of govern-ment.

“As I was grow-ing up,” Watson said, “I told myself I’d never let my kids be like this.”

Once they get here, many Native students sup-port each other. At least three of those interviewed separately re-ferred to others as family.

Most Native students inter-viewed agreed that, even with a university and culture that they feel forgets them, coming to UNL or another public university is worth it.

“Of course it’s worth it,” said Aldrich, the freshman from Win-nebago, who might go into educa-tion. “Nothing’s going to stop me from coming here.”

That sentiment often came with a caveat, however.

“I would encourage (others) to do that, get a higher education and learn as much as you can,” said Grant, the Doane student. “But I would tell them that there’s hardly any Native Americans at UNL.”


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Professor Radelet argued during the E.N. Thompson Forum that capital punishment (CP) is un-just. He reasoned thus: (1) Jus-tice is relative to the standard of society. That is, justice is relative to the majority. (2) Most people in our society believe that CP is unjust. (3) Therefore, CP is un-just. Society should, therefore, outlaw CP. I suggest that prem-ise (1) is false, for two reasons.

First, some acts are unjust even if the majority believes that they are just. Infanticide, for ex-ample, is unjust whether or not the majority believes that it’s unjust. The same holds for state law. Some acts are unjust even if they’re legal. The Romans may have legalized infanticide, but they didn’t make infanticide just

by doing so. Thus ‘justice’ isn’t the same as ‘the standard of so-ciety’ or ‘what is legal.’

Second, human beings have human rights – rights in virtue of being human. Society can’t grant human rights. Human rights aren’t made by society; they can only be acknowledged by society and secured by gov-ernment. They are ‘endowed by their Creator’ and ‘to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men.’ Thus, human rights aren’t dependent upon society. Moreover, human rights are good by nature. To violate them is always unjust. Therefore, justice isn’t relative to society, implying that justice is a real feature of the world. In short, it’s an ageless principle that stands apart from human society.

JonaTHan K. MeTCalfjunior philosophy

Justice and human rights aren’t relative to society

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DANIEL wHEATONdn

A new study suggests people taking medication to address attention deficit hyperactivity disorder might be less likely to commit crimes than those with ADHD who do not take medica-tion.

The study, published in The New England Journal of Medi-cine under the title “Medication for Attention Deficit Hyperac-tivity Disorder and Criminality” in November, analyzed more than 25,000 Swedish people diagnosed with ADHD. Re-searchers looked at their medical and criminal histories and compared the crime rates.

The study found that men taking medication for ADHD were 32 percent less likely to be convicted of a crime, while women taking medication were 41 percent less likely than those not taking medica-tion. Many of the people were taking stimulants like Ritalin, which activates the brain and heightens its ability to focus.

John Wright, an associate professor of criminal justice at the University of Cincinnati, said cognitive changes that oc-cur in the brain when it’s under the influence of stimulants may have contributed to the study results.

“ADHD creates a weakened ability to control impulses,” Wright said, “This is a risk fac-tor in criminal behavior.”

He said medications like Rit-alin heighten the executive func-tions of the brain. These func-tions, which include memory, planning and attention, serve as means to control behavior.

“Poor executive functions are a predictor of who will com-mit crime,” Wright said.

He said Ritalin’s effect on impulsivity could be a reason for the study’s results. Howev-er, Wright was unsure whether

Ritalin could have a long-term effect on crime rates. Accord-ing to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Na-tional Center for Health Statis-tics, diagnoses of ADHD among children increased by 2 percent from 1998 to 2009. Roughly 12 percent of school-aged boys were diagnosed between 2007 and 2009, compared to 6 percent of school-aged girls. Usage of Ritalin, and other similar drugs, has increased as well.

Wright said it’s important for parents to be willing to see if their child has behavioral problems, but they shouldn’t go overboard on treatment.

“It’s not poor parenting, but sometimes we are quick to medi-cate,” Wright said.

Robert Reid, professor of spe-cial education and communica-tion disorders at the University

of Nebraska-Lin-coln, said read-ers should take the study with a grain of salt. In his classes, Reid teaches strate-gies for teachers to effectively in-struct students with behavioral problems.

“The theory that I ascribe to is that Rit-alin helps with

a bump in the road,” Reid said. “Some children face several dif-ficult years in their development, so medication may be a means to solve the problem.”

He said many children who take the medication often stop after a few years. Some children stop because of social stigma or side effects of the medication, he said.

Reid said he agrees that Rit-alin can help improve cognitive ability, but parents and pediatri-cians shouldn’t overuse the drug.

“Pills don’t make skills,” Reid said. “Ritalin isn’t going to turn a kid into a honor student.”

Wright said better under-standing of minds of criminals could lead to more effective re-habilitation programs.

“There are even some corre-lations between crime rates and IQs,” Wright said. “We should continue to study criminal minds.”


ADHD medication may lower crime rates, study findsThose taking drugs for ADHD are less likely to be convicted of a crime

It’s not poor parenting,

but sometimes we are quick to medicate.”

JOHN wRIgHT associate professor of

criminal justice, university of cincinnati

kat buchanan | dnlivability.com, a website that ranks the best places to live in america, placed lincoln at no. 7 on its list of Top 10 downtowns 2012, which featured cities with between 100,000 and 300,000 people. o street is a bustling staple of downtown night life in lincoln.

Lincoln ranks No. 7 of top downtowns

CORRECTIONan article that appeared wednesday on the university of nebraska’s spending on lobbying state and federal government officials incorrectly reported the fraction of the budget that is devoted to lobbying. it said that portion was 0.03 percent of the total nu budget for the 2011-2012 year; in fact, it is 0.03 percent of the value of nu’s operating budget, which goes to salaries and class expenses and

is about $800 million of the overall, $2 billion system-wide budget. only part of lobbying expenses come from the operating budget. the article also incorrectly said nebraska’s state budget shortfall last year was the size of nu’s total budget. it was instead the size of nu’s operating budget. If you spot a factual error in the Daily Nebraskan, please report it by calling (402) 472-2588. An editor will place the correction that will run in the print edition, also using bold type.

KAITLIN KARINSdn

Lincoln has been named No. 7 on Livability.com’s list of the Top 10 Downtowns 2012 with populations between 100,000 and 300,000 people, beating out nearly 500 other consid-ered cities in the United States.. Liv-ability is a website dedicated to ex-ploring America’s best places to live.

Downtown Lincoln made the list because of its many renovation projects, including the Pinnacle Bank Arena – which has a target date of completion in fall 2013, according to the website.

“The arena will give the Haymar-ket more business than it already has and I feel it will be a huge hot spot in Lincoln once events, concerts, and sports take over the arena,” said Kate Meyer, a University of Nebraska-Lin-coln sophomore advertising and pub-lic relations major who works as a host at Vincenzo’s Italian Ristorante.

Livability named the Haymarket as a popular place for college stu-dents and freshman Hamilton Hasty, a business Administration major, agreed.

“I think the Haymarket is a great place for history and community with many great businesses, and it’s a great place to spend your time,” Hasty said.

Hasty, who is a projectionist at the Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center, said he enjoys working down-town and how close everything is to City Campus. He said working there “is as convenient as going to school.”

Meyer agreed.“I think downtown Lincoln is a

huge social get-together,” she said.

“The restaurants and shops and little neat places make each place indi-vidual and the best part is that every place downtown is unique.”

But the best part of downtown Lincoln, Meyer said, is its gameday atmosphere.

“There is truly no place like downtown Lincoln on a football Sat-urday,” Meyer said.

The website based its top-10 list on resident and visitor experiences, signs of economic growth, plans for redevelopment and residents’ aver-

age income levels. Fort Collins, Colo., ranked No. 1 on the list, with other contenders including Boise, Idaho, and Little Rock, Ark.


dan holtmeyer | dnKendra Haag and Tewentenhawihtha aldrich (right) coordinate by text message with other mem-bers of UnITe to buy more supplies for Indian taco preparation Tuesday. The group has about a dozen members – often the only other native students its members have met at Unl.

The editorial above contains the opinion of the fall 2012 Daily Nebraskan Editorial Board. It does not necessarily reflect the views of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, its student body or the University of Nebraska Board of Regents. A column is solely the opinion of its author; a cartoon is solely the opinion of its artist. The Board of Regents acts as publisher of the Daily Nebraskan; policy is set by the Daily Nebraskan Editorial Board. The UNL publications Board, established by the regents, supervises the production of the paper. According to policy set by the regents, responsibility for the editorial content of the newspaper lies solely in the hands of Daily Nebraskan employees.

EDITORIAL pOLICy

natives: FROM 1

you’re kind of on your

own. It takes a lot of initiative. It’s not to say they can’t. They just don’t know how.”

KENDRA HAAgsenior biology and sociology

major

My mom said, ‘you’re

going to college or going to the army or something.’ so, college for me!”

JADE FARMERsophomore psychology major

This country is in debt and there are only two ways to get out of it. We can either choose to pay it off or declare bankrupt-

cy. If paying off the debt is the option the United States decides to choose, then this county has to do at least one of the two: cut spending or increase revenue. Currently, most of the debates are focusing on cutting spend-ing and changing the tax rates. However, they missed the point. Improving how the current sys-tem works matters the most.

First of all, spending cuts are too complicated, espe-

cially as the nation faces the potential “fiscal

cliff.” There are al-ready plenty of

opinions on what to

c u t

and not to cut. Under the current system, it’s very difficult to cut any of the gov-ernment programs. According to the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), the total amount of debt held by the public will not decrease. However, the amount of debt as a percentage of the gross domestic product will decrease. That’s through the growth of the economy, or the tax base. In fact, based on CBO’s baseline projection (no major changes in any current law), if the country decides to do nothing the economy will still grow faster than the debt. Relatively, the U.S. will owe less money to its debt holders even if the country chose to do noth-ing. However, since the fiscal cliff is approaching, it’s an important time to discuss options about how to increase revenue.

In the United States, the government doesn’t really own companies that make profits. The United State Postal Ser-vice is owned by the govern-ment. Currently, the USPS

doesn’t help to decrease the deficit. In fact, it

adds more bur-den to the

govern-

ment budget. If the government can’t make money through operat-ing enterprises, then the majority of the revenue has to be from tax. Most people will relate taxes to a bigger government and a less pro-ductive economy. However, a tax system that works will do more good than harm to the economy. And, to in-

crease tax revenue doesn’t necessar-ily mean to increase the tax rate.

First of all, we need to make the tax system match the mod-ern economy. The sales tax is one of the most ancient taxes. People still have to pay sales tax in most states, and it’s very inef-ficient. For example, let’s say after graduation you decide to operate a small coffee store. You would probably get most of your inven-tory from a wholesale store like Sam’s Club. When you pay, sales tax is included. When you resell those items in your coffee store, your customer has to pay sales tax again. As a result, the government will collect sales tax from the same item twice. If you look at the tax code close enough, you will find the sales tax is only levied on the sale of a good to its final end us-ers. However, to a small coffee shop owner, he or she will surely have something more important to take care of than the sales tax. With the small profit margin that coffee shops may have, it probably doesn’t make much sense for them to spend thousands of dollars on accountants or lawyers to figure out where they can save more taxes.

Those are not all the prob-lems about the sales tax. If you

understand how to place an order online, then

congratulations, there may

not even be a

sales tax for you. If your home-town is on the border of two states, you can place your order in one and pick your items up in another without paying any taxes in any state.

Nothing has changed but the purchasing methods. The second scenario saves the business ac-counting fees and some sales tax money. The government probably won’t lose too much tax revenue from these small businesses, but what if large businesses try to play similar tricks on a larger scale. In fact, most developed countries adopted value-added tax system to eliminate this type of problem. That kind of tax is only applicable to values added to the products or services. Literally, that’s the differ-ence between the initial price you pay for the muffin and the higher price you charge in your coffee shop. However, that doesn’t hap-pen in the U.S.

That’s just sales tax. The tax code is so complicated today most people don’t know what’s in there. If you find a good accountant, you might be able to save a lot on taxes. However, your company needs to be big, or you have to be wealthy.

No doubt, a complex tax sys-tem will create more jobs for cer-tified public accountants. It will also make regular people and small businesses feel helpless in face of filing taxes. As a result, for small business owners, the time which should have been spent on developing their businesses was spent on finding a good and af-fordable accountant to save them tax money.

The purpose of taxing is not to widen the gap between the big and the small businesses, or the rich and the poor people. As many people focus on the tax rates, we need some people to debate on how the tax system should change to meet new challenges in the new century. If people can read, then they should be able to understand the tax code, at least for personal income tax. If citizens are willing to learn about the tax code, then legislatures shouldn’t try to keep it so complicated that people will surely give up.

jiajun (abe) xu is a senior finance and

economics major. reach him at opinion

@dailynebraskan.com

opinion4frIday, noveMber 30, 2012

daIlynebrasKan.CoM@daIlyneb

Do you want a simple tax system that will eliminate the IRS as well as income, capi-tal gains, payroll, estate, gift, social

security, Medicare and Medicaid taxes, and give you the power to pay taxes how you see fit?

How about one that will not disenfranchise the poor or overbur-den the wealthy? How about a tax system that is completely constitu-tional, creates jobs and will double the size of the U.S. economy in less than 15 years? I’m not argu-ing about race, poor versus rich or left versus right. I’m going present to you a tax system that will satisfy all, and make America more pros-perous than ever before.

“FairTax” and the informa-tion presented in this column were presented to me in “The Fair Tax Book,” written by former Rep. John Linder and talk show host Neal Boortz. The book has insight be-yond our current tax system and its method was introduced in a bill to Congress (H.R. 25 in the House, and S. 25 in the Senate) in 1999. It has been reintroduced every year since.

Our current tax system is de-rived from the 16th Amendment, which is used with very ill inten-tions. It is manipulated by lobbyists and congressmen for personal gain.

Technically, under the current system, only 52 percent of all in-come earners pay 100 percent of income taxes. Congressmen use this tax system to create class war-fare by telling certain constituents they will get a tax break if they vote for them. Plus, they appease certain powerful corporations that will fund their campaigns if they promise to give them tax breaks. Even those who think they are get-ting away with not having to pay income taxes still pay what is called an embedded tax.

Corporate taxes are just a way for the government to disguise how much we are paying in taxes, and a way to tax those who don’t tech-nically pay income taxes. Corpora-tions unfairly pass taxes down to the consumer by embedding them in their products, also known as an embedded tax. Essentially, an embedded tax is a tax that you pay when you buy any consumer item and thus freeing the corporation from the taxes they are supposed to pay by forwarding them on to you.

Take a bag of cookies, for ex-ample. A bag of cookies needs in-gredients, and those who produce the ingredients pay taxes. So do those who ship the ingredients, those who make the trucks, those who produce the gas for the trucks, the company that sells the cookies … You get the point. Guess who all these taxes are passed on to? You, the consumer.

On average, 22 percent of what you pay for in a consumer item goes to the government. According to Harvard economics professor Dale Jorgenson, this money covers all of those taxes passed on to you. Add that to income tax, not to men-tion social security and Medicare taxes, and you are paying the gov-ernment more than your fair share of taxes.

Now, the FairTax would do away with income taxes and, in turn, embedded taxes. Companies would no longer have to keep their prices high to compensate for the taxes they have to pay. How do I know this? Because if businesses would like to cash in on the extra money, simple economics would prevail through what is called un-derpricing.

If one company tries to keep prices high to cash in on the extra money without an embedded tax, other companies will under price them to appeal to a wider audi-ence. This will drive prices down approximately 22 percent.

However, we all know that a government can’t run on air. So, what exactly is the FairTax? It’s a 23 percent “inclusive” federal con-sumption tax on all goods levied at the retail level – once and only once. A 23 percent “inclusive” tax would mean that a $100 good would cost the consumer $130. Why? If a manufacturer wants $100 for its product, they must charge $130 in order to pay 23 percent to the government.

The price you see on the sales tag is the price you will pay (excluding state sales taxes). Essentially, 23 percent of that price will go to the government. This may seem high, but remember you no

longer have a 22 percent embedded tax and you are taking home your whole paycheck without your in-come being taxed.

What about the poor, you ask? Don’t worry. The FairTax has what is called a prebate. A prebate in the form of a check would be sent to a family or individual every month based on poverty level analysis done every year.

This prebate would cover the taxes on all goods consid-ered the necessities of life such as food, gas and clothing. So, all their money could be spent up to the poverty level tax free. Yet, this doesn’t just apply to only the poor, it applies to the rich and poor alike. It covers ev-eryone to the poverty line, which makes the tax progressive and completely fair.

Along with not unfairly tax-ing anyone, this tax will also cre-ate jobs by bringing businesses to America. Imagine a tax system that doesn’t force companies to pay outrageous taxes which make busi-nesses go overseas. America’s cur-rent system does exactly that, but the FairTax won’t.

After the FairTax is enacted, companies can minimize costs and produce goods in America, which will be the only country in the world to not have a tax resem-bling corporate or income tax. Es-sentially, America would become a tax haven. All of those who move to America will be paying into our tax system for purchased goods, con-tributing to this great country.

As a nation, we spend $500 bil-lion just trying to figure out how to file our taxes. That’s 18 percent of our GDP. The FairTax would do away with that. Those who get away with not paying any taxes, including illegal immigrants and drug traffickers will have to pay taxes on the goods they buy. It broadens the tax base without hurt-ing the poor, or targeting the rich.

So, as the economy grows and the wealth of this nation increases, so will the number of eligible con-sumers. In turn, this leads to more goods being purchased, and more taxes being paid. Yet, you won’t see anyone complaining because they get to choose how they are taxed. It is estimated that our economy would grow by 10.5 percent in the first year of FairTax alone.

I n t h e e n d , y o u , t h e c o n -sumer, w i l l be able to pay t a x e s how you want to. What other tax plan can grant the United States of America the ability to fund every p r o g r a m they have now – includ-i n g s o -cial

security and Medicare – while in-creasing the size of our economy and creating jobs?

I encourage you to go to fairtax.org and read “The FairTax Book” by Boortz and Linder. You will not regret a single word you read. Sim-ply put, the FairTax is more Ameri-can than apple pie and football. It’s a no-brainer.

Zach nold is a senior english major. follow him

on twitter @Zachnold or reach him at

opinion@ dailynebraskan.com. jiajun “abe” xuZach nold

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Implementing the FairTax system will create a fair tax break for everyone, spur job growth and increase revenue

The current tax system needs to be simplified for average citizen, as well as improved to match modern economy

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Urgency to reduce national debt calls corporate, civilian details of current tax code into question

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story by and shelby fleig and jourdyn kaarrephoto illustration by kat buchanan

mugs by kat buchanan and stacie hecker

all-night stint at 24-hour diner yields tall tales, bleary eyes and an eclectic

cast of dead-of-night characters

HI-WAYpAtrol

top 10 live tweets of the night:

hi-way diner google searches:

notes on the bathroom stalls:

malteselynyrd skynyrdJack daniel’s Whiskeydrizzy drevarious adjectivesratchetsausage farm

1. a man rubbed his head and proceeded to lick his fingers.

2. “i don’t want to say i’m better than mozart, but i certainly am.”

3. dn: do you work? Guest: “i work in hell. for satan. He’s like, ‘i need you to do 320 lbs of satan stuff. do you think you can do that?’”

4. “i’m not completely bald under this hat.”

5. “i’ve been with mul-tiple women. literally one.”

6. “don’t put me on tmZ.”

7. “i had teeth marks on my neck for two weeks!”

8. things overheard: “nebraskans choose the bottom shelf of ev-erything! bread, meat, cheese!”

9. don’t Worry We’re still Here

10. mom come get me

In preparation for our 10-hour stint at the Hi-Way Diner, a 24-hour restaurant off Highway 2 in Lincoln, we ate Amigos in the diner’s parking lot.

What lay ahead of us – the lifelong friends, impromptu musical performances and people-watching until we had to hold each other’s eyes open – we never would have guessed. Reporting for 10 hours anywhere is daunting, let alone a 24-hour diner known for its eccentric customers. Right off Highway 2, just minutes from downtown, our home for the night was lit by a majestic sign and impressively full parking lot.

Walking in, Jourdyn was taken aback by the decor. Antique signs and objects are bolted to every free space on the wall and ceiling. The tablecloths seem to be infinitely sticky. Neither of us knew what we were truly getting into, but posted in our corner booth, we were safe for the time being.

The crowd changed substantially from academically dutiful college students to a loud group of musicians when nearby bars closed. When they left, the longest half-hour of our lives ensued. Staying awake as the only people in a restaurant at 5 a.m. is not easy, and our eyes started to drift off to the dull hum of a vacuum. Just in time to jolt us back to life, diner regulars started to drift in and drink their coffee before heading to work, seemingly unaware of the vile shenanigans that ensued in the same leather booths just hours earlier.

Hi mom

just got back from cold-play!!! 7-24-09 :) (arrow pointing to this mes-sage: “so jealous!”)

Wilhem + suzy forever!

Heaven –n- amy

“coco + snipe” with a large heart around it

meow :)

Hello strangers

tim + alex

banksy wuz her

HI-WAY: see page 7

tHe College StudentSIf you’re sober at Hi-Way Diner, you’re

probably studying.We met both experienced and first-time

diners who occupied booths most of the night while cramming for finals and eating pie.

“I don’t feel bad for loitering because they’re open 24-7,” said A.J. Matthies, a senior business administration and marketing major at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

Matthies and his fellow students from the university were studying, as well as being en-tertained by the incoming crowds of guests.

“We’re all people-watchers,” said Kayla Hass, a sophomore inclusive early childhood education major.

They unanimously agreed when visiting the Hi-Way Diner, you should sit where you can see the door. Matthies also admitted to sometimes being one of the people who – on a different night – is entertaining to watch.

Mackenzie Miller, an undeclared fresh-man at UNL, sat in a booth with friends until nearly 3 a.m. She was a first-time guest at the diner, but wasn’t turned off by its unconven-tional 24-hour atmosphere.

“I don’t think it’s sketchy,” she said. “I think it’s really cute. It’s a good place to study.”

The Hi-Way Diner is often the last stop for college students after a night of drinking on the weekends, but on Wednesday night, the academic crowd remained mellow and studi-ous until the wee hours of the morning.

tHe MuSICIAnAt 1:12 a.m., James Burke, 24, stumbled into our booth. He sat next to Shelby and inquired as to our presence at the diner. He then pro-

ceeded to talk for two hours, delving into life with his cat Juke and his job moving pounds of Satan’s “stuff” for miles all day.

Burke works as a musician by night. But he dislikes playing for the bar crowd, as they are unappreciative of his songwriting, he said. He said they often request cover songs instead like, “Free Bird” by Lynyrd Skynyrd and “Sweet Home Chicago” by Robert Johnson, which he’s not about.

Our new friend was willing to play his harmonica for us, which he retrieved from his friend’s car after proclaiming he was “goddamn good at the harmonica.”

Fresh off a show, he was tired, and he made that very clear.“I stop here because I’m very tired,” Burke said. “And also because I’m very

tired. And I hope to meet other people that are very tired.”Burke’s witticisms were endless:

• “I come here when other people are paying. I frequently stop here when I am certain that another person is going to pay for me not only to eat food, but also ketchup. My favorite thing to eat on the menu when someone else is paying is water. Then food because that comes next. Value fries? Do they have that? I will eat pepper. I will eat salt. I will eat garnishes. I will eat things that people say that they think are funny and I don’t because I am hungry. I will eat things that I don’t think are funny because I’m hungry, also.”

• “I’m like the John Mayer that doesn’t get written about. But if you give me time, I swear people could hate me as much as they hate John Mayer.”

• “I’m not going to drink this water … yes, I will.”• “Enjoy my meal? Enjoy my meal? Enjoy my ride home with a guy that has

three kids from three different divorces? Yeah, I’m going to enjoy my meal.”• “Hey, guess what? I’m not trying to sleep with either of you. How great does

that sound? Not good to me.”• “I’ve never been thrown out of Duffy’s.”

StACIe HeCKer | dnbekah miller tries to win a toy from the crane machine while makayla densberger cheers her on at the Hi-Way diner.

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‘90s lincoln band reunites for unreleased album

Power pop group tailors sound to vinyl experience

Hospital film lacks cure for irresolution

gabriella martinez-garrodn

When The Millions recorded their new release, “Poison Fish,” George H. W. Bush was in office, East and West Ger-many had just reunified and “Home Alone” was in theaters.

“We had finished writing a collec-tion of 14 songs and made plans to re-cord them in Los Angeles,” said Harry Dingman, drummer for The Millions. “We hopped in a van and left Lincoln on a Saturday night, just before a big snowstorm hit the Midwest, and head-ed for sunny California.”

The Millions were once Lincoln staples and one of the biggest bands to come out of the local music scene. After signing to a major label, the band moved to California to record their first album and worked with Rush producer, Terry Brown.

“In one night, (singer) Lori Allison and I went and saw The Sugarcubes, PIL and New Order,” Dingman said. “On the same night, Marty (Amsler) was invited to a party with David Bowie, for Bowie’s new band, Tin Machine. We were experiencing a dif-ferent world and that put us in a great place to make an album. (There was) a certain energy at that time in our lives when we were happy just being a un-known band.”

At the height of their success, the Lincoln natives toured across the US, playing packed halls and experiencing success with the single, “Sometimes,” off their debut album “M is for Mil-lions.” The song became extremely popular within college radio stations and rivaled U2’s “The Fly” for air-play. Following their second album, the group toured as an opening act for Sheryl Crow on her European tour.

After a tumultuous near rise to

fame, The Millions disbanded in 1995. “All of the sudden, we had ev-

eryone giving us advice and mak-ing decisions for us: label presidents, producers, publicists and managers,” Dingman said. “These people had good intentions, but not necessar-ily our intentions. But we listened, followed through and tried to move ahead. No one had a good feeling about the break up.”

Despite their differences and the passing of nearly two decades, The Millions couldn’t be kept apart. Seven-teen years later, the band is back and ready to perform again at The Bourbon Theatre on Dec. 1.

“There was something that brought us together back then and that seems to be bringing us together once again,” said Marty Amsler, original bassist for the band. “Our initial expe-rience as a band was pretty intense. I think a few years apart and some per-spective have really made us appreci-ate each other and what we’ve created together.”

Though The Millions haven’t been in the spotlight for years, Amsler said he still keeps in contact with past fans and hopes to create some new bonds at their upcoming show, as well.

“We’ve stayed in touch with many of them, Facebook is great for that,” Amsler said. “We’re hoping some younger people who are curious might show up, but music is music. I’m per-sonally not too interested in when it was made, just if it makes me feel something.”

In addition to the reunion of The Millions, the band’s first and previous-ly unreleased album, “Poison Fish,” is now available for listen.

“A few longtime friends and fans of the band had been gathering as many unrecorded Millions songs as

they could during the past seven or eight years,” Amsler said. “One of the recordings they came across was an entire album – ‘Poison Fish’ – recorded in 1990, but never released. Randy Le-

Masters, of Randy’s Alternative Music had always wanted to put out a set of unreleased and rare CDs and this was his first.

Though most of the original band

will be performing at the Bourbon, The Millions also have a new addition: drummer Brandon McKenzie. McK-enzie said aside from playing for the band, he counts himself a fan of The Millions’ previous work and hopes to bring positive energy to their perfor-mance.

“I really like ‘In Generations,’ ‘Poi-son Fish,’ ‘Delicate Balance,’ and ‘Ev-erything’s Been Said,’ but they are all most excellent,” he said.

As for the band’s original mem-bers, Dingman said he is excited to bring their songs to light once again.

“It was a rewarding and fun expe-rience to write and record those songs over 23 years ago and it’s even a better experience to play them now,” Ding-man said.

Though time has separated the band, Amsler said the chemistry with-in the band makes it feel as though nothing has changed.

“It feels exactly the same,” he said. “We actually still have most of the same instruments. The vibe, excite-ment and energy was like it was in the early days. One of the most exciting things is going to be seeing everyone again. The music scene in Lincoln in the ‘80s and ‘90s was a really special thing to be a part of.”

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Have the last two weeks felt darker to anyone else?

At first I thought it might be the approach of finals or my slow adjustment to the end of Daylight Saving Time. But then I realized the source of this void: the Twilight franchise is no more.

“Breaking Dawn: Part II” was released a full two weeks ago, and it’s taken the entirety of that span

to fully digest the hard-hitting dia-logue, emotional plot twists and deep social commentary the series poses. I was there the night of its midnight release, doing what a true movie fan does: pissing off a theater of fans by laughing hysterically for two straight hours.

Few series have built up as much undeserved anger as “Twi-light.”

Excess melodrama, a not-so-subtle abstinence message and le-gions of screaming fans have made it an easy target. Much more so than with similar piles of trash, however, seeing “Twilight” has become a way to easily label someone. Either

that person has no taste or they are a victim of being in a relationship with someone with no taste. It’s an unfair, unwarranted generalization for films with legitimate, though mostly mindless, entertainment value.

Try telling a movie fan you’ve seen “Twilight.” The judgment ra-diating from their reaction is pal-pable. When I rationalized to others how I was at the premiere, I felt like an Alcoholics Anonymous member at his first meeting.

My name is Cameron, and I saw “Breaking Dawn” at midnight.

But “Twilight” fans aren’t tak-ing the movies nearly as seriously as critics seem to think. When Kristen Stewart bolted absurdly through the forest, Taylor Lautner took off his shirt or the comically creepy bad guy, Aro, let out a high-pitched cackle, many fans in the au-dience rightly laughed. It’s ridicu-lous, and everyone knows it.

Compare “Twilight” to “The Ex-

pendables 2,” which is 90 minutes of aging action heroes exchanging each others’ tired catchphrases. When Bruce Willis looks at Arnold Schwarzenegger and says “I’ll be back” and Schwar-zenegger replies “Yip-pee ki-yay,” what do you do? You laugh, you shake your head and remark how ludi-crous it is, and you en-joy the scene for what it is.

The same goes for “Twilight.”

The climax of “Breaking Dawn: Part II” is a preposterous 10-minute fight scene in which the Cullen crew battle the Volturi (who look like what would happen if David Bowie designed “The Matrix” costumes) by sprinting toward each other at top speed and leaping 20 feet into the air. Dozens of heads (including Da-kota Fanning’s) are literally popped off, the icy mountain ground splits

into a deadly chasm, and Darth Vad-er-worthy “NOOOO”s are bellowed amid countless awkward facial expressions. If that’s not entertain-ment, I don’t know what is.

The other 110 minutes are comprised of Ja-cob explaining to the Cullens how he’s fallen in love with their infant daughter, quot-able gems like “You named my

daughter after the Loch Ness mon-ster?!” and Stewart’s character be-ing taught how to act more human – a satisfying metaphor for an ac-tress with no more than two facial expressions.

The difference between a view-er who watches “Breaking Dawn” seriously or ironically is not insur-mountable. Almost everyone has favorite “escape” movies. These films aren’t meant to be analyzed,

but instead appreciated for the fan-tasy world they offer. Action, horror and comedy do this all the time, and these fans are rarely ridiculed for their enjoyment.

It is possible to engage with flawed, flat characters, earnestly wonder how the plot will develop and still take a step back every once and a while to laugh at it all.

Either way, you’re being enter-tained. When you overhear some-one passionately dissecting Bella and Edward’s relationship, remem-ber that’s just one lens through which to enjoy a safely entertaining, often hilarious and relatively short-lived phenomenon. There will be more phenomena to come and with an open mind, they don’t have to be so insufferable.

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Mixing up the Lincoln music scene with mop-top enthusiasm and radical eclecticism is The Renfields.

It started as a one-man side project for Nick Westra in 2001, but has grown into what it is today, a full-fledged band committed to working together every Thursday evening.

Last Friday, The Renfields show-cased their new self-titled LP at Knick-erbockers, which was released on Tuesday. The album fosters the sound of the 1960s power pop (a la The Kinks with Westra’s recognizable whine) and is the first album with the official lineup of Westra on guitar, keyboard and vocals, Jarek Olivetti on guitar, percussion and vocals; Malcolm Miles on bass; and Brandon McKenzie on drums.

“We each kind of played on each other’s stuff, like other bands and oth-er projects,” Olivetti said. “(Nick and I) played with Crush the Clown for like a decade and we’ve been playing to-gether since we were like 15 years old.”

McKenzie said he envisions Olivetti and Westra, in old age, shar-ing a hospital room “crying in perfect harmony.”

McKenzie approached Westra in 2004 and offered to play drums, re-sulting in the eventual formation of a band.

“I think I suggested it, I might have,” he said. “I can’t take full credit for it, but I do remember approaching Nick and being like, ‘You’ve got these great songs. I figured he’s got enough songs obviously for another band, so I offered up my drumming services.”

The one element the band was missing was someone to play bass gui-tar. Given their long-standing friend-ship and musical partnership, it was obvious to Westra that Olivetti would also join the band.

“The funny thing is somebody of-fered us a show and we didn’t have a bass player,” Westra said. “As soon as I got the message that we had a show lined up, Malcolm walked by and I think I was talking to Brandon on the phone and I said, ‘Oh here comes Mal-colm, I’ll ask him.’ We’d known him for quite a while.”

Westra and Miles had worked to-gether previously, specifically on the “A Situation” compilation series. The compilations, according to Miles, were an effort to support the local music scene by including songs from various local bands. Miles was the coordinator and producer for the series from 2004 to 2008.

“Nick agreed to record all the bands and we agreed to play some shows to raise money to help produce the CDs,” Miles said. “We also agreed that each band would select a band not directly connected to them by mem-

bership to be on the second (compila-tion) in the series. Bands on the second CD picked the bands on the third and so forth over the five years we did this.”

According to the band all of them grew up playing music in school and had an early desire to be in a band. The desire to play music wasn’t the only thing that helped create The Renfields, though.

“I bought a bass amp from a friend of mine and later found out that it was Brandon’s amp originally,” Westra said.

“I started playing bass in a local band, a high school band,” McKenzie said. “We played punk covers, like Ramones and Sex Pistols covers. That was the bass amp I used in high school to play those punk rock songs.”

Not yet knowing that it was his fu-ture bandmate’s old amp, Westra de-cided to write and record an album in one night in honor of the transaction. According to Westra, that’s exactly what he did and the EP he created be-came the first album for The Renfields. The name for the band came from Bram Stoker’s “Dracula,” which Wes-tra was reading at the time.

“I was thinking about how I was going to present the EP, I recorded everything but wanted it to sound like it was a fictitious band or some-thing,” Westra said. “So I took the cast of ‘Dracula’ characters and assigned them to a different instrument. Jona-

than Harker was like the guitar player and Mina Harker was the keyboard player; I think Van Helsing played bass or something. But Renfield was the singer/songwriter in this fictitious band and I decided to call it The Ren-fields.”

The new album is available as a digital download and on vinyl. CDs, according to the band, “are dead.”

“Nobody has physical copies of anything,” Olivetti said. “So for a physical copy what’s better than to have something that’s big and crazy as that? Vinyl is supposedly the largest dynamic range that you can hear with human ears. Digital waves go up and plateau like stair steps whereas vinyl is a smooth wave.”

The decision to put this album on vinyl, according to the band, devel-oped out of their past experiences with local music, both on and off stage.

Westra said when he began fol-lowing the local scene in the mid to late 1990s, many of the bands put their albums on vinyl. Also according to the band, none of them had released an album on vinyl before, but this new re-lease was worthy of being pressed into a glossy, black disc for listeners to feel its warmth.

“I feel like this album is the result of all the things we’ve been doing all these years,” McKenzie said. “Some-how this record sums it up perfectly.”

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at the ross:

“Keep the lights on”

directed by: ira sachs• friday - 4:55 p.m., 7:05 p.m., 9:15 p.m.• saturday - 12:35 p.m., 2:45 p.m., 4:55 p.m., 7:05 p.m., 9:15 p.m.• sunday - 12:35 p.m., 2:45 p.m., 4:55 p.m., 7:05 p.m.

“the Sessions”directed by: ben lewin

• friday - 5:05 p.m., 7:15 p.m., 9:25 p.m.• saturday - 5:05 p.m., 7:15 p.m., 9:25 p.m.• sunday - 5:05 p.m., 7:15 p.m.

Met opera live in Hd

presents “la Clemenza di

tito”• saturday - 11:55 a.m.• sunday - 1 p.m.

new in theaters:

“Killing them Softly”

directed by: andrew dominikstarring: brad Pitt, scoot mcnairy, ben mendelsohn, James Gandolfini

“Anna Karenina”

directed by: Joe Wrightstarring: keira knightley, Jude law, aaron taylor-Johnson

“the Collection”

directed by: marcus dunstanstarring: christopher mcdonald, daniel sharman, lee teregesen

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“Killing them Softly”directed by: andrew dominik

take ‘twilight’ only for what it’s worth: silly entertainment

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For all the tension and suspense of a surgery, sometimes the real drama occurs before you ever even see the doctor.

“The Waiting Room,” direct-ed by Peter Nicks, is a look at the waiting room of an emergency room in Oakland, Calif. Many of the patients interviewed in the documentary are either unin-sured or don’t speak English as their first language, and in many situations, both. Through the use of interviews and footage of the doctors working with patients, the documentary tries to make some commentary on the state of medicine in certain areas, but it doesn’t quite diagnose the prob-lem clearly.

“The Waiting Room” is a qui-et film. There’s never too much going on visually or audibly. The interviews with the patients are often drawn out, showing the laughs and tears of people from all facets of life. There are a lot of scenes that just show hospital work being done without any-one speaking. These long-lasting moments help to slow down the tempo of the documentary and are nice for reflection, especially after watching three or four people in a row give heart-breaking interviews about their health problems.

The score adds to this subdued feeling, never really overpowering any scene, instead add-ing accent to the emotions of the per-son currently talk-ing.

The documen-tary does a great job of helping viewers relate to the patients. Each person has a unique story and different background, and it’s hard not to root for each person coming in, even the guy who keeps relaps-ing on hard drugs.

The same can’t be said for the doctors and nurses, which feels like a missed opportunity.

There’s one nurse who comes off as annoying and a doctor who seems like a nice enough guy, but “The Waiting Room” never takes the chance to look at the ups and downs of being in that role.

Another big problem is the message the documentary tries to send. It’s hard to tell whether it’s trying to send a specific message

of how we can better our hos-pital systems or if it’s more of a here’s-kind-of-a-problem type of message.

This is a shortcoming because it’s unclear just what response or even kind of response, the

piece is asking for. Should we feel as though the people on the screen won, because they eventually got help for their medical prob-lems, even if it did take quite some time be-forehand? Or should we be concerned, be-cause our health care system is set up in a way that doesn’t

supply enough beds to those who need them?

This problem is further ex-acerbated by the scene in which someone dies. A 15-year-old vic-tim of gang violence passes after being attacked, but the next scene is of a young girl having her strep throat treated. The two scenes juxtapose poorly and send an in-decipherable message.

“The Waiting Room” could be a powerful documentary if it intends to be. The issues its call-ing out are like a tumor; possibly benign or malignant, but it’ll take time to find out which.

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few series have built

up as much undeserved anger as ‘twilight.’”

CourteSY pHotodefunct since the mid-1990s, the millions will reunite on stage saturday at the bourbon theatre. the lincoln-based band toured nationally and recorded in los angeles before breaking up.

CourteSY pHotolincoln power pop four-piece the renfields released their self-titled album, years in the making, last week digitally and on vinyl.

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• “I came here with a piano play-er who doesn’t have money.”

• “The waiter is going to come to the table and tell me to leave because I don’t have money.”

• “This is weird. It’s nice to have people pay attention to me again.”

• “I work in hell. I work with Satan.”

• “I spend most of my money on action figure Ninja Turtles.”

tHe regulArSAmong the group of regulars

who stopped in for their routine breakfast and coffee before work, there’s a shared opinion Hi-Way is the most convenient option for their unconventional schedules.

“I get up early,” said Oris Smith, a 70-year-old Lincoln Pub-lic Schools bus driver. “It’s one of the only restaurants open before 5 a.m., besides Perkins. But I don’t like Perkins,”

Smith also shared his go-to menu items.

“I love their eggs and hash browns,” he said. “But I also love their oatmeal. They have great oat-meal.”

Cab driver Craig Barnadoe said he and other drivers stop in on their late nights and early morn-ings for sausage and eggs.

Another regular, Ron Colin, 65, has stopped at Hi-Way Diner at 5 a.m. every morning since his other favorite restaurant closed years ago, he said.

“I come here about this time ev-ery morning, read the paper, have a cup of coffee and head to work,” he said.

The regulars at the diner come in like clockwork, the first stop on a day that will wind to a close and ultimately bring them right back.

tHe eMploYeeSThe employees at the diner never

seemed to mind our half-day pres-ence.

The night waitress, 27-year-old Stephanie Madsen, has worked at Hi-Way Diner for a little more than a year. After working Friday and Sat-urday nights, she’s accustomed to the waves of demographics throughout the night.

“After 2 a.m., it’s always drunk people,” she said. “It’s usually just people who want to finish off their

night and have a good time.”Rick Parent, the graveyard cook,

works from 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. five nights a week and claimed there are patterns in ordering for the rowdier patrons.

“The partiers usually order Hot Strippers, Haystacks, chicken clubs or the Number 5 breakfast meal with eggs, meat, hash browns and magic toast,” he said.

For having to deal with two re-porters occupying their corner booth for 10 hours, numerous drunk in-dividuals and other rambunctious folks, the employees of the Hi-Way Diners are extremely laid back.

Once the rowdies left, they were nice enough to refill our sodas and al-lowed us to pay for a $3.26 bill with a credit card.

out AlIveWe like to think we’re stronger

human beings for having endured such a traumatic experience. Not physically stronger – our bodies will take years to recover. Not mentally, either – that will be an even longer recovery.

But emotionally, we are at our pinnacle … specifically from the ear candy that flowed from Burke’s heavy panting and slobbering into his harmonica.

This is an experience we will never forget nor ever attempt again. But really, we are very tired so will someone please come pick us up now?

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StACIe HeCKer | dnbailey foss, a senior horticulture major at the unl, grabs some fuel at the Hi-Way diner during a late-night study session.

Give me time, i swear people could hate me as much as they hate John mayer.”

james burkehi-way diner customer

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Husker fans will have to wait nine years, but they will get the game they want.

The Nebraska Athletic De-partment announced Thursday a home-and-home series with the Oklahoma football team in 2021 and 2022. The first game will take place on Sept. 18, 2021, in Nor-man, Okla., and Nebraska will host the Sooners on Sept. 17, 2022, in Lincoln.

“Our rivalry with Oklahoma has been one of the great tradi-tional matchups in the history of college football,” Nebraska Ath-letic Director Tom Osborne said

in a press release Thursday. “The games between the two schools were gener-ally to decide a conference championship, and many times helped deter-mine the nation-al champion. Those matchups were always played with great intensity on the field, but with a great deal of respect from both sides and among the fan bases.”

“I know our fans look forward

to nonconference games against high-profile opponents like Okla-

homa. I’m pleased we were able to finalize this series.” Osborne said.

Nebraska and Oklahoma hold a storied tradition as the two teams have played each other 86 times. The Sooners hold a 45-38-3 record over the Huskers. The last time Nebras-ka and Oklahoma faced each other was in the Big 12 Cham-

pionship Game in 2010, with the Sooners winning 23-20.

Another scheduling change was announced Thursday as Ne-braska’s matchup with Southern Miss in 2013 has been moved back to Lincoln. The game was originally scheduled to be held in Hattiesburg, Miss., on Sept. 7. The game will be the second of a three-game agreement.

“There were discussions about moving this game to a neu-tral site, but as we continued to talk with Southern Miss, moving the game to Lincoln became an option,” Osborne said in a press release Thursday. “That oppor-tunity appeared to be the most beneficial for both schools at this time.”

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file photo by aNNa reeD | DNameer abdullah bounces off a defender against southern miss on a sept. 1, 2012. The nebraska athletic department announced Thursday that next year’s game against the Golden eagles will be played in lincoln.

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As the last swimming and div-ing competition of 2012 nears, Nebraska is ready to make a statement at the Hawkeye Invi-tational.

The NU diving team will be-gin competing Friday morning in Iowa City, Iowa at the Hawk-eye invitational Friday. Iowa, Denver, Milwaukee, Michigan, Northwestern, Washington State and Nebraska will make up the competition at the meet, which will last through Sunday.

U n d o u b t e d l y, the invitational will come with intense competition and high tension as the women compete for the win.

W a s h i n g t o n State’s Loree Ol-son recently swam the 200 backstroke with a time of 2.02.89. NU senior Hayley Martin competed at the Kansas Classic is a close match to Olson, finishing her 200 backstroke a 2.02.81. A close match to say the least, Olson will be Martin’s main competition in this event during the weekend’s invita-tional.

One NU swimmer to keep an eye on is senior Ariel Weech. During the Kansas Classic, Weech was a top performer for the Huskers, which finished the invitational in third place.

It is expected that Weech will again face Amanda Paul-son, a Hawkeye competitor, in the 50-yard freestyle. The two competed against one another at the Kansas Classic. Hawk-eye’s Paulson out-swam Weech, finishing with a 23.37, beating Weech by .22 seconds. Also on the Huskers’ radar is Olivia Ka-bacinski, another Hawkeye com-

petitor. With multiple records already set, Kabacinski recent-ly finished the 50-freestyle in 23.12, earning a legacy at Iowa with the second-fastest time in the school’s history. If all three competitors face each other in the finals, there is no doubt that

the 50-freestyle could have the potential to become a defining moment for Weech at this weekend’s invite.

The 50-freestyle is not the only race to keep a close eye on.

Although the Hawkeyes and Husk-ers are easily spotted matchups, the other competitors will also be sure to give NU competition.

The Hawkeye sophomore Becky Stoughton is a return-ing All-American and 1,650 freestyle competitor, who fin-ished ninth at last year’s NCAA Championship with a 16:03.42. NU’s Bailey Pons will also have her competition set out for her. She placed first in the 1650-me-ter freestyle with a 16:48.88 dur-ing her last performance at the Kansas Classic. Pons will have to swim her best race to compete with Stoughton’s quick speed in the water.

The Hawkeye Invitational will be the last event of the year for Nebraska.

With a much deserved break, the team will begin holi-day training in January to pre-pare for their next competition, which will be on January 19. They will compete against San Diego State at the Devaney Na-tatorium.

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with 17 and five respectively. She at-tributes the loss to miscommunica-tion on defense.

“There wasn’t a lot of great com-munication out on the floor,” Moore said, who started her 105th-straight game Wednesday night. “We just kind of got tired and let them get transition buckets, we weren’t nec-essarily talking on defense like we were in the first half.”

Idaho State comes into Lincoln with a 3-2 record with losses to No. 25 Kansas State and Kansas. Despite being ranked in the preseason polls, Idaho State has recently fallen out of the polls and is searching for their first win against a ranked opponent.

NU freshman Rachel Theriot is expected to get the second start of her career against Idaho State after starting her first game against Mary-land. Theriot sported solid numbers in the first half, with six points and six rebounds. However, she strug-gled handling the ball against Mary-land’s defensive pressure, turning the ball over five times and failing to score in the second half. Mostly, Yori said she saw flashes of a solid starting point guard.

“It’s a growing experience for her,” Yori said. “She’s young and she’s not super physical, but there are things she can do for us that we don’t have other kids doing consis-tently.”

Tip off against Idaho State will be at 2:05 p.m. at the Bob Devaney Sports Center and can be heard on Huskers.com.

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kat buchaNaN | DNlindsey moore dribbles past a maryland defender during wednesday night’s matchup. The senior point guard hopes her team will perform better against idaho state this weekend at the bob devaney sports center.

file photo by matt masiN | DNnebraska women’s basketball coach connie yori directs her team against maryland on wednesday night. The huskers take on idaho state on saturday.

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The Nebraska wrestling team will have to be ready for anything.

When the No. 9 Huskers hit the mat in the Cliff Keen Invita-tional, a double-elim-ination tournament in Las Vegas, they will not know who they are wrestling in their next matches or, more importantly, the style of their next op-ponents.

“We’ll see how our guys hold up throughout the course of the day, multiple matches and really different styles of wrestling,” NU assistant coach Bryan Snyder said. “We’ll see a bunch of different types of schools, but really tough competi-tion.”

Nebraska enters the 32-team tournament with a record of 4-1 – the lone loss to No. 1 Minnesota. But this event presents the Husk-ers with their first opportunity to gauge their performance on a postseason tournament-like stage.

“It’s always a good benchmark,” Snyder said. “It’s not as tough as the national tourna-ment, but you’re going to see a num-ber of weight class-es where there’s go-ing to be a number of All-Americans. It’s a good scrap.”

Last year, Ne-braska finished fourth in the invitational. Five Huskers finished in the top four, including returners senior Josh Ihnen and sophomores Rob-ert Kokesh, Jake Sueflohn and James Green, who finished third after losing in the waning mo-ments of a semifinal.

“So this year, just going out there and finishing, wrestling the whole match through,” Green said. “Keeping good po-sitions. Keep my attacks up and

just never let down.”Snyder said in order to stay

ready for their next opponents, the wrestlers cannot look ahead.

“When you have that many guys in a tournament you have to be prepared for whatever,” he said. “But also have the chal-lenge to be able to take one match at a time and not look forward.”

To Green, no matter what strat-egy his opponent might employ, the most important as-pect of the tourna-ment is wrestling at the pace he wants – fast.

“You have to be ready for any style, but at the same time, you can’t let that affect you,” Green said. “I ac-

tually have to go out there and wrestle my style match. I can’t let someone’s style change the way I wrestle … keep attacking. Just keep my pace up. That’s about it, because that’s my style.”

The field at the Cliff Keen includes nine ranked schools, including Big Ten opponents Ohio State and Michigan. But in a tournament brimming with numerous tactics and strategies, Snyder said only one scheme should matter to his wrestlers: their own.

“We’re a pretty disciplined f u n d a m e n t a l team,” Sny-der said. “Not knowing who we’re neces-sarily going to wrestle gives us a chance to focus on us and what we do well. I think we just continue to do what we do. Wrestle with

good fundamentals and wrestle with a lot of fight and high pace a lot of passion. Expect to win.”

No. 6 Green certainly ex-pects to.

“We’re just looking out there to show everybody that Nebras-ka is out there to wrestle, com-pete for a national title,” Green said, “and right now we’re try-ing to get this Las Vegas title.”

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big ten championship game

indianapolis, indianastadium: lucas oil stadium (62,421 capacity for foot-ball, expandable to 70,000)features: retractable roof, fieldTurftenants: indianapolis colts (nfl), super bowl Xlvi (2012), ncaa men’s bas-ketball final four (2010, 2015), ncaa women’s basketball final four (2016), ncaa men’s division i basketball Tournament (sweet 16 and elite 8, 2013, 2014)last year (inaugural game): no. 15 wisconsin def. no. 13 michigan state 42-39game mvp: wisconsin Qb russell wilson – 17-24, 187 yards, 3 Td

wisconsin badgersmadison, wisconsin

stadium: camp randall stadium (80,321 capacity)rivals: iowa, minnesota

636-470-51 All-Timeclaimed national titles: 0conference titles: 13 (won last two)heisman trophy winners: 2notable current players: rb montee ball, wr Jared abbre-deris, lb chris borlandnotable former players: rb ron dayne, wr elroy hirsch, Qb arnie herber, c mike webster, fb alan ameche, Qb rus-sell wilson, de JJ watt, oT Joe Thomaslast meeting with nebraska: The huskers battled back from a 27-10 third quarter deficit to open the big Ten season with a win. nebraska’s win over the badgers was the first of five second-half comeback wins for the team.

coach: bret bielemaoverall head coaching record: 67-23 (7th year)playing career: defensive Tackle – iowa (1989-1992)head coaching career: wisconsin (2006-present)notable assistant coaching stops: iowa (Ga – 1994-95, lb – 1996-2001), kansas state (co-dc – 2002-03), wisconsin (dc – 2004-05)

the university of wisconsin-madisonestablished: 1848Public Universitystudents: 42,595 (fall 2010)motto: God, our lightspecializations: Us news & world report ranked four

schools in its top 16, including the school of education (12th), the school of medicine and Public health’s pri-mary care (13th), the la follette school of Public affairs (14th) and the college of engineering (16th).what makes it unique: wisconsin has been given the title “Public ivy,” meaning that it is a public university that offers education comparable to ivy league schools in terms of quality.

key matchupsNu lb will compton vs. wis rb montee ballearlier this season, nebraska held heisman-hopeful running back montee ball to fewer than 100 yards, but allowed him to enter the end zone three times. Unless the huskers plan on getting into an offensive battle, the blackshirts, led by linebacker will compton, will need to keep ball out of the end zone.

Nu Db ciante evans vs. wis wr Jared abbrederisabbrederis torched nebraska for 142 yards and a touchdown earlier this year. however, in the second half, nebraska switched to ciante evans, having him shadow abbrederis, helping shut down the badger offense. The huskers will likely adopt that model right away. if the badgers want to get the ball moving, ab-brederis will have to get open.

Nu offensive line vs. wis lb chris borlandrex burkhead and ameer abdullah are expected to play large roles in saturday’s game. wisconsin will likely focus a lot of stopping the husker ground attack. That all starts with standout linebacker chris borland coming in and creating havoc. nebraska’s offensive line will need to key in on borland if they hope to es-tablish a consistent rushing game.

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the first set. UMES stuck with its counterparts, trailing midway into the set as close as 10-9. But it was only a matter of time until Nebraska would kick its offense into sec-ond gear.

Behind two kills and an ace by Man-cuso, the Huskers pulled away to a 21-12 lead and take the rest of the set to win 25-14. Mancuso finished the first set with four kills swinging a .571 hitting percentage.

And the NU offen-sive attack wasn’t fin-ished yet.

After its three blunders to begin the match, the Huskers began the second set with three aces to jump out to a 9-2 lead on the Hawks. After Werth’s second kill on the night made it 18-6, senior Allison McNeal came off the bench and was greeted by a loud standing ovation from the Sea of Red.

The response from the blaring fans left the middle blocker speechless.

“It was super exciting,” McNeal said. “I mean who doesn’t want to play for a crowd like this? It’s awesome.” She scored with her first block and kill to extend the NU lead to 20-7. She would go on to nail another kill and finish the set with a block to help Ne-braska go into the third set 2-0.

McNeal finished the match with three kills (.400 hitting percentage) and two blocks.

After playing in just 50 sets all year, she said it felt great to make an enormous impact in the first round of the tournament.

“Any opportunity I get, I’m al-ways ready to go out there and play with my teammates,” she said.

Although the Hawks gave NU a scare with a 4-0 run to tie it at 10 apiece, the Huskers would finish with the last laugh.

M a n c u s o ’ s blast in the final set assisted the Husk-ers to a 25-18 vic-tory to live another day.

The Omaha native finished the match swinging

.435, while Werth led the team with her .667 hitting performance.

The victory advances Nebraska to the second round where they will face-off against Northern Iowa on Fri-day at 7 p.m.

In the first match Thursday, the Panthers defeated Kansas State 3-0 (25-18, 25-13, 25-21) with the help of Megan Lehman, Macy Ubben and Krista Degeest, who all posted 11 kills.

Although Northern Iowa’s sweep against the Wildcats may have come as a surprise, Cook said he’s treating its next opponent with the same goal.

“For us, it’s still purple,” he said. “We have some unfinished business to take care of.”

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matt masiN | DNallison mcneal (16) celebrates a point with her teammates during Thursday’s match agaisnt maryland eastern shore. The nU senior recorded three blocks on the night and provided an emotional boost for the huskers.

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courtesy photolucas oil stadium is the home of the nfl team the indianapolis colts and the site of saturday’s big Ten championship Game between nebraska and wisconsin. The stadium also hosted the men’s basketball final four in 2010.

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Warmer weather and a healthier Kristina Mickelson are expected for NU’s women’s bowling team this weekend. The three-day Track Kat Klash tournament is in Hunts-ville, Texas, where tem-peratures are expected to be in the mid- to up-per-70s.

But it’s the continu-ing recovery of Mickel-son that is more of a con-cern. The right-handed senior broke her right elbow after a car acci-dent before the start of the season this year. She isn’t at 100 percent yet. Nebraska coach Bill Straub acknowledged

the difficulty of coming back from an injury physically and psycho-logically.

“I can’t predict the future, but I do think, at the very least, Kristina is going to be healthier,” Straub said.

At NU’s first tournament this season in Valparaiso, Ind., Mick-elson bowled, but was still going through rehab for her elbow. The underclassmen played a big part in the third place finish out of 10 teams.

Sophomore Liz Kuhlkin bowled the highest average of

the tournament with a 230.6. Straub cred-its the work she put into bowling over the summer. He’s looking at Kuhlkin to bowl strong again this weekend with Mickelson still not at full strength.

“ T h a n k f u l l y when we were in Valparaiso all the new people we had stepped up to help

kind of lighten the load for her as best they could,” Straub said.

“Hopefully this weekend, they’ll still be able to do well and Kristi is more healthy than she was in Valpo. I hope it can show.”

Besides Mickelson and Kuhlkin, the other women com-peting this weekend are junior Yan Ling, sophomore Elise Bolton, sophomore Andrea Ruiz and freshman Beth Hedley.

The tournament starts Friday with Baker matches and continues on Saturday before concluding on Sunday.

Even if she’s not bowling how she planned to her senior season, Mickelson is invested in the team.

“I just really want to see the team succeed,” Mickelson said. “My biggest hope is always just getting to nationals, so we need to make sure that we win all our matches and have a really good match play record so that we can get into nationals and that’s really the main goal of all tournaments.

“It’d be great to win a tourna-ment. (It’s) Coach (Paul) Klempa’s birthday on Friday and we have a thing where we’re going to win for him.”

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mate-controlled indoor stadium with a retractable roof.

Quarterback Taylor Martinez said last week’s conditions lim-ited Nebraska’s offense, and that the zero-wind, room-tempera-ture environment will allow the offense to flourish.

“It should help us out tre-mendously,” Martinez said. “Hopefully we can go out there and run our offense.”

Both teams run rush-heavy offenses, with Nebraska averag-ing more than 40 yards passing than Wis-consin. The Badgers (7-5, 4-4) will likely rely heavily on their ground attack, hoping to improve from the sub-100 yard rushing game they displayed against Nebraska back in September.

Husker defensive line coach Rick Kac-zenski said he’s seen tremendous improvement from Wisconsin’s offensive line since that game, and believes the Badgers will be tough to stop on the ground.

“They’re a completely differ-ent team,” Kaczenski said. “To hold them to that many yards, it’s kind of a fluke. They’re going to get some yards (this week).”

The Blackshirts will try to stop the NCAA record holder for career ushing touchdowns, Montee Ball, who starts at run-

ning back for the Badgers. As Nebraska attempts to limit the Wisconsin ground-and-pound attack, the team will try to do so without defensive tackle Baker Steinkuhler, who registered 5 tackles and 2 tackles for loss in the initial meeting against the Badgers, but sustained an injury last Friday. Starting center Justin Jackson will also miss the game

due to a leg injury.

Two of Wiscons in ’ s injured star players, wide receiver Jared A b b r e d e r i s and line-backer Chris Borland, will both play in S a t u r d a y ’ s game, giving Wisconsin a boost.

P e l i n i said when he looks at Saturday’s matchup, he doesn’t look too hard at injuries or what hap-pened in the past. He’s trying to use whatever players he has available to combat whoever Wisconsin plays.

“They are a dangerous team no matter what,” Pelini said. “They are a good football team. They’re physical, they are ex-tremely well-coached and I don’t put any stock into what has hap-pened up to this point. It’s going

to be 60 minutes of football. The team that earns it on Saturday is going to come away with the win.”

A win Saturday would give Nebraska its first conference championship since 1999. Senior tight end Ben Cotton said the team needs to remove itself from the moment and treat the game just like any other. If the team doesn’t, he fears Nebraska could find itself in a similar situation as it did earlier this year against Wisconsin, when it trailed by 17 points in the third quarter.

“A lot of guys were extreme-ly excited, extremely psyched up and I think it kind of dulled us down at the beginning of that game until we were able to settle in and be who we really are,” Cotton said.

As the team charged back, the offense gained momentum and minimized mistakes. Offen-sive tackle Brent Qvale said the team needs to focus on what got them the win earlier this year – calming down and getting into a good offensive rhythm.

“I think our tempo came into play in that game,” Qvale said. “Hopefully we can match it this game and just keep playing hard and give it all.”

“This is the big game now. This is what it all comes down to.”

Nebraska and Wisconsin kick off at 7:15 p.m. Television cover-age is available on Fox.

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Mancuso, McNeal lead Huskers to win

two months after Nebraska stormed back from a 17-point second-half deficit to defeat Wisconsin, the Huskers are preparing for a rematch.

Saturday’s Big Ten Championship Game features a Ne-braska team riding a six-game winning streak and a Wisconsin team that has revamped its offensive line since last meeting the Cornhuskers.

Nebraska coach Bo Pelini is trying to approach Saturday’s game just like he would any other game, even though both teams

have already met.“You can sit there and dissect it all day on how they are going

to approach it and how we are going to approach it,” Pelini said. “At the end of the day, it’s going to come down to blocking and tackling.”

Nebraska (10-2 overall, 7-1 Big Ten) is coming off a win against Iowa in brutal conditions, including a swirling wind and the coldest game-time temperature of its season. Saturday, both teams will have the luxury of playing in Lucas Oil Stadium, a cli-

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Nebraska completed its first step in its quest to a national championship when it defeated Maryland East-ern Shore 3-0 (25-14, 25-10, 25-18) Thursday night in the first round of the 2012 NCAA Tournament.

Outside hitters Gina Mancuso and Hannah Werth tallied 12 and 11 hits respectively to lead the Huskers to a .455 team hitting percentage en route to their first-round victory.

“Our goal was to be balanced tonight and I think we were pretty balanced,” NU head coach John Cook said after the match. “Mary-land came out on fire for about the first 10 points, but our team adjust-ed to them and did a nice job and we’re happy to be playing tomor-row.”

NU began the match shaky, re-cording three service errors to begin

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After a disappointing 19-point home loss to No. 11 Maryland on Wednesday night, the Huskers continue their home stand Satur-day afternoon against last year’s Big Sky regular season champi-ons, Idaho State. The Bengals re-turn four of their five starters from last year’s 24-win squad.

The loss to Maryland was the Huskers’ biggest point deficit of the season, leaving them with a 5-2 record. Though the score

seemed drastic, head coach Con-nie Yori said she was pleased with the overall effort of her squad.

“I was really excited about the way our team competed tonight,” Yori said in Wednesday’s post-game press conference. “They showed me a little more tough-ness than I think I was giving them credit for; we can learn a lot from tonight’s game.”

All-American Jordan Hooper was shadowed all night defen-sively by Maryland’s Alyssa Thomas, and struggled from the field, shooting just 5-15. She ended up with 15 points, five of which came in the final two min-utes. Senior Lindsey Moore lead the Huskers in scoring and assists

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no. 4 seed nebraska advances to the second round of ncaa tournament

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matt masiN | DNGina mancuso spikes the ball past maryland eastern shore blockers at the nU coliseum on Thursday night. The husker senior finshed with 12 kills.

Nebraska takes on Idaho State at the Bob Devaney Sports Center on Saturday

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ben cotton runs after he catches a pass against wisconsin at memorial stadium in late september. The huskers look to win their first conference championship since 1999 by beating the badgers for the second time this season on saturday.

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