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DAILY NEBRASKANmonday, november 28, 2011 volume 111, issue 065

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Endangered expressionprofessors need to stick up for their students

LincoLn poet writes for expression, hosts reading series

huskers pick up two victories in fLorida, improve to 6-0

Poet of the people

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MAtt MAsin | DAily nEbrAskAnabove: The first customers enter SuperTarget at midnight on Black Friday. The main items people were looking for at SuperTarget were TVs and iPads. The store was crammed aisle to aisle with people confused as to where each items were being sold at.

right: Shoppers at SuperTarget push TV’s in their carts on the way to checkout during Black Friday shopping. SuperTarget in Lincoln opened at midnight and had a line that wrapped completely around the building.

Studentsdonate plasma

for cash, peopleMaren WeSTraDaily NebraskaN

While some students find a part-time job for extra cash, others are getting more cre-ative.

Michael Wachter, a soph-omore broadcasting major, donates plasma for money at Biomat USA just south of campus at 2002 N St.

At Biomat, plasma donors can earn more than $200 a month if they donate the maximum of twice every week. Donors sit through a process where their blood is removed and the plasma is separated out. The red blood cells are then re-turned into the body.

Wachter uses the money he earns from donating plasma to pay for things not provided by the campus.

“I donate plasma as a college student because I am poor,” he said. “I need money for gas and food. The dining hall on the weekend is (below my ex-pectations).”

Plasma is the colorless fluid part of blood and is used in blood transfusions. Because plasma donors do not lose any red blood cells, plasma can be donat-ed more often than blood can, according to the Amer-ican Red Cross . The recipi-ents of plasma require do-nations for many different reasons. Plasma helps those who suffer from hemophil-ia, immunodeficiency dis-eases, leukemia, HIV and more. It also helps patients who have had bone marrow transplants fight off disease and bacterial infection.

Cierra Kelly, a freshman psychology major, also donates plasma. Unlike Wachter, however, Kelly does not receive payment for her donations. Because she is under the age of 19, she cannot be paid by the plasma centers.

Kelly said it doesn’t affect her whether she receives payment.

“It’s helping people,” she said. “I just like to help.”

Kelly’s mother suffered from severe burns in an ac-cident and received blood and plasma transfusions for her reconstructive surgery. Kelly said this motivates her to donate.

However, Kelly said she will accept payment once she turns 19 and can legally collect the incentive offered in exchange for her dona-tions.

“I need the money,” she said. “It’s nice to have some

conservationist nominated for $100,000 award Danae LenZ

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In the 19th century, billions of passenger pigeons swarmed the skies, darkening the sun for days at a time when they migrated. Martha, the last pas-senger pigeon, died at the Cin-cinnati Zoo in 1914.

When Joel Sartore, a Uni-versity of Nebraska-Lincoln alumnus and Lincoln resident, was a young boy, he heard the story of the last passenger pi-geon and was astounded that humans had driven such a populous bird to extinction in a short amount of time. That story inspired him to work to-ward preventing that same fate from happening to other spe-cies. Now, years later, with 20 years of working for National Geographic under his belt, he has been nominated for the prestigious $100,000 Indianap-olis Prize.

The prize is given every other year to one person for

outstanding work in conser-vation and is considered to be one of the greatest awards someone in conservation can receive. This year, 29 total nominees were selected. That number will eventually be slimmed to six finalists, and then the winner will be hon-ored at a gala next September.

“There are a lot of people on there that are much, much more deserving than I am and have been in conservation lon-ger than I,” Sartore said. “So the odds are very long that I will win it, but it’s very nice to be nominated. I’m honored.”

Sartore has done a lot in the name of conservation and sav-ing endangered species since he started working for National Geographic.

Sartore went to Madidi Na-tional Park in Bolivia to write a story about the proposed Bala Dam, a dam that would destroy 1,000 square miles of rain forest. Sartore took the photos, determined to affect

change. In March 2000, Nation-al Geographic ran the story. The Bolivian government was

mortified and the dam has yet to be built.

“My job is mainly to get

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people to realize these species exist and get them to care while there’s still time,” Sartore said. “To get people to care about more than just the price at the pump and what’s on TV and how the football team is do-ing. You know, if we’re talking about the extinction of life on the planet and it’s folly to think that we can drive so many other species to extinction and then not have it come back to bite us very hard. In my mind, when you save endangered species — when we save endangered species — we’re actually saving ourselves.”

John Chapo, the Lincoln Chil-dren’s Zoo director, has known Sartore for many years and has seen Sartore’s drive to save ani-mal life. Because of that, Chapo nominated Sartore for the prize.

“Joel is such a huge advocate for wildlife and wild places,” Chapo said. “And he just works so hard for so many, many years, trying to protect endan-gered species and endangered species habitat, that I just felt that he was very worthy of be-ing nominated for the Indianap-olis Prize.”

Chapo said Sartore is going above and beyond to “vividly educate the masses” about what they can do right now.

“I don’t know anybody who is more sincerely dedicated to protecting wildlife and wild places,” Chapo said. “He would be a top nominee as far as I know and I’ve been in the zoo world for 39 years. He’s a phe-nomenal individual and I think he is without a doubt one of the

most top-deserving people that I know.”

Sartore said the chances of him winning the Indianapolis Prize are slim, but if he did win, it would mean a lot.

“It would be a great honor,” he said. “The biggest honor ever in my life, next to my wife saying, ‘I do.’”

If he does win the prize, though, he said he will put the $100,000 right back into conser-vation.

Chapo said he thinks Sartore has a great chance of winning, even comparing him to Jane Goodall, one of the world’s most well-known conservation-ists.

“Joel is very humble, he real-ly is,” Chapo said. “Because he looks at what these other peo-ple have accomplished, people who have given 25 years living in wild places. He’s thinking of Jane Goodall, who’s done 50 years. Well, he’s not old enough to have 50 years under his belt. By the time he has 50 years un-der his belt, he will be like Jane Goodall.”

But Sartore knows that even if he worked his entire life, he would never run short on ma-terials to explore and photo-graph.

“There’s really no time to lose,” he said. “We just hit 7 bil-lion people. We’re going to hit 8 billion in 15 years. It’s not all the people, it’s the consump-tion that chews up the face of the earth. Unfortunately, I’m never going to run out of ma-terials.”

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sartore: FROM 1 monday booth offers education, preventative tools for students

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For its third year in a row, the University Health Center at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln is sponsoring Healthy Mon-days at its Health Education and Outreach booth in the Ne-braska Union.

“It’s a part of the Healthy Monday on Campus aware-ness campaign promoted by the American College Health Association to make students more health-conscious,” said Jennifer Snyder, marketing co-ordinator for the health center.

“The day all health breaks loose,” is the slogan for the campaign. It consists of a vari-ety of people and organizations that commit every Monday to the behaviors and actions that will end chronic preventable disease. Mondays were chosen because it’s the perfect time for a fresh start, according to the Mondays Campaigns website.

UNL has organized “Healthy Mondays” since September and is one of more than 30 schools in the U.S. that par-ticipate in the movement. Each Monday between 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. the Health Education and Outreach booth educates students on a different health-related topic and gives away free items such as recycled shopping bags and bike reflec-tors.

Snyder said each month the booth rotates between Eat Healthy Mondays, Move It Mondays, Green Mondays and Mindful Mondays. The Counseling and Psychological Services staff will be teaching students how to de-stress with different breathing and yoga techniques this Monday as a part of Mindful Monday.

Eat Healthy Mondays help to avoid the “freshman 15” by teaching students what they should and shouldn’t be eat-ing. “Green Mondays” educate

students on how to recycle around campus. “Move It Mon-days” promote healthy exercise by getting students to engage themselves in physical activity. Each Monday has a different giveaway, including free jump ropes as well as bike reflectors for the students who might be traveling at night and need to be visible.

The campaign’s founder, Sid Lerner, was awarded the 2011 Special Merit Award on Nov. 7 by the Public Health Associa-tion of New York City for his contribution to developing cre-ative marketing strategies that promote public health.

For students like Jessica Rowe, a freshman political science major, Healthy Mon-day on Campus also has a Facebook and Twitter page to spread awareness and cre-ate networks for sharing health messages on the first day of every week – even if schedules don’t allow for a trip to the

booth. “Mondays tend to be the

most tiresome day for a lot of people,” Rowe said. “It’s good to see UNL is making the effort to promote fresh starts and keep students on track of what they should be doing to keep themselves and their environment healthy.”

There have been a good number of students coming to the booth each Monday and the booth tends to see a lot of regulars coming back each week, Snyder said.

“It’s all about getting stu-dents to make good choices for themselves and for their environment,” Snyder said.

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A University of Nebraska re-gent will appeal his convic-tion of stealing a $30 snow shovel from a Kearney rental home during a hearing on

Dec. 7, according to the As-sociated Press.

Kent Schroeder was found guilty of a misdemeanor count of larceny in June. He will appear before Cheyenne County District Judge Derek Weimer – a special court

appointment because Schro-eder practices as an attorney in Buffalo County, where the hearing will be held.

According to police, last February a man reported Schroeder entered his rental home and took the shovel,

which he allegedly returned a few days later.

In his testimony, Schroeder said he thought he had per-mission to enter the home, believing no one was living there.

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Community desk Mr. MoveMber Contestwhen: Monday, Nov. 28, 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. and Tuesday, Nov. 29, at 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. where: Nebraska Union, Wellness Boothwhat: Vote on your favor-ite mustache to help raise money and awareness about testicular cancer research. Proceeds go to the Livestrong Foundation. contact: Jennifer Snyder at 402-472-7459 or [email protected]

LeCture: ‘taLk to Your neighbor: ConCept DeveLopMent in bioCheMistrY’when: Tuesday, Nov. 29, 4 p.m. to 5 p.m. where: Beadle Center, Room E103what: Lecture by UNL as-sistant professor of biochem-istry Cheryl Bailey contact: Hannah Kahler at 402-472-3173 or [email protected]

LeCture: ‘CoLLaborations with pioneer hi-breD’when: Tuesday, Nov. 29, 4 p.m. to 5 p.m. where: East Campus Unionwhat: Lecture by Susan Moser from Pioneer Hi-Bred Internationalcontact: Jeri Cunningham at 402-472-8678 or [email protected]

LeCture: ‘CiviL DisCourse: the gooD, the baD, the ugLY’when: Tuesday, Nov. 29, 7 p.m. where: Hardin Hall, Room 107what: Lecture by W. Don Nel-son, editor of the Prairie Fire, about media discourse and how the public can return back to civil discussion. cost: Free and open to the publiccontact: Ken Dewey at 402-472-2908 or [email protected]

LeCture: ‘there’s stiLL More to be Done’when: Wednesday, Nov. 30, 11:30 a.m. where: Lied Center for Perform-ing Artswhat: Lecture by the Rev. Jesse Jackson about civil rights contact: Bianca Harley at 402-472-5860 or [email protected]

LeCture: ‘nebraska water anD energY FLux MeasureMent, MoDeLing, anD researCh network’when: Wednesday, Nov. 30, 3:30 p.m. to 5 p.m. where: Hardin Hall, Room 107what: Lecture by Suat Irmak on measuring plant physiol-ogy contact: Tala Awada at 402-472-0232

LeCture: ‘Mutation anD evoLution’when: Wednesday, Nov. 30, 4 p.m. to 5 p.m. where: Beadle Center, Room E103what: Lecture by Michael Lynch from Indiana University about mutations and evolu-tion on a genetic level. cost: Free and open to the publiccontact: Barbara Gnirk at 402-472-2635

operation graDuation: Making the transition FroM stuDent to proFessionaLwhen: Wednesday, Nov. 30, 5 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. where: Nebraska Unionwhat: Workshop to learn about job-search strategies, business etiquette, under-standing employee benefits and money management after college contact: Erin Wirth at 402-472-9093 or [email protected]

pre-veterinarian CLub soCiaL anD MoCk interviewswhen: Wednesday, Nov. 30, 5:30 p.m. where: Animal Science Com-

plex student commons areawhat: Social and meal with first-year veterinary students. Mock interviews will take place after dinner.

worLD aiDs DaY – stop aiDs, start DanCing when: Thursday, Dec. 1, 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. where: Jackie Gaughan Mul-ticultural Center, Room 202what: Dance to support World AIDS Day. contact: Bianca Harley at 402-472-5860 or [email protected]

big reD singers anD voCaL Jazz enseMbLewhen: Thursday, Dec. 1, 7:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. where: Kimball Recital Hallwhat: Concert by the Big Red Singers and Vocal Jazz Ensemble. cost: $5 general, $3 student/senior, available at the door one hour before concertcontact: Mike Edholm at 402-472-6865 or [email protected]

sigMa LaMbDa gaMMa: ‘waLking in a winter gaMMaLanD’ hoLiDaY CeLebrationwhen: Wednesday, Nov. 30, 7:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. where: Jackie Gaughan Mul-ticultural Center, Room 212what: Party with hot choco-late, sweets and holiday music. Bring something you no longer want to own for a White Elephant gift exchange. A prize will also be given to the best/ugliest Christmas sweater.

sigMa nu Cinnabonanzawhen: Thursday, Dec. 1, 9 p.m. to 2 a.m. where: Sigma Nu Chapter Housewhat: The Sigma Nu chapter will be selling cinnamon rolls to benefit St. Jude’s. cost: $4 in advance, $5 at the doorcontact: Chad Fesler at 303-520-0155 or [email protected]

LeCture: ‘MoDern israeL: a brieF introDuCtion to soMe oF its CuLturaL anD phYsiCaL geographY’when: Friday, Dec. 2, 2 p.m. to 2:50 p.m. where: Hardin Hall, Room 228what: Lecture by Bryan Leavitt about the geography and culture of Israel contact: Jim Merchant to 402-472-7531 or [email protected]

LeCture: x-raY MagnetiC CirCuLar DiChroisM stuDY oF oxiDe-baseD MagnetiC MateriaLswhen: Friday, Dec. 2, 2:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. where: Jorgensen Hall, Room 151what: Lecture by Vijay Raj Singh from the University of Tokyo’s physics department.contact: Terese Janovec at 402-472-2716 or [email protected]

LeCture: ‘eLeCtroCheMistrY at nanoeLeCtroDes – Does size reaLLY

Matter?’when: Friday, Dec. 2, 3:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. where: Hamilton Hall, Room 112what: Lecture by Michael V. Mirkin from Queens College City University of New York contact: DeNeice Steinmeyer at 402-472-3523 or [email protected]

LeCture: nathan aLbinwhen: Friday, Dec. 2, 4 p.m. to 4:50 p.m. where: Avery Hall, Room 115what: Lecture by Nathan Albin from Kansas State University. cost: Free and open to the publiccontact: Steve Cohn at 402-472-7223 or [email protected]

Drrrrrop exhibition reCeptionwhen: Friday, Dec. 2, 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. where: Richards Hall, Eisentrager-Howard Gallerywhat: Reception to meet the artists of the DRRR-ROP exhibition. The exhibit opens Monday, Nov. 28. Gallery hours are from noon to 4 p.m., Monday through Friday for this exhibit cost: Free and open to the public

unL venture pLan CoMpetition FinaLswhen: Friday, Dec. 2, 6 p.m. where: Nebraska Unionwhat: The final round for the UNL Venture Plan Competition

stuDent DanCe proJeCt ConCertwhen: Friday, Dec. 2 and Saturday, Dec. 3, 7:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. both dayswhere: Mabel Lee Hallwhat: Concert to showcase the work of the student dancers at UNL cost: $5 general, $3 stu-dent/seniorcontact: Mike Edholm at 402-472-6865 or [email protected]

book signing: JeFF kurruswhen: Sunday, Dec. 4, 1:30 p.m. to 3 p.m. where: A Novel Idea Book-storewhat: Book signing by author Jeff Kurrus, a NE-BRASKAland magazine writer and photographer. He will be signing copies of his children’s book, “Have You Seen Mary.”

CoCoa & CaroLs: YuLetiDe FaMiLY FestivaLwhen: Sunday, Dec. 4, 3 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. where: Kimball Recital Hallwhat: Holiday performance. cost: $5 general, $3 stu-dent/seniorcontact: Mike Edholm at 402-472-6865 or [email protected]

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extra cash, but if I didn’t get paid I would still donate. I’m not stressed about getting money.”

Wachter said he would not donate plasma if he did not get paid.

Both Kelly and Wachter do-nated plasma for the first time in spring of 2011 and neither of them donates consistently.

“I only donate when I need money for necessities on the weekend,” Wachter said. “I’m sick of hoagies, salad, pizza and hamburgers.”

Wachter has also spent plasma money on other items, including grape plants, a decorative foun-tain, a lava lamp and an ashtray.

“What if I want to save money from donating plasma to take a (girl) out on a date?” he asked. “I use the money for a lot of things.”

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When was the last time you felt an in-structor genuinely cared about your education? How of-ten has one of your

instructors gone out of their way to help you? One of the biggest problems I’ve seen at this university in my time here has been the lack of support professors have for their students. I don’t feel, for the most part, the faculty here are pas-sionate about teaching or helping their students figure out what is best for them.

Instead we have programs and pro-grams full of selfish, tenured individ-uals whose only desire is to develop their own careers. As a result, their students suffer greatly by not gaining the education we’ve bought.

The main issue is that instead of having someone help us and empa-thize with us, we are expected to fight for ourselves. The art edu-cation debacle serves as a great example of this university’s profes-sors failing to stand up for their students. When the University of Nebraska-Lincoln decided to bring this program to an end, it wasn’t only a slap in the face to every single person in the program, but also to every single student, fac-ulty and support staff within the program itself.

To eliminate art education is to say that art isn’t important. Professors and students in the art college who don’t acknowl-edge the importance of art education are, in fact, denying the very reasons why they are artists or art majors.

When the program was initially terminated, those in the program were forced to choose another route. The passionate protests from both students in the program and the com-munity changed the initial decision. Because of their outrage, students in the program were allowed to finish. This obviously should have been the plan from the start. The fact that we needed to fight to let those in art education finish is despicable. I find it rather insulting.

But where were the professors to stand up for their art education students? When my friend, who is obligated to finish at UNL because of her track team commitment, was told she couldn’t finish her desired degree, where was a professor to stand up for her? Where was anyone with power?

I can understand a budget crisis cut, but no one was willing to stand up for the art education majors when they needed it. Thankfully, they are allowed to finish, but what of the fu-ture? Any who desire to be art teach-ers can no longer attend UNL.

Another issue I have involves the registration process. Something insanely interesting happened to me these last few weeks. At the begin-ning of this semester I was regis-tered to take Photo 361, also known as Intermediate Photography I. In the art department, 300-level and 400-level studio classes are clustered. Cluster classes exist because students in 400-level studios often can’t fill an entire class. For example, I’m the only student at UNL in a 400-level printmaking course, yet there are around 12 students in my class.

The photography department re-cently underwent a radical change

in its beginning courses, making 261 (Beginning I) a digital process class and creating an all new course, 262, for film process.

My 261 class was on the old sched-ule, being a film process class. When I took 261, students would then go on to 361. This was my plan. How-ever, I ended up dropping it for more time to focus on my other studios.

When I decided to enroll for next semester, I chose to enroll in 361 again so I may finally take another photography course. However, I was informed that I must take 262. This is something that I feel, much like not let-ting art education majors finish, should be a non-issue. For start-ers, I have already learned film process in a beginning studio format. To force me take this class again is inappropriate.

After all, if a Spanish stu-dent shows enough knowledge to participate successfully in a 300-level class, the pro-gram won’t tell them to take a 200-level course before moving on. This would be redundant.

However, this is the case. I am told that I am no longer qualified to take a course I was qualified to take this semester. Better yet, I’m not qualified because I haven’t taken a prerequisite that doesn’t exist until January.

I want to take a photography course for access to the photog-raphy equipment. Photographic processes are important to my

development as an artist. This reason alone should be enough to allow me into this class. Yet, I still face friction. I’m not taking this course because I need the credit. Of the nine credits I am enrolled in next semester, I only need five of them to gradu-ate. This is a situation where I my artistry and creativity are stilted. I was under the impression that art is a means of creative expression. Yet here we are being hindered by the bureaucratic mess created by those wishing only to further their own careers.

I thank my lucky stars that I only need one more semester. If I needed the credit I would consider transferring again or dropping out entirely just to escape the anxiety and frustrations created by this pro-gram. Neil OriaNs is a seNiOr FiNe arts ma-

jOr. reach him at NeilOriaNs@ dailyNebraskaN.cOm

professors must advocate for students

Iowa-Nebraska rivalry fails to

reach potentialIn the first meeting between the University of

Nebraska-Lincoln and the University of Iowa as members of the Big Ten Conference, the Huskers emerged victorious.

The rivalry has been hyped since the 2011 foot-ball schedule came out failed to materialize into anything special, as the Huskers won 20-7 and af-fairs between fans and players remained cordial.

The Daily Nebraskan supports creating something special in the season finale for these bordering-state schools and hopes both teams continue to foster this new relationship with one another.

Earlier in the year, both student bodies voted to endorse the Corn Bowl Trophy, which is presented to the winner of the annual game. Ideally, more student groups and both athletic departments will work together in the coming months to make each matchup between the schools more special.

But without this collaboration, it doesn’t seem likely that the so-called rivalry will become any-thing more than a regular season game.

Nebraska-Oklahoma had the true feel of a rivalry game, with Nebraska and Oklahoma meeting for more than 70 years in games that often had major implications in national championships, conference championships and bowl games.

After that series ended with the formation of the Big 12, the Buffaloes tried to fill the role the Soon-ers had, but the rivalry ended up being a much big-ger deal to Colorado fans than it was to Nebraska fans, who longed for a return to the glory days of the Big Eight.

With appropriate support from fans, students and the two universities, the Iowa-Nebraska game has the potential to become something great, but only if both sides are willing to invest in the future.

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“What do you want to be when you grow up?”

We’re constantly

asked this question, from the time we’re children up until college. And by the time we start college, usually around 18, we’re sup-posed to have a good answer. We’re expected to know what we want to do with the rest of our lives before we can legally drink alcohol.

I’ve never been able to give a consistent and logical reply. Throughout my life, my answers have varied from, “I want to be a paleontologist!” to “I want to be a vet!” to “I want to be a vampire hunter!” (I was really into “Buffy” as a kid.) And as a snarky 18 year old my answer was, “I wanna rock!” (If you don’t get the refer-ence, Google Twisted Sister’s “I Wanna Rock” right now.)

Some of us knew what we wanted to do from a young age. If you’re one of those people, you’re lucky. But I’d venture to say that a lot of us still don’t know what we want to do when we grow up.

In college, the question takes on a new meaning, especially when asked, “What’s your major?” No matter what you say, it’s likely to sound ridiculous, especially if you still have doubts.

The question of majors was the bane of my existence for a good semester and a half. I didn’t have a major. I didn’t know what I wanted to do with my life, but I knew what I didn’t want to do.

I knew I didn’t want to be a

doctor because bodily fluids gross me out.

I knew I didn’t want to be a lawyer because I hated the idea that my performance in the court-room could seriously impact the rest of a person’s life. Though it’s worth pointing out that everyone in my high school said I should study law.

I knew I didn’t want to study botany. The last name puns would get old real quick.

What little experience I had with journalism at that time had left me cold. In high school, journalism was actually a code word for “yearbook.” Yearbook is propaganda, not journalism.

In high school, history was a vaguely positive experience, even when unskilled teachers taught the subject. However, those classes pale in comparison to the expertise and enthusiasm of my col-lege professors. History kicks ass.

At the same time, though, if anyone had told me, “Hey, Rhi, guess what? You’re going to be an editor and you’re going to LOVE IT. You’re also going to adore history. And you’ll write about science, too. It’s going to rock!” I would’ve said a string of grammatically incorrect swear words and left in a huff.

In many ways I’m grateful for being undeclared for as long as I was. I’m glad I took my time to fall in love with my majors. I be-lieve in what I do and I couldn’t be happier with what I chose. Does that mean I’m behind on a few things? You bet. My gradua-tion date is closer to five years, rather than four. I’ll be a super

senior. Look out, I’m buying a cape!

I think that’s a fair trade. How-ever, the alternative is something much worse. I have friends who have a new major each time we speak. It’ll take them two or three years of more school to get everything done. And I have a few friends who absolutely loathe their majors. They’re seniors and constantly complain about their areas of study. But it’s too late for them to do any-thing now.

What’s ironic is that many of these same friends also re-ceived scholarships as freshmen to study these fields they now abhor. An undeclared student can’t necessarily expect the same thing. The assumption is that since an undeclared student hasn’t yet made up his or her mind on the rest of his or her life, educating that student is a waste of time and money. Yeah, people who are thoughtful and reflective are unworthy of finan-cial support. Clearly, that’s a bad investment.

I sure didn’t get any scholar-ships for being undeclared. And I paid for it. I had a huge finan-cial scare my freshman year and

I almost wasn’t able to stay at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. (If given the chance, I’d also reform FAFSA and parts of the journalism industry, too, but that’s another column.)

In addition to undeclared finan-cial woes, I can count the number of times on one hand that any-one actually gave me any decent career advice during my freshman year: once. The advice came from a wonderful English instructor. But the mid-semester check that was supposed to give me decent career advice after a test? Nothing. The No. 7 option for my career path was magician. Yeah. I wish I were kidding.

I’m not dogging on Career Ser-vices. It is wonderful and can help you with all sorts of things like revising your resume, getting a decent job and preparing you for an interview. Career Services rocks, but it’s not everything when it comes to selecting a major.

So here’s what needs to hap-pen to make this university a better place: We need to support the undeclared. I’m not just talk-ing one dinky little career night.

First, we need to reform the general studies program. For be-ing so large, it’s awfully disorga-nized. I don’t think I met another undeclared student my whole freshman year. What would’ve been a tremendous help is talk-ing to someone who had been there before. If former general studies majors acted as mentors to freshmen, this would be an incredibly wise and savvy move.

We need to have each college

aggressively recruit the unde-clared majors. Each college could have nights where it discusses what it could offer students. Of course, each night should be non-conflicting so undeclared students could fully explore their options. Show what can be accomplished with this degree. Display success-ful graduates of this college. Have an alumni night. Most importantly, we need to have a better financial support system for undeclared folks. Why not create a scholarship for those who haven’t decided yet?

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This week, as part of the lead-up to the Board of Regents meeting on Friday, the opinion section asked its writers, “What one change would you make

to the university, if you could?” Today’s columns come from Rhiannon Root and the arts and entertainment section’s neil orians.

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Nearly two months after his un-expected passing, the Univer-sity of Nebraska-Lincoln Eng-lish department isn’t finished observing the gifts late profes-sor and author, Gerald Shapiro, shared with students, readers, colleagues and friends. What’s more, appreciation of Shapiro’s contributions to UNL isn’t likely to cease any time soon.

Friday, Dec. 2, a celebration of Shapiro’s life will take place at 3 p.m. in Room 212 of the Jackie Gaughan Multicultural Center. The event will feature a reading of one of Shapiro’s most recent stories, “The Last of the Cowboy Poets” by ac-tor and director Peter Riegert. Riegert directed and starred in the film “King of the Corner,” which was based on Shapiro’s “Bad Jews.”

Other speakers at the cele-bration will include UNL alumni Emily Danforth and Lee Martin and UNL faculty Grace Bauer and Timothy Schaffert.

“I think the celebration is a wonderful opportunity to honor Gerry’s memory and the impressive body of work that he has left us,” said Susan Be-lasco, chair of the UNL English department. “I think for all of us in the English department, the celebration is a chance to honor our valued colleague and very dear friend.”

For UNL English lecturer and author Timothy Schaffert, the opportunity to celebrate Shap-iro’s life has personal value, as it does for many of his English department colleagues.

“Gerry was such a good friend to me, someone who I sought out constantly for advice and perspective,” Schaffert said. “I welcome any opportunity to honor and celebrate Gerry, and it will be nice to be around oth-ers who will also miss his in-sight and friendship.”

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For many poets, writing serves as a means of self-expression and conflict resolution.

At Crescent Moon Coffee, writers have the opportunity to share their written lives with others by reading their work to an audience made up of both writ-ers and non-writers. Rex Walton, a Lincoln poet for 30 years, has been running this Monday night reading series for the past 10 years.

Though “Poetry at the Moon” is typically frequented by po-ets, short stories, non-fiction, screenplays, songs and even blog posts are shared.

In the process of booking read-ers for the series, Walton contacts

and schedules writers from Ne-braska and all across the Midwest to read their work at the Crescent Moon. There are five or six “reg-ulars” who read every week, but the number of new readers has been increasing recently.

“These writers bring great experiences, styles and differ-ent ways of looking at things,” Walton said.

But Walton’s love of verse is grounded in his own expe-rience as a poet. He writes nar-rative poetry to express himself and to generate new thought. He often uses his poems to work through the events of his life.

“It’s a way of talking to myself about myself and the world,” Walton said.

His inspiration to write is

magnified by the work of oth-ers, whether it’s listening to fellow writers reading on Mon-days or reading online articles or blogs. Much of Walton’s work is based on events that have happened in his life, but he also touches on themes of nature and politics. Though he primarily writes poems, he has crafted some short stories as well.

“I’d say I’m primarily a poet because I have a short attention span and slow typing speed,” Walton said, jokingly.

He’s constantly taking notes on setting for potential inclu-sion in his writing. Walton also regularly looks through old photos, drawing on inspiration from past events he may have

since forgotten or perhaps look-ing for a new lens of interpre-tation. Lately, most of his writ-ing has been about his parents, who have both passed away. Given that this personal style of art can be sensitive and difficult, even the host of “Poetry at the Moon” benefits from an atmo-sphere steeped in reassurance and communication.

“We encourage people to get up and talk about what they’re working on,” he said.

Walton usually shares one or two of his poems each Monday, but only if there is enough time after everyone else has read.

“I’d never refuse anyone a chance to read their writing,” Walton said.

While writers are reading

their pieces, Walton takes pic-tures and later posts them on-line, so they can be shared with the readers’ friends or family.

One “regular” at Crescent Moon is Amy Plettner, a local writer and poet of 25 years, who’s been the featured reader at Crescent Moon three times, twice in collaboration with her daughter.

“My poetry is free verse and deals with life, texture, sensual-ity and our relationships with the natural world and each oth-er,” Plettner said.

Her inspiration to write comes from other writers, na-ture, family and relationships. One of her books was pub-lished this year, Since this year’s publication of her book, “Undo-ing Orion’s Belt,” she has had

several Nebraska readings.“I still get nervous before

a reading, but I think it’s ex-tremely important for us to (be) involved in a process of listen-ing, even to our own voices,” Plettner said.

She especially enjoys reading at the Crescent Moon because she feels like she is a part of Lincoln’s community of writers.

“I may never have found my voice if not for Rex and the sup-port of this rich writing commu-nity,” Plettner said.

Walton’s continual support of local writers and his role as an or-ganizer in Lincoln’s literary com-munity has helped many writers to find their voices and begin sharing their work with others.

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daily nebraskan

From “WWII In Color” to “Sav-ing Private Ryan” to “Call of Duty,” there is little question that the American fascination and adoration of the Allied vic-tory in World War II is a potent one. But even on issues that may initially reveal themselves as a stark duality of black and white, good and evil, scholars argue that history as we tend to think of it in popular terms is far more complex.

Such is the aim of Gerald Steinacher, a University of Nebraska-Lincoln assistant professor of history, in his re-cent book “Nazis on the Run: How Hitler’s Henchmen Fled Justice.” Steinacher will give a public lecture on his book this Wednesday at the Great Plains Gallery at 7 p.m.

Steinacher’s book, which was released in June 2011 by Oxford University Press, ex-amines the routes and meth-ods that Nazi war criminals, including those well-known figures like Adolf Eichmann and Josef Mengele, used to escape Europe following the war’s end in 1945.

Steinacher’s findings nota-bly refute the supposed ex-istence of the international Nazi organization ODESSA, which ascended into the pop-ular consciousness following

the publishing of Frederick Forsyth’s 1972 novel, “The Odessa File,” and its subse-quent film adaptation. Instead, Steinacher’s work reveals that Holocaust perpetrators fled continental Europe via myriad channels to many corners of the globe, including the Near East, Canada, the United States

and Argentina. And though the existence

of a secret worldwide Nazi or-ganization may seem like the stuff of Robert Ludlum novels, Steinacher acknowledged spe-cific explanations for why the

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Before I had real-person goals (like watching all of David Fincher’s movies in one Thanksgiving break or trying to learn all the words to “Blitzkreig Bop”) I had some pretty neat am-bitions.

Like every kid, I wanted to collect all the world’s precious stones. I, of course, wanted to catch Carmen San Diego as she traversed the globe, or alternately through time. But so far as books are concerned, I desired “Star Wars” novels, any and all of them.

And 2011 is a special year for closeted Star Wars junkies (closeted in the sense that I won’t ramble on about “Star Wars” un-less you first bring it up – not so much closeted, as polite). This year marks the 20th anniversary of the release of “Heir to the Em-pire” (most of you didn’t even know you were cele-brating) by Timothy Zahn. This novel heralded my entry into the Star Wars Ex-panded Universe (what a preposterous thing to say) and stands as the gateway work for the hundreds of books that both embraced and tarnished George Lu-cas’ iconic trilogy.

I know what you’re thinking.

Chance, I really thought more of you before you said all that. Well, buckle up, cynic, because the hy-per drive generator is bro-ken and it’s a bumpy ride to Alderaan (or what’s left of it).

“Heir to the Empire” constituted the reopening “Star Wars” world 10 years before the 1999 release of “The Phantom Menace.” Zahn (with a familiar cast

of characters that included Han, Leia, Luke, Chewbac-ca and Lando) introduced readers to a new super villain, one worth rooting against or perhaps, more intriguingly, for.

I (and the millions of oth-er people who launched “Heir to the Empire” to the New York Times Bestsell-ers List) was immediately captivated by Zahn’s cre-ation of Grand Admiral Thrawn, with his icy de-meanor, tactical supremacy and blue skin. Really and truthfully, Zahn created a villain worthy of original trilogy immortalization and set the bar so high that none of his contempo-raries could reach it.

But I’m being genu-ine when I say that Zahn wrote the Thrawn trilogy (we’ll kindly forget the heavier and yawn-inducing Thrawn duology that fol-lowed) with an inventive-ness that created lasting characters for coattail-rid-ers to come and a regard for the space and time lost between “Return of the Jedi” and his novel, which is set five years later.

Truthfully, diving into the Star Wars Expanded Universe is an experience in admiring some real cre-ativity and reverence to the classic characters and just laughing at the really bad ideas. Take what you like and mercilessly mock the rest of it.

The Empire and the Re-bellion come to tense rec-onciliation following the Emperor’s death in some kind of post-Cold War alle-gory? That’s a terrible idea, Kathy Tyers!

The bounty hunters have a guild where they quibble about assassin bureaucrat-ics? That’s a terrible idea, K.W. Jeter!

Three novels about young Lando? What a de-liciously bad idea, L. Neil Smith. At what age did he grow his mustache?

So I took the good with the bad, reveling in tales of Rogue Squadron and young Obi-Wan.

But as a young reader,

you never considered that these writers (these people I called Michael A. Stack-pole and Kevin J. Ander-son and stuff) could betray me. But they did. They used my innocence and trust against me, much the way Palpatine corrupted Anakin, but with fewer pe-dophilic undertones and less face melting.

Looking back, though, why? Why did I trust hun-dreds and hundreds of writers, all of whom are overstressed – all foaming at the mouth to cut out a piece of the Star Wars uni-verse. They will write any-thing to make it work and sometimes anything to not make it work.

Who could forget when RA Salvatore killed off Chewbacca in “Vector Prime” (1999)? The gall. You have scores of writers and fans who have been trying for years to play by the rules and then all of a sudden this Italian restau-rant owner (one presumes) wanders up and says, “Hey, seems like a good day to kill Chewbacca. Hope that doesn’t muddle things for the rest of you.”

I WAS A CHILD, RA Sal-vatore. And you killed Chewbacca (with George Lucas’ permission, which may or may not make it a more grievous offense). But you want to know who really died when Dobido crashed into Sernpidal? My innocence.

But I still have enough fortitude left to admire those who enhanced the timeless space opera.

Hats off to those of you who always did it right (as much as someone can do it right when it comes to writing Star Wars Expand-ed Universe novels) and for those of you who tried your best to ruin it for the rest of us. I hope you’re forever haunted by the en-during spirit of Exar Kun.

Chewbacca dies. Psh. Gimme a break, nerds.

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New First Friday venue brings art walk to North Lincoln

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When it comes to First Friday art walks in Lincoln, the scope of art on display goes beyond what has been created with pencils and paintbrushes.

During the December event of First Friday, North Lincoln art institutions are broadening the horizons of what art walkers will see from gallery to gallery.

Heart of Gold Jewelers (2701 N. 48th St.) will feature a variety of work this Friday. The store will exhibit art from two pot-ters, several photographers and woodcutters and also jewelry created by co-owner Charlie Yost and his daughter, Toni.

“At our exhibit we’ll have a collection of different mediums that are all local,” Yost said. “They’ll see a lot of things that they won’t see anywhere else. All local and all one of a kind.”

By hosting an art exhibit at Heart of Gold (which has been open for 2-1/2 years), Yost hopes to draw in future custom-ers who might be attracted to a free display of local art.

“Plus it’s always nice because there are things to eat and drink in a nice warming atmosphere,” Yost said.

Within walking distance from Heart of Gold Jewelers is the LUX Center for the Arts, which

will be showcasing ceramics from University of Nebraska-Lincoln Clay Center professors. The title of exhibit is “Changes: UNL Ceramics 1987-2011.”

“It is clay work from either people who are UNL faculty or people that just left,” said Steph-anie Leach, the gallery director at the LUX. “It’s to show what the clay program has become and also what’s happening in contemporary ceramics.”

The exhibit provides a way for the public to view contribu-tions made by faculty who have seen their pieces shown around the world.

“Through workshops and lec-tures we really don’t get to see their work that often,” Leach said. “This is a special treat for the community.”

The LUX Center event is or-ganized so the pieces from each professor contains one unique trait specific to their work. One of the professors, Margaret Bohls, is known for incorporat-ing a great deal of textual ele-ments.

Leach personally finds ce-ramic work to be one of the most fascinating disciplines in the field of visual art.

“It’s one of the most interest-ing mediums because it starts off as nothing and it can be formed into anything,” she said. “It’s one of the most versatile mediums.”

Another stop on the north Lincoln art walk, 9 Muses Stu-dio, will be showcasing the work of Arden Ellen Nixon.

“She works in kind of a fanta-sy genre,” said Kerin Bunstock, head of the 9 Muses art com-mittee.

Nixon mainly focuses on drawings, paintings and water-color works. Nixon’s pieces re-flect her love for literature, his-tory, mythology and life.

“She provides a really unique way of viewing a lot of icons,” Bunstock said. “She’s an illus-trator, so it helps her to tell her stories. She doesn’t like to be lit-eral, but to capture the emotion of the story.”

The 9 Muses Studio is a rela-tively new player to the Lincoln art scene, opening in May 2010. The creators of the studio con-vened out of a need for a space to create and to promote the work of their peers.

“We just came together to see where our creativity would lead us,” Bunstock said.

North Lincoln art exhibits on Friday will offer copious amounts of art mediums to the public. Though the more well-known First Friday destination is downtown Lincoln, the north Lincoln scene aims to provide art patrons with a unique alter-native.

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the wake of Shapiro’s passing comes as a shock to no one.

“I’m not surprised by the outpouring of support and the number of relatives, friends and former students who are com-ing from out of town for the cel-ebration,” Belasco said. “Gerry’s interest in his students was leg-endary in the English depart-ment and he had many friends who cared deeply about him.”

Of course, more time will need to pass to solidify Shap-iro’s lasting legacy at UNL, but as things currently stand, he leaves behind a culture of cre-ative writing that reflects his dedication to students and to their stories.

“Gerry played a significant role in developing the creative writing program, dedicating himself to it from the second he

arrived 25 years ago,” Schaffert said. “He was a tireless teacher and a dedicated mentor. And of course, he was a great writer; his stories will endure, as will all the many, many insights into fiction he has passed on to the apprentice writers who were lucky enough to work with him.”

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ODESSA myth has persisted for a quarter century.

“For many years ODESSA dominated everything, even appearing in academic publica-tions as an explanation for how Nazis escaped Europe after 1945 and it clearly shows that we certainly have a tendency to believe in conspiracy theories,” he said. “These mythical expla-nations were used to keep the topic alive when people want-ed to forget it in the early years of the Cold War.”

These international implica-tions of Nazi escapes from Eu-rope are certainly one of the primary themes in Steinacher’s work – that the post-war tone of the continent, the inception of the Cold War and the global, political backdrop of the 1950s and 1960s combined to both al-low the flight of SS officials and render it difficult to detect after the fact.

“There are still many stereo-types and many myths, but slowly we are understanding how these escapes happened,” Steinacher said. “Much of this information wasn’t available

because of the post-war po-litical background until 1989, when the Berlin Wall came down.”

Perhaps one of the more striking revelations to come out of Steinacher’s international research is that Italy and the Vatican played vital roles in al-lowing Nazis to flee the conti-nent. The reasoning behind the complicity of various bishops and less prominent clergy is dif-ficult to nail down. Some, Stei-nacher asserts, were staunchly anti-communist. Others, history shows, felt that aiding the of-ficers was a moral obligation. What the author also plans to emphasize on Wednesday is that these figures within the Ro-man Catholic Church felt they were operating in accordance with a moral code that Ameri-cans and Europeans of 2011 may have difficulty imagining.

“Many of those who helped the perpetrators were con-vinced they were doing some-thing good,” Steinacher said. “Our understanding of humani-tarian ideals and human rights has changed drastically.”

Wednesday’s lecture is spon-sored by the Norman and Ber-nice Harris Center for Judaic Studies and is coordinated by Jean Cahan, the director of the Harris Center.

In Cahan’s opinion, the talk constitutes an opportunity to refine the lens through which students view this crucial piece of 20th century history.

“I would say one of the main impacts of this historical schol-arship is to broaden the context of the Holocaust’s aftermath,” she said. “Hopefully students will see that this problem is not just a problem between Ger-mans and Jews, shall we say, but a broader European and Latin American problem.”

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To those with a penchant for poetry or songwriting, the University of Nebraska-Lincoln chapter of Amnesty International wants to see your best work.

The university chapter of the international hu-man rights organization is holding a two-fold lyricist contest, offering $50 to the writer of the best poem and another $50 for writer of the best song. The poems and song lyrics should touch on themes of social justice and human rights, though the subject matter is open to in-terpretation. The officers of the UNL Amnesty group will make the final selections.

Those interested in enter-ing should submit their work to [email protected] by Jan. 25.

Along with the $50 prizes, the winners will be given the chance to perform their work at the “Demand Dig-nity” concert being put on by the UNL group next se-mester.

The concert, which will take place Jan. 28 at Mead-owlark Coffee at 7 p.m., has a $5 suggested donation. The money collected that night will benefit Native American reservation poverty in the state of Nebraska, though the specific charity is yet to be determined.

Amnesty International, formed in 1961, is at the global forefront of many hu-man rights movements, from fighting for the release of wrongly imprisoned people to raising awareness about ongoing crimes against hu-manity.

“We’re a watchdog agen-cy, even for our own gov-ernment,” said Tim Lundy, a junior English major and

secretary of the UNL chap-ter. “We write letters to dif-ferent governments, trying to help those who need it. We get involved with campaigns, like ending the death penalty and ending violence against women. We do a lot.”

As part of the over-arching “Demand Dignity” campaign being run by Amnesty In-ternational, the UNL chap-ter is focusing their efforts this winter on helping those who live on Nebraska Native American reservations.

“The ‘Demand Dignity’ campaign is concerned with living standards,” said Kai-tlin Mazour, an English and history double major and president of the UNL Amnes-ty chapter. “We decided to benefit reservation poverty because we see it as a local

issue that individuals in this area will be able to relate to.”

As far as the poems and songs are concerned, Mazour noted that UNL Amnesty is giving poets and musicians plenty of room to move so far as topic is concerned.

“We’d like the entries to be related to human rights,” Mazour said. “But the lyrics or poems don’t have to be related to reservation condi-tions or even the ‘Demand Dignity’ campaign.”

The contest is open to any-one interested, not just UNL students.

“This is a contest for those who like writing or have concerns about human rights,” Mazour said. “And everyone has concerns, I would hope.”

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»women’s basketball

Huskers erase 13-point deficit, top Florida State

nebraska 20, Iowa 7

Game-changing plays put David

among NU’s best

Nebraska receiver Kenny Bell caught a career-high five passes on Friday for 93 yards. The redshirt freshman also drew multiple penalties to keep Husker drives alive.

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Carl Pelini remembers scouts asking him about defensive tackle Ndamu-kong Suh two years ago. They asked him if he’d make a good pro.

NU’s defensive coor-dinator’s response was a simple one: “He already is.”

The scouts will be back this year, and they will likely ask similar questions about linebacker Lavonte David. And Pelini’s re-sponse is going to be the same.

“I can’t imagine there being a better lineback-er out there,” Pelini said. “He’s matured into a guy that who, when he gets out on the practice field, it’s a trade for him. It’s no longer a game. He’s per-fecting his trade.”

David has perfected his trade as well as any line-backer in school history. Despite being a part of the team for less than two years, he’s fifth on NU’s career tackles list with 274.

And although he’s a tack-ling machine (he led the team with eight, including five solo on Friday), he’ll be remembered for his game-changing plays.

Earlier this season against Ohio State, his strip and ensuing fumble recovery sparked the larg-est comeback in school history.

A few weeks later, he stuffed Penn State running back Silas Redd on fourth down to preserve another Husker victory.

David added to the list Friday with maybe his most spectacular play yet. On a 3rd-and-11, Iowa quarterback James Van-denberg threw to tight end C.J. Fiedorowicz, whom David was covering. The big tight end pushed Da-vid down, caught the pass and started upfield.

The referee behind the play threw a penalty flag

for offensive pass interfer-ence, but David didn’t see it. He chased down Fie-dorowicz and punched the ball out as he brought the tight end down.

As if that wasn’t enough, he then pounced on the ball to give NU possession.

“I felt the guy push off and I kind of got an-gry as I was going down, and I was like. ‘I have to do something to make up for this,’” David said. “I just saw the ball hanging out and I took a shot at it. Fortunately, it turned out great for us.”

David’s instincts tend to kick in when his team needs him most. Pelini said that’s why the coaching staff believed David would be such a great player even though he arrived late in the summer. Pelini saw a good deal of David playing for Fort Scott Com-munity College and knew he had the chance to be a star.

“When you watch junior college football, they don’t have the time with (the players) that we do,” he said. “You can really see instinct there. You knew that if he got into our scheme that instinct would help in a lot of ways and it did. He was playing all on instinct. He was a late add that came on late in the summer. As he learned the defense, he just started going faster and faster and recognizing things quicker and quicker.”

But instinct can only get a player so far. Even in the simplest defenses, a good amount of time spent studying the playbook and watching film is required.

And Pelini’s defense isn’t simple.

But David absorbs infor-mation like a sponge. He set the school’s single-sea-son record for tackles last year, yet Pelini said he still

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Nebraska volleyball was rid-ing high. The No. 2 Huskers clinched the outright Big Ten title, the first in Nebras-ka athletics history, with a sweep on the road against Iowa.

Then a 3-1 loss to North-western happened on the

road. Then Sunday night’s selection show happened.

Nebraska was placed in the Honolulu region-al, which features the top three AVCA coaches poll teams in the nation – No. 1 USC, No. 2 Nebraska and No. 3 Hawaii. The Husk-ers were named the No. 2 overall seed in the bracket and will host Jackson State on Thursday and potentially play the winner of Kansas State/Wichita State on Fri-day. Texas was named the No. 1 overall seed with Il-linois and Iowa State at No. 3 and 4, respectively.

If the Huskers win their first two matches, they will

advance to regionals in Ho-nolulu.

Going into Saturday the 24-3 Huskers knew they would be presented with the Big Ten trophy regard-less of their performance against a .500 Northwestern squad.

Northwestern capitalized on Nebraska’s hangover following the sweep against Iowa and won the match.

“Northwestern played re-ally well,” Nebraska coach John Cook said. “They played fearless, and we didn’t make plays when we needed to get it done.”

And the Wildcats took ad-vantage of a sleepy Husker

squad right out the gates.In the first set, North-

western held Nebraska to a .089 hitting percentage, and the Huskers dropped their fourth first set of a match in the last five matches 20-25.

Then Nebraska rebound-ed.

The Huskers held North-western to -.205 hitting per-centage and won the sec-ond set soundly 25-9.

But following the inter-mission the Wildcats came out on a mission and won the third and fourth sets

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Traveling wasn’t much fun for the Nebraska women’s basketball team last year. In 15 contests outside the state of Nebraska, the Husk-ers won just one game, at lowly Washington State in Pullman, Wash.

In the latest example of how different this season is, NU won two games in Talla-hassee during the weekend,

including a thrilling 66-63 comeback win against Flor-ida State to start the season 6-0.

Down by 13 points on two separate occasions in the second half and with star forward Jordan Hooper often on the bench with foul trouble, hope was thin on the court for the Husk-ers. But during the final 17:44 of the game, NU was able to outscore FSU 35-19.

“We really didn’t play

well on offense in the first half ... we dug ourselves a hole,” coach Connie Yori said. “But it was good to see we responded. A road win against an ACC team, a team that’s been in the NCAA tournament the last seven years ... again, a re-ally good win for us, par-ticularly because it’s on the road.”

Lindsey Moore earned the game ball, according to teammate Emily Cady, with

her clutch play at the end of the game. The Huskers took their first lead of the game at 55-52, but FSU made a 8-2 run and NU trailed 60-57 with little more than two minutes left. At that point

Moore took over, dishing a perfect pass to set freshman Brandi Jeffery up for a three to tie, then set up a Cady layup to give the Huskers the lead with 39 seconds left. Moore then grabbed a clutch defensive rebound and hit four free throws to ice the game.

“The free throws at the end were key,” Cady said. “She works hard all the time, never gives up. Her energy drives the rest of the

team to do good.”One area where the Husk-

ers did especially well was at the free throw line. While both teams shot 10-for-30 from the field in the second half, NU hit all 12 of its free throws. FSU was 3-for-7. That difference, and NU’s plus-seven turnover margin in the half, led to a 37-26

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file photo by matt masin | daily nebraskanNebraska coach John Cook will look to get his Huskers back to their october form after the team stumbled a bit late in the season, losing two November matches.

A receiver does more than catch the ball.

At a school like Nebraska, rich with a history of getting things done on the ground, fans appreciate the other roles a wideout has. But when a receiver does get a glance at the ball downfield, snagging it is obviously critical.

That’s why NU receivers coach Rich Fisher saw Kenny Bell’s performance Friday as both exciting and expected.

“It’s a pressure cooker out

there,” Fisher said. “Especial-ly when sometimes we get rolling and we’re running the ball a lot and we’re not pass-ing the ball a lot. So when your number’s called, you’ve got to be able to produce.”

And produce Bell did. He snagged five passes for 93 yards, gashing the Hawkeye defense en route to a 20-7 win. Bell grabbed 70 of those yards in the second half, help-ing the Huskers create dis-tance between their newest

rival on Senior Day.“I was given an opportu-

nity to make some plays and, luckily, I reeled `em in,” Bell said. “Everything I did today was for those 21 seniors we have. I’m going to miss those guys a lot.”

Bell led a group of receiv-ers that hauled in 12 of quar-terback Taylor Martinez’s 22 pass attempts.

“He’s a monster, he’s just a freak of nature,” NU receiver Quincy Enunwa said of Bell.

“He’s out there, faster than anybody I’ve ever seen in my life, really, and he’s a great receiver.”

While the freshman from Boulder, Colo., didn’t record a score on the day, it may have been some of the more frustrating plays that signified his importance.

Three different times,

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second half advantage for the Huskers. NU had strug-gled with free throws ear-lier in the season.

“It was nice to hit some for once,” Cady said.

Jeffery hit two key 3-pointers and finished with a career-high 12 points in 15 minutes of play. Cady also had a career high with 14, while chipping in five rebounds. Moore led the team with 15 points and added five assists and sev-en rebounds. Hooper, play-ing only 25 minutes due to her three fouls, led the team with eight rebounds and scored 12 points, but did so on 3-of-15 shooting from the field.

NU’s strong performance came off an inconsistent 72-64 win against Florida A&M on Friday. Hooper led the Huskers with 21 points and eight rebounds, but the Huskers struggled to put the Rattlers away af-ter getting a 19-point lead just before halftime, giving up 42 points on 47 percent shooting in the second half.

Still, Yori liked what she saw from her young play-ers in what was the first road trip for many as Husk-ers.

“It’s fun to watch how

much better our younger players are getting and how much more confident they’re getting,” Yori said on her postgame radio

show Sunday. “In that last stretch, we had three fresh-men and a sophomore on the floor. And (Florida State’s) a veteran team,

that’s a team that has a lot of returners. We had a lot of young kids on the floor.”

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Travel can serve many pur-poses. It can be a funda-mental aspect of one’s ca-reer, or it can provide an escape from the daily grind. For Czech students Jirka Miklosy and Ludek Klucina, travel is a means of receiv-ing a quality education.

“I want to put what I’m learning toward my career,” Miklosy said.

In the Czech Republic, Klucina is an undergradu-ate international business major, while Miklosy is pursuing his masters in in-formation technology and business. Because they are only at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln for a year, Miklosy and Klucina did not declare majors; they are just taking courses that suit their interests.

Both Miklosy and Klu-cina received the Paul Rob-itschek Scholarship to study at UNL for two semesters. The scholarship, which Robitschek established in 1996, covers tuition, room and board, and books and fees, according to UNL’s website.

“Because of his commit-ment to democracy and free market economics, Paul established the program to give talented Czech stu-dents, who might not oth-erwise have the means or opportunity, to spend a year studying in the Unit-ed States,” the description reads.

“College is free in the Czech Republic, but the quality of education is much lower,” Klucina said.

Miklosy said he had the option of studying in either Spain or at UNL.

“I had met only a few American people back in the Czech Republic and I knew a lot of Europeans, so I wanted to come here,”

Miklosy said, smiling. “Spain was my second choice, but I think here is better.”

Miklosy and Klucina said they have come to appreci-ate Nebraska in a number of ways.

“It’s totally different (than the Czech Republic),” Mik-losy said. “People are much nicer here — more friendly. People are very kind.”

Klucina said he agreed.“The mentality is com-

pletely different,” he said. “In my country, people just get up and go to work and complain about it. Here, people seem almost excited to work. Overall, they are more happy. We are more

grumpy.” But they said they miss

certain aspects of home. Family meals are a bigger priority in the Czech Repub-lic, Miklosy said.

“Every time when we (my family and I) eat, we eat to-gether — every meal,” he said. “When I’m home on weekends, every lunch and dinner we eat together, un-like here.”

Klucina said he misses the availability of fresh pro-duce.

“In the Czech Republic, we have fresh fruits and vegetables on every cor-ner,” Klucina said.

Both students said they

appreciate the network of international students at UNL. Miklosy and Klucina are members of the Euro-pean Students Union.

“I had to spend my first day here without my fam-ily, and I was homesick,” Miklosy said. “It was my birthday. My friends, inter-national students, came to my room and stayed there with me. It was very nice to see familiar people I had known for three months. It was good to not be alone.”

Despite experiencing ini-tial homesickness, Miklosy said he recommends study-ing abroad, especially as a means of expanding one’s

worldview.“Open your eyes,” he

said. “You will find a lot of beautiful things. Even

though it can be hard, it’s worth it.”

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JIRKA MIKLOSY AND LUDEK KLUCINACzech Republic

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brianna soukup | daily nebraskanJirka Miklosy, an informational technology master’s student (left), and Ludek Klucina, an undergraduate international business student (right), pull on their country’s flag while posing for a portrait nov. 18. The two became fast friends when they met at UnL.

McCray, NU bench lead Nebraska to win against SDSU

asks questions at every prac-tice.

“When he’s at practice, it doesn’t matter whether he’s in or not,” Pelini said. “He’s in. His head’s in it. He’s talk-ing all the time, asking ques-tions, learning, watching film. He’s an amazing prep guy.

“He’s one of the best guys I’ve ever seen play college football.”

Friday’s game had a feeling of finality about it. Although the season isn’t done, the victory against Iowa was the last time David and his fellow seniors will play in Memorial Stadium. Without a chance to play in the Big Ten title game,

it will likely be more than a month until the Huskers take the field again, and even then it will be in a location far away.

David was adamant that his work on the collegiate level is far from done. The bowl game will be his final test as a Husker.

But even he was able to re-flect Friday on his career as a Husker, the effect he’s had on the program and the dent he continues to make in the record books.

“I think my career has been great,” he said. “I’m re-ally going to miss this place.”

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Dan Hoppen Daily NebraskaN

During the Huskers’ 76-64 win against South Dakota State Saturday afternoon, NU’s starters delivered. Bo Spencer scored 18 points, including nine in the game’s final seven minutes, Bran-don Ubel scored 12 points and pulled down a game-high eight rebounds and Jorge Brian Diaz chipped in with eight points.

But South Dakota State coach Scott Nagy said it wasn’t the starting five that sunk his team’s upset bid.

“Quite frankly, (Toney) McCray was their MVP,” Nagy said. “He hit big shots when we got close. He played better offensively than we gave him credit for. It wasn’t their stars that hurt; it was their bench that hurt us.”

After playing just eight minutes in NU’s loss to Or-egon Wednesday night, Mc-Cray had 12 points and six rebounds in 24 minutes Sat-urday. He wasn’t the only bench member to make a dent in the stat sheet, though. Freshman David Rivers, who had played just nine minutes total in NU’s first four games, scored eight points in 18 minutes and Dylan Talley added 12.

All three received more minutes due to an illness that hit starting guard Caleb Walker Friday night and car-ried into Saturday morning. Walker started but played a season-low 12 minutes and didn’t score.

But the bench was there to pick up the scoring slack. The Huskers’ subs out-scored SDSU’s bench 32-18.

“What the guys off the bench are doing is giving us points and that’s what you’d like them to do,” coach Doc Sadler said. “That’s some-thing that David and Toney

can do in that mismatch po-sition.”

After the loss to Oregon, Sadler told Rivers that there were going to be minutes available in the coming games and someone needed to step up. And with Walker limited with the illness, that need became even more pronounced.

But McCray was able to shoulder the load Satur-day. He made five of his nine shot attempts, includ-ing both of his shots from long range and added an assist without turning the ball over.

“I knew coming into the game we were going to need some help to fill what he brings to the table,” he said.

During Sadler’s tenure, the Huskers haven’t been a team known for scoring prowess. Due to their per-sonnel, NU chose to employ a more defensive-minded strategy. While Sadler has professed his desire to push the ball on offense, he didn’t always have the horses to do so.

A healthy McCray certain-ly would’ve helped in that area. Sadler said because of injuries, McCray has been unable to dribble a basket-ball for 12 of the past 24 months.

Now, with McCray mend-ed, Sadler may finally have the pieces he needs for an up-tempo offense. The Huskers have averaged more than 78 points during their last three games.

“The one thing we all know Toney can do is score baskets,” Sadler said. “His last eight or nine games last year, he may have been our best player. (He) has been dealt a bad hand since he’s been here. It’s going to take him a while to get back.”

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andrew dickinson | daily nebraskanSenior Toney McCray (right) goes up for a layup Saturday against South Dakota State. McCray scored 12 points off the bench in the Huskers’ 76-64 win.

file photo by matt masin | daily nebraskannebraska guard Lindsey Moore (right) helped the Huskers to two road victories this weekend in Florida.

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21-25 and 23-25.Nebraska’s performance

for the month of Novem-ber has Cook worried. Since an Oct. 29 loss to Penn State, the Huskers recorded two more losses, half their total for 2011.

“Maybe this team has decided that they’ve had enough, I don’t know,” Cook said. “We haven’t played well the last five matches. In October we were the best team in the country, and I don’t know where it’s gone. We’re go-ing to have to figure some things out.”

But it’s things like solv-ing the November strug-gles that earn Cook his paycheck.

“That’s why they call me coach,” Cook said.

A lot of Cook’s frustra-tion came from the perfor-mances of two particular Wildcats — outside hitters Stephanie Holthus and Ye-wande Akanbi.

The two combined for 121 of Northwestern’s 172 total attacks and totaled 39 of its kills.

And numbers like that left Cook disheartened for falling to a one-dimen-sional team.

“Look at the stats, they set their left-side

(hitters) every time and we couldn’t stop them,” Cook said. “We were so undisciplined and it was a pathetic performance on our part. Northwestern just set high balls and hit; we couldn’t stop it.”

But a lot of the Husker struggles were a result of distractions from Big Ten crowning festivities.

“We’re sitting there playing with the Big Ten trophy in our locker room,” Cook said. “So it was kind of a trap game in a lot of ways I think we might do it different if we get in that situation again in how the trophy was presented to us ... in somebody else’s gym.”

Nebraska needs to work on its Nov. 2011 struggles. With half its losses coming this month, the Huskers are looking forward to work-ing hard in practice and improving in time for the tournament.

“We need to figure out how to get back to where we were in October,” Brooke Delano said. “And I don’t think it’s far and I think we’re gonna be there.”

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volleyball: from 8Hawkeye defenders com-mitted penalties on Bell. The first play of a second quarter drive saw Bell get held by linebacker Tyler Nielsen. Later in the second, safety Jordan Bernstine wrapped Bell in a bear hug on a downfield pass attempt. Both fouls led to a Husker score and a 10-0 NU lead at the half.

In the third quarter, Bell grabbed another pass be-fore being brought to the ground via a horse-collar tackle by Hawkeye Tanner Miller.

“Yeah, that kid gets cooked if he doesn’t horse collar me,” Bell said, grin-ning.

Bell said that if anything, the fouls were a compli-ment.

“It lets me know that they studied film,” Bell said. “They know we’ve got guys that can run, but, yeah, it’s absolutely frus-trating when a guy doesn’t even look at the ball to make a play on it, but you live to fight another day and you move on.”

Fisher has seen the young receiver grow this season.

“I think you guys all can see that he’s one of those players that once he gets

the ball in his hands, he can take it to the house anytime,” Fisher said. “So it was exciting, it’s nice to see him mature and to see him grow and I’m excited for his future.”

Bell’s performance came in the wake of NU’s receiv-ers catching a lot of heat after notable drops in the past few weeks.

“We played how we should play. We’ve got a tremendous group in there,” Bell said. “From the top of the board, ‘BK’ (se-nior Brandon Kinnie), all the way down to the bot-tom, I think. We need to step up and start making plays and today I think we did that.”

For Fisher, it’s about tak-ing a look in the mirror. He said the Huskers took a long look before their final game at home this season. He’s proud of their resolve.

For Bell, Saturday was about putting the finishing touches on a regular season, not only for the receivers, but for the seniors as well.

“I feel like we’ve been up and down this season. We needed to finish strong and today I think we did that,” Bell said.

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football: from 8

jon augustine | daily nebraskanNebraska running back Rex Burkhead goes airborne trying to gain extra yards against Iowa on Friday.

mary-ellen kennedy | daily nebraskanHusker defensive end Jason Ankrah (9) takes down Iowa running back Marcus Coker on Friday at Memorial Stadium.

jon augustine | daily nebraskanNebraska seniors Curenski Gilleylen (left) and Terrence Moore hoist the Heroes Trophy after the Huskers won the inaugural conference border battle between NU and Iowa.

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Number of carries for Nebraska running back Rex Burkhead on Saturday. The junior broke the single-game carries record and ran for 160 yards on the ground. Burkhead scored from two yards out and now has scored in 11 out of 12 NU games.

Yards receiving for Huskers wide out Kenny Bell against Iowa. Bell had a career-high five receptions and leads the team this season with 29 total catches. The redshirt freshman’s 93 yards were the most by a NU receiver this year in a single game.

Number of receiv-ing touchdowns for NU tight end Kyler Reed this season. The junior caught a six-yard touch-down in the second quarter to give the Huskers a 10-0 lead. Reed had a Nebraska tight end record eight scores last season.

Catches for Hawkeyes re-ceiver Marvin McNutt against the Huskers. The Big Ten’s leading receiver (105.8 YPG) was held to a season-low 29 yards on Friday. McNutt had just two receptions for one yard through three quarters.

Difference in Nebraska’s time of possession between Michigan and Iowa games. The Husker of-fense held the ball for just 18:39 against Michigan and couldn’t find a rhythm. NU recorded a season-high time of possession 37:47 Friday against Iowa.

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nebraska 20, iowa 7

Huskers record 9tH win, trounce iowa in season finale

alfonzo dennardthe cornerback saved one his best

performances for senior day. He shadowed Marvin Mcnutt, iowa’s best receiver and an all-Big ten candidate, and erased him from the game. Mcnutt had four catches for 29 yards, both season lows. dennard

added three tackles and a pass breakup.-dan hoppen, dn senior reporter

game ballslavonte david

lavonte david ended his playing days in Memorial sta-dium with the same presence he had throughout his short career with the Huskers. the senior linebacker recorded a team-leading eight tackles in addition to recording the

game’s only sack. He also forced and recovered a fumble that kept the Hawkeyes at bay in the third quarter.

-jeff packer, dn senior reporter

rex burkheadthe junior i-back didn’t exactly enjoy the way he got his

school-record 38th carry, but he did it for the seniors on the offensive line. Burkhead ran for 160 yards on the ground, in-

cluding a two-yard score that gave nebraska a 20-0 lead. He’s been a workhorse for the Huskers offense all season long, but

will now get some much deserved rest before nu’s bowl game.-doug burger, dn sports editor