RILEY JOHNSON DAILY NEBRASKAN The University of Nebraska- Lincoln’s enrollment shrunk slightly this fall to just under 25,000 students, according to figures released Tuesday by the University of Nebraska. The university-wide census counted 24,593 undergradu- ate and graduate students at UNL on the sixth day of class- es, which is 18 fewer than fall 2010 enrollment. The university’s 0.1 percent decrease in enrollment comes at a time when the other three University of Nebraska campuses increased their en- rollments. In all, University of Nebras- ka system enrollment exceed- ed 50,000 students this fall for the first time since 1993, ac- cording to NU President J.B. Milliken. “I am encouraged that a growing number of students are enrolling at the University of Nebraska, but we will need to pick up the pace to meet our goals,” Milliken said. Those goals include UNL Chancellor Harvey Perlman’s vision of having 30,000 stu- dents enrolled by 2017. But, as Perlman outlined in his State of the University Ad- dress on Sept. 1, the goal of increasing enrollment comes at a time when the in-state re- cruiting base has decreased. That means UNL will need to recruit more international and non-resident students and maximize the amount of in- state students it attracts. “The demographics of Nebraska, with declining numbers of high school grad- uates, presents a challenge,” Perlman said in his address. “However, our increasing at- tractiveness to non-resident students and international students and our Big Ten sta- tus presents an opportunity.” Preliminary figures for the 2010-2011 school year show 19,039 students graduated from Nebraska’s public high schools, according to the Ne- braska Department of Edu- cation. The previous school year, 2009-2010, saw 20,229 students graduate from the state’s public and private high schools. The number of pub- lic school graduates that year was 19,298. The Nebraska Department of Education did not have private school grad- uation figures for the past year, and calls to the Nebras- ka Coordinating Commission on Postsecondary Education were unanswered. Alan Cerveny, dean of the UNL Office of Admissions, said the state saw a total of 400 fewer high school gradu- ates, 200 of which from Oma- ha-metropolitan schools. What made this year’s drop different from previous years was the location, he said. Typically the state sees high school graduate numbers drop for rural and central and western Nebraska schools. Still, the UNL freshman class increased by 0.4 per- cent this fall to 4,093, up from 4,075. Cerveny told the Daily Nebraskan that he thinks UNL Admissions attracted more non-resident and international students, which helped make up for the loss of Nebraska high school students. Howev- er, exact information on how many incoming freshmen came from out-of-state could not be obtained. Cerveny said he and his staff were surprised and en- couraged to learn of the growth. Perlman said he will work to increase the number of Nebraskans graduating from high school by boosting the number eligible to attend col- lege. In addition, he said UNL also needs to see an increase in the number of Nebraska high school graduates pursu- ing a college degree in an at- tempt to better their futures. Both Cerveny and Perl- man stressed the importance of retaining in-state students, which they see as vital to the state’s only land-grant institu- tion’s student body. “The heart and soul of every class is those students within the state,” Cerveny said. With smaller pools of Ne- braska’s graduating high school students, Cerveny said that UNL Admissions will look at attracting more Nebraska transfer students to Lincoln. DAILY NEBRASKAN WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 2011 VOLUME 111, ISSUE 013 DAILYNEBRASKAN.COM Lateral bad, vertical good CELLPHONE CONSUMERS WIN AND LOSE IN MERGERS RECENT GRADUATE AND ASPIRING DIRECTOR FINDS ART IN LIFE TURNER SETTING HIGH GOALS FOR HIMSELF, FELLOW FRESHMEN Portrait of the artist Class Standards FOOTBALL PAGE 12 WEATHER | SUNNY STUDENT LIFE PAGE 7 MOUNT PAGE 5 @dailyneb | facebook.com/dailynebraskan 76° 51° HIGH RISK, HIGH RETURN ‘MY BIG FAT GREEK PARTY’ Husker volleyball names captains despite lack of on-court play PAGE 12 All-greek organization party returns to Pershing after long hiatus PAGE 8 FALL SEMESTER ENROLLMENT-LAST 10 YEARS The university-wide census counted 24,593 students on campus at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln this fall, according to a University of Nebraska press release. While that number is down 0.1 percent from fall 2010, UNL saw an increase in its freshman class to 4,093 students, up 18 students from the previous fall. SOURCE: DATA FROM INSTITUTIONAL RESEARCH AND PLANNING 0 5000 10000 15000 20000 25000 2001 2003 2002 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 SARAH LAMBERT DAILY NEBRASKAN About three times a day 19-year-old Derek Chris- tensen hooks himself to a vest with two long, ridged tubes connected to a vacuum-like machine. The apparatus may look like something straight out of a sci-fi movie, but the machine breaks up the mu- cus that builds up inside his lungs and helps him breathe. Christensen, a sophomore electrical engineering major, was born with cystic fibrosis. However, this process is a more comfortable alternative from when he was young. Before the vest was invent- ed, his parents would spend an hour and a half pounding on his chest trying to help him breathe more easily. “It’s like brushing your teeth,” Christensen said. “It’s something that you have to do every day, whether you like it or not.” Cystic fibrosis is a common genetic disorder that targets the entire body and progres- sively brings about disability and early death. Today, the life expectancy for people with cystic fibrosis is 38 years old. Born and raised in Parker, S.D., Christensen grew up with extraordinarily supportive par - ents and an empathetic sister who also has cystic fibrosis. He and his older sister, April Christensen, became close, and through their shared fight they took on their dreams. “Seeing Derek doing so well pushed me to want to do well and set a good example,” April Christensen said. “We saw how fragile life is and how important it is to chase our dream.” When Christensen was younger, though, he went to an aeronautical camp where he fell in love with planes. He dreamed of getting his pilot’s license, and during his senior year in high school he was required to do a “big project.” This was finally his excuse to get his pilot’s license. How- ever, when the time had come to fly solo, he was required to obtain a medical certificate certifying that he was capable of taking up a plane by him- self. “I was in the doctor’s office and he asked me if I was taking any medications,” Christensen Cystic fibrosis no large obstacle for determined student DAN HOLTMEYER DAILY NEBRASKAN According to data released yesterday, the University of Nebraska-Lincoln is home to more Hispanic students this semester than ever before: 817 undergraduates, includ- ing 225 freshmen students, a figure that increased by more than a third from last fall’s en- rollment. Hispanic student enroll- ment at UNL has been grow- ing for years, rising almost 50 percent since 2006. In that time, the percentage of UNL’s undergraduate stu- dent body that identifies as Hispanic has also gone up, from 3.2 percent in 2006 to 4.2 percent this year. That growth fits within a larger trend, illustrated by a recent- ly released report, published by the Pew Hispanic Center. The report, based on census data, showed Hispanic col- lege enrollment nationwide jumped by 24 percent be- tween 2009 and 2010. Only part of that increase can be explained by popu- lation growth. In the same time period, the population of 18- to 24-year-old Hispan- ics grew by only 7 percent, according to The New York Times. Some UNL students have happily taken notice of the surge. “Our growth has been huge this year, and it’s been growing constantly,” said Jared Dailey, a senior busi- ness administration major and president of the Mexi- can American Student Asso- ciation. More than 100 people came to the organization’s first meeting compared to about 60 the year before. “We literally couldn’t fit everyone in the room,” Dai- ley said. Other students were also pleased, but had a more so- ber view as well. “Now we’re setting an ex- ample,” said Stephanie Her- nandez, a freshman business administration major and first-generation college stu- dent. Specifically, she said, she’s setting an example for her younger siblings. “My mom never went to col- lege, so I see how much she struggled getting jobs,” Her- nandez said. She credited an increase in the information about col- lege available to students for part of the surge in Hispanic enrollment. For her, part of that came from the Nebraska College Preparatory Acad- emy, a program that identi- fies gifted, low-income and first-generation students in Grand Island and Omaha at the beginning of their high school careers and sets them on a path to college. With- out such programs, Hernan- dez said, she wouldn’t be here. Her mother also came from Mexico for her family’s benefit, according to Her- nandez, and anything less than using that opportunity was poor repayment. “What are we doing here ... if I’m not going to col- lege?” she asked. Still, she said, the universi- ty could do more to encour- age a diverse student body. Her younger sister, who just entered eighth grade, re- cently received a letter from UNL, and Hernandez said communicating with stu- dents early on about college was the right strategy. “It would inspire them to NU 2011 ENROLLMENT: AN 18-YEAR HIGH Enrollment at the five University of Nebraska schools, including the Nebraska College of Technical Agriculture, eclipsed 50,000 students this fall, according to an NU press release. That 18-year-high represents an almost 1 percent increase in enrollment from fall 2010. SOURCE: UNL.EDU 50,352 students UNL 24,593 UNK 7,100 UNO 14,712 UNMC 3,614 NCTA 333 Hispanic students increase to 4.2% PROFILE: SEE PAGE 2 ENROLLMENT: SEE PAGE 3 DIVERSITY: SEE PAGE 3 Following national trends, enrollment of Hispanics at UNL continues steady rise, add responsibilities to students The heart and soul of every class is those students within the state.” ALAN CERVENY DEAN OF ADMISSIONS BOB AL-GREENE | DAILY NEBRASKAN STEPHANIE GOODMAN | DAILY NEBRASKAN Enrollment at UNL dips 0.1%; NU rises HISPANIC STUDENTS AT UNL, 2006-2011 The University of Nebraska-Lincoln has had a 48 percent increase in Hispanic student enrollment since 2006. They now make up 4.2 percent of the total student population. CATEGORY Number of Hispanic undergrads Percent increase Percent of total undergrads 2006 553 3.2% 2007 595 7.6% 3.3% 2008 650 9.2% 3.5% 2009 705 8.5% 3.7% 2010 750 6.4% 3.9% 2011 817 8.9% 4.2% SOURCE: 2010-11 UNL FACT BOOK
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riley JohnsonDaily NebraskaN
The University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s enrollment shrunk slightly this fall to just under 25,000 students, according to figures released Tuesday by the University of Nebraska.
The university-wide census counted 24,593 undergradu-ate and graduate students at UNL on the sixth day of class-es, which is 18 fewer than fall 2010 enrollment.
The university’s 0.1 percent decrease in enrollment comes at a time when the other three University of Nebraska campuses increased their en-rollments.
In all, University of Nebras-ka system enrollment exceed-ed 50,000 students this fall for the first time since 1993, ac-cording to NU President J.B. Milliken.
“I am encouraged that a growing number of students are enrolling at the University of Nebraska, but we will need to pick up the pace to meet our goals,” Milliken said.
Those goals include UNL Chancellor Harvey Perlman’s vision of having 30,000 stu-dents enrolled by 2017. But, as Perlman outlined in his State of the University Ad-dress on Sept. 1, the goal of increasing enrollment comes at a time when the in-state re-cruiting base has decreased. That means UNL will need to recruit more international and non-resident students and maximize the amount of in-state students it attracts.
“The demographics of Nebraska, with declining
numbers of high school grad-uates, presents a challenge,” Perlman said in his address. “However, our increasing at-tractiveness to non-resident students and international students and our Big Ten sta-tus presents an opportunity.”
Preliminary figures for the 2010-2011 school year show 19,039 students graduated from Nebraska’s public high schools, according to the Ne-braska Department of Edu-cation. The previous school year, 2009-2010, saw 20,229 students graduate from the state’s public and private high schools. The number of pub-lic school graduates that year was 19,298. The Nebraska Department of Education did not have private school grad-uation figures for the past year, and calls to the Nebras-ka Coordinating Commission on Postsecondary Education were unanswered.
Alan Cerveny, dean of the UNL Office of Admissions, said the state saw a total of 400 fewer high school gradu-ates, 200 of which from Oma-ha-metropolitan schools.
What made this year’s drop different from previous years was the location, he said. Typically the state sees high school graduate numbers drop for rural and central and western Nebraska schools.
Still, the UNL freshman class increased by 0.4 per-cent this fall to 4,093, up from 4,075. Cerveny told the Daily Nebraskan that he thinks UNL Admissions attracted more non-resident and international students, which helped make up for the loss of Nebraska
high school students. Howev-er, exact information on how many incoming freshmen came from out-of-state could not be obtained.
Cerveny said he and his staff were surprised and en-couraged to learn of the growth.
Perlman said he will work to increase the number of Nebraskans graduating from high school by boosting the number eligible to attend col-lege. In addition, he said UNL also needs to see an increase in the number of Nebraska high school graduates pursu-ing a college degree in an at-tempt to better their futures.
Both Cerveny and Perl-man stressed the importance of retaining in-state students, which they see as vital to the state’s only land-grant institu-tion’s student body.
“The heart and soul of every class is those students within the state,” Cerveny said.
With smaller pools of Ne-braska’s graduating high school students, Cerveny said that UNL Admissions will look at attracting more Nebraska transfer students to Lincoln.
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FALL SEMESTER ENROLLMENT-LAST 10 YEARSThe university-wide census counted 24,593 students on campus at the University ofNebraska-Lincoln this fall, according to a University of Nebraska press release. Whilethat number is down 0.1 percent from fall 2010, UNL saw an increase in its freshman class to 4,093 students, up 18 students from the previous fall.
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About three times a day 19-year-old Derek Chris-tensen hooks himself to a vest with two long, ridged tubes connected to a vacuum-like machine. The apparatus may look like something straight out of a sci-fi movie, but the machine breaks up the mu-cus that builds up inside his lungs and helps him breathe.
Christensen, a sophomore electrical engineering major, was born with cystic fibrosis. However, this process is a more comfortable alternative from when he was young.
Before the vest was invent-ed, his parents would spend an hour and a half pounding on his chest trying to help him breathe more easily.
“It’s like brushing your teeth,” Christensen said. “It’s something that you have to do every day, whether you like it or not.”
Cystic fibrosis is a common genetic disorder that targets the entire body and progres-sively brings about disability and early death. Today, the life expectancy for people with cystic fibrosis is 38 years old.
Born and raised in Parker, S.D., Christensen grew up with extraordinarily supportive par-ents and an empathetic sister who also has cystic fibrosis. He and his older sister, April Christensen, became close, and through their shared fight they took on their dreams.
“Seeing Derek doing so well pushed me to want to do well and set a good example,” April Christensen said. “We saw how fragile life is and how important it is to chase our dream.”
When Christensen was younger, though, he went to an aeronautical camp where he fell in love with planes. He dreamed of getting his pilot’s license, and during his senior year in high school he was required to do a “big project.” This was finally his excuse to get his pilot’s license. How-ever, when the time had come to fly solo, he was required to obtain a medical certificate certifying that he was capable of taking up a plane by him-self.
“I was in the doctor’s office and he asked me if I was taking any medications,” Christensen
Cystic fibrosis no large obstacle for
determined student
dan holtmeyerDaily NebraskaN
According to data released yesterday, the University of Nebraska-Lincoln is home to more Hispanic students this semester than ever before: 817 undergraduates, includ-ing 225 freshmen students, a figure that increased by more than a third from last fall’s en-rollment.
Hispanic student enroll-ment at UNL has been grow-ing for years, rising almost 50 percent since 2006. In that time, the percentage of UNL’s undergraduate stu-dent body that identifies as Hispanic has also gone up, from 3.2 percent in 2006 to 4.2 percent this year. That growth fits within a larger trend, illustrated by a recent-ly released report, published by the Pew Hispanic Center. The report, based on census data, showed Hispanic col-lege enrollment nationwide jumped by 24 percent be-tween 2009 and 2010.
Only part of that increase can be explained by popu-lation growth. In the same time period, the population of 18- to 24-year-old Hispan-ics grew by only 7 percent, according to The New York Times.
Some UNL students have happily taken notice of the surge.
“Our growth has been huge this year, and it’s been growing constantly,” said Jared Dailey, a senior busi-ness administration major and president of the Mexi-can American Student Asso-ciation.
More than 100 people came to the organization’s first meeting compared to about 60 the year before.
“We literally couldn’t fit everyone in the room,” Dai-ley said.
Other students were also
pleased, but had a more so-ber view as well.
“Now we’re setting an ex-ample,” said Stephanie Her-nandez, a freshman business administration major and first-generation college stu-dent. Specifically, she said, she’s setting an example for her younger siblings. “My mom never went to col-lege, so I see how much she struggled getting jobs,” Her-nandez said.
She credited an increase in the information about col-lege available to students for part of the surge in Hispanic enrollment. For her, part of that came from the Nebraska College Preparatory Acad-emy, a program that identi-fies gifted, low-income and first-generation students in Grand Island and Omaha at the beginning of their high school careers and sets them
on a path to college. With-out such programs, Hernan-dez said, she wouldn’t be here.
Her mother also came from Mexico for her family’s benefit, according to Her-nandez, and anything less than using that opportunity was poor repayment.
“What are we doing here ... if I’m not going to col-lege?” she asked.
Still, she said, the universi-ty could do more to encour-age a diverse student body. Her younger sister, who just entered eighth grade, re-cently received a letter from UNL, and Hernandez said communicating with stu-dents early on about college was the right strategy.
“It would inspire them to
NU 2011 ENROLLMENT: AN 18-YEAR HIGHEnrollment at the five University of Nebraska schools, including the Nebraska College of Technical Agriculture, eclipsed 50,000 students this fall, according to an NU press release. That 18-year-high represents an almost 1 percent increase in enrollment from fall 2010.
SOURCE: UNL.EDU
50,352 students
UNL24,593
UNK7,100
UNO14,712
UNMC3,614NCTA
333
hispanic students increase to 4.2%
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EnrollmEnt: see Page 3
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following national trends, enrollment of Hispanics at UNL continues steady rise, add responsibilities to students
the heart and soul of
every class is those students within the state.”
AlAn Cerveny dean of admissions
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Enrollment at Unl dips 0.1%; nU rises
HISPANIC STUDENTS AT UNL, 2006-2011The University of Nebraska-Lincoln has had a 48 percent increase in Hispanic student enrollmentsince 2006. They now make up 4.2 percent of the total student population.
CATEGORYNumber of Hispanic undergradsPercent increasePercent of totalundergrads
2006
553
3.2%
2007
5957.6%
3.3%
2008
6509.2%
3.5%
2009
7058.5%
3.7%
2010
7506.4%
3.9%
2011
8178.9%
4.2%SOURCE: 2010-11 UNL FACT BOOK
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lorena carmonaDaily NebraskaN
Brittany Brody was fed up. Brody was tired of miss-
ing out on events and feeling overwhelmed by the con-glomerate amount of fliers that hung through the halls of campus, never truly knowing what was going on when.
She decided to do some-thing about it and make a website that collected the events into one centralized location that made it easy for students to find.
And Fampus.com was born. Three years have passed
and the idea has turned into a social networking site that fo-cuses on event organization.
“We have Midwest pride,” said Brody, founder of Fam-pus.com and a senior at the University of Wisconsin-Mad-ison.
The website launched in 2010 and has made its way onto several campuses in the Midwest region including the University of Nebraska-Lin-coln. Brody said Fampus is currently at the University of Iowa, Iowa State, University of Wisconsin-Madison and three campuses in the Des Moines region: Drake, Simpson and Grand View University.
The Fampus headquarters is located in Des Moines, Iowa. There are 12 full-time staff members whose primary job is dealing with Fampus. There are also three to five in-terns on each campus finding out what’s happening at their colleges.
A student at UNL with a valid huskers.unl.edu email address may use it to enter Fampus.com. Once the stu-dent has entered in informa-tion such as name, grade status, birth date and gender, the process of setting up is almost complete.
The site has different areas for a person to browse.
“There are dozens of events in one shot when a user looks on the home page,” said Kelly Eagle, vice president of communica-tions for Fampus. Eagle said it is a photo slideshow of events that are happening in the campus area as well as in the community.
Both Eagle and Brody said that it is a social networking site with features like photo sharing and the ability to fol-low people.
“We have embedded a gaming feature,” Brody said. “Everyone likes to play games.”
Brody said the purpose of the website is to encourage more activity. Students will be able to check in at events and upload photos when the mobile application comes out later this year, she said.
Xiaoqian Ma, a graduate student in educational admin-istration, said she thinks that the site would be useful to students.
“It is a convenient way to find things and you don’t have to search through sev-eral sites to see what is going on,” Ma said.
Fampus wants users to be
able to find fun fast. Brody said this has been the motto from the beginning.
“We have people working whose full-time job is find-ing events,” Eagle said.
The events range from speakers on campus to con-certs in town. When events are listed, the user can see the most popular events, upcoming events and fea-tured events. Events can also be submitted by contacting Fampus through email on the website.
Brody said in the future, a submit page for events will be on the site letting users submit events. She said that events submitted will be checked out so that it is a credible event that users will be able to attend. Brody said it is different from Facebook because people can make events for almost anything. These are real events that people will be interested in, she said.
Brody said users are see-ing what the site can bring and the comprehensiveness of the site differentiates it from other social networking sites like Facebook. “We are trying to do for the Facebook event what Twitter did for the Facebook status,” Brody said.
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study: Unicameral among most-educateddaniel Wheaton
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Nebraska is home to the third most-educated state legis-lature in the nation, with 87.3 percent holding some kind of college degree, ac-cording to a June 17 article in The Chronicle of Higher Education.
The study found that in the Unicameral, 34.7 per-cent of lawmakers have just a bachelor’s degree, while 53 percent have some form of an advanced degree. At face value, this may seem like good news for Nebras-ka’s image, but it also raises some questions regarding who should be representing a state with diverse races, cultures and education lev-els.
According to the 2010 census, only 27 percent of Nebraskans have at least a bachelor’s degree.
Nebraska Sen. Colby Coash of District 27 said he believes that the dispropor-tionate amount of higher degrees is a result of the low pay of working in the legislature.
“We only get paid $12,000 a year, so people who get elected have to be indepen-dently wealthy in order to be successful,” Coash said.
He added that even though he has a higher edu-cation level than his overall constituency, he feels that he understands the people he is representing, and that Nebraska is properly repre-sented.
On a national scale, the salary of legislatures varies
greatly. For example, in New Hampshire, only 53 percent of representatives have bachelor’s degrees and the pay is even lower at $200 per two-year term.
In contrast, California’s senators and representa-tives are paid $95,000 a year, according to the as-sembly’s website. Being the most populous state, each representative’s con-stituency is large, and the legislative process is similar to the national Congress.
Even with the different pay in different states, there is another possibility behind the numbers in Nebraska. For the 2010 midterm elec-tions, only 39 percent of Ne-braskans cast their ballots.
Turnout is traditionally lower for midterms, contrast-ed with the 64 percent who
voted in the last presidential election. In a 2010 census study, those with higher de-grees were more likely to vote in an election.
Senator John Wightman of District 36 said he believes the size of the Nebraska Legislature compared to large states such as Califor-nia could make the num-bers seem more significant. For instance, 10 percent of the legislature holds doctor-ate degress, which amounts to about five senators in the Unicameral of 49 members.
However, Wightman said higher education is still important for senators and others. He said he has sup-ported many programs that encourage first-generation Americans to go on to col-lege.
“I would encourage people
to go beyond high school,” Wightman said. “We have the tools.”
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stuDeNt citeD for marijuaNa pos-sessioN iN sch-ramm hallon aug. 31 at 9:32 p.m., a University of nebraska-lincoln police officer was dispatched to sch-ramm hall on reports of the smell of burnt marijuana coming from a room, said charlotte evans, director of patrol operations for Univer-sity Police. Police made contact and identified the occupant of the room as mason mc-intyre, a freshman com-puter science major. mcintyre was cited for possession of marijua-na less than one ounce and possession of drug paraphernalia.
fireworks set off iNsiDe frater-Nityat 1:45 a.m. sept. 2, University Police and lincoln Fire and rescue were both dispatched to delta tau delta in response to a fire alarm alert. after arrival it was determined that fireworks had been set off inside the frater-nity house. the person responsible was found to be freshman maxwell mcKillip, who has not declared a major. When contacted by officers, mcKillip showed signs of being intoxicated. he was then cited for false reporting, possession and discharge of illegal fireworks and minor in possession of alcohol, evans said.
two womeN fouND smokiNg marijuaNa Near beNtoN halla university police of-ficer was dispatched to the east side of benton hall on sept. 2 at 1:34 p.m., on re-ports of two females smoking outside the building. When police arrived they could smell marijuana and found Kelsey schneider, sophomore pre-early care and education major, and haleigh compton, sophomore broadcasting major behind bushes with drug paraphernalia. schneider was cited for marijuana less than one once and compton was cited for possession of drug paraphernalia.
maN fouND stumbliNg DowN streeton sept. 4 at 1:09 a.m., an officer on patrol observed a 21-year-old man walking north down antelope Valley Parkway and onto X street having difficulty maintaining balance and falling backward while trying to tie his shoes. When the officer spoke to the individual, he requested to be taken into civil protec-tive custody and was transported to corn-husker Place detox, according to University Police reports.
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said, “and I started rattling off my list of medications, and the doctor asked what was wrong with me so I told him and he had never heard of CF.”
The doctor sent Christensen’s case to another doctor, and then that doctor sent his case to the Federal Aviation Asso-ciation. Then the FAA decided that Derek was OK to fly. Af-ter two months of delibera-tion, Derek finally got his solo flight and received his license two days before his freshman year of college.
But Christensen’s list of ac-complishments does not stop at receiving a pilot’s license. He was one of two teens from South Dakota who was given the opportunity to meet President Barack Obama at the White House. Anything that in-terests him, he works toward learning about until he masters it.
Such was the case for his hobby of learning to juggle and ride a unicycle.
One of Christensen’s close friends, Andrew Gaspar, a ju-nior computer engineering major, said, “Derek and I were on a bike ride one day and out of the blue one of us said, ‘You know what would be awesome? Unicycling.’ Within a week or so, Derek had al-ready enthusiastically ordered a unicycle and had begun practicing immediately. He put his full effort into learning it.”
Christensen also was given a wish from the Make-A-Wish Foundation. He and his fam-ily received a trip to Hawaii where he got to sky dive. An experience of a lifetime, he fell through a cloud and, af-ter opening his parachute, slowly glided to the edge of one of the Hawaiian islands. Derek has accomplished what people can only fantasize of achieving.
“I do what I dream of do-ing,” he said.
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nickolAi hAmmAr | dAily nEBrAskAnderek christensen, a sophomore electrical engineering major and cystic fibrosis patient, leans against the wall for balance on his unicycle. he demonstrates how to ride it down the halls in Kauffman on sept. 1, 2011.
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Looking ahead, Cerveny said he expects to see in re-cruiting what Penn State saw two decades ago: new looks.
When Penn State joined the Big Ten in 1990, its recruiting expanded to a more nation-ally driven operation, he said. UNL will look to ratchet up its recruiting staff to meet the growth expectations set by Perlman. For Cerveny, that means finding more recruit-ers living in the Chicago, Min-neapolis and Denver areas
that can broaden the univer-sity’s appeal. But, he said, that doesn’t mean UNL will simply mine its Big Ten peer states for prospective stu-dents. “Anyone that shows an interest in (the University of Nebraska-Lincoln), whether they’re from Maine or South-ern California, we’ll recruit them aggressively,” Cerveny said.
Ultimately, Perlman said enrollment growth will not be linear for UNL, as certain
years will see larger growth than other years. Aiming for the target of 30,000 students is a goal Perlman calls “ambi-tious.” But he said it’s a realis-tic and necessary goal for the university to compete with its Big Ten brethren.
“It will take some really hard and some really smart work for us to achieve it,” Perlman said. “But, it remains possible.”
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met with Chancellor Harvey Perlman on the subject, said the university “is trying as much as they can.”
“I believe everyone in the university system… wants to build up diversity,” he said.
Since 2008, state law has barred the university system from using affirmative action programs, which attempt to counteract historical
inequity for minorities in areas like employment and education.
There is every indication the rising trend of Hispanic college enrollment will con-tinue, however.
In 1972, according to the Pew report, 13 percent of college-age Hispanics were enrolled. Today that num-ber, while still lower than white and Asian student enrollment, has more than
doubled to 32 percent. “I’d just say I hope it keeps
growing,” said Sarai Urbina, a freshman criminal justice major.
It’s easy for Hispanic stu-dents to think their chances are lower when they see a predominantly white cam-pus, she said, but they’re wrong. “You have the same capacity,” she said.
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In most cross-country meets, teams consider themselves lucky to have one of their competitors finish in the top five.
On Saturday, Nebraska had a total of five runners from both the women’s and men’s team who did just that at the Creighton/Ne-braska-Omaha Classic.
“When you consider that we didn’t have our top-two women and our top-three men, I think we did very well,” NU coach Jay Dirksen said. “Ashley Mill-er started out much bet-ter for us than she did this time last year. Our women look decent and the fact we didn’t have all our women race today, they can only get better.”
The two players who were sidelined on the women’s team were Milena Stoicev and Martina Barino-va, considered Nebraska’s No. 2 runner, according to Dirksen. Miller achieved first place in the 5k race with a time of 19:04:21 to help the women capture their third straight title in the event. The senior was followed by teammates Erica Hamik, Katie White, Sarah Plambeck and Isabel Andrade, who finished sec-ond, fourth, fifth and sixth, respectively.
It was the first colle-giate race for some Husk-ers, including runner Sarah
Larson. “I was nervous up until
the morning of the meet,” the freshman said. “The whole anxiousness and preparat ion of the meet just over-powers you. But once I got with the team I wasn’t nervous be-cause it was their first meet of the year as well.”
Larson finished in 10th place with a time of 20:14.72.
The Lincoln native said while it took time getting used to the extra 3k, she enjoyed her first meet as a Husker.
“It felt really good,” Lar-son said. “At first I was ner-vous on how I was going to do because the level of competition is way different in college. The atmosphere was different, and having your name on your jersey just put it into a whole new perspective for me.
“I’ve always been taught to go out there and give it 100 percent, and I think I made the transition pretty well.”
Dirksen agrees.“I think Sarah was tre-
mendous,” the coach said. “This was the first ever cross-country meet she’s ran in her life and she was impressive. She was a soft-ball pitcher in high school.
She did a great job Saturday and I think she has a chance to help us this year.”
For the men, only two of their top-five athletes ran and they were led by soph-omore Jarren Heng, who took second place in the meet. Heng led the team with an 8k time of 27:31.24, followed by Tommy Brinn (sixth), Peter Falcon (11th), Connor Gibson (12th) and Dani Dapo (14th).
Redshirt freshman Alney Tobias took 15th place for Nebraska, and said he was happy to compete in his first meet.
“Although I did a couple of things wrong, I think I did pretty good for my first race,” Tobias said. “I look at this meet as getting my feet wet and I know I can correct my mistakes and improve on what I’m do-ing.”
The Troy, N.Y., native ran a time of 29:07.08 in his college debut and said he also noticed differences between now and his high school career.
“I was pretty nervous be-fore the race,” Alney said. “It’s a completely differ-ent game here. Everyone’s faster, older and a lot more mature. A lot more strategy is involved. I didn’t know how I’d do but after the first mile I felt comfortable and everything came into place.”
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Ten years later, some people are still healing.
In honor of the anni-versary of Sept. 11, 2001, Barbara K. Robins, a pro-fessor of English and Na-tive American studies at the University of Nebraska at Omaha will be lecturing on how Native Americans responded to 9/11 through art and literature to help the healing process of the country.
The lecture is Sept. 7 at 3:30 p.m. at the Great Plains Art Museum.
Robins said the examples of artwork she will show are not stereotypical.
“There’s a lot of diversity in how people think about those things,” she said.
Robins said she has iden-tified between 20 to 25 writers or artists who re-sponded to 9/11 in patriotic and supporting terms.
“It worked very well in my interest with healing,” she said.
Each of the different Na-tive American cultures has a different perspective on the topic of healing.
“The Native American cultures view healing with the sense of what we call balance,” she said.
Robin has several pieces of artwork she will talk about, including works by Emil Her Many Horses and Onondaga/Seneca tribe member Peter B. Jones.
“Why I’m going to be talking about (their pieces) is the tribal history,” she said. “The history and par-ticular stories and how they deal with the dead. The way those two artists have done that is moving.”
Martha McCollough, an associate professor of an-thropology and ethnic stud-ies, is planning on attend-ing the lecture. She said she is excited to see how Robin illustrates how indigenous people were involved emo-tionally in this catastrophe as well as with the healing process.
“It will just illustrate how many people continued to help heal. The survivors, the souls that were depart-ed and all of us that had to live through this horrible experience,” McCollough said.
She said that she was glad people will become more aware of the part Na-tive Americans played in helping to heal the nation after the event.
Robins agreed.“Native Americans are
very much people of the 20th and 21st century,” she said.
Robins said with
post-traumatic stress syn-drome showing up in peo-ple who were in New York that day, it was important that people know about the artwork to continue the healing process.
“It’s still very raw when it comes to the 10th anniver-sary,” she said.
Her interest in the Native American culture goes back to her childhood.
“I’ve always been inter-ested in Native American history,” she said. “But when I got into college, I learned about Native Amer-ican literature. There’s a lot of very fascinating history. And some of (my interest) may be because of their values.”
In particular, Robins said she liked the spirituality of the Native American culture as well as the respect for the environment.
Robin said the arts are a vital part of Native Ameri-can culture and to the Unit-ed States.
“I’m always interested in getting Native American art and literature to the pub-lic,” she said.
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a healing culture offers a view at the indigenous peoples response to a nation’s tragedy
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Remember when MySpace would rule forever, Hewlett-Packard made PCs and AOL was synonymous with “In-ternet?” Something about our fast-paced demand for
immediacy makes seismic changes hap-pen to seemingly unshakable giants. While the cellphone industry has mostly avoided these dramatic shifts, smart-phones and business realities may have finally reached a pivotal crossroads.
On one hand is Google, which shocked technology observers when they announced in August that they were purchasing Motorola Mobility for $12.5 billion – the biggest acquisition in the search giant’s 13-year history.
And just last week, the U.S. Depart-ment of Justice filed a suit to block the proposed merger between AT&T and T-Mobile, a deal that would put 80 percent of the wireless market in the hands of two companies if it isn’t blocked.
What consumers want to know amid all of this excitement, of course, is how these mergers will affect them. While both deal with consolidating the cellphone market, they actually rep-resent two distinct concepts with two major implications. Google’s acquisi-tion will benefit everyone involved, while AT&T could be putting consum-ers at risk. It’s a difference worth pay-ing attention to as the industry’s future becomes increasingly complex and unpredictable.
AT&T and T-Mobile joining forces would be an example of a horizon-tal merger. A horizontal merger is simply one between companies that offer similar services. AT&T claims this is best for consumers: Their 4G networks could expand to rural areas, coveted radio spectra would open up and consumers would have two very strong companies to choose from (AT&T and Verizon).
This doesn’t sound so bad, and it opens up some intriguing points. If smaller companies like T-Mobile are keeping us from having freaky-fast, top-of-the-line service everywhere we go, it might make sense to trim the fat.
Unfortunately, it doesn’t quite work that way. “The combination of AT&T and T-Mobile would result in tens of millions of consumers all across the United States facing higher prices, fewer choices and lower quality products for mobile wireless services,” Deputy At-torney General James M. Cole said in a statement posted by the Justice Depart-ment. “Consumers across the country, including those in rural areas and those with lower incomes, benefit from com-petition among the nation’s wireless carriers.”
T-Mobile introduced the first Android smartphone and the first nationwide high-speed network using HSPA+ technology. They also took big risks in offering significantly cheaper service plans. The cellphone industry needs an arms race to fuel innovation and keep prices in check. Many features of cellphones seem inevitable, but without competition, they wouldn’t be nearly as advanced as they are today.
To come out victorious from this sur-prising setback from the Justice Depart-ment, AT&T needs to focus on building up, not buying up, competitive advan-tage. An AT&T filing recently revealed that the company could expand 4G coverage to 97 percent for $3.8 billion – a tenth of the $39 billion merger cost. They have yet to do so for cost reasons, but demand will eventually make it happen, assuming customers continue to have access to choices.
So how can one cellphone takeover be bad news, and the other good? Google’s acquisition of Motorola Mobil-ity is a vertical merger, one between companies offering different services, who combine to offer a specific finished product. Google doesn’t make smart-phones, and Motorola doesn’t make
operating systems. Google’s deal will have to receive federal approval just like AT&T, but as a vertical merger, their chances are much more likely.
For Google, the merger means gain-ing Motorola’s 17,000 patents, vital ammunition in the increasingly fierce legal battle with Apple regarding patent infringements. For consumers, it means phones and operating system devel-oped side by side in a tightly integrated system. This has fared extremely well for Apple, whose iPhone eliminates the headaches of tailoring software to a multiplicity of devices.
Most importantly, the merger will drive, not cut off, competition. Google can model phones perfectly optimized for their Android operating system, fine-tuning elements like power-con-sumption and touchscreen reaction. Other companies will certainly benefit from their example. Android already powers 40 percent of new smartphones, more than either Apple or Blackberry, but better integration could give them a needed mainstream boost for those overwhelmed by the complex web of smartphones.
The showdowns involving AT&T and Google prove that nothing is set in stone for the future of cellphones. In fact, it highlights the usually overlooked fact that much of what we presume is inevitable logic about the growth of the industry is actually largely arbitrary. Customers don’t have to have choices, phones don’t have to look like they do, and the relationship among hardware, software and supplier doesn’t have to exist as it does.
When two hugely consequential changes occur in the industry at the same time, it’s worth evaluating what that means for us as consumers. Mobile access is only going to become more deeply ingrained in the way society functions, making it increasingly impor-tant to be aware of when our rights and future fortune are at risk. If you aren’t, don’t be surprised when we find our-selves in a technological world vastly different from the one we know.
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Nebraskans must unify
against pipelineIn an Aug. 31 letter to President Barack Obama and U.S. Sec-retary of State Hillary Clinton, Nebraska Gov. Dave Heineman expressed his vehement opposition to TransCanada’s proposed Keystone XL pipeline.
But you wouldn’t know that attending his state’s university football game or visiting this year’s state fair, sponsored in part by TransCanada.
On Monday, Aug. 22, University of Nebraska-Lincoln senior Tyson Johnson was arrested in Washington D.C., protesting the pipeline with the organization Bold Nebraska.
Saturday, he sat in the stands of Memorial Stadium as a large TransCanada ad played, associating the company with the na-tional championship-winning 1995 Cornhusker team.
While the Daily Nebraskan recognizes the rights of these orga-nizations to accept what advertising they will, at this point there ought to be a little unity.
Heineman’s letter is primarily concerned with the danger the pipeline poses as it crosses the Ogallala aquifer, which provides water to millions of Nebraskans for drinking and agriculture. In the letter, Heineman called the aquifer “the lifeblood of Nebras-ka’s agricultural economy.”
The dangers of the Keystone XL pipeline running through Ne-braska aren’t owned by a particular party. They aren’t purely environmental. They’re a bipartisan concern for multiple sectors – Nebraska’s two senators, Republican Mike Johanns and Demo-crat Ben Nelson, oppose the pipeline.
In the aftermath of gestures like this, the pipeline needs to cease to be an issue of debate in Nebraska. It’s time for orga-nizations acting as the faces of the state — organizations like NU Athletics and the state fair — to stand in solidarity with their government.
It may mean less funding. It may even seem anti-capitalistic. But a state divided, even in its advertising, does not a strong state make. If any kind of message is to reach the national legislature at all, Nebraska needs to stand against the pipeline as Nebras-ka, not just as Heineman. The Daily Nebraskan urges all outfits strongly affiliated with the state or its public institutions to recon-sider accepting funding from TranscCanada in the near future.
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In a movie world like this, it’s dif-ficult being a character actor or actress. While you’re pulling the intellectual weight of the movie and working your ass off, the leading lady or man is soaking
up all of the stardom, taking responsi-bility for your success and guess what? You don’t even get the better pay-check.
While I love me some leading ac-tors and actresses — George Clooney, Kate Winslet, Leo DiCaprio, Maggie Gyllenhaal and Daniel Day-Lewis — I feel sorry for those actors who get left on the sidelines. Often the actors with bit parts are the most interesting aspect in movies, and sometimes even make or break a film. For instance, in “Fright Night,” although I admire Anton Yelchin in general, it was David Tennant’s performance as the flamboyant vampire slayer that made the flick bearable. Luckily, there are a few current directors that seem to appreciate more distinctive characters, such as the Coen brothers, whose “Big Lebowski” is composed almost
entirely of character actors, and Wes Anderson, who seems to have the same tendency with films like “The Royal Tenenbaums.”
They seem to be more of an excep-tion to the rule, however, which is what has lead me to create a list of some of my favorite character actors that need more recognition.
1. Zach Galifianakis: Although he is much more well-known as Alan, the “one-man wolf pack” in “The Hangover,” Galifianakis worked as a hilarious comedian and actor for years prior to the 2009 film. If you haven’t seen his Pretentious Illiterate character or checked out his contributions to “The Comedians of Comedy,” your life isn’t complete.
2. Sandra Oh: If Oh’s character in “Grey’s Anatomy” was the focus of the show, I think I would actually give it a second chance. Oh seems to pop up everywhere, from “The Princess Diaries” to “Sideways,” often playing the comic relief, which, although she does extremely well, doesn’t make use of her wide acting range. I would
really love to see more movies of her as the lead, although recently “Rabbit Hole” was a great glimpse into her talent for comedy and drama.
3. Edward Norton: He is sort of a strange case among character actors because he has crossover appeal as a leading actor as well. Be that as it may, Norton’s leading roles seem to tip to the cult classic spectrum rather than the mainstream, such as the nar-rator in “Fight Club” and a neo-Nazi gangster in “American History X.” In the landscape of Hollywood, he seems like the forgotten, under-ap-preciated leading man than a typical movie star.
4. Allison Janney: As an actress who has been in almost 80 movies and TV shows throughout her career, it seems like she’s also in almost every movie, like “Juno” and “American Beauty.” She’s also made her mark in films like “Away We Go,” as the obnoxious friend of Maya Rudolph and John Kra-sinski, and even participated in small projects like the short film “Prop 8: The Musical,” showing her willingness to appreciate even miniscule parts. At this point, Janney is the hidden, es-sential ingredient to any movie.
5. Steve Buscemi: If you haven’t heard of Buscemi or can’t at least recognize his face, you’ve been liv-ing under a rock. Although he has worked in almost every genre of movie you can think of, he’s found his best roles in movies by Quentin Tarantino and the Coen brothers, like Mr. Pink in “Reservoir Dogs,” Donny in “The Big Lebowski” and one of the villains in “Fargo.” Although his style is famously subtle, his intelligence and depth always shines through every performance (even Adam Sandler
movies).6. Catherine O’Hara: Unfortunately,
O’Hara gets stuck playing the mom in almost every major film, from “Home Alone” to “Beetle Juice,” although she’s made them into a category of her own. O’Hara is fantastic as Collin Hanks’s constantly inebriated mom in “Orange County” and been involved in Christopher Guest films like “Best in Show.”
Despite the fact that I would love to see these actors with more major parts, a part of me wants them to keep doing the bit parts so they aren’t stuck with boring leads. So should we wish them more success with lead-ing roles or leave them with the same material?
Something tells me that Hollywood won’t change drastically anytime soon. At the very least, the general public should appreciate side charac-ters more, and maybe Hollywood’s habits will eventually change for the better.eriCa bartz is a senior film studies
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Most of us were too young to fully understand the events that occurred 10 years ago on Sept. 11. Per-haps your mom or dad was driving you to school and you overheard bits of news that filtered through radio static. Maybe you were al-ready sitting in class as your teachers shuffled from room to room, wide-eyed and whispering.
The events of Sept. 11, 2001 affected and continue to affect the national com-munity. While our patrio-tism stems from a unified history, American history is viewed through a variety of different lenses. There are groups of people in this country that have experi-enced years of oppression,
including Native Americans.University of Nebraska at
Omaha English professor Barbara K. Robins is cur-rently working on a project that focuses on the healing potential of Native Ameri-can art. In a Sept. 7 semi-nar at the Great Plains Art Museum, Robins will speak about the work of 12 Na-tive American visual artists whose work acts as a re-sponse to Sept. 11, empha-sizing the healing power of that art.
“I had done visual arts for awhile,” Robins said. “Then I started doing a lot more with Native American art, looking at traditional art as well as contemporary art and healing. I’ve been studying that for about 15 years now.”
Seven years ago, in the midst of her project, Robins
saw a photograph of three totem poles being dedicat-ed at the Pentagon. They carried the names “Liberty, Freedom and Sovereignty.” The poles are part of five total, placed at or near 9/11 sites. The carver is Jewell James, a member of the Lummi Nation in Washing-ton state and master carv-er for the House of Tears Carvers.
James is adamant that art contains healing power, for the artist and for those that view and experience it. He will be one of the 12 artists featured in Robins’ seminar, among Navajo rug weavers, potters, installation artists and more. The art will re-main on display through Nov. 16.
“What these artists are interested in is bringing people together to tell a
story,” Robins said. “We as Americans are often taught a very idealized version of American history, and then completely ignore or are unaware of those who have had a tough time and not been treated well … these artists are saying that they understand what it means to grieve, and will use that
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Nate RuleauxThe day after my birthday, my girlfriend Katie woke me up. It was bright, everything was heavy; my muscles were twitchy, as if filled with bugs, and I couldn’t remember a thing.
Saturday, at the stroke of midnight, we went to Duffy’s for fishbowls.
In the days preceding this special Saturday of mine, my friends and I argued about what should be done for the hour, or now to my genera-tion of kiddies, two hours of power.
“They wouldn’t let Casey in at Duffy’s,” my girlfriend said.
“I got in just fine,” Mike said, “I got so sick I hopped the fence in back and started to hurl and booked it before they could throw me out.”
“I got so sick on my birth-day I cried in the bathroom all night,” Jessie said.
“I don’t want Saturday to be a big deal,” I kept telling them all, “Just a drink or two at someplace chill with you guys. I’ll be tired after work and want to save all the crazy for Sunday.”
It was finally agreed that a small gang of friends would go out at midnight to The Starlight Lounge for a few classy cocktails then get to bed.
My girlfriend was the des-ignated driver and semi-co-ordinator for both nights of debauchery, and while I was in Harper/Schramm/Smith cleaning refrigerators with a toothbrush, she called up The Starlight to find out that they were not down with anyone’s hour of power.
“We’d be happy to have him the following business day,” they said over the phone to Katie while I was mopping up bathrooms.
“Jake’s will definitely take you, I know plenty of people who have done it there,” she said via texts during my lunch break.
“Soundz Gud,” I replied, “Weze canz have a pricey drink and a cigar and bail, <3 <RULO>”
Freshly 21; drunken frenzy, please
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Native American art emphasizes healing
Ruleaux: see page 9
ordan Riggs sat in a cor-ner of NuVibe, sipping a smoothie and fiddling with his phone.
His head was shaved, except for a cropped beard around his mouth.
He sported a green v-neck, blue shorts and Sperry Top-Siders.
A camera bag sat on the table in front of him, and occasionally his eyes darted around the establish-ment expectantly.
He rose to shake hands, and asked what time the interview had been scheduled to start and wheth-er or not he was late.
Riggs begins the interview by clarifying his job title, calling him-self an aspiring director despite his already numerous accomplish-ments in the field.
To make extra money, Riggs’ job title expands to photographer, editor, rapper and co-creator of a website that will help struggling artists to find a fan base.
He graduated last May with a bachelor’s degree in fine arts after majoring in film and video produc-tion with an emphasis in directing/film directing at Brooks Institute in Santa Barbara, Calif. He left school with one goal: to “make cool shit.”
Riggs first tried to create places to which people could retreat, fol-lowing the models of escapism.
But his intentions quickly morphed into more narrative storytelling.
“I try and tell stories that make people feel something, shock them or whatever,” he said.
He began making music vid-eos as homework assignments for an elective class, with Chase Mc-Bride’s “1937” as his first video.
Now, Riggs has directed or been a major part of the creative pro-cess for between 20 and 25 music videos, some for big-name artists, and some for artists he handpicked from MySpace.
He has worked in music genres ranging from folk to reggae to met-al to hip hop. And he has met his fair share of stars as well, from Ja-son Derulo to Auburn.
“He’s definitely an artist,” said Benito Sanchez, a junior film and new media major and friend of Riggs’. “He’s relentless, like a bad-ger or something. Whenever he has a project, he tackles it and he defeats it.”
But for someone who’s had his talent recognized and is being paid for it, Riggs is running from it as fast as possible.
“When it comes to art, I feel pas-sionately about certain things, and I feel like a lot of artists don’t re-ally care about their art or care about music as an art,” he said. “They care about music as a way to
make money or a way to get girls or a way to just be famous.”
Directing music videos has al-lowed Riggs to see an industry in which an individual doesn’t need talent. Despite the fact that most of the artists he has worked with are good people, most are not truly artists.
“The people I’ve met so far are really nice people, but they’re just people,” he said. “I think big com-panies use them more for their fac-es and their personas than for their actual abilities.”
Riggs talked about his respect for those who understand music and have substantial talent, be it in singing, writing or other aspects of its creation.
“If I’m doing music videos for the rest of my life, I’ve done nothing,” he said. “Music videos are great; they’re fun. But my dream is to do feature films.”
Riggs has been writing since he was 13 years old and has since re-written and deleted the same film eight times.
“I have this huge idea that I’ve written eight times, and no one’s ever seen a word of it,” he said.
And that’s the way Riggs seems to write. He explained his work goes beyond genre to introduce and talk about the things in which he is interested. He creates stories
based on personal experiences or after seeing something or someone that seems out of the ordinary.
But the man behind the cam-era is looking beyond the money earned (even if student loans may be lingering) to see into his sub-jects: “Everybody’s an actor all the time, but not everybody can act every part,” he said.
Riggs is eager to cast the “aver-age Joe” in any of his movies but finds that most people shy away from their moment in the spotlight, saying they can’t act. After years of acting, Riggs has found his strong ability to read people, and he be-lieves in exposing those simple na-tures in front of the camera.
“People act all the time,” he said. “You know how to make people
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benito sanchezjunior filim and new media major
These artists are saying that
they understand what it means to grive, and will use that strength to help.”
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Riggs: see page 8
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Nebraska Union third-floor neighbors, the LGBTQA Resource Center and the Women’s Center are having their annual open houses together Thursday.
The resource centers’ open houses are a come-and-go opportunity for stu-dents to get to know the centers’ staff, learn about upcoming events, enjoy refreshments and inquire about volunteer opportuni-ties.
Both Stacey Cleveland, the LGBTQA center’s grad-uate assistant, and Amy Vanderpool, the Women’s Center’s programming as-sistant, said their centers are always in need of vol-unteers.
Volunteers for the cen-ters help with jobs ranging from setting up and staff-ing event booths, to mak-ing posters and stocking the resource libraries.
“We do have people who just stop in between classes and see what we need help with,” Vanderpool said.
Cleveland said that this year, the LGBTQA center wants volunteers to pick tasks that mean something to them.
“We want to take the tal-ents of our volunteers and help them create some-thing to educate their peers,” Cleveland said.
For students who might be wary about visiting the open houses because of
the names of the centers, Cleveland and Vanderpool assure that their resource centers are all-inclusive.
“The Women’s Center is not just for women, be-cause the center is part of a larger gender program,” Vanderpool said. “I think it’s important for people to know we have programs for everybody.”
The Women’s Center is working to expand men’s programming and will have men’s programming representatives at the open house, she said.
Cleveland said her re-source center is for every-one as well, including LG-BTQA straight allies.
“We have an ‘A’ (on the LGBTQA acronym) for a reason,” she said. “We are a center for all students to use on campus.”
But for those who are still concerned about com-ing into the resource cen-ter, Cleveland said the staff is always available. “People can always call us
or find information on our website,” she said.
At the Women’s Cen-ter open house, students can learn about the cen-ter’s two student groups; PREVENT, a prevention and peer education group for dating and domestic violence awareness, and SHINE, a prevention and peer education group for eating and body disorders.
During each center’s open house, students can also check out upcoming events. For the Women’s Center, events include Dat-ing and Domestic Violence Month in October and a fundraising event for Lin-coln’s Friendship Home on Oct. 2.
The LGBTQA Resource Center’s upcoming events as a part of LGBTQA His-tory Month in October in-clude No More LGBT Sui-cides: Discussing Bullying and Suicide, which will be Oct. 4, and Fearless, a photography feature of LGBTQA athletes by Jeff Sheng, happening Oct. 6.
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if you goWomen’s center and lgbtQa Resource center open houseswhere: 340 (Women’s) and 345 (LgBTQa) Nebraska Unionwhen: Thursday sept. 8, 3-5 p.m.how much: Free
dual open houses raise awareness for all
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The University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s greek system is throwing the biggest party of the year at the Pershing Cen-ter on Thursday.
In an effort to unite greeks across campus, all are invited to attend “My Big Fat Greek Party.”
“At the University of Ne-braska-Lincoln, our greeks don’t have a very strong sense of community. Ev-eryone sticks to their own house,” said Torrey Eason, a second year graduate student in higher education and a graduate assistant for the of-fice of greek affairs. “I want people to be proud that they are a Nebraska greek as well as part of such and such a fraternity or such and such a sorority.”
Eason is bringing the party back from its five to seven year hiatus.
Although all greeks are en-couraged to attend the event, Eason is looking to use the party to welcome the newest members to the system.
Starting at 9 p.m., students will dance, and a Greek God/Greek Goddess contest will be held in the middle of the event.
Only new members are al-lowed to participate in the contest, and competitors will be chosen by other members of their houses. The Greek God/Greek Goddess contest is a toga walk-off that will be judged by executive mem-bers of the Panhellenic Coun-cil and the Inner Fraternity Council.
Competitors will change into their togas about a half hour before the contest be-gins. Winners will be chosen based on having the most energy, their ability to get the crowd hyped up, and of course, the best toga.
In addition to the festivities, there will also be an open cash bar for students 21 and older. Security guards will be checking IDs at the door, and those old enough to drink will receive a wristband.
If a student is caught drink-ing underage, they will be dealt with at the discretion of the Pershing security guards.
Despite the Grecian them of the party, students will not be showing up in togas. The admission ticket to the dance is a $12 T shirt that sports the phrase “Nebraska Greeks.”
Money from the T shirt sales will be split, with a majority going to pay for the venue. Of the remaining money, $100 will be given to the phi-lanthropies of both the soror-ity and fraternity that had the most members in attendance.
As an extra incentive to show up, sororities will be awarded Scarlet Cup points. (The Scarlet Cup is awarded to the sorority that acquires the most points in the areas of involvement, service, lead-ership and scholarship.)
Last year, Alpha Phi won the cup, and they look for-ward to acquiring points for attendance of the party.
“We’re highly encourag-ing it in Alpha Phi because it’s a great opportunity to get to know some people,” said Cortney Kirby, a junior adver-tising and communications studies major. “I’m excited for it and I know my whole so-rority is.”
With hundreds of T shirts already sold, Eason looks for a big crowd to show up Thursday.
“No one’s going to turn down an invitation to a par-ty,” Eason said. “We’re just keeping it simple. Just trying to have a good time.”
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‘My Big Fat greek party’ aims to unify NU greeks
LGBTQA and Women’s centers offer education and volunteer opportunities
bryan klopping | daily nebraskan
caRa WilWeRdiNg | daily NebRaskaN
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think you are happy or make people think you are sad. We call it lying, but I say it’s acting.”
In order to understand the characters he most wants to portray in his films, Riggs taught himself not only to portray different emotions, but also different charac-ters.
However, despite a ubiq-uitous ability to lie, act or morph into various char-acters, Riggs has found an overwhelming lack of self in most everyone.
“I don’t think that any-body really knows who they are,” he said. “They’re
always trying new things, and hopefully, trying to bet-ter themselves.”
After several successful collaborations with buzz-production company High 5 Collective that were high-lighted on Pitchfork.com, Riggs is planning to seek greener pastures on the west coast.
As Riggs continues his work, not only in music videos, but also in short films, he will continue to look through the lens, be-yond the actor and into the person.
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That night Katie, her best friend, my roommate Matt, his girlfriend and my other temporary roommate, Peter, voted on Jake’s Cigar Bar. Ka-tie drove her best friend, Pe-ter, and me downtown where we got stuck trying to get into the R Street garage. Some stu-pid drunk chicks ahead of us didn’t know how a parking garage worked and instead of pulling up and pressing the button for the ticket, they stopped at the checkout win-dow, just staring at the old man inside, not getting that there wasn’t a window on that side and he was never going to help them.
“Come on!” Katie yelled (she gets violent behind the wheel and this was a big peeve), “DRIVE! GET THE TICKET!”
After five minutes of being stupid, they figured it out and sluggishly inched up the ga-rage, stopping at each spot to make sure every parked car was real.
“Stupid bitches!”Katie swerved the car
around them, and I flicked my cigarette out of the pas-senger window and up over our vehicle to a perfect land-ing on the hood of their car. It sat there burning, and we could see all four girls inside losing their shit.
It was standing room only at Jake’s. And by standing room I mean concert style close ass-to-hand, shoulder-to-shoulder dimensions. We stood outside while Peter and I smoked a cigarette and watched the stupid bimbo drivers walk into Jake’s with a fully erect male blowup doll. Apparently it was a bachelor-ette party.
I wasn’t pleased.“Maybe it will clear out?”
Matt’s girlfriend said.I wasn’t down to wait. I
crossed the trafficked street and walked by the entire downtown hubbub. Down past the dude with the bon-gos and the smell of gyros all the way to the doorman at Duffy’s. I pulled out my I.D.
“You’re good,” the tattooed dude said, and I was in.
My gang of friends and I stood three people deep away from the bar. Matt was picking out the flavors of the fishbowls and they were all talking about who was going to pay. I just wanted to buy my first drink at a bar. Well, I guess I’d bought drinks all across Europe on a trip my freshman year, and here and there at places I’d been throughout college that didn’t card. But the thing about a 21st birthday is you don’t pay, and there isn’t a choice in that.I looked around. There were a lot of old people. At least it seemed that way. Maybe I look the same way and just don’t know it. A line of four people walked by. A couple of “Jersey Shore” bros and two girls. One of the girls had tats and a piercing and a face I remembered from high school. One of Spankin’s old friends, I think.
I thought of the last time I’d been at Duffy’s, a friend of a friend had photography up. It was a quiet empty wooden
room then with no life and art and the feeling of just another First Friday gallery.
I wondered what it would’ve been like to see Nirvana here. I wondered what the back area that ev-eryone said was so great in winter because of the fire pits looked like.
“I’m going to try to find us a table out back,” I said, tak-ing Peter and my girlfriend’s friend with me.
We found two tables in a corner just abandoned by some greek dudes. The seats were high and made me feel dizzy before I’d even gotten a drink in. Some guy across the way yelled some homopho-bic shit about my girlfriend’s friend. It was uncomfortable to me, but apparently that’s the kind of attitude this city has at its bars.
Just horny dudes, douche-bags and us old people.
We had a fishbowl race, and were joined by a few other friends who came and went.
The night got me two
fishbowls along with seven beers.
I was drunk when we left. It was hot as balls, I ran out of smokes and was craving some De Leones.
As if the burrito gods heard my prayers, I took a sweaty step out onto O Street to find a De Leon’s burrito vender waiting outside the door with a Nebraska Burrito hot and ready. I scarfed it in the car, getting hot sauce everywhere. A freshman mistake.
After that we went to a friend’s girlfriend’s apartment where we played “Slap the Sack.”
Which is where people sit around in a circle with a bag of Franzia. You start by hold-ing the bag up to the person to the right of you, they then take a pull from the bag and then give it a sort of fine ass spank. Everyone involved in the game then judges wheth-er or not the hit was a good one. The voting is done Ro-man Empire-style with a thumb up or a thumb down. If it is thumbs up the bag is
passed and the procedure re-peated. If thumb down they have to chug from the spigot and try again.
After the game was done I wrestled around with drunk-en friends on the floor. We sat around “That 70’s Show”-style for a bit, and then started passing out one by one.
I went home and spent the night praying to porcelain gods. I couldn’t speak when my roommates came in with water and jokes. I wondered how I’d survive tomorrow if this is where I got from one bar and a drinking game. Be-sides, I had to get up at 9 a.m. the next day to hit the casinos with my parents.
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Great Plains Art Museum publications specialist Lin-da Ratcliffe believes Robins’ seminar will find a good au-dience at the University of Nebraskan-Lincoln.
“UNL students should definitely be interested in attending Professor Robins’ talk,” Ratcliffe said. “Ten years ago, many of these students were only 8-10 years old, but I believe they all remember the horror of the 9/11 events and the im-pact on all of us.”
The artwork highlighted in Robins’ seminar will pro-vide a deeper context for those of us who may have
been unaware of the trauma and scope of the effects of 9/11. And, instead of learn-ing through a filtered lens, as we have in much of our education, we can learn from Native American art, demonstrating their own di-rect experience with pain.
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if you gobarbara k. Robins seminarwhere: great plains art Museum, 1155 Q st.when: Wednesday sept. 7 3:30 p.m.how much: Free
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The ball glides delicately through the air as players jump toward it, attempting to get a head or foot on it.
The player’s head or foot that meets the ball moves it in the direction of the net, pref-erably to a place where the goalkeeper is absent.
The player heads the ball past a diving keeper into the back of the goal and that player is mobbed by team-mates.
The euphoria belongs to the goal scorer, but the ball had to originate on the field somewhere from a different player, a player that usually goes less recognized.
The majority of the attention for the Nebraska women’s soccer squad this weekend went to junior forward and Big Ten co-offensive Player of the Week, Morgan Marl-borough because of the five goals she recorded, including a hat trick in the match last Sunday.
However, fellow junior for-ward Jordan Jackson had a hat trick of her own in the same game against Northern Arizona.
This hat trick was less rec-ognized mainly because it included assists, rather than goals. Jackson passed the ball to eventual goal scorers three times on Sunday and once on Friday to almost match Marl-borough’s goal total with as-sists.
In fact, two of Marlborough’s
three goals against the Lum-berjacks came from Jackson.
“I got two great passes from Jordan,” Marlborough said. “She was one of the main rea-sons why I had a hat trick.”
It is that type of unselfish play that led to the two Husk-er victories on the weekend, the first victories of the 2011 season.
In the first game of the weekend, Nebraska had an assist on each of its six goals en route to a 6-0 victory of Arkansas.
Ari Romero led the way from the assist standpoint with two.
NU produced an even better day passing the ball against Northern Arizona. Led by Jackson’s three, the Husk-ers tallied eight assists in the 8-1 win.
The teamwork, though not as appreciated as the actual goal-scoring, is vital when playing the game of soccer, according to Jackson.
“You have to trust and be confident with your team-mates when you are giving up the ball for them to score,” Jackson said. “I know it’s easy for me to give the ball up be-cause of such great players around me.
“Morgan (Marlborough) for example, I have known her since we were little and I know she is going to put the ball in the back of the net when I give her a chance to.”
Jackson also said the Husk-ers will use their passing skills and trust into next weekend against some more challeng-ing teams.
“Even though we played some less-talented teams,” Jackson said, “the less-talent-ed teams help us prepare just as well and you could see that with our much-improved passing.”
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position during the offsea-son, and want to shine once they get that chance.
As new Michigan coach Brady Hoke prepares to take on the Norte Dame Fighting Irish this week, he’ll take what he’s learned about his new players into consider-ation.
“Its good to get the first game under your belt and see where you’re at as a football team,” Hoke said. “You have young kids out there playing for the first time, getting used to the environment and you learn a lot about them once they finally line up against an op-posing team.”
Question after ques-tion arose in the coach’s
teleconference about their specific team’s performance last week and what they plan to do in preparation for next week’s opponent. For the most part, the coaches an-swered with complete insight.
However, the reoccurring questions that coaches were not too happy to answer was what they though about the sudden hot-topic of expand-ing conference’s, more spe-cifically, the Big Ten Confer-ence. Wisconsin coach Bret Bielema replied with a very simple answer.
“We’re happy with where we are now,” Bielema said. “I’ll let you write about it, and I’ll read about it.”
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ComptoN returNs to praCtiCe fielD
Defensive coordinator Carl Pelini said linebacker Will Compton was back practicing Tuesday.
The junior participated the whole practice after leaving early in Saturday’s 40-7 win against the University of Ten-nessee at Chattanooga with a foot injury. He recorded one tackle – a solo stop.
“He moved around pretty good actually,” Pelini said. “He’s a tough kid and he fights through injuries. He probably has a little pain there, but it wasn’t real evi-dent in his play.”
Pelini said he hopes Comp-ton will feel better and be able to return for this Satur-day’s matchup with Fresno State. Redshirt freshman Trevor Roach filled in admi-rably for Compton, recording seven tackles. But while the coaches were pleased with Roach’s play, they like Comp-ton’s experience and want him out there Saturday.
“It’s not the type of injury where he’s going to do any further damage to it,” Pelini said. “It’s more just kind of a bruise-type injury where it comes down to how much pain you can tolerate. You don’t worry about throwing him out there and making him worse or anything. He looked like he could tolerate it today, and it’s getting better every day. Hopefully Satur-day, it’s not an issue.”
offeNse Not CoNteNt with saturDay’s performaNCe
The new-look offense may have put 40 points on the scoreboard Saturday, but offensive coordinator Tim Beck expressed displeasure in sometimes-sloppy play.
Tight end Ben Cotton con-firmed that Sunday’s film session was not an enjoy-able one for the players.
“None of us were happy with our performance,” Cot-ton said. “The first thing is we need to learn from our mistakes. We know we’re a lot better than what we showed. We can play hard-er, we can play more physi-cal and we should be more confident in what we’re do-ing.”
Beck said Monday that the offense made some mistakes he hadn’t seen them make since spring practice, when the team first began install-ing the new scheme.
“Sometimes things just sneak back up on you,” Cotton said. “There were a couple times last week during practice where we weren’t as mentally sharp as we should have been, and it showed in the game.”
So how do the Huskers go about correcting the er-rors? Cotton said the team is resigned to get back to work and not take any more games or practices lightly.
“The tone so far has been ‘mouths shut, let’s go to
work,’” Cotton said. “That’s all we’re going to do – work, work, work until that final whistle blows and we’re told to stretch.”
peliNi: suh’s fiNes Not aN issue
Former Husker and current Detroit Lion Ndamukong Suh has come under some fire re-cently for his physical — and some say dirty — hits, particu-larly on quarterbacks. He was fined $20,000 a few weeks ago for a vicious takedown of Bengals rookie Andy Dalton, after being fined twice during his rookie season.
It doesn’t take long to fig-ure out what his former de-fensive coordinator thinks about the fines.
“It’s just the most ridicu-lous, overblown, stupid talk I’ve ever heard,” Carl Pelini said. “He’s a great, physical, fundamental football player who plays with a rage, but he plays within the rules. It’s just stupid. Look at each one of those plays individually. I don’t even like to talk about it.”
While his fines have gar-nered a lot of attention, they are effectively silenced by Suh’s play. He was named the NFL Defensive Rookie of the Year after accumulating 66 tackles, including 10 sacks.
“I’m very proud of him and he keeps perfecting his craft,” Pelini said. “The sky’s the lim-it with him. He could be one
of the best ever. He’s got that kind of strength and athleti-cism and focus.”
DefeNse prepariNg for DeNNarD’s returN
With the possible return of cornerback Alfonzo Dennard this week, the Huskers have to prepare on how they want to set their nickel package. With Dennard out Saturday, NU mostly played Ciante Ev-ans and Andrew Green on the outside with Justin Blatchford manning the nickel spot.
If Dennard is able to play this Saturday, he will reclaim one of the outside corner positions. Carl Pelini said Evans and Blatchford will get the first cracks at man-ning the nickel spot. And with Green and freshman Josh Mitchell both getting a good deal of playing time against Tennessee at Chatta-nooga, Pelini feels comfort-able moving Evans, the most experienced of the young corners, around to capitalize on his versatility.
“Before Dennard went down Ciante was work-ing nickel and Blatche was working nickel and dime,” Pelini said. “It gives you more flexibility at those in-side spots. Now you’re sea-soning Green and Mitchell and other corners, so it gives you even more freedom for moving Ciante.”
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volleybAll: from 12the season so far (and possi-bly much of the remainder of the season) NU has operated with both of its co-captains on the bench. With a team as young as NU is, having lost four key players from a year ago, growth and leadership are key, as NU has already suffered two hiccups (a near loss to New Mexico State and an actual loss to Colorado State) in the first two weeks of the season.
So, are NU’s captaincy is-sues a problem for the team? Only if you believe that a captain’s responsibilities ap-ply only on game days. That, according to the captains themselves, is not the case.
“The majority of the cap-tain’s roles aren’t on a game day,” Wilberger said. “There’s so much behind the scenes that captains and the team does that people don’t see on the outside that creates the team dynamics, that creates the team that people do see.”
And Wilberger and Root excel at those “behind-the-scenes” things.
“They’re kind of like the mothers of the team,” said teammate Lauren Cook. “They just take care of us all, make sure everyone knows where they’re going, make sure we’re all on the same page.
“They’re always encourag-ing everyone, letting us know if there’s a team function or if practice time changes. I think that most of (their re-sponsibilities) happen off the court.”
Being the “mothers” on the team isn’t a label the duo fights.
“Sometimes I feel like that, but it’s more in a way like, I care about how my team-mates do on the court, but I also want to know how classes went,” Wilberger said. “Brigette said something the other day that she feels like she’s the mother hen of the freshmen, she always want to make sure they’re taken care of and have rides.”
While the situation this year is different from last year, when Sydney Anderson,
Kayla Banwarth and Brooke Delano led the team on and off the court, the players do not believe that it is any bet-ter or worse. And neither do the captains themselves, as both have been members of the team for four years before becoming captains.
“It’s just different,” Root said. “There’s not a lot of teams here that have had it where (none of the captains) were on the floor. But, we’ve always believed that each person is important and just because you’re on the bench makes you any less impor-tant. We can still lead, it’s just different. It’s a challenge and something that both of us need to work on this season, to be-come great at it.”
Lauren Cook, Root and Wilberger said that the team doesn’t play any different on the court whether a captain is playing or not. Wilberger said, “We all have roles, and we’re each the leaders of that role,” while Cook stressed the unity and communication the team has as its best attribute,
not leadership from any one player.
As for coach Cook, he re-sponded “Ask me again in three weeks – right now, I don’t know” when asked who will lead the team on the court with both captains on the bench.
Three weeks from now hap-pens to be after three of NU’s biggest matches of the season, against ranked opponents Iowa State, Penn State and Ohio State in Lincoln. While there’s no real way of knowing about on-court leadership during that span — assuming Wilberger and Root can’t find court time — Root seems to have a candidate.
“I definitely think some-one needs to be a leader on the court,” Root said. “Lauren (Cook) does a really great job of playing air traffic control out there, letting everyone know where to go and what sets they’re running and what plays and keeping everyone on a positive note. She does a really nice job.”
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pAtrick breen | dAily nebrAskAnnU tackle Tyler Moore, no. 73, celebrates with quar-terback Taylor Martinez after a score in nU’s 40-7 win Saturday.
moore: from 12
Brian was on hand for Tyler’s first collegiate start Saturday. In addition to his father, Moore had quite a following in the stands at Memorial Stadium and watching on TVs in Omaha.
Brian Moore used to watch the whole play unfold when his son was on the field. At this level, he finds his eyes are glued to Tyler, watching his son’s technique. The five large display screens in Me-morial stadium give the dad a chance to watch the play again to actually see what happened around Tyler.
As is custom for families
and friends watching a foot-ball game, there was a little bit of anxiety all around. Ru-mor has it that after one or two plays, the nerves leave.
Which Moore let go of the butterflies first?
“Definitely the first play and that was done,” Tyler said. “Finally got into the rhythm of the game and ev-erything.”
“It might have taken a couple more than one,” Bri-an said, laughing. “It might have taken that first series, I think.”
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tAylor meyer | dAily nebrAskAnJunior Jordan Jackson assisted on three goals in nU’s 8-1 win against northern Arizona.
return positions.“Braylon Heard, Jamal
Turner, Timmy Marlowe, Kenny Bell – they can all do some things with the ball in their hands,” Pelini said.
Turner isn’t too worried about his role right now, ei-ther in the return game or on offense. The freshman said he’s just honored to be
at Nebraska, but he knows the opportunities will be there for him and he’ll get a chance to fulfill his predic-tions.
“If I don’t catch a pass in a game, so be it. It’s on to next week,” Turner said. “My time will come.”
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“Knock on wood” was the demand that Brian Moore would hear through the phone when he spoke to his son Tyler about his first game at Nebraska.
Tyler had been selected to start at right tackle for the Huskers’ home opener, something he wouldn’t take for granted until he saw the ball snapped Saturday.
So excuse the kid from Florida for not jumping for joy that he would be the first Husker true freshman in history to start a season opener. There was still work to be done.
“He was actually pretty low key,” Brian said after Nebraska’s first game Satur-
day. “Un-til he trots on that field, t h e r e are no g u a r a n -tees that B a r n e y (Cotton) d o e s n ’ t c h a n g e his mind or some-
body gets hurt or he gets hurt or something like that.”
NU’s offensive line coach didn’t change his mind and Moore did start, becoming the 10th freshman to ever play on the offensive line at Nebraska. He joined Jer-emiah Sirles (2010), Marcel Jones (2008) and Richie In-cognito (2002) as the only freshmen to start a season opener. Unlike Moore, they had all redshirted for a sea-son prior to starting.
Moore may have prac-ticed with the starters in fall camp, but that didn’t keep the nerves from shining through.
“Just straight nerves the whole time,” Moore said Saturday. “So it’s a little ner-vous, but luckily we got to receive the ball. I hit some-one and finally got rid of it, but it was pretty nice.”
The offense, including the line, took some heat in the days after the game. Concern has been raised about blocking assignments and technique on the field against the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga’s
defensive line. The offen-sive front did pave the way for more than 200 rushing yards while allowing only one sack, but many found the performance lacking.
“We did okay, you know, we have a lot to do,” Moore said. “Everyone knows that. The coaches know that, the players know that, and we’ve just got to keep work-ing.”
While Saturday left some room for adjustments, Cot-ton liked what he saw from Moore.
“For a first start, I’m sure he’s got some things he has to improve on,” Cotton said. “But to start an 18 year old at a Division I football pro-gram is a great feat for a young guy like that.”
Tyler Moore’s bio in Ne-braska’s media guide may say the 6-foot-6 freshman is from Clearwater, Fla., but he is a Husker through and through.
Tyler is cousin to for-mer NU defensive end Jay Moore. Tyler’s father Brian was a tight end for the Husk-ers in the 1980s. He and his family moved to Florida in 1992, a year before Tyler was born.
“Even though he was born and raised there, he was never anything but a Nebraska fan,” Brian Moore said.
Tyler was always excited at the aspect of playing for the Huskers, Brian said. During his sophomore year at Countryside High School, Moore came to Lincoln and was impressed with what he saw in NU coach Bo Pelini’s outfit.
Nebraska offered him a scholarship in 2009, before his junior season. Despite some encouragement to ease up on his initial eager-ness to accept, Moore even-tually chose the Huskers.
Tyler graduated a se-mester early, spending the spring semester at the Uni-versity of Nebraska-Lincoln and getting in on spring ball.
“I’m a big believer in hav-ing kids go through spring ball before they step on the field, because it gives you so much more time to prepare for the fall,” Brian Moore said.
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Week one of any sporting sea-son, especially from a coach-ing standpoint, is all about setting the bar. During this week’s Big Ten coach’s tele-conference, the word of the week was “improvement,” no matter what the scoreboard said at the end of the game.
In Nebraska’s case, the scoreboard read 40-7, a score that head coach Bo Pelini is pleased with, but a score that also shows there is a lot more work to do.
“We’re happy, but we’re looking to get better,” Peli-ni said. ”We have a ways to go in all three phases of the game. Our guys showed posi-tives, but we’re not where we need to be as a team. Fresno [State] will be a good test for
us this week.”With most of the higher-
ranked schools of the confer-ence playing sub-par teams in their season opener, Michi-gan State coach Mark Danto-nio brought up an interesting point about how a team’s game plan might differ from a game later on in the season.
“Most people don’t want to come into game one and beat themselves, and don’t want to show the things they have been working on. We like to work on technique, so we play our basic formations,” Dantonio said.
Another theme of an open-ing day in sports deals with competition amongst team-mates. All across the league, players fight for the starting
Coaches focus on improving week-to-week
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When the Nebraska volley-ball team named its captains early last month, very little was thought of it. The two selections, setter Brigette Root and middle blocker Jordan Wilberger, seemed to embody everything the pro-gram strives for. Both were senior walk-ons from rural Nebraska, worked hard at practice and earned their teammates’ respect with the love they had for the pro-gram.
Nebraska coach John Cook in particular thought the team had made the right choice.
“We took a step forward yesterday,” Cook said at a press conference Aug. 11. “Our team named Brigette Root and Jordan Wilberger captains. They’ve identified in their minds who are going to be the leaders of this team. That’s something we put a lot of effort into – educating them about what it means to be a leader and a captain of this program. We spent the whole spring developing the
leadership theme with jour-nals and asking them ques-tions, trying to get this gen-eration to understand what leadership is.”
While the team believed Root and Wilberger would be great leaders for the team, there was a downside to the choice – heading into the 2011 season, neither was on
the court very consistently. Wilberger had appeared in 56 of 99 possible matches in her career, but only 30 as starts, with many of those coming from injuries to other players. Root had played in just four matches total.
Those trends haven’t stopped thus far in the sea-son: Through four matches
(and 16 sets) Root has yet to step onto the court, and Wilberger — despite win-ning the starting job to start the year — has appeared in seven sets.
The result: For much of
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Andrew dickinson | dAily nebrAskAnSenior Jordan wilberger, no. 6, has six kills and nine total blocks for nU this season.
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Andrew dickinson | dickinsonnebraska freshman wide receiver Jamal Turner evades multiple tacklers on a 19-yard reception in the fourth quarter of Saturday’s win.
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Jamal Turner is many things. He is fast, as he showed in both the spring game and Saturday’s season opener. He is also versatile, as he’s made the switch to wide receiver look relatively easy after playing quarterback in high school.
And after the game Satur-day, we learned he is bold. Turner wasn’t shy in talking about both the potential of the offense and the current freshman class that is expect-ed to give the NU offense a needed shot of athleticism.
“We should put up 60 points a game,” he said with a smile. “We have the receiv-ing corps and the running game to put up 60 a game.”
And: “Our senior year, we’re going to have like five All-Americans on the offense I’d say, if not more than that.”
Shy, he is not.But that unwavering con-
fidence is a big reason why
he received so much playing time Saturday after switching to receiver just a few months ago. Turner chose to for-go his last semester of high school to enroll at Nebraska a semester early. He believes if he hadn’t made that deci-sion, he wouldn’t have been on the field last weekend.
“When I first got here, the classes and a new place were overwhelming to me,” Turner said. “That extra six months really, really helped me. I feel if I would have come in with my class, I probably would have redshirted.”
Adjusting to a new location (Turner is from Arlington, Texas) as well as the col-lege atmosphere was tough enough. But Turner also had to get used to the speed of the game, which is signifi-cantly higher at the college level.
All this while learning to play a new position.
The freshman played wide receiver in the Under Ar-mour All-American game, a high school all-star game, in
January, but expected to play quarterback when he arrived on the NU campus.
However, when the coach-es approached him about the possibility of moving outside, Turner simply said, “Let’s go for it.”
“I miss playing quarter-back,” Turner said. “It wasn’t my call, but I’m a team play-er. If the coaches say, ‘Hey Jamal, this week you’re going to punt the ball,’ I’m going to do that.”
A huge smile breaks Turn-er’s face as he concludes the thought.
“I just love playing foot-ball.”
Turner didn’t get a lot of op-portunities to show his skills Saturday, but did the most with the limited opportunities presented to him. He had one carry for four yards, and he made one of the game’s most explosive plays in the fourth quarter, when he took a two-yard catch, reversed field and was a shoestring tackle away from a long touchdown.
“I got the chills when I was
running,” Turner said. “The crowd got louder and louder. I just tried to make something out of nothing.”
Turner also expects to get in on punt and kick returns in the coming weeks. Fellow freshman Ameer Abdullah handled both Saturday, and Turner said he was going to get a shot on kickoffs had the Mocs scored later in the sec-ond half.
Coach Bo Pelini confirmed that at Monday’s press confer-ence, saying Turner is among many candidates vying for
Moore’s historic start exciting for
entire family
That extra six months really,
really helped me. I feel if I would have come in with my class, I probably would have redshirted.”
Jamal Turnernu freshman receiver
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standardsNebraska’s 2011 freshmen are athletic and talented. Jamal Turner has some lofty goals for what they can accomplish in their time as Huskers.
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