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wednesday, february 27, 2013 volume 112, issue 110

Inside Coverage

Home movie UNL film student works on Payne’s new movie set

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A search in São Paulo

Badger bloodbath Wisconsin routs Nebraska by 31 in Madison

10 RHA votes to pay president Senators opt to compensate their executives

3 Crimes are illegal, people aren’t Phrase “illegal immigrant” wrong, inaccurate

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Big Ten basketball homeroom Weekly Daily Nebraskan power rankings are out

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Daiane Flores lies on the floor with her 1-year-old daughter Ana Clara Flores in their home in São Paulo, Brazil. Ana Clara was born with a rare genetic disorder and without a surgery, she will never be able to walk. Flores’ story, and other stories from a photojournalism trip to Brazil, will be shared at the Bourbon Theatre tonight from 5 to 8 p.m. “Searching São Paulo: A Documentary Photography Project” is free and will feature a raffle to benefit the families.

dn hosts second asun debate Candidates spar over privatization, sustainability story by Jame Pace-Cornsilk | photos by Brianna Soukup

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n the second of four debates between Association of Student for the University of Nebraska hopefuls, parties fielded questions regarding sustainability, University Health Center privatization and increasing student involvement in ASUN. Sense for ASUN, Revive and Engage met on Tuesday, Feb. 26 at 7 p.m. in the Nebraska Union Crib for a debate, which was hosted by the Daily Nebraskan and the University of NebraskaLincoln Civic Action Committee. Proposed efforts to enhance sustainability at UNL while keeping student fees low stirred conflict between the campaigning parties and proved an issue that became heated during the closing remarks. “Revive, you want paperless air dryers, those cost money,” said Blake Rostine, a junior German and political science major and presidential candidate for Sense. Revive candidates admitted paperless air dryers cost money, but Revive presidential candidate Zach Stull, a junior business administration major, explained that paperless air dryers are not the biggest sustainability point they are advocating. Allowing beer sales at the new Haymarket Arena during Nebraska basketball games is another platform Revive is campaigning on. Revive believes by allowing beer sales, but limiting the number students can purchase, the revenue generated will help pay back debt for the new project. Revive also stated allowing beer sales will increase attendance at the games. Sam Adams, Revive’s candidate external vice president and a junior finance and economics major, used Omaha’s Creighton University as an example of a school that allows beer sales at their basketball games and has not had any problems with it thus far. Revive questioned how the Sense executives might imple-

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Perlman fields UHC proposal questions Cristina Woodworth DN

Sarah Cast, Blake Rostine, and Anders Olson of Sense for ASUN respond to a question from the audience at the debate Tuesday night. ment a designated smoking area campus, which they proposed to seek student opinion on if elected. Anders Olsen, Sense’s external vice presidential candidate and a junior agribusiness major, said he would create a plan to create smoking areas on campus that are easy access for smokers. Punishments include a student having their N-Card taken away, which costs $20 to replace, he said. Creating a third college prep program in South Omaha, a platform of the Engage party, was also a topic of concern. Engage aims to create a bridge from South Omaha to give students the opportunity to have a clear path to UNL. Eric Reznicek, presidential candidate for Engage, says a third college prep

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The three parties bidding for leadership of ASUN – Engage, Revive, and Sense – debate in the Nebraska Union Crib Tuesday night. The debate was held by the Daily Nebraskan and moderated by the Daily Nebraskan and the Civic Action Committee.

A group of about 60 University of Nebraska-Lincoln faculty, staff and students gathered Tuesday evening at the Nebraska Union to learn about the future of the University Health Center. UNL Chancellor Harvey Perlman discussed more details of Bryan Health’s proposal to take over operations of the health center before fielding questions from the crowd. “It is a battle of titans out there,” Perlman said during the event. “It’s no longer sensible in my view to run a small, independent health center. It’s not good now, and it will be increasingly difficult in the future.” Bryan Health has said they would construct a new $14.4 million building to replace the current health center at no cost to students, as well as maintain all of the health services that are currently offered to students. The new building would be located at 19th and R streets, south of the Beadle Center. Perlman emphasized the benefits that would come from privatizing the health center including students getting an updated building without an increase in student fees and the expanded variety of health insurance that a larger company like Bryan Health would be able to accept for services. “I don’t believe that between Bryan Health and this university, this university can manage a health center better than Bryan Health can,” Perlman said. UNL students currently pay

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College readership carries on despite trends James Pace-Cornsilk DN Though fewer University of Nebraska-Lincoln students are picking up newspapers, UNL still ranks third out of 450 participating schools in newspapers consumed. The Collegiate Readership Program – funded by student fees – has seen a steady decline in newspaper consumption by UNL students since the 2008-2009 school year, which reported a total of 757,347 newspapers consumed. At the end of the 2011-2012 school year, that number decreased approximately 35 percent to 489,441 newspapers. “If I pick up a paper real late in the evening, there’s still like a big stack,” said Ashley Elrod, a senior criminology and criminal justice major. “And I’d rather see no papers than so many at the end of the day.” Pennsylvania State University

reported the highest number of newspapers picked up out of all participating schools, the University of Utah falling just behind them, according Jason Meyer, senior account manager for USA Today, who launched the program in 2003. The decline in consumption of The New York Times, Lincoln Journal Star, Omaha World-Herald and USA Today could be attributed to several factors. Digital convergence, the migration of print readers to online, is a hot topic among news organizations. Elrod believes social media and other online news outlets could be driving students away from traditional newspapers. “(People aren’t picking up papers) because they can just read articles online now,” said Adam Snyder, a senior civil engineering major, “or just play games on their phones.” Meyer agreed that digital technologies, mobile phones and tablet

devices are probably what is causing campus readership to decline. He oversees approximately 20 college readership programs across Nebraska and Iowa. Twitter, Facebook and other internet sites are frequent news stops for Johnathon Hebbard, a junior communications major. “They’re just a part of my daily routine,” Hebbard said. “You know you get up in the morning, jump on your computer, check your email, check Twitter, check Facebook, check the news in there as well.” Providing students with an online subscription would be a difficult process, according to Meyer. “The problem with (offering online subscription) is it would just be USA Today online,” he said. “It would not address getting the Omaha paper online, the Lincoln paper online or The New York

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morgan spiehs | dn

Sophomore construction management major Zach Winkler reads the Lincoln Journal Star that he picked up in the Nebraska Union Tuesday using the Collegiate Readership Program, which is funded by student fees.


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