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UNL launches academic recovery program Layla Younis DN

Adam White, the head pastor at the Lutheran Center, reviews new funding from the Lilly Endowment Incorporated that the center received at the beginning of this year. The funding will be used over the next five years.

Lutheran Student Center receives grant to promote religion, education on campus

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he Lutheran Center at the University of NebraskaLincoln has received a $100,000 grant to promote faith in vocations and develop leaders in the Lutheran community.

The grant is to be used during the next five years and was awarded to the center by the Lilly Endowment Inc., which is an organization that seeks to promote religion, education and community development. The grant is meant to support a multi-component program of guest speakers, a series of sermons and student vocational exploration.

“We got a letter out of the blue. … We weren’t expecting it, in fact it made kind of a hodgepodge mess, but it was a good problem,” said Amanda White, administrative director and ministry

support for the center.

White said the center hopes to invite speakers and guest preachers who are working in various fields while still maintaining the Lutheran faith.

“Each year will have kind of a theme. … This year is going to be more science and health,” she said.

“The grant is given by invitation only – you can’t just apply for it,” said Adam White, the head pastor for the Lutheran Center. “I asked the Lilly people (why the Lutheran center received the grant) and they answered ‘we spoke to people doing what you do and your name came up.’”

The Lutheran Center was selected out of several other Lutheran centers on college campuses all over Nebraska such as the Uni-

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Parking and Transit to ask for fees increase Kelli Rollin DN The Committee for Fees Allocation will hear budget requests for the 2014-15 year from the University Health Center, Nebraska Unions, the College Readership program and Parking and Transit Services this week.

The University Health Center and the College Readership program, which provides newspapers around campus for students, aren’t asking for more money on their budget. However, Parking and Transit Services and the Campus Recreation are both asking for increases in University Programming and Facilities fees, which are the fees students pay each semester.

CFA will make its recommendations on how much each university organization should receive and then the Association of Students

of the University of Nebraska will vote on those budget requests later this month.

Parking and Transit Services is asking for $72,000 more, which is a 6.3 percent increase from last year’s budget. The Campus Recreation Center is asking for $570,000, which is a 9.4 percent increase from last year.

The Rec has asked for and been approved for an increased budget during the past five years. The budget covers programs, general operations and repair and improvement of facilities.

The Rec’s budget for the 200910 school year was $5,770,077 compared with the 2013-14 budget of $6,983,332, which is a $1,213,255 difference.

The budget for Parking and Transit Services was $398,000 in 2010 and saw an increase every year since then, except during the 2011-

12 school year. The current Parking and Transit Services budget for the 2014 fiscal year is $1,148,912, which is an increase of $750,912 during the past five years.

Dan Carpenter, director of Parking and Transit Services, wrote in an email that some of the increases in budget requests came from the transition of having StarTran operate all of the intercampus routes instead of the university.

He said student fees covered 51 percent of transit costs, and Parking and Transit Services covered 49 percent of costs in the 2014 budget.

However, the increase in budget requests involves splitting the fees equally between the two.

Matt Bailey, a freshman graphic design major, drives to campus and bought a commuter parking pass for the year.

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if you go All Committee for Fees Allocation meetings begin at 6:30 p.m. in the Nebraska Union. The room will be posted.

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She only had a little bit of scholarship money. She wasn’t an athlete or on academic probation.

But in two years at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Camille Mychelle Scott, who is black, never felt like the university was doing anything to help her get an education. So in 2012 she left UNL. “I didn’t have any academic support,” said Scott, now a senior at Wichita State University.

Now, UNL has the First Year Experience and Transition Program, which began in August. The program provides academic and social support for students to help them stick around, and includes workshops, intake sessions and a recovery plan for students on academic probation. Students will have the opportunity to be paired with an academic success coach to help put them on a path to improving their GPA. The program was created with the guidance of UNL’s Campus Blueprint, which outlines the university’s goals of increasing recruitment and enrollment. The blueprint says UNL will increase retention rates, partly because it’s more cost efficient to increase retention than to increase the enrollment, said Heather Ockenfels, director of the First Year Experience and Transition Program.

In the past 10 years, retention rates of first-time and full-time freshman Hispanic, African American, American Indian and Alaska Native students have been lower than international students, white students and Asian or Pacific Islander’s, according to UNL’s Institutional Research and Planning office.

The average retention rates of Hispanics, African Americans, American Indians and Alaskan Native are lower than 87 percent.

International students have the highest retention rates at 87 percent.

American Indian and Alaska Natives have the lowest retention rates at 75 percent.

The average of the whole university is 83 percent, which is lower than other similar-sized universities, Ockenfels said.

To increase retention rates, the First Year Experience and Transition program is working with New Student Enrollment and Red Letter Day, two programs that offer programs to help introduce new students to the university.

Students at these programs will be informed about academic success coaches and workshops that the First Year Experience and Transition program offers to both students on academic probation and not on academic probation, Ockenfels said.

Kelsey Bathke, a sophomore broadcasting major, said visiting the First Year Experience and Transition program has helped her this semester. Bathke, a white, non-Hispanic student, was on academic probation as a freshman during the 2011-2012 school year.

She spent all last semester trying to bring her GPA back up and now is doing well.

“My GPA alone this semester has

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NU issues statement on Israeli academic institution boycott President, chancellors reject call for boycott, despite American Studies Association decision Layla younis DN The University of Nebraska has issued a statement rejecting the call to boycott Israeli academic institutions.

The American Studies Association, which has members at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, voted in December to boycott Israeli academic institutions to protest the country’s treatment of Palestinians.

But NU President James B. Milliken and the chancellors of the NU campuses rejected the call to boycott the Israeli universities because they believe it is misguided and hinders the open pursuit of knowledge and the exchange of ideas.

“We urge our colleagues to adopt policies that encourage dialogue rather than those that threaten the institutions and communities that are founded on free and open inquiry and discourse,” the statement read.

Toward the end of last semester, Jeannette Eileen Jones, a member of the ASA and a history and ethnic studies professor at UNL, went to a meeting with other ASA members to discuss the boycott.

“People spoke out for and against this boycott,” Jones said.

The boycott prevents members of ASA working with academic institutions that have denied Palestin-

There is always this perception that Palestinians are violent and that Israel is the victim, but the opposite is true.” charles holm history graduate student

ians their basic rights, but does not prevent members from working with individual scholars.

Jones said the ASA isn’t saying it is boycotting everything from Israel, but promoting basic rights for Palestinians, especially within the educational system.

No one reached out to Jones before the university’s statement, and she doesn’t know if there will be a conversation in the future, Jones said.

Jones said she doesn’t think the university’s announcement will

greatly impact the Mid-America American Studies Association, the regional subgroup of ASA that includes universities in Nebraska.

“Whether or not the university is in agreement should not affect (faculty/professor) tenure,” Jones said.

All faculty members have the right to their own opinions and thoughts, Jones said.

During the vote to boycott Israeli academic institutions, 66 percent of the ASA voted for the boycott,

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30 percent voted against it, and 3 percent abstained, according to the ASA’s website.

The University of Nebraska issued its statement on Dec. 18. Other higher education organizations, such as the Association of Public and Land-grant Institutions, the American Council on Education and the American Association of University Professors, have also opposed the boycott.

ASA is the professional interdisciplinary association for scholars who study the American culture and history, have an academic journal and conferences, Jones said.

MAASA also includes members from Arkansas, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota and Wisconsin.

Zach Bram, a sophomore mechanical engineering major and president of Hillel-Jewish Student

Association, said the student group has no agreed-upon thoughts about the boycott and is still trying to get everyone together because it’s the beginning of semester.

“It’s the first week back and we are all getting things together,” Bram said.

Charles Holm, a history graduate student, said he thinks the statement from the university is “a total joke.”

“There is always this perception that Palestinians are violent and that Israel is the victim, but the opposite is true,” Holm said. “They are trying to find non-violent ways to assert their rights.”

Holm said the statement from the university is misleading and misses the point of ASA’s resolution.

“A lot of boycotts are symbolic,” Holm said. news@ dailynebraskan.com

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Spring into Wellness when: 12:10 p.m. to 12:50 p.m. where: Nebraska Union

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Early Childhood Education in Shanghai & Beijing Information Session when: 3 p.m. to 4 p.m. where: Henzlik Hall, Room 103

IN LINCOLN what: “Learning from the Master” with the Nebraska Jazz Orchestra when: 7:30 p.m. where: The Cornhusker Marriott, 333 S. 13th St. more information: $26 for adults, $12.50 for students

what: Damian David when: 8 p.m. to 9 p.m. where: Crescent Moon Coffee, 140 N. 8th St., lower level

Student advances in Hearst competition melissa allen dn

placed in the top five universities, and it is ranked one place higher than 2013.

In the next round of the comDuring the Hearst Broadcasting Television News Competition, petition, Jaynes and other finalists will submit one hard-news feaUniversity of Nebraska-Lincoln’s Jenna Jaynes won first place in ture and resubmit a feature from the first round in the semi-finals the competition’s first round.

by March 14. Those who survive If the senior broadcasting, round two will compete in Washjournalism and English major ington, D.C., this summer. survives the second round of Jaynes submitted two feathe television competition, she’ll travel to Washington D.C., for the tures: “Defining Academic Dishonesty at UNL,” and “Nebrasfinal round this summer. ka’s First Male Color Guard Lives “I was very excited when I learned that I got first place,” His Dream.” The stories were shown on Star City News, a UNL Jaynes said. “It was during fistudent-produced 30-minute nals week, and I received three missed calls from my professors. news program that airs on Time I thought that they thought that Warner Cable channel 21.

Jaynes’ experiences internI had cheated on an assignment.” ing for WBBM-TV Barney McCoy, (CBS Chicago) and associate professor KSTP TV in MinIt was the of broadcasting, neapolis, working said Jaynes reprelittle things for Star City News sents the caliber of and as assistantthe students in the from all those producer on the journalism school. experiences that documentary “Na“The bar of tive Daughters” standards are have helped me has helped shape set,” McCoy said. find the best way her broadcasting “There are many and journalism others like her that to tell a story.” skills, she said. help rank UNL as “Last suma top journalism jenna jaynes mer at KSTP TV program in the senior broadcasting, in Minneapolis, U.S.” journalism, engligh major I worked in Web Last month, producing, and it UNL tied for showed me a lot of fourth place in the Hearst Broadways to compile a story,” Jaynes casting Television News Competition. This year, 79 students from said. “When I was at CBS, it was 43 universities competed in the more about hard-news investifirst round of radio and television gating, and that helped me a lot broadcasting competition. Chel- with the cheating story. It was the sea Eaton, a senior broadcasting little things from all those experiences that have helped me find major at UNL, placed 15th in the the best way to tell a story.” competition as well.

Jaynes grew up in Bartlett, This year marks the fourth consecutive year that UNL has Ill., and developed a love for

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Jenna Jaynes, a senior broadcast, journalism and English major, was awarded first place in the Hearst Broadcasting Television News Competition. If she wins the next round, Jaynes will travel to Washington, D.C., this summer to compete in the final round of the competition. writing and international affairs. She followed the news on corruption in the Chicago political system and tried to promote broadcasting and journalism in her high school.

“I tried to get things going,” she said. “But when you can’t get something, it makes you want it more. I wanted it so badly because I was deprived of it, and I knew it’s exactly what I wanted.”

After touring UNL, Jaynes had an instant connection with the campus.

Sheldon selects new interim dean Hixon-Lied college associate dean Christin Mamiya will act as temporary head for art museum staff report dn Christin Mamiya, associate dean of the Hixon-Lied College of Fine and Performing Arts and professor of art history at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, has been named interim director of the Sheldon Museum of Art. Mamiya will be replacing Jorge Daniel Veneciano, who resigned in December and will be ending his term on Feb. 1, to become director of El Museo del Barrio in New York. She also served as interim dean of the Hixon-Lied college for one year.

Mamiya will continue to dictate her duties during her time as interim director at the Sheldon.

“I was asked by the chancellor to serve in this capacity (as interim director), and I agreed to do so because of the importance

of the Sheldon Museum of Art to I am delighted to have been given the campus, the Lincoln community, the state, and the national this opportunity to advance the art scene,” Mamiya wrote in an mission of the Sheldon and to e-mail. “I am delighted to have been given this opportunity to work with an outstanding staff.” advance the mission of the Shelchristin mamiya don and to work with an outhixon-lied college associate dean standing staff.”

Mamiya received her Bachelor of Arts at Yale University widely used textbook. and received her Masters of Arts to continue the excellence in While Mamiya assumes her exhibition scheduling and proand Ph.D. degrees at Univerposition as interim director at the sity of California, Los Angeles. gramming for which the ShelSheldon on Feb. 2, the Office of don is known and to prepare for Mamiya has been a member of the Chancellor will soon begin the UNL Department of Art and the new permanent director,” coordinating a national search Mamiya wrote.

Art History faculty for a new Sheldon director.

Mamiya has since 1987.

“The director search will also been a very While at UNL, strong voice on con- be coordinated by the Office of Mamiya has taught the Chancellor and will involve temporary art. She all of the modern art wrote “Pop Art and a search committee, assisted by courses. In 1992, she a professional search firm. AlConsumer Culture: received a College American Supermar- though I and the Sheldon staff Distinguished Teachket,” which led to will certainly have input during ing Award, in 2001 the search, I’m not exactly sure receiving invitations the Annis Chaikin nationally and inter- at this point what form that inSorensen Award for put will take,” Mamiya wrote. nationally to speak Distinguished teach“I anticipate that the national and write about ing in the Humanisearch for the new director will artists of the later ties and in 2005 was christin 20th century, and begin very soon. I hope that the selected for memberco-authored “Gard- process will identify strong canship into the Acadner ’s Art Through didates, and that a new direcemy of Distinguished the Ages,” an award-winning tor will be hired within a few Teaching here at the University textbook that led to introducing months.” of Nebraska-Lincoln. news@ generations of students to art “As interim director, I plan dailynebraskan.com to work closely with the staff history and is currently the most

Former ag secretary to speak in panel Jacob Elliot DN Former U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Dan Glickman will speak on the country’s position in world agriculture as part of the Heuermann lecture series on Tuesday.

Glickman will speak in a panel at 7 p.m., in the Nebraska East Union along with others including Catherine Woteki, U.S. Department of Agriculture under secretary for agricultural research, education and economics, and Philip G. Pardey, University of Minnesota Department of Applied Economics professor and director of UM-Twin Cities’ Center for International Science and Technology Practice and Policy.

The lecture titled “Regarding the U.S. Lead in Agricultural and Natural Resources Research” will examine the importance of agriculture and how the U.S. is running its agricultural department.

“I think that agriculture right now is a top agenda amongst

“Everyone was so friendly, and my tour guide knew everyone that walked past,” Jaynes said. “I met some of the broadcasting professors, and they really sold it and made me excited to come here. And it helped that our program is basically awesome.”

Jerry Renaud, a journalism professor, has worked with Jaynes on “Native Daughters” and Star City News.

“In broadcasting, you need to have a series of skills to pull off a report like that,” said Re-

“I think that agriculture right now is a top agenda amongst many agendas. It’s become very important due to the world population.” martin massengale center for grassland studies director

many agendas,” said Martin Massengale, director of the Center for Grassland Studies. “It’s become very important due to the world population.”

The world population is estimated to increase by 2 billion in 50 years or fewer, Massengale said.

He said that as people in developing countries receive more money, they can purchase and consume more food and more desirable food, such as meat over grain.

“It’s a timely topic and an important one to be discussing,” Massengale said.

The U.S. has been the leader in agricultural production and

innovation for more than a hundred years, said Judy Nelson, a publications editor and event coordinator with ALEC Educational Media at UNL. “But now there is concern that the investments in agriculture in the U.S. have flown and declined over the years, which has led to a corresponding slowdown in U.S. production and growth as investments in research and agriculture has declined. Yet competitors haven’t reduced their spending on their agriculture research and development and their productivity hasn’t slowed.”

Nelson said the panel will discuss where the U.S. stands in

if you go what: “Regarding the U.S. Lead in Agricultural and Natural Resources research” when: 7 p.m. where: Nebraska East Union

world agriculture and what will come to the agriculture industry in the future.

The purpose of the Heuermann lectures is to discuss the security and sustainability of food, natural resources and renewable energy as well as securing the sustainability of rural communities. The next lecture, “Our Culture War over Food and Farming” will be on Feb. 27 at 3:30 p.m. in Hardin Hall. news@ dailynebraskan.com

naud on Jaynes’ feature on the first UNL male color guard. “You need good camera presence, have a confidence to talk on camera and make it sound nice and comfortable. You need to understand how the cameras work, videography, how to edit videos, be a good writer, have good flow, and have a delivery that’s easy to listen to. It’s a wonderful package, and (Jaynes) has all the skills a reporter needs to do that.” news@ dailynebraskan.com

probation: from 1 (The academic success coach) got into my head and figured out how to help.” kelsey bathke

sophomore broadcasting major

been raised,” Bathke said.

Her coach helped her make color-coded schedules to personalize it to Bathke and the way she remembers things, she said. “(The academic success coach) got into my head and figured out how to help,” Bathke said.

More than two out of every 10 white students did not come back that year.

When Scott was at UNL, which was from 2010 to 2012, nearly three out of every 10 black students left UNL. First Year Experience and Transition program did not exist when she was at UNL because it only started this August. Scott said if she would have had some help, she might have stayed.

“I’m not saying I hated UNL,” Scott said. “I felt like I wasn’t cared for.” news@ dailynebraskan.com

UNL staff member dies during break following collapse Colleen Fell DN

were already performing CPR on Graham. Friends of Graham told police that as they were exitA University of Nebraska-Lin- ing the Red One parking garage, coln staff member died Jan. 2, Graham collapsed and was unresponsive. Graham’s after collapsing near friends had also perthe Pinnacle Bank formed CPR until Arena.

LFR arrived.

Cheryl A. GraA coroner’s inham, 61, who vestigation was done worked in accountby Lancaster County ing and acquisitions Sheriff’s Office. The at the UNL Marvin Lancaster County and Virginia Schmid Sheriff’s office said Law Library, was Graham’s doctor was pronounced dead afaware that she had ter rescue efforts on heart conditions and the scene and being an autopsy was not transported to a local graham performed. The cause hospital. of death was deemed When Lincoln poas natural causes. lice arrived on the scene near the NEWS@ arena, Lincoln Fire and Rescue DAILYNEBRASKAN.COM

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big ten briefs AT&T donates $35,000 to UW-madison’s pre-college program

The University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Pre-College Enrichment Opportunity Program for Learning Excellence received a $35,000 donation from AT&T on Friday. The program, known as PEOPLE, is a service that has helped more than 1,300 underserved students prepare for and complete higher education.

The six-year program supports students from 6th to 12th grade and boasts a 100 percent graduation rate, with 95 percent of its students enrolling in college or universities.

The donation brings AT&T’s support of the program to a total of $1.5 million since the program’s inception in 1999. This year, UW-Madison has 90 students enrolled through PEOPLE, the largest class to date.

Minnesota astronomers open black hole search to public

Astronomers from the University of Minnesota contributed to a “citizen science” project that allows anyone with a tablet or laptop to search for black holes.

The project, called Radio Galaxy Zoo, uses infrared and radio wavelength data from NASA to allow users to explore galaxies for black holes.

No knowledge of the technical side of the data is needed – identifying the areas of strong gravity and rapidly moving areas of matter involves simply matching images.

The project was made public to gather a larger pool of data and identify as many black holes and their locations as possible. Researchers hope to study the identified locations to better understand the origin and progression of black holes.

penn state researchers awarded $976,000 grant to study amazon

A group of researchers from Penn State University are developing a computer model to more accurately understand and predict climate cycles in the Amazon.

With a three-year, $976,000 grant from the Department of Energy, the team is looking to improve prediction technology by incorporating information on the water, nitrogen and carbon cycles as well as human influences into the model.

The team hopes the improved model can be used to make informed decisions for future extreme weather events such as droughts and floods.

Michigan State study: Children believe world more gendersegregated Children perceive the world as much more gender-segregated than reality, one Michigan State University researcher found.

Friendships were examined in five U.S. elementary schools.

Results showed that although school children had opposite-gender friends, they believed that girls only played with girls and boys only played with boys.

The study also found that of the 426 second through fourth-grade students, two individuals were nine times more likely to be friends if they were of the same gender.

And when asked, children were 50 times more likely to believe that two classmates were friends if they were the same gender.

The students who did have more accurate understandings of inter-gender social relationships were more likely to have more positive peer interactions.

The study’s leader said the findings pose potential future implications regarding workplace relationships and gender roles.

—compiled by mara klecker, news@dailynebraskan.com

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Bailey said he would like from page 1 to see Parking and Transit’s increased budget request be used for creating more parking garagJan. 30 – UPC Lied, UPC Programming presentations es and lots on campus.

Feb. 4 – Daily Nebraskan, DailyER presentations; “The parking is kind of bad recommendation for UPC Lied, Programming around here,” Bailey said.

He said parking is expensive Feb. 6 – ASUN presentation; recommendation for and can be inconvenient at times, Daily Nebraskan, DailyER especially when few parking Feb. 11 – Recommendation for ASUN spots are available and are locatFeb. 13 – Fund A Appeals; ratification for ASUN bill ed far away from where students need to go.

Feb. 19 – ASUN reviews Fund A bills Hannah Hassenstab, a sophomore chemical engineering major, doesn’t have a car on campus.

Megan Ediger, a freshman in- find an open spot.”

The hassle of finding convenient terior design major, has learned Though CFA won’t hear any parking spots and the expense how to deal with the trouble of increase requests from the Uniof a parking pass finding parking, versity Health Center or the Coldeters her from especially on lege Readership program, the bringing her car.

If they were City Campus. readership program’s five-year “Costs are so lower, then I Ediger lives contract will expire this summer. high,” HassenEric Reznicek, president of stab said. “If they would more eagerly off-campus and has a commuter ASUN, wrote in an email that he were lower, then I pass, is looking to renew the College would more eager- seek bringing a car.” parking but instead of Readership Program’s contract, ly seek bringing a on City but the discussion of doing so car.” hannah hassenstab parking Campus where just began.

She said if she sophomore chemical most of her “The program’s readership engineering major had a car on camclasses are, she numbers are a solid reinforcepus, she would parks on East ment that the program is here like to see Parkto stay unless something drastic ing and Transit work on creating Campus and commutes by the bus. were to change,” Reznicek wrote. more convenient parking lots, news@ “It’s harder to park on City rather than ones farther from dailynebraskan.com Campus,” she said. “It’s hard to campus.

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changing with the times photos by Tyler Meyer ABOVE: The food court isn’t the only thing experiencing aesthetic changes. Other parts of the Nebraska Union, such as the hallway on the north side, will be getting new light fixtures in addition to the fluorescent lights added to the partially red ceiling to give the hallway a dim, red glow.

LEFT: The heavy construction taking place in the Nebraska Union has made progress over winter break. The food court received a new sign and the redesigned Runza opened just before the beginning of spring semester.

versity of Nebraska at Kearney, Midland University and Hastings College.

“For the past decade the Lilly foundation has made a push to start developing leaders,” Adam White said, which is in line with the center’s current programs of peer mentorship training, seminary internships and discernment groups.

“We focus on young adults and have them think about how Jesus is involved in their lives,” Adam said.

The Lutheran center’s various programs focus on helping students develop leadership and maintain their faith throughout their lives.

“When I looked at the grant, I realized this is what we are already doing,” Amanda White said.

The grant will help fund and continue the center’s ongoing Bible study groups and Christian education throughout the semester.

However, the grant’s impact on developing leaders is not limited to programs already in operation by the center.

“Students will also be able to apply for mini grants to help pay for seminary trips,” Amanda said.

The grant money will also bring in guest speakers to the center who can help Lutheran students find a meaning behind the majors and work they hope to do.

“We want to bring in people who can speak at the intersection of vocation and theology,” Adam said.

The center also plans to create discernment groups for people considering occupations outside of the church.

“Our first ‘TOASTY’ discernment group was great but made mostly of people going into seminary,” Amanda said.

The center has recently started a second group for people who might go elsewhere and the grant will help fund that.

“I feel like this is important work (by the center), to invite students to think about the importance of their work,” Adam said of the impact this grant will have on his congregation of students.

The grant will allow the Lutheran center to continue programs that will help students find satisfaction and meaning within any field of work they choose to go into.

“I was just really excited because vocation and call is something I personally struggled with,” Amanda said, on the importance of students finding career fields that are personally and spiritually gratifying. news@ dailynebraskan.com

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UNL needs praise for new academic probation plan The University of Nebraska–Lincoln has recently struggled with a variety of issues surrounding student enrollment and retention. As the DN Editorial Board suggested in the past, UNL should first and foremost take care of its current students. Incoming freshmen and anyone else struggling to find their place at the university should be offered support.

The DN Editorial Board commends UNL for its new approach to helping students who find themselves on academic probation.

New students must learn to navigate tiny dorm rooms, noisy roommates, concerts and parties, work and class schedules and the threat of unexpected illness. Many of them live away from their parents and the support system they were used to in high school. While all students have academic advisers and other general counseling available to them, some may not know about these services or how to approach them. Students who are put on academic probation likely don’t know what that means or what they need to do about it. Struggling academically can bar them from participating in other university activities. These adjustments can become overwhelming and cause students to drop out, especially if they feel the university doesn’t care if they succeed.

To help address some of these issues, UNL implemented the First Year Experience and Transition Program in the fall.

This program will reach out to new and current students with general advice and offers of personal attention when needed. A student on academic probation will be assigned an academic coach to identify the areas that student struggles with and what specific tools will get them back on track for graduation.

We’re each individually responsible for our experience at university. No one will hold our hand, and we ultimately have to find our own way. However, the university’s job, the one we’re paying them for, is to offer support and programs to students wherever possible. If this personalized approach is what some students need, then they should be given the opportunity.

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Be competitive to improve yourself

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ast semester, I took a class on international relations. A key idea of this class was the difference between relative and absolute power.

In hypothetical nation-sized terms, relative power means the United States has more sheep than Greenland. Absolute power, on the other hand, means the US has more sheep now than it did in the past.

In class, these ideas were applied to all sorts of complicated international things, but now I want to apply it to something a little easier to grasp – people-sized things.

As I’ve been told practically since birth by well-meaning parents, the world we live in is unforgiving. It is also extremely competitive – something college students are hyper aware of.

We compete for grades, for research positions, for involvement in clubs or organizations, for internships, for study abroad opportunities, for scholarships and yes – for jobs. Our fellow student is not only a potential friend, but also a constant pressure potentially pushing us out of a future job. Needless to say, as we stare at a new semester bill for thousands of dollars, most of us are motivated to succeed.

This quest for good grades and outstanding resumes of various achievements and deeds is a great example of thinking relatively.

In the days of social media, it’s easier than ever before to compare our achievements to those of others, and we do it all the time. We scroll through pages of information about others not just because we’re bored but because we want to know how we stack up to them. Is her picture cooler than mine? Is he involved in more things than me? Is her GPA better than mine (because apparently it’s OK now for perfect people to erase any doubt by announcing their 4.0 to the world)? These things all go through our heads, and they’re all relative to our own success. Thus I will call them relative successes.

It’s true that relative success feels pretty great. Whether we want to admit it or not, we are competitive creatures who like to win. It feels good when your GPA or involvement list dominates the competition. However, as with most good things, there’s a flip side. What happens when someone else reigns supreme?

like to attribute it to something a little less ambiguous: absolute success. According to this idea, what we should really be worried about is improving ourselves for the sake of being better – not for the sake of keeping up with the Jones’.

At first glance this might seem like a naïve idea, because we all know how important it is to be competitive relatively. However, in terms of individual happiness, it might not be so silly.

In my own life, as I slowly build up my I’ve always been pretty competitive, and knowledge of science or my ability to run long it bothers me when I fail. As far as I can tell, this is a pretty universal human characteristic. distances, I’m comforted to know that I’m I like to think this competitive streak wouldn’t improving – even though Mr. Awesome over there still wipes the floor with me. In fact, there have been as much of a problem in the “old days” when the size of the world consisted of are a lot of benefits to thinking absolutely.

Absolute thinking is a good motivator your village, a few villages nearby and a few because I feel like I’m achieving something. distant trading partners. I’m It improves my confidence beconfident I could have been the cause I feel like a more wellbest at something in a world It’s also rounded and interesting person. consisting of a few hundred important to It prepares me for the future bepeople. But today, with our cause it promotes perseverance world containing more than 7 recognize no one and determination. It also, perbillion interconnected and comhaps most importantly, makes petitive individuals, it’s safe to can be absolutely me feel good. say I will never be the best at perfect and the There may be thousands of anything.

This thought is depressing best at everything, people out there who are more well-rounded, determined and when you come from a child- but we can all get successful than me. However, hood where you were the best that fact doesn’t stop me from Beanie Baby teacher/doctor/ smarter, faster feeling like a champion when adventurer ever. But it’s also ex- and stronger.”

I improve my mile split or ace tremely true, and in moments of a test. That is to say, I feel just crushing defeat, it drives me up as good when I beat myself as the wall. My only consolation (or not) is that when I beat someone else. the victor over me is almost certainly a loser There’s a lesson in this for all of us. As too when compared with someone else even we’ve all heard before. It really is important more perfect. to worry less about everyone else and more What I’m getting at here is that we are all a pretty unhappy competitive lot. No matter about yourself. It’s also important to recognize that no one can be absolutely perfect and the how hard we try, someone else somewhere best at everything, but we can all get smarter, will beat us – either by talent or complete devotion to the task at hand. We all know this faster and stronger.

At the end of the day, improving myself is true, but it doesn’t stop us from trying. We know that even as second fiddle, we can still is the best I’m ever going to get. But it’s also enough for me. make a good life for ourselves, and we still, Devin Grier is a freshman partially, hold out hope to someday be No. 1. biological systems engineering major.

This phenomena can be taken as a conveReach her at opinion@ nient trait of the human condition, but I would dailynebraskan.com.

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Praise pushes ‘me’ generation to forge its own history

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ot making life all about ryline, something else has captivated me.

If you haven’t gotten to watch the you is hard when you otherwise have no his- show yet, I won’t spoil anything for you, tory to support yourself. but know that you’ll eventually need to You’ll buy video games watch it. That being said, a politician in for your own enjoyment, the show is from Pennsylvania, and in a later episode he goes back to campaign talk about your latest accomplishments and find quiet time … for yourself. Our for governor. As we begin to see the peogeneration has been dubbed the “me” ple and the layout of the state, Pops’ face generation, and although it has gotten just lights up with a knowing grin. His eyes nearly become projection screens as us some slack, perhaps this is our way of he reminisces about how making our own history. life was when he lived in Winter break has its We’ve been Pennsylvania when he was ups and downs, where liva kid. Momma joins in, ing at home again accounts urged to adding her own commenfor both. Being surrounded tary to his story, and sudby my family again means show the world denly the show we were catching up with one an- what we can do. watching becomes a much other as well as binge richer story. I wanted to watching some shows on To show them share in their nostalgia, as Netflix, such as “House why I am worth others probably have when of Cards.” My pops is sittheir parents talk about ting on the left loveseat, it.” their childhoods. We’ve sharing the cushion with never experienced what one of our dogs and a beer. they have, and we probably never will.

My mother ’s huddled in a blanket on the couch. I’m — of course — gorging myself Yet, the young blood that ran through with some homemade popcorn on my them is now running through us. As I sat own island of a chair. In the course of two there, I felt like something was lacking.

As I said before, my generation has nights, we’ve gotten through 11 of the 13 episodes, and besides the engrossing sto- been categorized as the “me” generation

Emily Kuklinski

by Time Magazine and other sources. We know we don’t have as many trials to overcome as our parents or grandparents have in the past. Today, parents are statistically backing up their children’s college funds more than parents in previous generations. According to Slate, in 2010, 47 percent of college students relied on their parents to contribute to paying for their college education. This means my father paid his own way through college, and I don’t. I rely primarily on my parents to get me by each semester. Although I like having my parents be there for me, I feel like I don’t really have my own history.

I can’t make things happen on my own, so it’s hard to take ownership of these memories I’m making.

I never had to worry about my safety when I was growing up. My life was

perfect according to any 1950s housewife. My kingdom was suburbia, where a white picket fence was my moat, and the Homeowners Association my Parliament. I was trained at Girl Scout Camps and wore my private school uniform with pride. Although I’m well aware that on a national and global scale quite a bit of history has taken place in my lifetime, I lack something on a personal scale.

Looking at this seriously for the first time, I can understand why my generation is so obsessed with the “me.” We have our parents’ blood coursing through our veins, and we don’t like being idle.

Our parents might have praised us from a young age, and our coaches might have given us faux medals of honor. This encouragement hasn’t hurt us; it’s pushed us. We’ve been urged to show the world what we can do. To show them why I am worth it. When you have magazines and newspapers telling us that we’re an “entitled generation,” we want to prove that we’re so much more.

We want to forge a history for ourselves that we can be proud of, and one that can fill in the gap of our statistically privileged childhood. This makes us more motivated to go out and make our parents and grandparents proud of

us. According to the Huffington Post, our situation also has the potential to make the world proud of us as well. As the Huffington Post suggests, we can use our greater ability to empathize with others, the fact that we’re the most educated generation or our readiness to volunteer our time with others.

Right now, I’m working three jobs. I’m a double major, and I’m always trying to find ways to bulk up my resume. I volunteered more than 200 hours of my time at Omaha’s Henry Doorly Zoo each summer I was with them. I’m not lazy, nor are the majority of people who find themselves categorized with me in Gen Y. But there I go again talking about myself again.

Although we understand that we may not have undergone the same hardships as our parents might have, we are still capable of great things. Please pardon us if we speak so highly and so verbosely about ourselves, but understand that we’re just trying to keep record of history as we make it.

Emily Kuklinski is a sophomore English and theatre major.

Follow her on Twitter @ TheFunnyEmily. Reach her at opinion@ dailynebraskan.com.

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Anna Koenig, a senior studio art major, sits next to her work she completed last December for a painting class. They are two paintings from a 10-part series.

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For University of Nebraska-Lincoln senior Anna Koenig, it represents her future.

While attending high school at Lincoln Southwest, Koenig began to develop an interest in drawing and photography. Her own self-motivation led her to choose to continue to study art and attend UNL. The studio art major also enjoyed Spanish while in high school, leading to a Spanish major.

“I decided to stay because the art and Spanish programs seemed like they would be a good fit for me,” Koenig said. “Also, I really like Lincoln and the community here.”

A native of Lincoln, Koenig has multiple relatives that are also involved with art. Although she is the only studio artist, two of her older sisters are active photographers, and her mother is a writer.

After high school, she said her initial interest in drawing blossomed into a love of painting and the creativity that comes with it. Now as a senior in college, painting an oil canvas is her medium of choice.

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“I’ve appreciated the instructors’ input a lot,” “I just started painting within the last two years, she said. “It’s really nice that they so I feel like I don’t know a lot about it give you free reign to do your own still,” she said. “But I’ve been focusing It’s really thing, but they’re very helpful more on that, and since you can do a with critiques and feedback that variety of things with the materials, it nice that challenge you and gives you a difcan never get boring.” ferent perspective.”

Students in the art college spend they give you free Koenig’s appreciation for her a lot of time together in the studio, instructors is reciprocated. Holz, a which leads to them influencing and reign to do your well-respected faculty member in challenging each other. Koenig said own thing.” the art department shared his own she finds inspiration and encourageanna koenig thoughts about this budding artist. ment from her classmates, who prosenior art and spanish major “Anna is an extraordinary vide critiques and constructive critiyoung artist who has developed cism for her pieces. Every few weeks, very personal and sophisticated students will stop working on their imagery through paint,” he said. own pieces to discuss their peers’ work.

In fact, last semester turned out to be one of the Her advisor and professor, Aaron Holz, is an admost important in her college career. ditional source of inspiration with his own works of “This past semester I did two larger pieces,” she art. The smaller class sizes allow for more individual said. “I was experimenting with looser painting, and attention and stronger relationships with the instruc-

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the wife of his folk friend, John (Justin Timberlake). Nearly all scenes featurDirected by the Coen ing Jean are memorable as she rightfully unleashes her hatred for Davis. brothers, ‘Inside “You’re a loser,” she tells him Llewyn Davis’ follows multiple times.

A statement that – despite Davis’ story of stubborn but obvious and immense talent – is untremendous musician deniably true.

After exhausting his existing places to crash in Greenwich and losing a friend’s cat, Davis finds himself Gabriella martinez-Garro on the couch of another folk-scene DN acquaintance — a humorous role played by Adam Driver — and later Ethan and Joel Coen’s films have on his way to Chicago to audition for become a genre within themselves. a record company.

Creating sarcastic, humorous and On the path to the Windy City, often thematically dark films, the Davis shares the road with two odd Coen brothers leave their trademark strangers played by John Goodman on every film they create. and Garrett Hedlund. Despite a temFor their latest work, “Inside porary change in scenery, the cycle of Llewyn Davis,” the Coen brothDavis’ poor life choices continues as ers place us in the cold and beautihe continues ful world of 1960s to cover his Greenwich Village, own hurt by a hub for the famed hurting those folk music scene bearound him. fore the explosion of In Coen folk heavyweights brothers’ tra“Inside Llewyn Bob Dylan and Pedition, the ter, Paul and Mary.

Davis” is said to be emotional It’s in the spottoll of the the Coen brothers’ light of the famed film is ballast movie shot Gaslight Cafe anced with that we first meet on film. Does the an abundance Llewyn Davis (Osof humor – difference in digital car Isaac), a terribly at and film productions typically talented yet unsucthe expense matter to you?

Send cessful musician of the main whose poor luck is character. us your thoughts a direct result of his Isaac’s @dnartsdesk own stubbornness turn as the and lack of comtitle character passion. Davis’ life is a dynamic is as bleak as the one. With his deep eyes, set beneath pale, soft glowing scenery the Coen a swarm of curly dark hair and a very brothers created. He’s a poor, sarcas- real and very gorgeous voice, Isaac tic, couch-surfing jerk who may have is captivating. Despite the unlikable impregnated Jean (Carey Mulligan) character, it’s impossible to not feel

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empathy for Llewyn Davis in some degree thanks to Isaac.

Isaac is much more than an actor playing the role of a musician. The Juilliard graduate truly displays talent and a knowledge of folk music as he contributes to a soundtrack that is as integral to the film as the plot itself.

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UK band’s sentimental Kweli challenges modern hip hop in album ‘Gravitas’ album resonates deeply kekeli Dawes DN Talib Kweli always had something to say about the state of hip hop.

But rather reminisce about the old days, Kweli’s latest work, “Gravitas,” honestly makes sense of hip hop’s modern reality.

He touches on corporate rappers (“Rich rappers, nah/I don’t know them n****s/n****s don’t get rich rapping, they sell clothes and liquor”), likens the struggle of affluent creatives to slavery, taking a page out of the gospel of Yeezus, (“Modern day slavery today to be an artist, watch/ They treat them like a product and try to mount like a hot ‘n tot”). He squashes and ridicules Illuminati talk and conspiracies and aggressively challenges misogyny in popular hip hop.

Lyrically, Kweli is in top form on his album. He continues to rhyme with seamless phrasing and cleverly toys with syllabic stress, as he always has. But it’s Kweli’s ability to improve and build upon his lyrical talent that proves key to his staying power. He adopts Southern-style rhythmic flows popular today, and rather than faltering like his contemporary Jay Z (who did so on his latest release), Kweli masters it. The artist takes the punchline, a lyrical device turned overdone gimmick, and uses it to drive his points home even harder. “You need to wake up, no new Bugatti.”

Of course, every rapper has fallen

victim to the “Versace” flow, as Jay Z did on 80 percent of “Magna Carter.”

Kweli’s “New Leaders” struggles to live up to it’s ambitious production

by Statik Selektah, his longtime DJ who also falls short. Luckily, it’s the lone dud on an album with generally strong production. It opens with a hazy boom-bap prosecution from Khrysis, is filled with strong production from Lord Quest, Oh No, and Rich Kidd and ends with none other than the late great J Dilla.

“Gravitas” has a handsome guest emcee list as well, with appearances from Big K.R.I.T., Black Thought, Rah Digga and Raekwon.

What makes the album succeed most is the content pushed by the strong production and smart lyricism.

Its second track, “Demonology,” recognizes the moral dilemma Kweli finds himself in as a rap artist in the shadow of the commercial, corporate powers of the rap industry. He extends this conflict to us as well, the fans, who often choose to ignore rather than challenge the phony materialism that manifests itself in the music industry.

Rather than simply passing judgement, a trap many conscious emcees fall into, Kweli addresses this issue on more personal terms. He speaks of the temptation that he fights against regularly. “Too many demons on the dance floor/and they’re stomping on what you stand for/ they live in the shadows of the angels/the punch lines of the rap battles to entertain you/proof

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“GRAVITAS” Talib Kweli the evil words can maim you.”

“Gravitas” is a success because Kweli rarely lectures from the tired backpacker pulpit, cursing the wayward leanings of younger hip hop artists today. He keeps the content but delivers it in clear narratives that are rhythmically-interesting. He even uses rhythmic languages and styles that resonate today.

Paired with strong production and well-placed guest spots of established and respected artists, Kweli makes an honest album that’s direct and, above all, has purpose. arts@ dailynebraskan.com

candles to embody the subtle vibrations.

The single “Another Tale from Another English Town” is a must listen for curious music fans who want to get to know this band. It starts with a faint droning hum of a bass-line hidden behind the ethereal guitardriven harmony, which is infused with just the right amount of reverb to hint at the wall-ofsound alternative rock and pop genres.

This song sizzles with intensity, which mostly comes from the violin part, that never goes over the edge and becomes brash. Throughout the song, there is a sense of emotionally bruised innocence dancing with the distrustful angst of youth.

The rising and falling notes of the violin sound vaguely like the melody from the song “Falling Slowly” from the movie “Once.”

While listening to this song, as well as the rest of the album, there is a feeling that the music is so close that it’s reverberating in the listener ’s soul. It’s the perfect soundtrack for a cold rainy day.

Overall it’s one of those touchy-feely albums, with a little extra guitar-driven-oomph for spice, which will kill the groove of a good party but will catch the listener ’s ear when he or she is sitting around soaking in an

Anticipation cuts like a knife during the Midwest winter months when the sun goes down early and new year ’s resolutions for bodies like Daft Punk’s “Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger” quietly resound on some listener ’s shopping lists.

But, remember those rare moments when a song, instead of providing pumped-up rhythms for that walk to class, seems to stop the whole world in its tracks because the sentimental sonic whisper hits so close to the bone that it almost hurts? Well, some bands are just better at setting a mood for reflective repose while waiting for a warm summer glow than others. Setting goals for physical health is good but don’t forget to soundtrack your mental health as well.

Bringing its new album from across the pond and a first-ever North American tour, the Newcastle, United Kingdom band, Lanterns On The Lake, released “Until The Colours Run” on Jan. 14. The album was first released in the UK on Oct. 7 last year.

Sadly, the closest city on the tour is Chicago on Jan. 30. Fortunately, though, all a listener needs to have a great musical experience with this band is a nice pair of headphones and maybe a couple

“UNTIL THE COLORS RUN” Lanterns on the Lake empty room. Again: candles and a bottle of wine, assuming your room (and age) allows for such luxuries. If music fans made the resolution to only listen to solidly put-together albums in 2014 then “Until The Colours Run” is a nice way to start.

Breathe in, breathe out and press the repeat button as many times as needed. arts@ dailynebraskan.com

‘The Great Beauty’ tells story of man’s search for inspiration Zach Fulciniti DN I shouldn’t have waited so long to indulge in Italian cinema.

Ultimately, I wasn’t prepared for what director Paolo Sorrentino and star Toni Servillo brought to the table in “The Great Beauty.”

Sorrentino’s seventh film finds Jep Gambardella (Servillo), a famous writer, turning 65 on a rooftop surrounded by horny men and provocative women. The women dance, the men leer, and they all consume copious amounts of alcohol. As the film slows to a halt, Jep steps into an open space and looks up at the camera. The look on his face says he’s found himself in a rather undesirable spot in more ways than one.

Jep drinks, smokes and parties hard with anyone who will have him. Quite impressive for a man who just hit retirement age. But it quickly becomes easy to see why he’s still active in so many circles.

Most people retire because they’ve worked their whole lives in anticipation of the day they can finally stop worrying about the future. They’ve done all they will do.

But Jep hasn’t done much worth retiring for. In his 20s, he wrote a novel, “The Human Apparatus,” and ever since he’s been in search of inspiration for a followup. Inspiration that, of course, never comes.

As he saunters around Rome, slowly and deliberately, visiting old friends and lovers, we gain a better picture of who he is, and we understand why he only wrote the one novel.

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To the members of his intellectual circles, he’s a genius. But to the audience, he’s a hopeless romantic who happens to have a way with words and a poor sap who stares longingly at people living their lives, wishing he hadn’t spent so much time searching for something that isn’t there. And that’s what the movie is ultimately about.

Jep clearly has his wits about him. He lives in a beautiful city full of historical splendor. He surrounds himself with drunks, fools and pseudo-intellectuals and claims he never found the “Great Beauty” that would inspire his next novel. He never found it because the “Great Beauty” doesn’t exist.

If Jep wants inspiration, he has all he’ll ever need. It comes in the form of lively rooftop conversation, night after night of drunken revelry and lovemaking, the secretive crook who lives across the hall from him, the beautifully insecure 40-something stripper he befriends who just happens to be his old friend’s daughter, the magician who makes a giraffe disappear. Surely one of those things must constitute the beauty he’s been searching for.

And if not those things, then what? Is it really that his city and his people have failed him, or has he failed them? Has he lost his creative drive, or is he just lazy and complacent? Maybe he’s spoiled by his gorgeous city and lavish lifestyle, and he doesn’t write because there’s nothing material he still needs.

“The Great Beauty,” a gorgeous movie bursting with in-

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“The Great Beauty,” an Italian film directed by Paolo Sorrentino, follows a aging writer who’s search for inspiration in various vices and nighttime revelry leaves him feeling unfulfilled with life.

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because it’s not about the answers themselves, it’s about the ways we try to find them. Everyone’s searching for an answer to an unanswerable question, and while they do, life passes them by.

Jep suddenly finds himself older than he ever imagined possible and with nothing to show for it. arts@ dailynebraskan.com

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ventive imagery, continues to ask questions in this manner as Jep interacts with his old friends, complete strangers, a Catholic cardinal, a “Saint” in the flesh. No one has the answers he’s looking for.

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No one can tell him why he feels so unfulfilled, why he never wrote another book, why the love of his youth left him.

And leaving those questions unanswered is the key to the film,

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4) Batman pants. I think my parents are trying to tell me I should call more often.

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Hannah Ratliff DN Not quite Snapchat and not quite Vine, the Days app creates a visual diary of, well, your day with still photos as well as your very own GIFS. Much like Snapchat’s new stories feature, Days allows users to share a series of photos from each day that illustrate what they did, where they went and, if you’re into Instagram clichés, what they ate. Unlike stories, though, Days doesn’t limit how long photos are posted.

Instead, users can compile their images into one massive story rather than limiting them to a 24hour viewing period. Photos are timestamped and grouped into individual days on users’ profiles, but it flows as one long series of images and GIFS. This brings me to the main reason I was initially interested in this app. A GIF, you say?

As in what runs Buzzfeed and has the ability to keep me laughing even in the most dire of midnight test cramming situations? Sign me up.

GIFS rule all.

These GIFS are kind of different than what you may see on your Tumblr timeline. They’re

more limited than Vines, since they don’t capture audio, and are not technically videos. To make a GIF on Days, users take multiple photos within the same 10-second period and hit post.

They’re really more like flipbook cartoons — they’re just two still images switching back and forth really quickly. I’m not saying you couldn’t still make some fun and interesting GIFS this way, but to me, they’re less of a GIF, more of a photo.

My only real complaint with Days is how difficult it is to find your friends. The app doesn’t offer the ability to connect to Facebook to see which of your friends are already using Days. Though the idea of sharing my diary with all my friends is a bit unnerving (I still cringe when Rebel Wilson tells Kristen Wiig about the “very sad, handwritten book” she just read in “Bridesmaids”), when I realized it was not so much a diary and more of an updated Instagram, I wanted to see what my friends were posting, but to no avail. Hopefully Days will update soon and allow me to read all my friends’ diaries. arts@ dailynebraskan.com

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davis: from 5 mances from the lead actors along with folk legends such as Marcus Mumford, T Bone Burnett and Dave Van Ronk, the real-life folk artist who served as the inspiration for the film. Most songs performed throughout “Inside Llewyn Davis” are served in their entirety and bring a heightened level of emotion to their scenes. From the hilarity of the original song, “Please Mr. Kennedy,” to the heartbreaking beauty of the traditional tune, “The Shoals of Herring,” each performance adds something to the film.

“If it was never new, and it never gets old, then it’s a folk song,” Davis repeats at the beginning and end of the film. Though the themes and songs of “Inside Llewyn Davis” are familiar to most, the Coen brothers’ story of rejection, struggle and music is still one that captivates. arts@ dailynebraskan.com

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In the Coen brothers directed “Inside Llewyn Davis,” Oscar Isaac brings the title character to life with his background in music.

koenig: from 5 the scale was more big on the paintings. Those are my some of favorite because they helped me branch out from focusing on just an idea.”

Along with UNL’s art department, Lincoln’s art community has seen significant growth in terms of awareness and involvement within the last few years. The city has broadened its art culture with public events and galleries such as First Fridays and the Sheldon Art Museum. Koenig has been attending First Fridays for the last few years, and said she has contemplated hosting her a gallery with a friend soon. Though Lincoln may not be as large as some cities, she said the art community here is supportive and continues to grow and stay relevant as the city expands.

In addition to her involvement with painting, Koenig has put a large focus on her studies in Spanish. She’s embarked on multiple trips to Spanish-speaking countries, including Peru and Spain. She said studying the Spanish language has the ability the open multiple doors to travel to various countries around the world, which is something that she finds herself very interested in.

“I hope I can find ways to combine Spanish and art,” she said. “It was definitely a great learning experience to fully immerse myself in a Spanish speaking culture and learn about their language.”

A big fan of the outdoors, Koenig said she hopes to eventually move to the northwest part of the country. Along with her parents and siblings, she frequently visited Colorado when she was younger to hike in the summer and ski in the winter.

Her family has since moved to Washington. She said the art community in states such as Washington and Oregon are larger than

Nebraska’s, but that the larger community makes it more difficult for artists to stand out amongst the competition. Still, she’s looking forward to the challenges and uncertainty that comes with pursuing her passion.

“I feel like art is very broad and open, in terms of what you can do with it,” she said. “It’s like any other profession where you just have to find your thing and keep working at it.” arts@ dailynebraskan.com

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The No. 10 Huskers opened their season Saturday night with a 196.625-192.525 victory against visiting Northern Illinois. The 4.1-point margin of victory is the largest for Nebraska in eight duals dating back to the 2013 home opener, a 196.700-192.100 win against Michigan State. Senior Emily Wong took the allaround title, while junior Jessie DeZiel finished second with an all-around score of 39.325, including a meetbest 9.95 on the vault.

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Nebraska is off to an 8-0 start in dual meets for the second time in three years, and the No. 8 Huskers’ closest victory came by 9 points when they defeated No. 19 Northwestern 25-16 in their season opener on Nov. 17.

Since then, NU has won all of its duals by at least 14 points, including victories against Indiana and Penn this weekend by scores of 30-10 and 30-9. Nebraska hosts No. 3 Iowa on Saturday.

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For the eighth time in 10 years, the Nebraska men’s gymnastics team finished as the runner-up to Oklahoma at the season-opening Rocky Mountain Open on Saturday in Colorado Springs, Colo., as senior CJ Schaaf finished second in the allaround with a score of 82.100. The No. 10 Huskers will have a dual meet against the No. 2 Sooners on March 9, in Norman, Okla.

After a 70-64 loss at Purdue on Sunday, Nebraska has now lost five straight games to even its record at 8-8. Of the Huskers’ eight defeats this season, five came against teams currently ranked in the top 20 in the nation, and NU’s four losses heading into the Purdue game were all against teams at least garnering votes in the AP poll.

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women’s gym: from 10 Week honors twice.

The gymnastics team competed in its first meet on Saturday evening, and DeZiel posted two top scores on vault with a 9.95 and on beam with a 9.925, helping lead the Huskers to a win.

“When I go out and compete, I’m not competing for myself,” DeZiel said. “I do it with the mindset that I’m trying to win for my team.”

Coach Dan Kendig was pleased with her start to the season, as well as the rest of the team’s performance last week-

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“I’m really happy with how our first meet went,” Kendig said. “I hope we can carry on our success (next weekend) and do similar things we did (at our first meet).”

DeZiel’s passion for gymnastics won’t end at the collegiate level, though. DeZiel plans on using her nutrition/exercise science major to pursue coaching other girls after she graduates. Eventually, she wants to be a college coach.

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When I go out and compete, I’m not doing it for myself. I do it with the mindset that I’m trying to win for my team.”

Jessie deziel junior gymnast

going to camps over the summer and learning things from other coaches,” DeZiel said. “I’ve learned so much from my coaches. And hearing what they say at

our camps to the little kids like, ‘If you get it wrong, just try again,’ is just really encouraging.” sports@ dailynebraskan.com

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together has plagued them in its ers were a part of their NCAA run early conference matchups. a year ago, including the infamous There’s no room for slip ups guard Aaron Craft. And in their roin one of the best conferences in tation they play three players 6-footthe nation, because according to 8 or taller, as do the Huskers.

Miles, “any small mistake can reWhen Thad Matta’s group from ally make you pay.” And during Columbus, Ohio, comes into the their five-game winless drought, Pinnacle Bank Arena next weekend, Nebraska made a plethora of don’t be surprised if the outcome them. extends Huskers’ losing streak to six In their first three conference and gives them just their second loss games this season against Iowa, at home. Or if their current streak Michigan and Purdue, the Huskextends to a miserable 10 with a loss ers fouled 54 times in Ann Arbor, Mich., to allow their opon Feb. 5.

The ponents to shoot Nebraska’s conBuckeyes an eye-opening ference opponents 66 free-throw at- may be the only this year are strontempts.

Against ger, and I can’t preCincinnati, the squad ranked of dict the next time Hawkeyes and the (Nebraska’s next the Huskers will Buckeyes Nebraska win another conferturned the ball over four opponents), ence game, nor am 35 times on its way and Nebraska I sure they’ll finto being outscored ish better than last 225-169 in those may have swept year’s 5-13 record. games.

Sure, they began the Nittany Lions As Miles said the first half of the after the team’s lat- a season ago, but season against their est drop Sunday to non-conference opboth have one Purdue, the Huskers ponents 8-4. They aren’t lacking con- thing in common: even flew out of the fidence.

Although gates to a promising experience.” their biggest scorthree-game winning ers have graduated streak.

However, – Dylan Talley and they were, again, Brandon Ubel – redshirt sophomore non-conference opponents. They Terran Petteway has been superb in weren’t as robust as the familiar filling their shoes, averaging a teamfaces in house. high 17.3 points per game. But great In other words, anyone would teams can’t come up victorious off tell you Nebraska’s early season of just one player’s performance in wins were expected. the Big Ten Conference.

But the opposite can be said No. 4 Michigan State, No. 3 Wisfor its chances against the Big Ten consin, Michigan and No. 14 Iowa the next two months. Experience, are leaders in the conference stand- height and number of playmakers ings because they all have been forare all strong components the Husktunate to have three to four shooters ers lack this season and their conferwho score on average 10 or more ence opponents hold well. points per game. Besides Petteway, Although 23 beat writers were Shields is the only other Husker to wrong about Nebraska’s finishing do so, averaging 10.9 points this mark last year, their predictions season. could figure to be spot on this seaNebraska’s next opponent, the son. Don’t expect a March Madness Buckeyes, have just two guys who or NIT appearance this season. score at least 10 night in and night Like the old adage the fans of out – LaQuinton Ross (13.6) and the Chicago Cubs go by, there’s Lenzelle Smith Jr. (12.2). But what always next year.

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dn Big ten homeroom 1. Nebraska (12-3 overall, 2-1 Big Ten)

5. Iowa (14-4, 2-2)

The Huskers are tied for second in the Big Ten, but NU is the top dog after three conference games. The squad has been all over the boards this season, which has led to the team being second in the conference with a plus-7.8 rebounding margin. Opposing teams also struggle from beyond the arc, as the Huskers hold opponents to .280 percent 3-point percentage. Senior forward Jordan Hooper is instrumental to the Huskers, as she is third in the conference in points per game with 20.3 and second in rebounds per game with 10.5. Nebraska takes on Minnesota on Thursday.

2. Michigan State (11-5, 3-0)

Minnesota has the leading Big Ten scorer in junior guard Rachel Banham, who averages 21.8 points a game. She has tallied 349 points this season, with 282 of them coming from the field. The Golden Gophers also have the top rebounder in the conference in redshirt freshman Amanda Zahui, who has 180 rebounds on the year. For the Gophers to thrive during the conference games, they need more production from the other players on the court and bench. With only two key players, it will become harder to come by wins when they struggle.

10. Northwestern (11-5, 1-2)

The Wildcats boast one of the tougher defenses to score on, as they lead the conference in opponents’ shooting percentage at .345 percent. A large reason for this is the blocked shots. The Wildcats are the best in the Big Ten with 117 blocked shots on the season. They have three players who are among the top in the Big Ten in this category. This is the lone bright spot for the Wildcats, but Northwestern will have a chance to improve its conference record to above .500 percent when it takes on two of the bottom teams in the conference in Wisconsin and Illinois this week.

6. Michigan (11-5, 2-1)

After suffering five non-conference losses, the Spartans have come on strong by starting 3-0 in conference play. With a blowout victory at Minnesota, a home win versus Nebraska and another road win against Michigan, the Spartans earned their wins against strong opponents. The Spartans don’t excel in one area of the game, but they play equally well in most facets of the game.

The offense knows how to spread the ball around, as it is second in the conference in assists per game with 17.4. A big test comes on Thursday when the Spartans challenge Iowa.

The Wolverines are a middleof-the-pack team after three conference games. In most statistical categories, Michigan sits right in the middle of the conference. One area the Wolverines are leading the conference in is defensive rebounds, grabbing 31.5 per game.

Individually in field goal percentage, Michigan has junior forward Cyesha Goree holding the top spot in the Big Ten with .586 percent. An area to watch for is turnovers, as the Wolverines are last in the conference in turnover margin at minus-3.38.

3. Penn State (11-4, 2-1)

The Nittany Lions are led by senior guard Maggie Lucas, who is second in the conference in pointsper-game at 21.4 and shoots a stellar 97 percent from the free throw line, leading the Big Ten. Penn State may struggle on offense at times, but the defense compensates for it by holding teams to a .352 shooting percentage.

The defense also manufactures turnovers, as the Lions have two players in the top 10 in the Big Ten in steals per game, with senior Dara Taylor averaging 2.7 and Lucas 1.8. Despite a loss to Purdue on Sunday, look for Penn State to bounce back against Ohio State on Thursday.

4. Indiana (14-1, 1-1)

The Hoosiers took on their first loss of the season at the hands of Ohio State on Saturday. Indiana put up 51 points, which ties the Hoosiers’ lowest point total for a game this season, and it also marks the sixth time this squad has failed to put up more than 80 points. Offense is key. Averaging 77 points a game, the Hoosiers’ offense ranks third in the Big Ten. Freshman guard Larryn Brooks leads the scoring with 18.3 points per game, and she also has a 3-point percentage of .419 percent.

With a freshman leading this squad, you would expect a learning curve, but Brooks has taken her role with ease.

11. Wisconsin (8-7, 1-2)

There isn’t much to like for the Badgers, as they’re a team who struggles in almost every part of the game. At best in some categories the squad is mediocre, as they rank fifth in the Big Ten in 3-pointers made a game with 6.6. When it comes to the free throw line, the Badgers will take advantage. The squad is shooting 75 percent from the line. The squad’s lone conference win came in overtime against the lowly Fighting Illini, and since then, it has lost two straight to Michigan and Iowa. The scoring margin for the Badgers is plus-2.2, leaving not a lot of room for errors in games.

7. Ohio State (12-7, 2-1)

Defense is crucial for this Buckeye team, because of the offensive struggle this squad goes through. Ranking last in the Big Ten in offensive production by averaging 65.9 points, the Buckeyes are third in the conference in defense by allowing only 61.7 points. In other components of the game, the Buckeyes tend to be in the bottom end of the conference. An upside is the turnover margin, as the team has an even turnover margin. The Buckeyes allow their sophomore guard Ameryst Alston to play big minutes, as she averages a conferenceleading 36.3 minutes a game.

12. Illinois (7-9, 0-3)

Something for Illini fans to get excited about is the ball-hawking mentality on this team. For a cellar-dwelling team, they will take the ball away. The Illini have the fourth, fifth and sixth best thieves in the conference, and all three have totaled more than 32 steals. The Big Ten’s best in steals as a team, Illinois averages 11.9 a game. This team doesn’t turn the ball over either, because the turnover margin sits atop the Big Ten at plus-6.4.

The struggle is the scoring margin. The Fighting Illini’s margin is a mere plus-1.9, the worst in the Big Ten. The Illini just aren’t finding ways to win right now.

8. Purdue (11-4, 1-2)

This squad seems to play whatever style of basketball needed to get wins. The offense has produced two games of more than 100 points, but it has also had games when it struggled to get more than 50 and still managed a win. The Boilermakers started conference play a little sluggishly by losing to Ohio State and Northwestern. In the Northwestern game, Purdue seemed to find a rhythm and lost by 3 points. The play carried over into the contest against Penn State, against whom the Boilermakers pulled off a 10-point win.

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Junior 197-pound wrestler Spencer Johnson is one of five upperclassmen in Nebraska’s starting lineup, which includes only one senior: Shawn Nagel at 133 pounds.

As a freshman, Jordan Burroughs went only 16-13. He went on to have Nebraska’s only two undefeated seasons and become a two-national champion and an Olympic gold medalist.

The two championships and undefeated seasons came during his time as an upperclassman.” champions were upperclassmen.

During the past four years 30 of the 40 national champions were upperclassmen. Since 2007, the Dan Hodge Trophy (the Heisman of wrestling) has gone only to upperclassmen.

The teams that win championships in wrestling are the teams with a lot of juniors and seniors in the starting lineups. There are the occasions when freshmen defy the odds and will be successful in wrestling, but it takes an outstanding athlete to do that. Wrestling is about experience mixed with athleticism.

Taylor Walsh of Indiana and Nebraska’s James Green have wrestled since they were kids because they grew up near each other in New Jersey. Walsh won three state titles to Green’s one, but since college Green has had the upper hand.

It’s all about taking your lumps early. As a freshman, Jordan Burroughs went only 16-13.

He went on to have Nebraska’s only two undefeated seasons and become a two-time national champion and an Olympic gold medalist. The two championships and undefeated seasons came during his time as an upperclassman. This year ’s Nebraska team is not filled with upperclassmen.

Only four starters are juniors, and there is one starting senior. This

9. Minnesota (12-5, 1-2)

After dropping the first two conference games, the Hawkeyes have rebounded well by winning their next two games. For the Hawkeyes, scoring is no problem, as they lead the conference in points per game with 81.7. The defense isn’t too far behind; opponents average 67.7 points, ranking Iowa 10th in the Big Ten. Iowa’s offense finds success with a balanced attack and passing. The top-three scorers for the Hawkeyes are ranked 14, 15 and 16, in points per game in the Big Ten. All three of the players average more than 14 points. With the balanced attack, the assist numbers have shot up the charts, as the team leads the Big Ten in assists with 341 on the year, and junior guard Samantha Logic leads the squad with 126.

does not bode well for this year, but it is a promising sign for upcoming years. The next Jordan Burroughs could be in this group.

Ever since Kobe Bryant and LeBron James went storming into the NBA straight out of high school, sports media have been searching for the next Kobe and LeBron in all sports. The Yasiel Puigs in baseball, the Cam Newtons in football.

We are constantly in search of the next greatest of all time and forgetting about the process of becoming the greatest of all time. Michael Jordan spent hours shooting baskets before anyone called him the greatest.

Wrestling is all about the grind. It’s about the drive to become a national champion and the want to be an Olympic champion. In wrestling, the search for the next prodigy isn’t important.

It’s about the results that come after years of training.

In college wrestling, those results are attained mostly by upperclassmen. Pure athletic talent can make a successful football player or basketball star, but in wrestling, experience trumps natural talent.

Austin Pistulka is a freshman journalism major. You can reach him at sports@ dailynebraskan.com

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Huskers open in Nebraska senior gymtop 10 nast Emily Wong was The Nebraska men’s named the Big Ten Gymnast of the Week on track and field team is ranked No. 8 in the Monday, garnering the country in preNo. 10 Huskers’ season rankfirst weekly conings released ference honor by the United of the season States Track and first since and Field and current junior Cross Country Jessie DeZiel Coaches Aswon the award sociation on in March 2013.

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Wong was The Huskers the all-around wong open their inchampion in door season on Nebraska’s Friday with the Holiday season-opening meet Inn Invitational at the against Northern Illinois on Saturday, a meet won Devaney Center Indoor Track.

196.625-192.525 by the Senior Chad Wright Huskers. brings national champiWong scored 9.95 in the onship experience to the floor exercise to win squad, having won the the event, 9.825 on the national title in discus beam to finish second, as a sophomore in 2012.

9.85 on uneven bars The men’s squad returns to finish third and 9.80 12 past NCAA qualifiers, on the vault to finish eight conference chamfifth. In the four events pions and 13 All-Amercombined, she scored icans, seven of whom 39.425 out of 40. were on the first team.

The award was the third Nebraska is one of four career weekly honor for Wong, who is ranked No. Big Ten teams to crack the top 10 of the pre7 in the country in all-

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Senior Emily Wong, who took the all-around and floor exercise crowns in Nebraska’s win over Northern Illinois on Saturday, was the conference gymnast of the week.

season rankings. Wisconsin opens at No. 4, Penn State starts at No. 6 and Minnesota sits at No. 9. Illinois gives the conference a fifth team in the top 25, holding the No. 12 spot.

SEC team Arkansas is ranked No. 1 to start

the season in the men’s rankings, while Texas opens at No. 1 for women’s track and field.

The Huskers’ women’s team starts the year unranked. sports@ dailynebraskan.com

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Passion for sport, teammates drive junior gymnast

All of a sudden, DeZiel topples over, turning into a graceful headstand. The giggling becomes louder. To DeZiel, these girls are more than her teammates. They’re her family.

“There’s only 12 of us this year, and I feel like we’re all really close,” DeZiel said. “It’s really cool to have a group of 11 girls that you can go and talk to whenever, to help me and cheer me on during Vanessa Daves meets and in practice.”

DN DeZiel’s gymnastics career dates back to when she was only 3 Junior Jessie DeZiel’s teammates years old and her mom signed her giggle around her, trying to pull and her sister up for a class. Someoff the less-than-easy yoga move thing clicked, and she’s stuck with their instructor is peacefully de- it ever since. scribing to them as she herself “Having a passion for gymnasdemonstrates the position. The tics is really what’s kept me gowomen’s gymnastics team sits on ing,” DeZiel said. the floor of the gym, In high school, she each one attempting to competed at the 2011 emulate the instructor.

Pan American Games, Some girls are toppling aiding the U.S. in winover, while others have ning gold by postsimply given up trying the highest team ing and lie on the floor scores on vault, beam watching their teamand floor exercise. mates strike ridiculous Her freshman year at poses in their attempts.

Nebraska, she won Meanwhile, DeZiel three All-American sits front and center, honors and was the utterly focused. She NCAA Salt Lake City mirrors the instructor’s Regional all-around Deziel position and follows champion. During her directions to a T. Supsophomore year, she ported by her arms with her head captured a 12th place finish at the leaning forward, Jessie’s legs danNCAA Championships to become gle over her elbows. a second-team All-American and “All day, Jessie, all day,” the inearned the Big Ten Gymnast of the structor says, laughing along with them. women’s gym: see page 9

After two years of success, Jessie DeZiel finds family among squad in third year with Huskers

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Senior guard Ray Gallegos (right) is one of a few play-making returners to the Nebraska men’s basketball team from last season. Gallegos is tied for fourth on the team scoring 8.4 points per game, and he leads the squad with 31 3-pointers and a .397 3-point shooting percentage this season.

Something Lacking Shortcoming of experience on roster could doom Huskers in conference season

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here’s a 1966 spaghetti western film that perfectly depicts the state in which the Nebraska men’s basketball team is currently in: “The Good, the Bad

and the Ugly.”

Right now, Tim Miles’ team sits in the third phase of the film’s title.

The last time the Huskers won a game was nearly a month ago, when they defeated The Citadel 77-62 on Dec. 21. Since then, however, the team has been knocked around for five consecutive games, tying Miles’ worst losing skid in two years as Nebraska’s head coach.

And unfortunately for the Sea of Red, I’m not sure the trend will discontinue anytime

soon.

No. 11 Ohio State. Penn State.

Minnesota.

Indiana.

Michigan.

These are Nebraska’s next five opponents, four of which currently hold better records than Nebraska. The Buckeyes may be the only squad ranked of the bunch, and Nebraska may have swept the Nittany Lions a season ago, but both have one thing in common.

Experience.

Nebraska proved 23 of the 24 conference beat writers wrong last year when it fin-

ished 10th in the conference and not last as most predicted.

However, this season Nebraska returns just two of its playmakers from a year ago – sophomore guard Shavon Shields and senior guard Ray Gallegos.

Penn State, which finished the conference in last place in 2012, returns ball handlers D.J. Newbill, Ross Travis and a healthy Tim Frazier. All of them average double-digit scoring per game. They may be 9-8, but their experience together poses more of a threat than Nebraska’s, whose inexperience

basketball: see page 8

Seniority trumps athletic ability in college wrestling austin pistulka

Unlike sports such as football and basketball, wrestling not about search for next prodigy Everything is about what’s new.

American Idol is looking for the next big star, everyone loses their mind when Apple comes out with a new phone, and new cars fly off the lots like hot cakes. Society’s want for what’s new has spilled over into almost all of the sports world.

Key word in that sentence: almost.

Today’s sports pages are filled with talk about the freshmen in

college sports and the rookies in the professional sports. Since 2007, only two Heisman trophy winners have been upperclassmen, and they were juniors who dashed right to the NFL. Before 2007, there was not a single underclassman winner.

In college basketball, some of the best teams are filled with one-and-done freshmen. Kentucky’s men’s basketball team has 16 players on the team, nine of whom are freshmen. All five starters are freshmen, and three of them are projected to go in the first round of the next NBA draft.

Kentucky had five underclassmen starters when it won the national title in 2012.

Wrestling is a sport that still centers on the idea that it takes time to be the best.

When the NCAA Tournament comes in March, most of the wrestlers in the finals will be upperclassmen. As of Monday’s rankings, out of the top five in each weight class, the average number of upperclassmen was four.

Last year, eight of the 10 national

wrestling: see page 9

After valuable fall season, Huskers ready to open spring Nebraska men’s tennis team starts campaign ranked No. 60, looking for right doubles combinations Sydny Boyd DN The men’s tennis team’s spring season is fast approaching. Thirteen Husker men are ready to hit the court and show their hard work and determination.

“This season they are going to fight hard and battle hard for that ‘N’ on their chest,” Nebraska coach Kerry McDermott said.

“Our mental toughness has gotten better over the years, and we are ready to show that.”

In their fall season, the Huskers set themselves up for what could be a strong spring season.

During the fall, the team traveled to the Georgia State Invitational, the ITA All-American Championships Invite, the ITA Central Region Tournament and the Big Ten

Indoors Invite in West Lafayette, Ind. The Huskers had strong showings at all of the tournaments and used them to improve their game and prepare for tougher opponents this spring. In Georgia, they went 9-3 in doubles matches in the two-day event, while junior Beau Treyz made a run to the quarterfinals at the Big Ten meet.

“We’re looking forward to seeing the guys play more and seeing where they fit in the team,” McDermott said. “We’re trying some different doubles combinations.”

In the fall, doubles team sophomore Marc Herrmann and senior Tom Blackwell were the last of the Huskers doubles teams to remain in the ITA All-American Championships in Tulsa, Okla.

“We are hopefully going to establish a strong lineup,” McDermott said. “We have some ideas going off of our tournament in Florida, but the first couple matches will solidify that.”

The spring season will be senior Brandon Videtich’s final season as a Husker.

“We had a really strong showing in the fall,” Videtich said. “One of the tournaments that I really look at would be the tournament in In-

We’d like to move into the Top 40.

Sixty is a good starting point for us, but we want to finish much higher.”

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diana. It got us really amped up for the spring.”

Being “amped up” is important for the team’s dynamic, Videtich said. As a senior, he has high expectations.

“I’m looking forward to helping the team out,” Videtich said. “Last year, I played every doubles match.

This year I am finally injury-free, and I am really looking to help out in both singles and doubles.”

The first week of practice will determine the basis of the spring lineup and determine who will play singles and doubles matches.

“We have a really great lineup,” Videtich said. “Our coaches have set us up with some great teams, which gives us the opportunity to beat some of the teams and get a high enough ranking.”

One of the many team goals that the tennis team has is to make it to

the NCAA Tournament.

“Our rankings came out, and we’re at 60,” McDermott said.

“We’d like to move into the Top 40.

Sixty is a good starting point for us, but we want to finish much higher.”

At the Huskers’ first practice, McDermott stressed the importance of their training and hard work.

“We need to get the guys in the right mindset,” McDermott said.

“We’re a lot better team than what we’re showing right now. We’re going to have to work hard.”

The Huskers’ first opportunity to show their hard work will be a pair of duals against Florida Gulf Coast and Florida State in Tallahassee, Fla., on Sunday and Monday. Nebraska will then head to the ITA Kick Off on Jan. 25, against Texas Tech in Los Angeles. sports@ dailynebraskan.com

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Nebraska senior Tom Blackwell had a successful fall season playing doubles with sophomore Marc Herrmann. He and the rest of the Huskers will start their spring season on Sunday.