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TUESDAY, MARCH 12, 2013 volume 112, issue 119

Inside Coverage

Speak up, make your voice heard ASUN runoff vote deserves your time, too

4 Giving birth to a death metal band Local death metal group talks of EP, performing live

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What ties us together

DN photographers documented friendship through pictures this week, exploring a variety of environments and different types of bonds. Above, Lilly Dawes, 4, gets pushed on a tire swing by a friend at Cooper Park on March 7.

‘The way I live’

A game of size for Huskers

10 A&E reporter delves into Bach, Mozart for week

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Governor to appoint new District 5 NU regent cristina Woodworth dn

Columnist Heady talks about NU’s lack of height

My week with classical music

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Nima Najafi Kianfar, a graduate student in the English department, started showing symptoms of multiple sclerosis in 1999. He was officially diagnosed in 2009.

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ima Najafi Kianfar is a Ph.D. student of English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, but he spends more time each day preparing fresh fruit and vegetable juices, injecting coffee into his body and taking natural supplements than he does on his schoolwork.

He does it because he has to. Kianfar is one of 400,000 Americans who have multiple sclerosis. This week, the nation recognizes all those have the chronic, progressive autoimmune disease of the central nervous system.

Kianfar’s daily routines are a part of the Gerson Therapy, a natural treatment that encourages a self-healing process through an organic, vegetarian diet, raw juices, coffee enemas – anal injections of coffee – and supplements.

The 32-year-old was misdiagnosed twice before doctors told him he had MS. The first symptoms came when he was a 19-year-old undergraduate at the University of California, Los Angeles. His feet would go numb, and an electric sensation rushed through his body when he bent his neck. After a series of MRIs and a lumbar puncture, his neurologist told him he probably just had a virus.

Eight years passed with few symptoms. He earned his bache-

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Kianfar brings green apple and carrot juice to campus as part of the Gerson therapy, a nutrition plan he uses to treat his multiple sclerosis.

Gov. Dave Heineman will have 16 hopefuls to pick from when he decides who will fill the vacant seat on the University of Nebraska Board of Regents.

Five women, a former state senator and a former regent candidate are among those who have applied for the District 5 regent position that opened up after former State Sen. Lavon Heidemann was named Nebraska’s next lieutenant governor.

Heidemann had only served on the board since last November after winning his district’s election.

There’s no specific time frame for when Heineman will appoint someone to the regent position, but he plans to do so sometime in the next few weeks, according to Jen Rae Hein, the governor ’s communications director.

Hein said this is the first time Heineman’s administration has gone through the appointment process for a regent position.

“Therefore, I really don’t have a comparison for what would be ‘typical’ for number of applicants,” she said. “That said, 16 is clearly a significant number, and it shows great interest in those willing to serve.”

The Board of Regents consists of eight elected regents and four student regents who are the student body presidents at each of the NU campuses. The board supervises the general operations of the university and votes on different university expenses and projects.

Heineman accepted applications for the open seat from mid-February until March 8. The individual who is appointed will serve for about two years but will have to run for election in 2014, according to a press release about the position.

The last time Heineman had to fill a vacancy position on the board was in 2006, when he chose Bob Phares, a former mayor of

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ASUN election to be settled in runoff conor dunn DN

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After weeks of campaigning and debate, the fate of the Association of Students of the University of Nebraska will be decided in Tuesday’s runoff election.

Last Wednesday, none of the running parties won a majority of student votes, as is historically common in ASUN elections featuring more than two parties.

A record 23 percent of students turned out to vote last

Wednesday, and only a 1-percentage point margin separated the results for the two parties’ president and internal vicepresidential candidates. Revive Party’s Zach Stull and Sierra Allen received 35 percent of the vote, while Engage Party’s Eric Reznicek and Kaitlin Coziahr got 34 percent.

For the external vice-presidential position, Revive’s Sam Adams received 37 percent of the vote, while Engage’s Jeff Story garnered 33 percent.

To win the election, candidates need at least a 10 percentage point lead.

Sense for ASUN’s executive candidates were dropped from the race because they only secured 28 percent of the vote for the executive positions. Sense has chosen to endorse Engage in the runoff election.

And so students will vote again to determine which executive candidates will represent them in the next academic year.

Coziahr, a junior finance, eco-

nomics and management major, expects voter turnout to be lower because it has historically been low in runoffs.

“I don’t think voter turnout will be as high,” Coziahr said.

“This time they’re only voting on executive candidates (and not student fees).”

In the 2010-11 election, 20 percent of the student body voted in the original election. In the runoff election, nearly 8 percent of students voted, according to ASUN voter turnout records.

online voting today • Polls are open from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m.

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UNL’s graduation rate exceeds national average Melissa Allen dn A little more than half of firsttime college students graduate within six years, according to a new report by the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center.

It found that of the 1.9 million students enrolled in all degreegranting institutions in fall 2006, 54.1 percent graduated within six years. About 29 percent of students dropped out of college altogether.

The University of NebraskaLincoln had a six-year graduation rate of 64.6 percent last fall, according to data from Institutional Research and Planning.

Students said they think UNL’s rate is higher because administrators have made strides to improve the university’s gradua-

You’ll find that research universities often have higher graduation rates.”

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tion rates, and some university advising officials agree.

“You’re going to find that many types of institutions have different graduation rates,” said Bill Watts, director of Campus Advising at UNL. “Different colleges have different missions for graduation. You’ll find that research universities often have higher graduation rates.”

Watts said retention efforts such as academic advising, leadership opportunities and Undergraduate Creative Activities & Research Experiences, which

allows undergraduate students to participate in university research, keep students in college.

“There’s a positive correlation with students who are involved in these practices and their graduation rates,” Watts said.

UNL is working to get sixyear graduation rates to 70 percent, Watts said. To make this a possible, the university has made reforms to its student degree audit in MyRed and is expanding the learning communities for next fall.

“The key to staying updated on credits and graduation is by working closely with students and their assigned academic advisers,” Watts said.

Senior industrial engineering major Alex Meitl plans to graduate within six years. Already in his fifth year, he said it’s not easy juggling school, studying and working, which can get in the way of graduating within a certain time frame.

“I don’t even party,” he said. “I just focus on school. I know there’s a lot of students here that are over four-year students. There’s only a few I know that’s graduated within that.”

Haley Williams, a sophomore textiles and clothing designs major, agrees that keeping up with school work, as well as outside jobs and extracurricular activities can be tough.

“One thing that’s really helped is taking summer classes,” she said. “But sometimes there’s certain classes in the school year that are only offered at certain times, and it can be hard scheduling it all in.”

Although it isn’t always easy, graduating within a reasonable amount of time is more than possible, Williams said.

“It’s up to the students to keep track of their credits and what they want to do with their schedule,” she said. “It’s not the teachers’ initiative; it’s us students.”

Meitl said he thought graduating within six years was the norm at UNL. “For the most part, I think people graduate under six years here,” said Meitl. “I guess I’m just a slow poke.” news@ dailynebraskan

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correction In its Monday March 11 edition, the Daily Nebraskan incorrectly placed the captions for the story headlined “In the Running.”

The second photo on the front page should have identified Kate Wolfe, the campaign manager for Sen. Kate Bolz, and the photo on page three should have identified Kathie Uhrmacher, president of the Women’s Foundation of Lincoln and Lancaster County.

If you spot a factual error in the Daily Nebraskan, please report it by calling (402) 472-2588. An editor will place the correction that will run in the print edition, also using bold type.

University of Nebraska-Lincoln students and faculty can now report incidents of bias online after administrators implemented a new bias-response team.

The team, composed of six UNL faculty members and student involvement leaders, is available for students or faculty to report any type of bias. An online form also allows UNL students and faculty to report bias anonymously, and the bias response team makes a collective decision on which action to take after an incident is reported.

Incidents that can be reported include harassment, bias and actual or suspected discrimination.

Pat Tetreault, creator of the bias response team and director of the LGBTQA Resource Center, came up with the idea after the 2009 LGBT campus-needs assessment.

She said a majority of LGBT students who took the 2009 survey said they experience bias but rarely tell anyone for various reasons including fear of being outed, retaliation or uncertainty of where they should report the incident. That same survey found that 93 percent of students said they would be more likely to report the bias if there was an online form, Tetreault said.

“I actually do see, hear or witness a lot of bias,” Tetreault said.

“I’m aware that there’s bias in other areas, not just LGBT. I thought that this was a good way to make it a resource for anyone on campus who might be experiencing, witnessing or perceiving that there’s

some kind of bias going on.”

Tetreault said she modeled the bias response team after teams at other universities, such as the University of California, Los Angeles, Michigan State University and Syracuse University.

She said she proposed the team to Chancellor Harvey Perlman, who thought it was a good idea.

She then told the UNL Police Department about the proposal and asked other campus organizations if they wanted to participate. The team has representatives from University Housing, the UNL Women’s Center, the LGBTQA Resource Center, the Jackie Gaughan Multicultural Center, the College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources and Student Affairs.

When a report is made, Tetreault said the team would make a collective decision on what action to take with a situation. For example, these actions could include education about offensive language or awareness of these discrimination issues. She said sometimes the team can’t do much if little details are given, but they will do what they can. The team would not administer punishment to offending parties mentioned in the reported incident, Tetreault said.

Tetreault said the team doesn’t directly deal with actual crimes, such as hate crimes, because they should be reported to UNL police. However, in a case where a university policy is violated, Student Affairs and Judicial Affairs on campus may be involved.

“We’re more here to let people on campus know that if you think there’s an issue, if you feel like you need an advocate in some area or there’s something you want to let us know, then this is one way you can let us know about it,” Tetreault said.

Melissa Peters, assistant director of Residence Life for Student Leadership and Diversity Initiatives and a member of the team, said the team wants to make sure

students’ voices are heard and that they feel safe.

“Their issue could be minor, it could be major or it could be major in their world,” Peters said. “We don’t want to take anything with a grain of salt.”

She said each member of the team comes from diverse backgrounds, which helps students be comfortable with talking about certain issues.

“I really think being in a big university, our students don’t feel necessarily that they have a connection or that they can go talk to somebody,” she said. “I came from a very small school, so that’s an important background for me to be able to do that. I also just think being an advocate for our students is what we do, so giving them as many opportunities and as many places they can feel comfortable on campus is important.”

Tetreault said a bias is sometimes “a misunderstanding, sometimes it’s due to a lack of information and sometimes it’s because somebody has a really bad attitude.”

She said some people may get the wrong impression from the bias response team.

“We’re not trying to get people in trouble,” Tetreault said.

“We want people to know that people do care and that this is an avenue for you to tell people if you feel like something not right is happening.”

Tetreault hopes the bias response team helps create an inclusive campus that welcomes everyone.

“I don’t actually anticipate this will be a high volume report form usage,” Tetreault said. “Because I think there’s a lot of people who are connected to someone on campus, so that if they know somebody, they’re more likely to go talk to that person about it if they are concerned.” news@ dailynebraskan.com

longer, healthier lives staff report DN

average, two-thirds of a point.

However, one-fourth of elderly participants did correctly estimate their happiness.

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When asked about their Travis Anderson, a junior expected happiness in five construction management major, years, participants were to use was not convinced by the study’s a 10-point scale as a rating sysfindings. tem. Young people between “I’m generally optimistic, so 18 and 39 years old tended to I would have to disagree with it,” overestimate how happy they would be in five years by an av- Anderson said. “They say laugherage of a half-point, while con- ing makes you live longer.”

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ms: from 1 lor’s degree in English at UCLA and worked as a production coordinator for a film company. During these years, Kianfar also cared for an elderly woman with macular degeneration. For seven years, he read to her, prepared meals for her and took her to concerts. When she passed away in 2007 at the age of 93, something changed again in his body.

“Right after her passing, my hand started tingling severely,” Kianfar said. “I think her passing triggered something. Whatever was dormant came out.” He again found himself in the doctor’s office, where he received the second misdiagnosis: carpal tunnel.

finally, an answer

The cause of MS remains unknown, but research has suggested that early experiences may contribute to the onset of symptoms.

“Hell, if that’s the case, then I’ve had many, many experiences and multiple MSs in my body just waiting to make their appearance,” Kianfar said.

Kianfar was born in Tehran, Iran, during the country’s war with Iraq. He remembers bombs and air raids, the sound of alarms going off as Iraqi jets flew over the city. When he was 3 years old, his family moved to Frankfurt, Germany, to escape the conflict. Six years after their emigration, protests began in Germany following the fall of the Berlin Wall and a hostility grew against foreigners.

The family moved again, this time to Los Angeles in 1991, right before the start of the LA riots.

Now, Kianfar wonders how those experiences impacted his body.

“It’s really strange to think about, but all of those things may have played a part in it,” he said.

In the spring of 2009, the day after receiving his MFA in poetry at Saint Mary’s College of California, the numbness Kianfar had felt 10 years before returned.

“I felt like I was sleeping on a waterbed,” he said. “That’s how numb I was. I couldn’t use my hands anymore; they were completely immobile. When I put my hands on my legs, I couldn’t feel where my fingers were.”

Back to the neurologist. More MRIs. After four days of waiting, the test results were in. Lesions ran all along Kianfar’s spine and brain.

He was finally diagnosed with MS. The neurologist told Kianfar the plaques were so severe he was surprised he was still standing. Kianfar was prescribed Copaxone, a daily injectable interferon he continues to take today.

an alternative treatment

Three months before that doctor’s appointment, Kianfar had been accepted into UNL’s doctorate program in creative writing. The diagnosis forced him to shift his focus, and he spent the summer reading as much as he could about the disease.

That’s when he found out his second cousin in Germany had been working on developing the Gerson

what is ms?

• Multiple Sclerosis is a chronic, progressive, autoimmune disease of the central nervous system.

• More than 400,000 people in the United States have MS. • Twice as many women have MS as men.

• Diagnosis of MS is usually between 20 and 40 years of age.

• MS is not contagious.

• Though treatments are available, there is no cure.

• Symptoms include: -Fatigue

-Numbness and tingling

-Walking, balance and coordination problems

-Visual disturbances -Weakness -Spasticity

-Abnormal speech

-Bladder and bowel problems

-Cognitive and emotional disturbances -Pain

-Sensitivity to heat source: national multiple sclerosis society

Therapy.

Though marketing of the therapy is illegal in the U.S. and controversial for MS patients because the Food and Drug Administration hasn’t approved it as a treatment for any disease, Kianfar was moved by

the powerful testimonials of cancer patients who were seeing positive results from the program.

He bought a $300 juicer and began following many of the therapy’s suggestions. Since starting the program two years ago, the remaining

numbness and relapses have subsided, he said.

“When I started following the Gerson Therapy closely, after a few weeks, the rest of the sensations went away,” he said. “Gone. It was amazing, and it’s been like that ever since.”

The therapy does not come without sacrifice. Kianfar doesn’t follow the diet as closely as some, but he limits his sodium intake and doesn’t eat processed foods or meats other than occasional fish.

The hourly juices each take about 25 minutes to prepare, Kianfar said.

After he finishes his Ph.D., Kianfar said he knows he will likely have to hire someone to help him in order to free up his time.

When he has to come to campus, he prepares the juice beforehand and brings it with him. When people ask him about it, he’s open to discussing it. Though MS was never something Kianfar kept a secret, he said he’s more willing to talk about it now that he feels he better understands the disease himself.

Shari Stenberg, an associate professor of English, said she remembers Kianfar bringing juice into her class.

“He’d bring two jars of juice to class, and when asked about it, he offered a passionate testimony about its role in his diet,” Stenberg said. She said she was so taken with his account of the health benefits that she bought a juicer for her own family.

She was especially impressed

with the way Kianfar understood the importance of taking care of his body, despite the pressures of his work.

“While working on a Ph.D., it’s easy to neglect oneself — to stay up late, to consume too much caffeine, to eat whatever is convenient,” Stenberg said. “None of these are options for Nima. He’s on a serious health regimen that requires time and dedication. He’s committed to it, and it shows.”

Kianfar said he’s surprised he’s made it so far with his Ph.D. because of the time commitment he sets aside to taking care of his health.

“But I don’t stress about it,” he said. “I tell myself, ‘Listen, this is the best I can do. If I can get this degree, get out, I can spend the rest of my life building my knowledge base.’”

Stenberg said she is inspired by Kianfar’s attitude toward the disease.

“He treats MS not as an enemy to his body, something he needs to fight,” she said. “Instead, I’ve heard him call it his collaborator. He needs to work with it, accept it, adjust to it.”

Kianfar said without the diagnosis, he doesn’t think he would have realized the importance of taking care of his body.

“I think the MS has been the greatest thing that has happened to me,” he said. “It taught me to really appreciate the way I live and not destroy what I have.”

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together KAYLEE EVERLY dn Photographs are built of many elements, but the best contain moments. As photographers, we are always observing and waiting for those moments and little connections to unfold in front of us. The human connection ties the world together through relationships. These relationships can be built between the young and the old, family or an animal and its owner, but at their core, they all come down to friendship and love. They are what

helps the average person get by day to day and are portrayed through simple gestures: holding hands, hugs and touching foreheads. They are what help us survive.

Throughout the week, the DN photo staff watched, waited and captured some of these small but significant moments through the days where spring crept in and children played in parks and where winter reared its head and snow blanketed Lincoln. As photographers, our goal is to show these elements that tie us together and make us human. matt masin | dn

ABOVE: August Gower celebrates a successful run down the Pioneers Park sledding hill on Sunday with his friends. Gower and his friends were the only people who made it out to the sledding hill on Sunday around noon. The gusting winds and heavy snow kept many Lincolnites inside and off the roads on Sunday.

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TOP LEFT: Junior actuarial science major Edwin Teoh and junior electrical engineering major Brian Bi enjoy a dinner at Runza in the Nebraska Union Sunday night. They watch a video on Teoh’s phone during Sunday’s snow storm.

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ABOVE: Two friends visit after a speech given by Janet Kourany at the Sheldon Art Museum.

BOTTOM RIGHT: Caleb Luginbill, 5, helps his grandpa, Larry Luginbill, plow snow from the corner of 47th and Van Dorn streets on Sunday. Larry modified a riding lawn mower into a snow plow in 1987 while working in lawn service. He began to use it to help remove snow from his block of 47th Street after many of his neighbors made requests for his help. bethany schmidt | dn

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regent applicants • Janice Bostelman of Brainard, a farmer and engineer • Craig Buescher of South Bend, a farmer • Leon Deunk of Cortland, a business owner • Steve Glenn of Pawnee City, owner of Executive Travel • Mike Jones of David City, an insurance executive who ran against Heidemann for the seat last fall • Sara York Kenny of Eagle, a retired accounting professional • Susan Meyerle of Lincoln, a speaker, author and therapist • Janet A. Palmtag of Nebraska City, a real estate broker • George Pinkerton of Beatrice, who’s involved in landscape maintenance • Mike Powers of Palmyra, a draftsman • Barton Dean Ruth of Rising City, a farmer • Robert M. Schafer of Beatrice, an attorney and farmer • Ben Steffen of Humboldt, a dairy and grain producer • Roger Wehrbein of Plattsmouth, a farmer, livestock producer and former state senator • Bradley Worman of Nelson, an agricultural bank loan officer • Susan Wurtele of Plattsmouth, who works in higher education

North Platte, to take the place of David Hergert, who the Nebraska legislature impeached for campaign finance violations that year. Heineman appointed Phares without accepting applications for the position.

Janice Bostelman, a professional engineer and farmer from Brainard, is one of the five women vying for the regent position. There has not been a female regent on the board since 2003, and only four of the board’s 123 total members since 1869 have been women, according to university data.

“I think I can bring some different points of view to the board and be a role model to get more women involved in leadership positions,” Bostelman said.

Bostelman said she also hopes to join the board as someone with experience in the agriculture industry.

“I think there’s a lot of people who may want to see an agricultural focus on the board, and they want to utilize their background to the best of their ability,” Bostel-

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man said.

Several other applicants for the position said they hope to be appointed to help bring a strong agricultural focus to the board.

“I think it’s important the university continues to have a strong role in research and agricultural industry,” said Ben Steffen, a dairy and grain producer from Humboldt and regent hopeful. “It’s critical that we appoint the very best spokesman for this district that we can. It’s important for agriculture, for rural Nebraska and for the university.”

Steffen said he thinks so many applicants are seeking the regent position because they don’t have to go through the extensive election process.

“Having an open seat is a different scenario than what we usually see,” he said. “I imagine there are folks who think this is an easier route than having to organize a campaign, which presents time and financial constraints.” news@ dailynebraskan.com

Although both parties are keeping their original platforms, Engage has met with Sense to discuss incorporating Sense’s proposal to shorten the election campaign season, according to Reznicek, a junior marketing and finance major.

“I think (Engage and Sense) exemplify a real understanding of ASUN,” Reznicek said.

Revive’s Stull also believes it would be beneficial to shorten the campaign season. However, he says he would take it a step further by setting up rules for the debates.

“They need to space out the debates more,” Stull, a junior business administration major.

“We had four debates in under two weeks. It wasn’t really informing the students as well as it could’ve been.”

Stull said because they were spaced so closely together, the debate organizers didn’t have enough time to write different questions.

To combat Sense’s endorsement of Engage, Revive has reached out to the business fraternities and residence halls, as

candidates Engage Party candidates:

president:

Eric Reznicek

internal vice president:

Kaitlin Coziahr

external vice president:

Jeff Story

Revive Party candidates:

president:

Zach Stull

internal vice president:

Sierra Allen

external vice president:

Sam Adams

well as club and organizations its party members are involved with.

“We’ve really been trying to solidify our voter base and make sure they’re loyal and come out and vote for us,” Stull said.

Engage has been using a similar campaign strategy.

“We need to hit those students who aren’t actively involved (in the election),” Reznicek said, which includes minority groups across campus, as well as the residence halls and the Greek system.

Engage’s candidates said they were the most efficient with the money they raised and spent during the campaign season. Engage raised more than $1,700 in financial contributions to the party and spent more than $2,800 as of March 4, according to ASUN documents.

Revive, on the other hand, raised and spent the most money during the election season. As of March 4, ASUN documents report that Revive raised more than $3,200 in financial contributions to the party and spent more than $4,400.

Stull said Revive was able to gain such financial support by effectively using its Pepsi-matching funds. During student government elections, Pepsi matches the amount of money a party raises, Stull said.

“Pepsi is pretty much giving

you free money,” Stull said. “We really harped on that. We knew we could really do well financially as long as we get these contributions matched.”

The election’s outcome is going to come down to name recognition, Reznicek said.

None of Revive’s executive candidates have had previous experience in ASUN, and throughout the campaign they have considered themselves the underdogs of the three parties.

“No one knew who we were two months ago,” Stull said. “I think that probably speaks about the passion involved (in Revive’s campaign). Our members didn’t have an outlet to get involved. As soon as they got the opportunity, they did a great job.”

Although the presidential and internal vice president candidates run separately from the external vice presidential candidates, Coziahr believes students will vote for candidates as a team.

“I would be very surprised if something were to happen to the contrary,” she said. news@ dailynebraskan.com

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ian tredway | dn

Students should vote in ASUN runoff election Today is the second round in the Association of Students of the University of Nebraska elections. But this time, student fees aren’t at stake, and there’s one fewer party in the race. It’s the runoff race between Engage Party and Revive Party. After two months of being exposed to rigorous campaigning, we were as ready as the party members to be done with the ASUN election season, but it isn’t quite over. However, that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t vote. Both of these parties will help to mold our campus for better or worse in the coming year. You, as a student, will be affected by these changes, so you should vote.

It’s easy to think your voice will go unheard, but the only way for that to happen is to refrain from voting. An uncast ballot is the choice to remain silent.

Today’s ballot offers you the choice between two parties: Engage and Revive. Engage’s platforms include creating an international student orientation at the University of NebraskaLincoln, establishing a third college preparatory program in South Omaha, enhancing the sustainability program at UNL through increased involvement, streamlining the process to become a Registered Student Organization as well as creating a community for RSOs and increasing involvement in ASUN. They have also proposed to adopt Sense’s platform to shorten the election season to four weeks.

On the other hand, the Revive Party proposes to increase student involvement in ASUN, make college more affordable, bring back block-seating at Husker games, begin discussions about serving alcohol at the Haymarket Arena, require students to participate in philanthropic events and create a “Resources” tab on Blackboard.

The decision is up to you, and whether or not you like your choices, it’s still important that you choose. So go out and vote.

Opinion@dailynebraskan.com

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ian tredway | dn

Students need a voice in ASUN

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tudents shattered previous voterturnout records in last Wednesday’s ASUN election. The final tally: 23 percent. Wowza!

Flashback to the beginning of election season. Top story? “Sense for ASUN hopes to gauge student opinion on smoker-designated areas.” Further investigation revealed each party’s platform rivaled my 8:30 a.m. lecture in its ability to induce undiagnosed, early-morning narcolepsy flare-ups.

That article shattered my starry-eyed freshman dreams of a student government passionate about making a difference in the university.

ASUN is boring, but we can hardly blame it.

Don’t get me wrong. ASUN plays a key part in the functioning of the university. No one can complain it doesn’t adequately fulfill its allocated duties. But students deserve more than the ability to influence where smokers get to light up. Empowering students and giving them more control over university affairs would Revive Engagement in campus politics and foster a greater Sense of community.

There are two possible routes for reform: 1) give more power to student representatives, or 2) give more power to the direct vote of students. To avoid the risk of making a blanket statement about all ASUN representatives, I will merely say we don’t need to take the risk of electing an uninspired, unmotivated, yet outwardly popular student rep who cares more about the résumé than improving the university. With the ubiquity of computers and the ease-of-use of the online voting system, students can be given more say in the functioning of their school.

ASUN’s Committee for Fees Allocation (CFA) distributes $500,000 of student fees each year, funding student organizations such as Campus Recreation, University Programming Council (UPC) and the Daily Nebraskan (thank you very much.) A few weeks ago, CFA rejected UPC’s request for a modest increase in funding despite surveys showing that students would be willing to pay for a fee increase to fund UPC. Really?

Our representatives refused to use our money to pay for things that we want. Why does this gap exist? Is it really necessary?

What’s directly under the control of the student body? Nothing. And I can’t understand why.

vote on. Whether the board will take notice of the student vote is up to them.”

Thanks, Harvey.

The logic commonly used to keep student’s mouths muzzled is that they will only be there for four or five years. Therefore, they only care about paying less money and will forgo any long-term improvements to the university. The same logic could be made to disenfranchise the elderly from government.

Students are driven by the same motivations administrators theoretically are. Administrator ’s salaries are going to pretty much be within the same comfortable range as long as they do the bare minimum and keep the staSHARIQ KHAN tus quo. Is it so strange students would want their alma mater, the school probably responsible for educating their sons and daughters, Students voice their opinion to their ASUN to reach its full potential? representatives, but often that voice falls on Secondly, those in favor of the status quo deaf ears. Even when it does get some attensay students wouldn’t have the time to vote tion, it only influences such trivial policies as paper usage at ASUN meetings, seating at on each and every measure the senate curfootball games or new international student rently considers, let alone all of the bills that would come with greater control of their lives. orientation programs.

That hardly needs refuting.

Here are some pretty basic At most, the voting prothings that students ought to conStudents cess would take five mintrol: utes a week, while students Curriculum should would take a greater interNutrition be concerned est in researching the bills Housing they’re responsible for. Who The University Health Center about the wouldn’t want to vote when I don’t mean to be dramatic, but they know that their vote having little control over the cheap, administration’s can bring serious improvegreasy, unhealthy food which cur- outright ments in their daily lives? rent university policy forces me to Perlman said, “There purchase, and therefore, stuff my disinterest in are limits to how much a face with, borders on human rights the opinion of chancellor can delegate to abuse. OK — I failed — I was drathe student body.” Perhaps students.” matic. that limit exists somewhere Still, students should be confar off in the distance (yeah cerned about the administration’s right), but surely greater outright disinterest in the opinion of students. influnce over one’s own education, nutrition, In fact, students expecting any sort of role in shaping their education or wellbeing ought to housing or health isn’t too much to ask for.

Better than any of the campus political be a bit more than just concerned. parties’ plans, more power given to students’ The most recent “vote” on UNL Chancellor votes would foster a greater sense of interest Harvey Perlman’s UHC privatization initiative shows how little voice students actually in the affairs of the university, and a more inhave. Harvey, the friendly Chancellor, told volved student body, in more ways than just DN reporter Conor Dunn in an email, “It is a campus politics.

Shariq Khan is a freshman microstretch that I supported this ballot initiative … biology major. Follow him on Twitter I was informed it was going to take place, and at @shariq_mansoor and reach him at I acknowledged that the students certainly Opinion@ have a right to vote on anything they want to dailynebraskan.com

Americans should show more chivalry, patience

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women, but it’s more of a “let me push this door with my hand while I walk in first and hope it doesn’t hit you on your way in.” Not too chivalric.

My experiences in the United Kingdom have proved otherwise. It’s like a breath of fresh chivalric air. Not only are of chivalry. men more polite, but they are also more But what exactly is chivalry? Well, in the medieval era, chivalry was the rules likely to hold the door open, even when holding a million things. Imagine my shock and customs of knighthood. Now that doesn’t apply to today’s society. Today’s the first time I was going into a store and definition of chivalry would be defined a man held the door open for me, and he more as demonstrating the characteristics didn’t “hold” the door with his hand he actually held it and let me go in first. It was of courtesy, generosity and valor. Chivalry such a nice gesture that I was stunned may seem like a very outdated system, but that it actually happened. in today’s society chivalry My friends here also were could be just what everyAmerican surprised at how polite the one needs, as well as a litmen men were and how they were tle more patience. Chivalthe epitome of putting down ry and patience aren’t the could learn a the phrase that “chivalry is same thing, but they do dead.” lend themselves to each thing or two Not only are the men other. And in today’s from European more polite and chivalric, society, that is all about the general populous are also the “go, go, go” mental- chivalry.” more patient and polite. Unity, everyone could use like Americans, Europeans a little more patience in are more relaxed, more likely to just take a their life, and men could be a little more moment and breath. Something Americans chivalric.

I have heard many people, mostly could learn to do more of.

American men could learn a thing or women, say that “chivalry is dead.” two from European chivalry. It’s so reSince arriving in England in January it made me question, “Who said chivalry is freshing when a man actually holds the door open for you, in a polite manner, dead?” Maybe in the United States chivalry is dead, or not as apparent as it once and let you walk through the door first. was. Yes, men “hold” the door open for The little things like “no, you go first” are s you walk to open a door, someone else gets there just before you do and politely gestures and holds the door, while saying, “You first.” It’s a classic example

VICTORIA HARTZOG what accounted for my surprise when I came into this country. Did I experience culture shock? No. Politeness shock? Absolutely.

The biggest shock to me was when I rode the underground, no open seats in sight, I was standing. A seat opens up and while I go to sit down, a man takes the seat. Now I know what many of you are thinking, that he just continued to sit there, refusing to acknowledge he saw me move toward the seat, however, that was far from the case.

The man actually got up and let me sit down. I was shocked; I have never in my life ever been offered a seat. It makes me think American men could learn a thing or two. Maybe they could actually hold the door open the proper way, and while this may seem a little “stuck in the past” so

to speak, it simply is just the polite thing to do.

I’ve not only encountered it, but I have also witnessed it. The underground is always crowded during the weeks and many people just want to get where they are going, but that still doesn’t stop chivalry from creeping up and making its presence known. I witnessed a woman who had a suitcase she was rolling and a few other bags with her. I could see she was having a hard time going up the stairs with all her stuff, and even before she hit the third step, this older gentleman offered to carry her suitcase.

He carried her suitcase up the stairs the rest of the way, and they talked on the way up. It was completely appalling to me.

The first thing that came into my mind was if that exact same situation happened in America, the woman would probably think the man was trying to steal from her. It’s a little sad if you think about it. We, as Americans, are so mistrusting, maybe accounting for the reason that chivalry died, and we simply didn’t trust anyone who offered to help.

Yes, I understand women want to be equal to men, and I’m not saying that isn’t important because I do think that equality is important. However, just because women want to be treated as equal and as fair as men doesn’t mean chivalry has to die. And I’m not saying its simple

chivalry over here in the United Kingdom that had me shocked. It was also just politeness in general. I mean, yes, Americans are polite, to an extent, but once we get in that long line at the check-out, our politeness goes straight out the window.

Not in England, everyone patiently waits their turn, they don’t complain while in line or complain to the cashier, they simply and patiently wait their turn. It’s been very refreshing leading this patient lifestyle. It’s definitely something I will bring back with me to the States.

While it may seem a bit outdated, it doesn’t mean we should simply stop being patient and stop helping, especially men. And while some women may see chivalry as men trying to show how masculine they can be and their superiority, I simply do not think that is the case. To me a man being polite to a woman and offering their seat or holding the door is just a nice gesture. It’s polite and shows men care about women, and women could show men the same courtesy, no one ever said women couldn’t hold a door open for a man, it’s a concept that could go both ways.

While Europeans already seem to have grasped that concept, I think the time has come for Americans step it up and show they can be just as polite, if not more polite than Europeans.

Victoria Hartzog is a Junior English Major studying abroad in England. Reach her at opinion@ dailynebraskan.com

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death metal Violent death equipment aims to create accessible, heavy songs story by joe wade | photo by stacie hecker

Violent Death Equipment is an up-and-coming Lincoln band that is set on not falling into the stereotypical death metal classification. Their first show was in August 2012, and they will next perform in Duffy’s Tavern on March 13.

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hen local death metal fans are looking for a high energy experience provided by musicians who artfully put the rage on the page, one would be remiss not to check out the scene’s newcomer, Violent Death Equipment. Their humorous sidecomments and technical know-how could have fans bleeding for more.

The members of Violent Death Equipment share their admiration for heavy music, and ambition for creating it, by performing locally. Despite coming from varied musical backgrounds, for them death metal is cathartic and an expression of acquired musical talent. The band has been preforming regularly for the last

eight months and will next perform March 13 at Duffy’s Tavern.

“There’s this big argument of whether we’re technical brutal death metal or brutal technical death metal,” said bassist Austin Nutter. “Are we technical death metal that’s brutal or are we brutal death metal that’s technical? It’s so hard to figure this out, and we don’t want to get it wrong or the Internet is gonna be pissed.”

Alongside Nutter, the band is comprised of guitarist and vocalist Cody Boyles, guitarist Jason Hochreiter and drummer Kevin Tomes. The band describes their genre as loud, fast, heavy or, simply, death metal. The important aspect of music, for them, is playing music rather than defining it.

“I think there’s too many subgenres out there.

People try to classify bands, and it turns into everyone fighting over what kind of genre a band is,” Tomes said. “It’s just metal. It’s this umbrella of metal and it just falls in there.”

The band’s first show was in August 2012 when they performed at a Battle of the Bands and won. At that time, however, the members had yet to decide on an official band name. The name Violent Death Equipment, according to Hochreiter, came from a black metal side project of his called Nex Apparatus which, in English, translates to Violent Death Equipment.

“Since our music was so fast, it transferred over well,” he said.

Previously the band had played under the names Blood Born and Scourge.

“We couldn’t get five people to come to an agreement on anything,” Tomes said. “There was always one person out; it was usually Jeff.”

Jeff Starkweather was the original vocalist for the band when they formed in 2011. He left the band mid-2012 due to personality clashes according the band’s Facebook page. According to Tomes, Starkweather wanted the band to progress through recording while the rest of the band preferred playing live shows. Boyles quickly filled the open spot as vocalist.

“It was sketchy at first, because I’d never done that in a band before,” Boyles said. “I

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Rabbit matures sound with new recording techniques The Scottish alt-rockers talk tour, influence, new record Chance Solem-Pfeifer dn

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Powers is a newly formed Lincoln band, whose members claim their montra is making music, drinking beer and having fun.

Up-and-coming Powers embodies rock ‘n’ roll life jordan bates dn In the midst of a modern music industry that is often saturated with glitz, gimmicks and fairy dust, one Lincoln-based band chooses to keep things simple, honest and uncompromisingly gnarly.

Powers, a local rock band, is made up of four men who are down to do three things: improve the sound, energize the crowd and have

a raging time doing it.

“We like Miller High Life and Windsor Whiskey,” said bassist Jason Morris.

They may savor a bit of the devil’s cider, but members of Powers also savor each others’ company.

Camaraderie is a key aspect of why these guys enjoy the heck out of the band.

“We always are laughing, cracking jokes, acting like idiots and stooges together,” said guitarist and

vocalist Dave Arredondo. “These three guys are some of my best friends in the world. We are four dudes with almost no pretensions that just want to rock the fuck out, drink beer and laugh our asses off.”

Other members include guitarist and vocalist Kelly Houchen and drummer Jordan Elfers. This crew loves to have a good time, but make no mistake — they’re dedicated to

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Its 2008 hit, “Old, Old Fashioned,” is now pretty old fashioned when it comes to the Frightened Rabbit discography. Five years away from that popular track and its breakout album, “The Midnight Organ Fight,” the Scottish indie band sounds more like a distant, high-minded Snow Patrol than the folk-pop that garnered the original attention.

But the critical praise that began with notching “The Midnight Organ Fight” as one of the seminal break-up records of the new millennium hasn’t disappeared. The latest album, “Pedestrian Verse,” shows the band as a multi-trick pony, capable of investing in some stripped indie rock and stretching singer/ songwriter Scott Hutchison’s wellknown melancholy across full-band orchestration from start to finish.

The single “The Woodpile” marks the self-destructive themes typical of Hutchison’s writing, while “State Hospital” (from which the title of the album is taken) turns more on the way of the world. It’s a change, but not one the band didn’t intend all along.

“There are still big moments and choruses, but it’s more about the subtleties and how to create that within the realm of a big five-piece band,” Scott Hutchison said in an interview with The Skinny.

Frightened Rabbit, along with fellow Scots, The Twilight Sad, will play Lincoln’s Bourbon Theatre on

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Each member of Scottish band Frightened Rabbit helped to write songs on the group’s latest album “Pedestrian Verse,” which created a unique new sound.

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Drummer Grant Hutchison spoke to the DN from Los Angeles about the band’s new writing order with “Pedestrian Verse” on the eve of Frightened Rabbit’s North American tour opener in Seattle.

Daily Nebraskan: One of the things that I’ve read in interviews with your brother (Scott) was that you were very deliberately making changes to your sound and trying to put out a different kind of record than you had before with “Pedestrian Verse.” Where were the seeds of that change?

Grant Hutchison: It started with Scott because previously, the way our songs were written were Scott writing the songs close to a finished article and then bringing the songs to us and to the studio. But this time around, he made the decision that he

wanted to be more collaborative and for us all to write and come in at the beginning of the process.

We all had to find our feet doing that and figure out exactly what everyone’s role was in the band as writers. And for Scott (to) relinquish some of that control was different for him as well.

For the overall sound of the album, we wanted to move away from some (of) the almost over-the-top production of layers that we had on “The Winter of Mixed Drinks.” The process for that (album) was sort of to put tracks of guitars upon tracks of guitars upon keyboards and just keep adding and adding.

DN: In terms of Scott handing

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this week in music

my week with classical music

Live Shows: Noah’s Ark Was a Spaceship w/ Pharmacy Spirits, Dirty Talker and Domestica

where:

The Bourbon Theatre, 1412 O St. when: Friday, 9 p.m. how much: $5 (21+), $7 (18+)

G. Love & Special Sauce w/ John Fullbright

where:

The Slowdown, 729 N 14 St., Omaha when: Sunday, 8:30 how much: $22 (in advance), $25 (day of show)

The English Beat w/ The Bishops

where:

The Waiting Room, 6212 Maple St., Omaha when: Sunday, 8 p.m. how much: $22

New in Albums: “What About Now”

artist:

Bon Jovi Island genre: Rock label:

“The Next Day”

artist:

David Bowie Columnia genre: Rock label:

“Old Sock”

artist:

Eric Clapton Bushbranch/ Surfdog genre: Rock label:

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malleable tool for any director or producer looking to manipulate the audience. Just as Amadeus wanted.

The Good: Classical music is perfect for making any moment seem bigger than it is. Simple leisure activities like sitting by the window and watching the snowfall become ominously epic or beautifully serene depending on which movement you’re listening to. Also, petting my dog and making eye contact with him has never had more gravitas than it did while listening to Beethoven’s “Moonlight” Sonata.

Like a lot of privileged youngsters, I used to be afraid to try new things. I was a monstrously picky eater who cringed at the sight of fruits and vegetables.

Transitioning from taking baths to showers was one of the most It might sound sacchatraumatic experiences of my rine, but the elegance of the life. Learning how to ride a bike music brought out feelings in was, in my mind, analogous to me that my typical rock-filled being shoved to the ground in soundtrack simply couldn’t. I an Ouroboros pattern. As I’ve discovered classical music is grown into my mind and my beneficial for studying as well. body, breaking previously peril- Rather than taking breaks every ous barriers has become a way 20 minutes to check Twitter or to measure my own self-worth. updated basketball scores, I sat My worst nightmare is dying back, closed my eyes and let the alone, looking back on all the masters do their work. I curse things I never did with longing my mother for not playing Moand regret. zart in my crib!

These days I’ve broadened The Bad: Listening to clasmy pallet and my horizons to a sical music in place of my fawhole new world. Chances are, vorite tunes became more difif you, dear reader, accost me on ficult with each day. I thought the street and say “Hey! Wanna it might be one of those deals do X with me?” I’ll respond where things started slow and “Sure!” Unless X I came around to is actually ecstathe point where Classical sy, because drugs by day seven I’d are bad, m’kay. music is be bringing my Thus, after readChopin lunchperfect for making ing previous box to school i n s t a l l m e n t s any moment seem and adorning my “My Week with walls with Tchaibigger than it is.

Metal” and “My kovsky posters.

Week with Coun- Simple leisure It turns out that try,” I wanted in.

I was a lot more activities like sitting Classical into it in the bemusic always by the window ginning than I’d seemed like such anticipated and a foreign en- and watching the by the end, I was tity. None of my snowfall become sneaking singfriends or family alongs to “Hey ominously epic or listened to it, and Jude” on the way I’m pretty sure if beautifully serene home.

Which I started I would brings me to my have been end- depending on next point, classilessly teased by which movement cal music is awful my friends and for people who you’re listening whispered about sing in the car. It by my family. to. ” can make a scenic Unlike rock or drive even more pop, there aren’t mesmerizing, but many “easy” if you’re excitopenings to delve in and get edly speeding home from class, hooked. Also, the titles are the last thing you want to hear reminiscent of Betty Crocker is a sad piano tune played over cake mix recipes. There’s J. S. and over.

Bach Suite for solo cello No. 2 Overall, my week with in D minor, BWV 1008 and, of classical was a quality expericourse, who can forget Concerto ence. It felt good to commit to Grosso in G minor, Op. 6, No. 8? something and stick with it, not Just reading these titles without counting the few late-night rock listening to them left me befud- outs I had to get out of my sysdled. The deeper I delved, howtem. I learned that there’s defiever, the more piqued my internitely a place in my life for Wolfest became. gang and company, if the mood As a film studies major I’d is right. If I die tomorrow, there heard a good portion of these are a lot of things I won’t have tunes implemented as scores, accomplished yet. Swimming which helped my familiarity sends a shiver down my spine, and made me feel boss. Classiand I still haven’t found a green cal music and soundtracks have food I like. But at least I can say I gone hand-in-hand for a long died having been able to appretime, and I discovered this week ciate classical music. that’s for a good reason. Classiarts@ cal music can evoke almost any dailynebraskan.com on twitter @dnartsdesk feeling, which makes it a perfect

Mummified musicianship creates funky, booty-shaking atmosphere Here Come the Mummies offers funk renditions mixed with comedic tones madeline christensen dn Whoever said the undead can’t be the life of the party needs a reality check.

Because despite tattered bandages and “the stench of 2,000 years,” Here Come the Mummies sure do know how to throw down a funky beat.

The group will be making its way to the Rococo Theatre on Saturday.

Made up of 13 musicians, Here Come the Mummies has been active since 2000 and are based in Nashville, Tenn., but that’s about the absolute extent of public knowledge — the rest is literally kept under wraps.

Each musician — although it’s a widespread rumor that at least a few of them are well-known — has a mummy moniker (such as Mummy Cass, Eddie Mummy and K.W. Tut) and dresses in bandages from head to toe. The members’ identities are the band’s best-kept secret, and you won’t have any luck scouring the Internet for answers.

Even so, Here Come the Mummies have an impressive fan base surrounding their anonymous jams. Most speculate that the members are under contract with different labels, hiding their identity in order to prevent any disputes.

Along with their tight harmonies and classic funk-mixedwith-old-school-R&B sound, Here Come the Mummies are known for their tongue-in-cheek humor totally in-character live shows.

On their official website, the band claims they were unearthed in the desert south of Tunis in 1922 and were found inexplicably throwing down a funky groove in their tomb. Apparently, because of a curse put on them by the pharaoh’s daughter, they’re doomed to walk the earth seeking “the ultimate riff,” that will finally give them peace after thousands of years of “banging out solid grooves, y’all.”

Six albums, gigs with notables like The Bob and Tom Show and plenty of sold-out crowds later, Here Come the Mummies have risen past the grave to widespread popularity.

In an email interview, The Daily Nebraskan picked the brains of percussionist and vocalist Java Mummy.

Daily Nebraskan: Out of all things, why mummies?

Java Mummy: Didn’t you listen to your mother? You are what you eat.

DN: How did you guys find each other? Was it an after-life crisis?

JM: Actually, we have been together for about 5,000 years.

Before being mummified, in fact.

We were a nomadic band of minstrels, who happened to put the

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Here Come the Mummies is an ensemble of the undead, ready to turn up the funk and get women to shake their groove-things.

We have always played the style of music that leads to maximum female booty shaking... that style has been funk.”

Java Mummy

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moves on the wrong pharaoh’s daughter.

DN: Is the R&B just a mummy thing? Or do you all have R&Bfunk backgrounds?

JM: We have always played the style of music that leads to maximum female booty shaking.

Since the late 1960s, that style has been funk.

DN: It’s rumored that some of the band members have played on Grammy-winning recordings.

Is this true?

JM: Have you been talking to my mother?

DN: We hear you’re putting the finishing touches on your sixth studio album, “Cryptic.”

What should fans expect?

JM: I am super biased, but Cryptic may be our best work yet. We have some super catchy pop and disco tunes, pumping old school funk jams and a humorous ska song.

DN: What’s a mummy jam session like?

JM: Hilarious — like a musical food fight between Mr. T, Jackie Chan and Scooby Doo. DN: You’ve played on The Bob and Tom Show more than once. Would they make good

mummies?

JM: Dude. They are mummies.

Wait. Scratch that last statement.

DN: If you could mummify any artist throughout musical history to play with you, who would you pick?

JM: Can you say Ethel Mermum?

DN: Are there any downfalls to being a mummy? Any advantages?

JM: It is difficult fending off the throngs of eager granny groupies. Getting to fend off the granny groupies.

DN: What’s a typical show like?

JM: An unstoppable funk asteroid. Get ready to dance, jump, sweat and laugh.

DN: Has anyone ever tried to unwrap you on stage?

JM: Yep. It was not pretty.

Limbs were lost, and it is hard playing upbeat music with missing fingers and toes.

DN: What would you say is the biggest misconception about the undead?

JM: That we are scary. We are like MJ — lovers not fighters. arts@ dailynebraskan.com on twitter @dnartsdesk

Defiant ‘Failer’ inspires change in life direction, relationship status AND THE BAND PLAYED ON

Joe Wade If the shoe fits, wear it. For me it was a pair of dull, brown cowboy boots I found in a thrift store when I was 20.

At the time, I was finishing my first year of college, engaged to be married and restless — complete fear and loathing in the suburbs. I wanted out. I wanted to be what Bob Dylan described as one of those people that have a look in their eye that says, “I know something you don’t.”

A decade ago I happened to see Kathleen Edwards perform on Letterman. Edwards had just released her debut album “Failer.” She sang “Six O’clock News,” which is the first song on the album.

It’s about a girl who sees her lover killed. The guy had his fill of hard

luck and finds himself in a shootout with the police. She had a smirk while she sang and I knew there was something special waiting for me if I went along for the ride. The performance conjured images of living on the road; escaping from that tragic restlessness, a feeling I was well aware of and trying to find my own escape from.

Seeing her in that moment was like an epiphany, or the culmination of years of therapy. I’ve always been attracted to a soothing female voice, probably because my mother sang “Sweet Baby James” to put me to sleep. Watching Edwards, I felt like Oedipus. She was cute and possessed an earthy charm in her Canadian twang. The youthful upstroke/ downstroke as she played guitar and the thousand-yard-stare of her eyes made me want to eat my heart out. She definitely knew something I

didn’t, but I’d be damned if I wasn’t going to find it out.

Two days later, I was skipping class, listening to “One More Song The Radio Won’t Like” and driving aimlessly on gravel roads as I drenched myself in the album. It was a sorrowful bright spot in an otherwise dark period.

Due to my inability to decide what I wanted to do with my future, my therapist had diagnosed me as depressed but, really, I was just ambitiously bored with the paint-by-numbers definition of success. Edwards’ lyric, “I guess that we are through/ the bad advice from you/and you can’t even make up my mind” was the perfect rebuttal to my nimrod therapist’s diagnosis. Hearing that line for the first time made it one of those warm, absolutely gorgeous, days we all wish would last forever.

I just wanted to lose myself in it all, but the allure of Edwards’s shivering vocals was overwhelming my senses.

Finding a place to pull over and stretch my legs, I changed out of my sneakers. The spot was a rocky parking lot that served as an entrance to a lake that had partially gone dry.

Wearing those cowboy boots, my heels sank into the dusty plain. Ani-

mal skulls, beer cans and the front bumper of a car marked my path as I walked the 200 yards of the lakebed to meet the water. I felt like I was in a spaghetti western playing the part of “The Lone Wolf” as Edwards’s song, of the same name, played in my head as I pursued her symbolic existence.

Out here I was free of my undeclared major and my fiancee. I had found the distant shore of my relentless anxiety for gypsy Bohemia.

The last couple songs on an album, like the last chapter of a good book, reveal a sort of truth. “National Steel” opens with a whispery guitar but has such a monstrous hook in the chorus, “are you writing this all down,” that I wept the first time I heard it.

The song is written like it was a letter to her father. She is clearly upset as she finds herself seeing through his good intention of offering to bail her out, presumably from her choice to follow the career path as a singer-songwriter. This was the song I was trying to write. It stung me like a dagger, but I was happy to bleed from it.

I could end the story there but “Failer” has a way of dragging the listener back into the mud. Changing

courtesy photo schools was easy once the semester was over but breaking off an engagement ... Life was knocking at my door and I was singing “I don’t want to be your friend/just take off your clothes and get into my bed” along with Edwards. Wedded to my newfound clarity, Edwards was holding my guitar while I strummed and my fiancee watched as I took a leap of bitter-

sweet faith into the starlit unknown without her. Of course I felt guilty as those boots walked out her door for the last time, but when the girl wearing my ring looked in my eyes the first thing she said was, “There’s something you’re not telling me.” arts@ dailynebraskan.com on twitter @dnartsdesk

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Veteran rocker returns with new record embedded with familiar songs andrew larsen dn “Old Sock” is a curious name for an album. It’s almost as if a record executive had a gun to Eric Clapton’s head and said, “Give me an album title now,” and he blurted the first thing he saw after a quick perusal of the bedroom carpet.

Yet, after listening to the album in full a few times, it starts to make sense. This is a collection of warm, comforting songs that feel like they could have been released in almost any decade without changing much, if at all.

These songs feel so timeless because, well, they are. Ten of the 12 tracks on “Old Sock” are covers, most of them being pure, canonical Americana. Clapton gives Leadbelly’s “Goodnight Irene” a worthy update with a beautifully lilting slide guitar and prickly mandolin. The album leadoff, “Further On Down The Road,” recalls Clapton’s glory days of “I Shot The Sheriff” by giving the Taj Mahal standard an upbeat, reggae style groove. “Till Your Well Runs Dry” is another notable reggaeinfluenced cover, this one a Peter Tosh original.

It’s unclear why Clapton didn’t just release a covers-only album. “Gotta Get Over” and “Every Little Thing” are his two originals, and they are fine additions, but they’re so similar to the other songs that a casual fan would have

a problem distinguishing them sion and tour guitarist, but nine out of 10 students walking on the from the herd. university campus right now would Each song is seemingly more have no idea who he is, which is a genteel than the next, which tends shame. He plays to make them run electric, acoustic together. Perhaps Unlike fellow and slide guitar for releasing his aging stars... and also contributes 20th studio album mandolin and backClapton just wanted Clapton’s voice ing vocals, but most to kick back with importantly, helps friends, play the has remained lend authenticity to music that he loves remarkably clear.” this set. and give thanks In addition to to the legends that Bramhall II, Clappaved his way. ton’s vocals are also worth a nod.

There are much worse reasons to Unlike fellow aging stars such make an album. as Van Morrison and Bob Dylan, Special mention should be paid to Doyle Bramhall II, a vastly un- Clapton’s voice has remained rederappreciated guitarist Clapton markably clear and easy to listen to. That distinctively nasally, bluehas taken an affinity to in the last decade. He’s not underappreci- sy whine is still deployed with full ated among his rock brethren, as effect and is especially prudent on the slower tracks like “Angel” and he’s in constant demand as a ses-

“The Folks On The Hill.” After myriad cigarettes smoked and gallons of booze guzzled, it’s a wonder that his voice still holds up, but thankfully for “Old Sock,” it does quite nicely.

After the kind of career Clapton’s had, he could get away with literally anything at this point. So to release an album like “Old Sock” is a safe, but ultimately pleasurable choice.

This won’t be on the radio, and no one under age 40 will be talking about it, but in some ways that makes it cool. Here’s a rock ‘n’ roll pioneer who could be counting his money in one of his many mansions, but he’s still trucking and releasing pleasant tunes. This is the kind of album that’s perfect for a long, ambling summer drive with the top down and not a care in the world. It’s cozily dependable, much like a familiar stocking.

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Bowie uses age as musical reawakening cameron mount dn If you approach the 24th studio album of a 66-year-old artist with anything but cautiously low expectations, you’re likely to be disappointed. Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen each had surprisingly great albums in 2012, but they suffered from straightforwardness and sad selfreflections on their singers’ aging.

David Bowie’s “The Next Day” doesn’t avoid all of these traps, but it is a darker, more complex and more creative effort than anyone had any right to expect, especially given the singer’s 2004 heart attack. The album cover, which superimposes a white box over Bowie’s 1977 classic “Heroes,” suggests that the singer know he’s in his twilight but also prepared to be compared to his greatest years. Each of the 14 songs here, composed of a staggering number of layers, unnerving self-reflection and allusions to death and war, demonstrate that ambitious mindset.

The opener, “The Next Day,” begins with a misleadingly straightforward rock riff, until the aggressive chant of the chorus starts up: “Here I am, not quite dying/My body left to rot in a hollow tree./It’s branches forming shadows on the gallows for me/And the next day, and the next, and another day.” Throughout the

album, Bowie confronts the death of himself and others often and abrasively.

The next song, “Dirty Boys,” takes some clear cues from Tom Waits, mixing circus swing, sax and plunking verses. It’s followed by “The Stars (Are Out Tonight),” smoothly but sharply alluding to modern celebrity culture and the stars who “watch us from behind their shades.”

“Where Are We Now,” the album’s lead single, is a strikingly out of place ballad amid 13 much harsher tracks. It isn’t unwelcome, but the album’s switching from genre to genre, influence to influence, then placing in a safely sweet ballad is a strange jolt.

Just as this song ends, suggesting an artist warmly paying his thanks and playing it safe, “Valentine’s Day” begins, a story of a school shooter with a ’60s-style melody reminiscent of “Ziggy Stardust.” Next, the nervily fast-paced “If You Can See Me,” where Bowie sings, “I could wear your new blue shoes/I should wear your old red dress/And walk to the crossroad, so take this knife/And meet me across the river.”

For good and for bad, Bowie’s covering all of his bases here.

In “I’d Rather Be High,” which chronicles a soldier’s return to society, Bowie alludes to Vladimir Nabokov, declares “I’m 17 my looks can prove it,” and gleefully yells “teenage sex!” It’s one of the highlights,

with references to wartime Berlin and a poignant reminder to his parents that “everybody gets got.”

“How Does the Grass Grows” channels PJ Harvey (“How is our glorious country ploughed/Our land is ploughed by tanks and feet”) in a forceful chorus of “Where do the boys lie? Mud, mud, mud./How does the grass grow? Blood, blood, blood.” Gory and articulate, it’s a sharp contrast to where most artists tread this late in their career.

After the conventionally catchy “(You Will) Set the World On Fire,” I was worried about a song titled “You Feel So Lonely You Could Die.” But despite its melodrama and grimly off-putting lines like “I can see you as a corpse/hanging from a beam,” it’s one of the most complex songs on the album and a powerful update to “Rock ‘n’ Roll Suicide” off of “Ziggy Stardust.”

Ending the album is “Heat,” which wouldn’t be out of place as Joy Division track with dark vocals, eerie ambience and the disturbing refrain of “I tell myself/I don’t know who I am.” For an artist who has earned his legacy through constant reinvention, it’s a poignant line that hopefully invites future creative exploration.

Except for some beefed-up production, there’s not much on “The Next Day” you won’t find on previous Bowie albums. But while his 2003 album, “Reality,” felt like an artist wrapping things up with a modest,

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“THE NEXT DAY” David Bowie feel-good release, “The Next Day” is fresh, dark and heavily layered. It strives to be the kind of album which grows on you and demands line-byline analyses. For the most part, it hits the mark.

Unfortunately, it’s only vaguely cohesive, connecting in some remarkable flashes and confusing in others. It might be a sign of decreasing relevance, but considering the ambition here and the earnest signs that Bowie is creatively maturing this far into a prolific career, “The Next Day” is surely a success. arts@ dailynebraskan.com on twitter @dnartsdesk

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powers: from 5 developing original sounds and providing stellar jams for their fans.

“I think our shows are always evolving and getting better,” said Houchen. “I’m excited for the new material being added to the sets.

Keeping things fresh is important — especially as local artists. There is a lot of energy in the music. We love it and feed off it when the crowd is really getting in to it.”

Powers’ members have all been in other bands, including Cats Melvin, Jodie Loves Hinckley, Thirst Things First, Freakabout! and the Totally Awesome Fun Band. When they first started playing together, it took a bit of experimentation to flesh out where they wanted to take the sound.

“The first couple months of playing with new people is always a little difficult,” said Houchen. “We had an idea of what we wanted to do — easy to say, but hard to put it to some kind of form. We were always driving towards the ’90s garage rock-psych rock sounds. Steadily we found each others’ strengths and weaknesses. Sometimes a weakness is a blessing in disguise when dealing in rock music.”

As the band members continued to tinker, their separate visions began to merge into something more unified. Part of their uniqueness lies in their not having a lone songwriter. For Powers, it’s a collaborative effort.

“We love that rock called ‘stoner metal,’ which is basically just crunchy guitars playing riff rock and wailing to stompy, headbanging beats,” said Arredondo.

“I think we are all trying to make ourselves work hard to play what we hear in our heads. I think what sets us apart is that there is no one guy that is the strong leader or songwriter. We all do it together.”

Although they’ve nailed down a foundational sound, the courtesy photo group is always exploring new Powers opened for Universe Contest at their March 2 show at Duffy’s Tavern. They played to a territory. Their tunes continue to full house. shift and transform.

“Putting (our sound) into words from my point of view is what we’ve been working tozone. Yeah, I said that.”

“We have never had objecimpossible,” said Elfers. “Heavy, wards for over a year. I think Powers’ new EP will release tives with our band that are not groovy, rhythmic, fun. Dave and Powers is going to be here for a I joke around saying we sound short term,” said Arredondo. sometime this summer, and they while; we’re all having too much will play show in May. “We are working on releasing like jungle rock, or caveman rock “We’ll have an album out this fun with one another to put any our first EP and ... but I don’t think summer,” said Elfers. “Seven kind of expiration date on it.” are always writcavemen could We have Elfers seconded that sentitracks engineered and mixed by ing songs. But move their fingers my dude Matty Sanders at Fuse ment, adding that the group will we have never never had like those three.”

Studios here in Lincoln (and) continue to lose themselves in had goals of The freedom objectives with the music and have the best time hopefully mastered by Doug Van lasting for an and adventurouspossible.

Sloun at Focus Mastering. Our amount of time ness that seems to our band that are “The most important thing next show is Friday, May 10, at or trying to get characterize Pownot short term.” musically is to have a good time,” Yia Yia’s with Dirty Talker.” signed to a label ers’ music is repsaid Elfers. “I’m a pretty uptight The guys behind Powers are or going on aweresentative of its Dave arredondo some, month- excited for their coming album, guy sometimes, but when I get purpose as a band. powers but most importantly, they’re behind a kit and start playing with long tours. I see Setting goals and these dudes, it all melts away, and I psyched to be playing together. us focusing on defining its direc“I’m very happy with how have a great time. We are just trying developing our tion has never been as important sound, finding what is unique (the EP) is turning out,” said to have as much fun as we can and to Powers as being spontaneous, Houchen. “It’s going to be great create the best tunes that we can.” concocting new vibes and find- and awesome about ourselves arts@ and how we write music togeth- having people be able to walk ing chemistry as friends and feldailynebraskan.com away with a physical copy of er and pushing it into the danger low musicians. on twitter @dnartsdesk

Ben Folds is kind of the Beethoven for this generation.

In general, Folds probably doesn’t have quite the skill (or the hair) of Beethoven, but the man can hold his own with a set of keys in front of him.

In 1997, Ben Folds Five and its fast-fingered frontman hit its peak with the release of “Whatever and Ever Amen.”

The album was — and still is — immediately accessible to anyone who listens. Folds’ high-end piano-playing consistently draws emotion, from sorrow in songs such as “Brick” and “Cigarette,” to playful energy in songs like “Kate” and “Song for the Dumped,” and even revenge (if revenge has a sound) in “One Angry Dwarf and 200 Solemn Faces.”

Folds’ singing isn’t quite as skillful as his piano playing but in a way this is a strength. It gives the songs a sense of earnest longing; Folds has something he wants to sing about and, damn it, he’s go-

ing to do it.

Lyrically, the album isn’t too cryptic. Everyone already knows that “Brick” is about the aftermath of a girlfriend getting an abortion following an accidental pregnancy, and Folds has spoken about “One Angry Dwarf” being the result of years of bullying in elementary and high school (“You’ll be sorry when I’m big, yes you will, yes you will.”)

It’s not the deepest album, but again, this isn’t necessarily the worst thing. It lets the user quickly find themselves in the same situations Folds presents, all while bopping their heads along with the catchy beats and beautiful melodies Folds plays.

Ben Folds is a pretty prolific musician (Ben Folds Five released “The Sound of the Life of the Mind” just last year) but in 1997, this was only his second album and to this day, it still serves as a large milestone for one of the best piano players in music today. arts@dailynebraskan.com on twitter @ dnartsdesk

violent death equipment: from 5 wouldn’t really take ‘no’ for an anvocalize it and put it with all the swer. I feel good where I’m at.” loudness that we make. Same goes Boyles started out playing Blink for guitar writing; it’s whatever 182 covers on acoustic guitar while in mood you’re in. It’s kind of like behigh school. Soon after he was given ing able to take all negative facets an electric guitar for Christmas and of your life and all the negative enwas asked to be in a band. The indi- ergy, then expressing it in a positive vidual he played with helped intro- way. A new spin on death is kind of duce Boyles to bands like Slayer and what I want it to be.”

Cannibal Corpse.

When compos“All that stuff I ing new material, love now,” he said, Nutter said he fre“it really propelled quently uses softmy playing, and I just ware like Guitar Pro never stopped.” to aid the process.

Similarly, the He added that some other members of bands will create the band grew to whole albums uslove death metal. ing software but be Austin Nutter Hochreiter rememunable to play the violent death equipment bers watching songs once they get bands like Motley into a studio to reCrue on MTV and searching for al- cord, which is something this band bum covers that looked like horror has not had an issue with. films. Tomes was impressed by the “I like all the stuff that isn’t just level of musicianship. Heavy music dudes jerking off to how low they allowed “each instrument to show- can tune their guitars. There’s no dycase their abilities,” he said. namic contrast,” he said. “It’s not so “I’ve been into metal since much that they’re creating a musical about sixth grade,” Nutter said. piece as they are trying to create a “It was just the most in-your-face product that’s mathematically permusic. When I listen to Slipknot, fect. So, everything is compressed I like to imagine beating up the as much as possible without fighting jocks that threw basketballs at my everything else. I want us to have an bespectacled face. I listen to metal and organic sound, like a band playing in hardcore and like them for different a room.” reasons. With hardcore, it’s like realThe goal, according to Nutter, is world problems. Metal is more escapto get audience members to feel the ist with vivid imagery.” same way, listening to Violent Death Part of the imagery, according to Equipment, as the band members feel Boyles, is death and gore. He added when listening to their favorite bands. that the gore aspect is “a bit over“I was listening to Disembodied, done these days.” sitting at my desk at my job, and I “I try to put that same feel to want to be that band for someone it but with a different spin,” he else,” he said. arts@ said. “I like to put whatever negadailynebraskan.com tive feelings I’m having on paper, on twitter @dnartsdesk

A new spin on death is kind of what I want it to be.”

frightened rabbit: from 5 if you go Frightened Rabbit

where:

Bourbon Theatre March 19, 9 p.m. how much: $15 (advance) $18 (day of the show) when:

over that writing control to you guys, was that a comfort for you on drums?

Did you feel you had more ownership of the songs with that structure of writing?

GH: Certainly. For me it was less of a jump because ... Scott didn’t play the drums, so I’d done the drums on the records before. But still when I got to the songs to do the drums (the songs used to be) pretty much fullyformed. But this time I was tracking drums in the demo stage to maybe one guitar and maybe Scott just humming a melody, which was difficult.

At times I felt like it was hard for me to grasp onto anything. I did have the pressure of being a bigger part of the song, but I was comfortable with it because it was exciting.

DN: I wonder if we could apply that to a specific song, if it created a more cohesive effect. Like “Acts of Man.” For your part, those sound like

war drums the way they crash and it fits in with the message of the song.

GH: Absolutely. With “Acts of Man,” it’s very sparse a song and we managed to achieve something exciting that we weren’t trying to achieve on the last record, not by piling things up, but by leaving space almost.

My part specifically at the end helped a lot with making the structure of the song.

DN: It seems like there are a lot of varying levels across the album with your drums in how forward or how far back they are. When it comes to that kind of production, even though you mentioned easing up on production, where does that decision of distance get made?

GH: That does come down to a production decision, but a lot were made not in the mixing process, but in the tracking process. And the way we did that was by taking things away. We had these five elements of everybody’s parts but it helps to take them away, because we were all there at the beginning of the writing process, (and) certain parts became more important.

I worked a lot more with Billy on the bass this time, where before that didn’t happen, so relationships musically (were built). On a song like “Late March, Death March,” I really enjoyed recording that because we

The way we did the tracking, each song was almost a chapter, not like a concept record where you’re telling one whole story...”

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initially recorded the whole percussion as an ensemble.

DN: I’m curious about the inclusion of “State Hospital” on the record.

Can we see that start of “Pedestrian Verse” on the “State Hospital” EP? GH: Well, “State Hospital” was recorded at the same time as the rest of the album, so it’s definitely part of the story of the record. “State Hospital” as a song is musically and lyrically paired with “Acts of Man” a little bit. It’s more Scott not talking about himself but looking outward on to society. There was never any doubt “State Hospital” would make it onto the record. The way we did the tracking, each song was almost a chapter, not like a concept record where you’re telling one whole story, but short stories as you like.

You’ve got this character in society in “State Hospital.”

DN: You’re just about to kick off the North American tour. I always think it’s fascinating reading about you guys and how you’re leaders in Scottish music, because I don’t

think it’s a history — or a history of music, more specifically — that we in the States don’t necessarily relate to.

You’re first and foremost Frightened Rabbit, but are you comfortable with the idea of having a nation of Scottish music that wants independent exposure on your back? Is that some you’re cognizant of coming to North America?

GH: It’s great. It’s something we’re very proud of being associated with because it almost changes and you almost pass it on like some sort of relay. Bands that came before us, like Mogwai or Belle & Sebastian, have been successful over here and have made it easier for us to come over. And lots of things we’re doing are for bands that will come along with us, as well.

The forefathers were flying the flags, but we’re the ones who hold on to the torch for a little while and pass it on to someone else. arts@ dailynebraskan.com on twitter @dnartsdesk

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Frightened Rabbit’s lead vocalist, Scott Hutchison, is known for his heart-wrenching lyrics and equally brutal vocals. This time, though, he asked for his band’s input during the creation process.

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Nebraska women’s basketball player Emily Cady drives around a Penn State defender earlier this season at the Bob Devaney Sports Center. Cady is the Huskers’ tallest player at 6 feet 2 inches. ful from three-point range rather than from the block. The problem isn’t the personnel, it’s the lack of personnel.

Meghin Williams is as close to a center as Nebraska has, and she can’t even practice because of injuries. The lack of a center hurts them, no matter how much they can run on teams.

It’s really hard to complain with coach Connie Yori’s style of play, and

quite frankly she’s done more than enough for this team to be successful. It really isn’t anyone’s fault Nebraska’s lack of size hurts them, other than the game of basketball.

If you look at Nebraska’s losses, it’s quite simple: upper-level teams have taken advantage of its lack of size.

With the NCAA Tournament just

a week and a half away, you have to wonder if the Huskers will be able to make a push by running-and-gunning, or if they’ll be pushed aside by bigger, stronger teams.

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big ten men’s basketball teleconference Tom Crean, Indiana

On the Michigan win: “(It) was a classic college basketball game at the highest level, and there’s no question we were fortunate to win it. Both teams had their mistakes but both teams played very hard.”

On the altercation with Michigan assistant coach Jeff Meyer after the game: “I want to get it out of the way, that I don’t want to take away from the game at all. (It was) a professional misunderstanding I had with coach Jeff Meyer after the game, and on the way to the plane I talked to him on the phone, and we discussed a few things. I apologized. We moved on. That’s what I’ve done. End of story.”

Fran McCaffery, Iowa

On playing Northwestern in the first round of the conference tournament: “Obviously I have tremendous respect for Bill (Carmody) and the job he’s done. They’re a very difficult team to play against and to prepare for. We have beaten them twice this year, and they’re a team that continues to battle.”

On Iowa’s chances to make the NCAA Tournament: “I think it’s important that we’re in this discussion. We’re 9-9 in the toughest conference in the country. I think the RPI is one component of what you look at. They take many factors to take into consideration. We feel really good about where we are.”

John Groce, Illinois

On the final stretch of the season: “ ( I ’ m ) proud of our guys’ toughness. Thought we really competed.

We played three of our last four games on the road against teams that are 51-5 at home, including outright No. 1 Indiana.”

On playing Minnesota: “We’re looking forward to the challenge of playing Minnesota. We split during the season.

They’re a well-coached team, great on the glass.”

Bill Carmody, Northwestern

On Northwestern player Kale Abrahamson: “There are a few freshmen that can come in and are really ready to go in September, but most take a little time. He’s starting to be more aggressive going to the offensive board.

He’s not as anxious and gets to the basket pretty nicely.”

On the Iowa game: “I just think that it’s a veteran team that plays young guys.

Those are the guys that really scare me and Fran (McCaffery) really integrated those guys in well.”

Pat Chambers, Penn State

On the Big Ten Conference: “Michigan was playing for a share of title, and now they have to play on the first day. It’s pretty amazing how tough this conference is, and it just goes to show you how good this league is.”

On upcoming Michigan game: “I don’t know if we can replicate anything. We got to go out and compete and Michigan will be angry, coming out with a lot of energy after the loss. We have to make shots early and work the jitters out early to compete.”

Matt Painter, Purdue

O n the Nebraska game in Big Ten tourna-

ment: “The thing that I thought was their ability to grind it out, their ability to have some discipline and pass it out, and that’s what you have to do to win. Last time we didn’t play against Ubel and obviously they’re a better team with him.”

On Brandon Ubel: “He has size so he can help out on the defensive end on that back line, but he can also come out and guard. That’s the same versatile attribute that he has on the offensive side. His versatility and his size give people matchup problems.”

Tom Izzo, Michigan State

On Northwestern: “I was really impressed with Northwestern and what they did. We thought they would play zone, and they came out in man. As young as they are, they will be a team to reckon with in the future.”

On how far defense can take a team in the NCAA Tournament: “I don’t know if scoring is down or it’s bad offense or good defense. I think everybody’s realized that to win in this tournament that defense can get you long ways in a tournament. It’s easier to score points off of your defense.”

Bo Ryan, Wisconsin:

On the Big Ten Tournament: “I love the Big Ten so much coming from the East Coast.

Winning a conference over a period of time shows how much a team has hung in there for months. Tournaments were made for money. So anybody that would ever say that the Big Ten tournament would be the championship of the conference would be ludicrous” On how far defense can take a team in a tournament: “Defense is something you got to take into other people’s gyms.

Defense gives you a base. It always depends on how it’s called. Adjustments on the fly in the NCAA Tournament got to be made.”

John Beilein, Michigan

On Indiana loss: “It was a terrific game in Ann Arbor. Our home crowd continues to amaze me with how loud and supporting they’ve been all year long.

It was disappointing, but a wellplayed basketball game.”

On the altercation between Tom Crean and Jeff Meyers: “I’m not going to comment on another coach or university. All I’m going to say is, Michigan will win with class and lose with class. I’m proud of how Jeff showed poise, and he’s helped build this program brick by brick with me.”

Deeg leads NU to tie for 13th-place Huskers came away with a score 937 in three rounds at the Clover Cup in Arizona matt duren dn The Nebraska women’s golf team headed to Mesa, Ariz., this past weekend and came away with one of its best finishes of the year.

The Huskers tied for 13th in the 16-team field with a threeround total of 937 at the Clover Cup. “I was pleased with a lot of things we did,” Nebraska women’s golf coach Robin Krapfl said.

“But in the end, it came back to consistency. Chipping hurt us a bit, and there were too many big numbers.”

True freshman Cassie Deeg finished with a three-round total of 229 to lead the team. Deeg, a native of Hugo, Minn., shot a three-over par 75 in the final round to close out the 54-hole event at the Longbow Golf Club in a tie for 38th. Her 75 on Sunday followed a second-round 75 Saturday after an opening-round 79.

“I thought Cassie did a very nice job this weekend,” Krapfl said.

“The first day she wasn’t sinking anything it seemed like — ­ nothing fell. On the last day, she started by bogeying her first five holes, but she finished it out strong and ended the last 13 holes two-under. I was really happy with the way she ended.”

No. 5 Oklahoma ended up winning the tournament by a wide margin, as it shot a two-under 862 for the tournament. Oklahoma was lead by two golfers who finished in the top three individually.

Oklahoma’s Chirapat Jao-Javanil shot a four-under 212 for the tournament win, while Emily Collins shot a two-under 214 for the tournament.

No. 34 SMU finished second in the team standings with a 16-over 880, just nudging No. 16 Texas Tech, who placed third with an 18-over 882.

First round play was postponed to Saturday due to rain, and that made for wet conditions the remainder of the tournament.

“I thought we had a hard time adjusting to the speed of

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Nebraska’s Katelyn Wright walks up to her ball during a tournament last season. Wright and the Huskers tied for 13th out of 16 teams at the Clover Cup tournament in Mesa, Ariz. the greens after the rain,” Krapfl said. “It was disappointing too, because we had been practicing putting a lot.”

Deeg said because of the rain, golfers were forced to play the course differently.

“Longbow is a firm course where you get a lot of roll, and the greens are hard to hold,” Deeg said.

“But after the rain it played longer, and it was easier to hold the greens.

It had it’s positives and negatives.

We adjusted to it by being more aggressive and preparing ourselves knowing it was going to play longer.”

Krapfl was encouraged by a couple areas of the game, however.

“For the weekend, I was pleased by the way we drove and also our iron play,” Krapfl said.

“But we have to finish and be more consistent on our approach shots and once we get onto the green.”

As for the individual results,

Thad Matta, Ohio State

On the end of the season: “It’s amazing the regular season is over. It’s been an incredible Big Ten season. Now we head to Chicago and try to string together some great games. It will definitely be a great tournament.”

On the Big Ten Tournament: “I think the true champion would still come from the regular season. It’s different because not everyone has the same schedule now.

That probably gives you the best indicator on who’s the best team in the league.”

Tubby Smith, Minnesota

On the team heading into Big Ten tournament: “We’re really excited to be going to the Big Ten tournament. The last two games we didn’t play particularly well.

Nebraska and Purdue played extremely well. We have our work cut out for us.”

On the chances of making a run: “We need to have guys step up and make a presence. I know we’re capable of stepping up. Our seniors have a lot to play for and hope to have a great tournament.” compiled by josh kelly

We adjusted to it by being more aggressive and preparing ourselves knowing it was going to play longer.” cassie deeg freshman golfer

of 240 (76-80-80) to tie for 77th.

Deeg said there are a lot of positives to take away from this tournament.

“I think, from this tournament, we can adjust to different types of courses, and that we can hit good shots,” Deeg said. “We just need to put them all together, and I think we can do that.” sports@ dailynebraskan.com

Kristina Merkle of Tulsa finished first, shooting a six-under 210 for the tournament, including a 66 in the final round.

Jenny Haglund of SMU finished with a two-under 214. Nebraska’s Katelyn Wright added a three-round total of 234 (77-7780) to tie for 59th. Cassidy Stelzmiller finished tied for 68th at 237 (80-78-79). Junior Steffi Neisen chipped in a three-round total

football practice notes

Tim Miles, Nebraska:

On Miles’ first season in the Big Ten “I didn’t quite know what to expect.

You know it’s going to make you better, and you kind of just embrace the challenge. It’s been a good experience though.”

On the team’s record “You have to avoid counting wins and losses when starting out in a program. It’s a disservice to your players and program. There were all kinds of benchmarks set for us, and we wanted to surpass them.”

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Abdullah injury paves way for cross

During the weekend, the Nebraska football team’s offense took a blow when sophomore running back Ameer Abdullah suffered a knee injury in the team’s second week of spring practice.

Husker coach Bo Pelini said the I-back injured his knee during practice Saturday and should be back on the field in two weeks.

“Ameer just tweaked his knee a little bit,” he said. “Nothing big. He’ll be back in a couple weeks full go. He’ll be back in time to be back for part of spring, whether we let him do that I don’t know. It gave us a little bit of a scare on Saturday, but not a big deal. It’s kind of like Rex’s (Burkhead) but to a lot lesser degree. If he’s going to get tweaked and miss a couple of days, now’s the time.”

With Abdullah out, Pelini said freshman Imani Cross will take over the first team duties and added he’s liked what he’s seen out of the 225-pound running back thus far in spring.

“Obviously, Imani’s having a really good spring so far,” he said. “Let’s face it, Ameer didn’t need a lot of carries this spring; he didn’t need a lot of work. Up to this point, Imani’s had a good spring.”

The coach added Cross isn’t the only I-back who’s impressed him so far in spring.

“Actually, King Frazier ’s doing some really good things,” Pelini said. “And (Ameer ’s injury) gives us a chance to look at some other backs. It gives us an opportunity to look at a couple of those younger guys to move up and see what they have.”

Pelini also announced sophomore offensive lineman Ryne Reeves will be out the remainder of spring practices because of an ankle injury. The coach said he’s liked what he’s seen from the Crete-native thus far and is excited to get him back in the summer.

“He was doing some good things, but the best thing about is that he’ll be back full go in the middle of summer,” Pelini said. “He’ll be ready for fall.”

Team responds after subpar Saturday practice

YOUNG PLAYERS MAKING STRIDES

With redshirt freshman Avery Moss sitting out of Monday’s After a disappointing practice practice, the Husker defense was Saturday, Pelini said he liked the improvements his team showed dur- looking for someone to fill the vacancy open at defensive end. ing Monday’s drills.

Papuchis said the player he “We had a lot better practice tothought stepped up in the eyes day,” he said. “I liked what I saw out there today. We made a lot of prog- of the staff was redshirt freshman Greg McMullen. ress today.”

“Greg was (playing) with the The poor showing Saturday twos and now Greg (played) with was a surprise to the coaching staff, according to defensive coordinator ones today,” he said. “He and Avery aren’t that far apart in terms John Papuchis. of where they fall on the depth “Friday was a good day for us defensively,” Papuchis said. “We chart. I think between Greg and Avery they’re battling it out to see didn’t do a good job rebounding who ends up with the first group from the Friday afternoon practice back to Saturday morning. As play- on opening day.”

Senior cornerback Ciante ers, they have to take their job seriEvans said he’s also noticed his ously enough that when they show up in their morning – no matter if young teammates in the secondary stepping up their game as it’s coming off a good day or bad well. day – they’re prepared to go. Les“They’re looking good,” sons are learned in this sport, and he said. “Mo’s (Seisay) looking I think some were clearly learned good, Josh (Mitchell), Stanley Saturday.

“We’ll find out over the course (Jean-Baptiste) – all of them are of the next three weeks whether the looking good. We’re all coming lessons we learned on Saturday car- out to compete and trying to play.

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game Columnist Chris heady says nebraska’s lack of height causes problems for huskers

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y dad and basketball floors never really got along.

After coaching me for eight years, my dad ingrained the method of “run-and-gun” basketball in my head. After a teammate of mine would get a rebound, he’d proceed to stomp the floor with his brown loafers and yell “Run! Run! Run!” so loud you could hear his voice and stomps echo in the hallways of the middle schools we’d play in.

About 70 percent of the time we’d come away with a win, most times my dad made a small dent in the floor. Ever since, I’ve always preferred “run-and-gun” basketball over anything else.

This year’s Nebraska women’s basketball team plays strikingly similar to my father’s teams, and it’s worked for them.

Until now.

Nebraska lost to Purdue for the second straight year in the Big Ten tournament, this time in the semifinals 77-64. The Boilermakers went on to win the tournament for the second straight year, and the Huskers were left scratching their heads wondering exactly what happened.

But the answer is quite simple: they need more size.

Throughout the year, “run and gun” has been the bread and butter for Nebraska. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve seen senior guard Lindsey Moore drive coast to coast for a layup after a defensive

rebound, or Emily Cady throw a quick outlet pass to Jordan Hooper for a three. The Huskers’ fast-paced style gets Big Ten teams who like set offensive possessions out of rhythm, causing them to turn the ball over and score season lows in points.

When playing smaller teams, Nebraska is as lethal as a katana, but the blade becomes dull when playing taller opponents.

In the Huskers’ loss to Penn State on March 3, PSU’s centers backed down Nebraska’s forwards at will and vacuumed up offensive rebounds for easy put backs. When Nebraska lost to Illinois on Jan. 17, Nebraska was outrebounded 40-to29, including 15 Illinois offensive rebounds.

The reality is, run-and-gun can only take you so far. In middle school, my teams under my dad had great success in the “A1” division, but could never compete with the bigger teams in the “Select A” division teams, and for one reason: size.

This pertains directly to the Huskers this year.

During Nebraska’s 10-game winning streak, the Huskers didn’t play one team with a significant size advantage over them. In their last three losses, the (Penn State, Purdue and Illinois) power forwards and centers dominated the Huskers on the boards and in the paint.

The giant disadvantage to Nebraska’s offensive attack is when the team goes cold from the floor.

It doesn’t have a go-to center for easy layups. In Nebraska’s loss to Creighton on Dec. 5, Nebraska shot just 15 percent from three. Creighton shot 56 percent from three and upset Nebraska.

But in the end, it’s really not Nebraska’s fault. Emily Cady is 6-feet2-inches and is the squad’s tallest starter. However, she is more of a shooting-guard/power-forward mix instead of a solid power forward. Her role is more of a driver, not a ground-and-pound center.

Jordan Hooper (also 6-feet2-inches) is predominantly success-

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Nebraska rifle ends season with 7th-place finish at NCAAs Huskers’ consistent scoring results in high NCAA Championship finish bailey neel dn The Nebraska rifle season came to a close this past weekend as the Huskers finished seventh at the NCAA Championships. The Huskers had a regular-season record of 20-6 and were one of only eight teams chosen to compete at the NCAA’s. Nebraska coach Stacy Underwood said she was more than proud of her team.

“We did a lot of great things as a team and performed right where we usually do,” Underwood said.

“With our average being right where we usually score, it just reiterated that we are a consistent team, and that the pressure of a being on a national stage doesn’t negatively affect the team.”

The two-day competition in Columbus, Ohio, began on Friday where the team finished with 2,297 points in smallbore position. Shooting wrapped up on Saturday, and Nebraska walked away with a score of 2,346 in air rifle.

“I think the team did an amazing job of helping each other as a team,”

In a sport mostly focused on Underwood said. “Obviously it was the individual, some may think it great to have one individual in each of the finals but really it was a team would be difficult to form the unity that other team sports have. That effort.”

One of those individuals in was not the case with the Nebraska rifle squad. According to Woltersquestion was senior Katelyn Woltdorf, the only time the team is alone ersdorf. With a 590 in the air rifle, is when the members are actually Woltersdorf tied with three other shooting. competitors. After a shootout for a “I wouldn’t have wanted to be spot in the finals, Woltersdorf finthere without my team,” Woltersished in sixth place nationally.

“Going into finals wasn’t too dorf said. “When you are practicing together and traveling together as nerve wracking,” Woltersdorf said.

“I felt confident in what I was do- much as we have, you become really close,” she said. “We pushed ing and felt calm and focused. I trust my training. I had been practicing each other to do our best, and we just really jelled as a under different presteam.” sure situations, so I I felt With the end of didn’t really feel it that much.” confident in the season, Underwood reflects on Notably, senior the rifle program Janine Dutton, fresh- what I was doing and her first year man Denise Mar- and felt calm.” as head coach of the tin and sophomore katelyn team.

Kelsey Hansen all “I think we scored above 480 in woltersdorf developed a great the air rifle, contribsenior rifle shooter foundation for the uting to the team’s upcoming years,” overall score of Underwood said.

4,643.

“This season just reconfirmed “Everyone on the team is importhat the way we train and the attitant and contributed in one way or another to us getting to the NCAA tude we have is right. We just aim or while we were there,” Wolters- to be the most disciplined team on the range, and I think we’re getdorf said. “We have never relied on ting there.” just one or two girls for high scores. sports@ We all contribute, and we all encourDailynebraskan.com age each other.”

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Katelyn Woltersdorf prepares her gun to compete during a rifle match earlier this season at the Nebraska Rifle Range. Woltersdorf placed sixth nationally in the smallbore competition.