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Inside Coverage

NebrasKon brings fun and fandom Convention comes to Omaha for 10th year

Hail Mary

The Nebraska football team swarms freshman receiver Jordan Westerkamp (center), who caught Ron Kellogg’s last-second 49-yard pass for a touchdown to beat Northwestern 27-24. The catch was Westerkamp’s first career touchdown and is believed to be the first game-winning Hail Mary in Nebraska history. The victory kept NU in second place in the Legends Division. photo by matt masin

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5 Party loyalty or compromise?

The place of bipartisanship in politics

4 Huskers become Big Ten champs Soccer team beats Indiana to claim conference title

At conference, future starts now Rural Futures conference begins with full capacity

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Members of Fiesta Mexicana of the Heartland check their makeup before their folkloric dance on Sunday as part of the Sheldon Museum of Art’s Day of the Dead celebration this weekend.

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On Sunday, the celebration included a mariachi band, traditional food and crafts.

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Alma Gutierrez perfroms in the Las Cecilias mariachi band on Friday night at the Sheldon. The museum hosted a First Friday Día de los Muertos celebration.

Middle Eastern conflicts limit UNL’s Education Abroad Layla Younis DN

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As one of the top undergraduate students studying sociology in Syria, Rula Jabbour received death threats because she was a Christian female awarded for academic excellence.

Jabbour, a Ph.D. student of political science at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, won’t return to Syria anytime soon.

“The regime would not welcome me,” said Jabbour, who has had to resort to Internet and social media to conduct her research rather than doing ground-

war or ongoing intense crime work in Syria. “The more you ask political questions the harder (it or violence, or frequent terrorist attacks,” which gets). The Inhas caused some ternet and soThe more students to rely on cial media are you ask remote research. The becoming the new gate that political questions, President’s Executive Memorandum No. gives you all 25, signed by Unithe information the harder (it versity of Nebraska that will satisfy gets).

President James B. your question.”

Milliken, says no The U.S, Rula Jabbour travel abroad proDepartment of political science graduate gram sponsored by State has put student the university is altravel warnlowed to go to counings on 11 Middle Eastern countries because tries the Department of State has labeled a travel-warning country. of “unstable government, civil

countries with travel warnings pakistan:

Issued Sept. 6 Issued Aug.

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Issued May 24 iraq: Issued Sept. 5 israel, West Bank and Gaza Strip: Issued June 19 And as of Oct. 1, UNL students traveling abroad in any association with the university must be part of a program administered

lebanon:

Issued Oct. 9 Issued July

saudi arabia:

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yemen:

Issued Aug. 6 Issued Aug. 15 sudan: Issued Oct. 11 egypt:

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Conference addresses future issues in rural culture UNL Rural Futures Institute conference continues through Tuesday with events for students, experts Melissa Allen dn About 540 people will attend the University of Nebraska Rural Futures Institute conference, which started Sunday. Half of them are younger than 39.

“We are focused on the future, and that means youth and involving communities from the very beginning, so (the youth) need to be apart of the discussion,” said Kim Peterson, the outreach program specialist for the institute.

“We want younger people to be a part of the discussion.”

The conference, which is the institute’s second since its founding, reached its registration cap and even had a wait list. It will continue through Tuesday at the Cornhusker Hotel and includes all-day events and activities for attendants. About 100 of the attendees are college students from across the Midwest, with the majority of those from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

One of the attendants and speakers is director of the Rural Futures Institute Chuck Schroeder, who starts his new job next month.

“Through my various stages in my career of bettering circumstances for rural people, the Rural Futures Institute is the boldest stage in my lifetime,” he said.

“Personally, this is the most important endeavor in my career.”

Schroeder said he was excited for the conference and the opportunity it gives for people to talk about issues revolving the futures for rural communities.

“It’s a chance for good thinkers from around the country

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Clay Jenkinson portrays former President Thomas Jefferson at the Rural Futures Conference at the Cornhusker Hotel Sunday.

This performance gave insight into what Jefferson would think of the new world, rural sustainability and the government.

– from students to gray-haired people like me – to meet up,” he said. “It’s one place, one time to harvest the thoughts and ideas of a diverse setting of people, which is critical to the success of the Rural Futures Institute.”

This Sunday, the conference kicked off with an introduction from America’s third president, Thomas Jefferson, played by Clay Jenkinson, director of the Dakota Institute. Jefferson answered audience questions on Rural Futures’ focuses while using historical context and personal theories of rural and agricultural practices.

“The primary function of a person is to eat,” he said during the conference. “A nation of farmers is a nation of rugged individuals who can feed themselves. That’s why I believe that those who labor in the Earth are the chosen people of God.” Jefferson — as portrayed by Jenkinson — emphasized the importance of rural culture and the

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Daniel Christian, a singer-songwriter from Tecumseh, Neb., performs at the Rural Futures Conference. The Rural Futures Institute’s mission is to support rural people and places to achieve unique paths to their desired futures.

“Living Beyond Boundaries,” in which she talked about the importance of rural opportunities for youth.

“I had feelings,” she said of her appearance in the video. “It was really exciting, and being a part of the making of the video was a great opportunity to get involved in something I care about.”

The institute’s interim director, Mark Gustafson, said the conference aims to bring people into rural communities and find solutions to rural issues.

“The main concern with this conference is how to deal with complexity in the future, in rural communities,” Gustafson said.

“There’s a rapid change happening there, and the concern is how to be effectively successful in our accomplishments. We’re going to be bringing focus ideas together to try to make rural communities attractive to people.” news@ dailynebraskan.com

It’s time to put the culture back into agriculture.”

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dakota institute director portraying thomas jefferson

power of being close to the natural world.

“It’s time to put the culture back into agriculture,” he said.

“There wasn’t a day in my life I didn’t put my hands in the soil. It keeps you humble.”

College of Dentistry Dean John W. Reinhardt attended the conference session on Sunday.

Reinhardt is a strong advocate for rural healthcare and drives his students to work and live in rural settings, he said. He is most looking forward to Tuesday’s 10 a.m. session, “Turning Knowledge Into Action,” which will address innovative approaches to rural health.

“There’s a great need for den-

tists in rural communities,” he said. “Part of our mission is making sure there is a good distribution of healthcare in Nebraska.”

On Monday, presentations of undergraduate and graduate student posters will be on display for the poster contests. The first place prize is $750.

Shelby Rowan, a sophomore agribusiness major at University of Nebraska at Kearney, has a poster entered into the competition, called “Exploring the Value of Rural Life: Providing Curricular Activities,” along with her partner Adam Ripp, a sophomore political science major.

Rowan was also involved in the conference’s introduction video,

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news briefs Nu athletics releases 2012-2013 annual report

The Nebraska Athletic Department posted its 2012-2013 Annual Report, which lists team accomplishments and individual achievements in the classroom, in competition and in the community.

A section on UNL’s new world-class facilities is also included in the report, and there are photos and video of the Huskers’ eight new Academic All-Americans and the 2013 NCAA Championship women’s bowling team.

Athletics expands gameday recycling measures

Through the first five home football games in fall 2013, UNL has diverted about 75 percent of Memorial Stadium waste from the landfill to recycling options. This is 15 percent more than the 60 percent average in 2012. UNL Campus Landscaping is in charge of recycling in parking lot areas during football games with the campaign “Go Green for Big Red.” Athletics works closely with Recycling Enterprises to create greener sports centers. NU Athletics and Pinnacle Bank Arena also finalized a recycling agreement, which was established with a $150,000 recycling grant from the Nebraska Environmental Trust. The arena program will allow fans to recycle glass, paper, cans and bottles at multicontainer stations throughout the area. Athletics facilities completed the transition to “green” cleaning products, motion sensors on bathroom lights, energy-saving toilet fixtures and installation of longer-lasting light bulbs.

Swearer to speak thursday about ending bullying

University of Nebraska-Lincoln educational psychologist Susan Swearer will present some of her research on bullying at the fall Nebraska Lecture in the Nebraska Union Auditorium Thursday at 3:30 p.m.

The lecture, titled “Creating a Kinder World: Empowering Youth to End Bullying,” is free and open to the public and will be webcast live at research. unl.edu/nebraskalectures. Swearer is co-director of UNL’s Bullying Research network and presented her research at a White House conference in 2011.

“We have to mobilize a generation of youth who can stand up and say, ‘This is not OK,’” Swearer said in a university press release. news@dailynebraskan.com

That new policy puts the following countries out of bounds for UNL students: Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Israel, the West Bank, Gaza Strip, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Egypt and Sudan, all of which are under travel warnings from the U.S. Department of State. Kuwait, Jordan, Oman, Bahrain, Turkey and the United Arab Emirates remain acceptable Education Abroad destinations.

Dave Wilson, senior international officer at UNL’s Education Abroad, said students can travel to countries under travel warnings if they seek a waiver and get universal approval.

First, the student has to seek a waiver from UNL Chancellor Harvey Perlman and Milliken.

Second, Perlman, Milliken and their committees must approve the waiver. The student can then sign release forms and travel abroad.

A statement on the Education Abroad website says UNL adheres to the memorandum because the school is a part of the University of Nebraska system.

Currently, Jabbour is studying the cost benefits of the relationship between the Syrian government and Syrian military.

Jabbour said it is not enough of an explanation to say the Syrian military is supporting the Ba’ath party just because of the ethnic relationship between the two.

Jabbour said she would rather do her research from the Internet than travel to Syria because Syrians do not have the political freedom to say and do what they feel.

“I’m getting enough information for my case studies through the Internet,” Jabbour said.

She isn’t the only student who has been affected. She said one of her students wanted to research in Egypt four or five months before the Egyptian revolution but was denied access by the Department of State.

The Egyptian Revolution started on Jan. 25, 2011, but the Department of State officially put a travel warning on Egypt July 3 and renewed the travel warning on Aug. 15.

Jabbour said she was one of the 11 top students at Tishreen University in Latakia, Syria. She came to the U.S. after taking some tests and receiving scholarships.

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Five-member panel will discuss privacy in the U.S. Free “Privacy vs.

Security” panel to open discussion Monday night in Andersen Hall

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staff report dn A Monday panel discussion in Room 15 of Andersen Hall will evaluate the conflicting roles of privacy and security in modern society.

The five-member panel, called “Privacy versus security: Where do we draw the line?” will be held courtesy photo at 7 p.m. It’s free and open to the Danielle Conrad, a Nebraska legislator, will be one of the five public.

Panel members include former speakers at Monday’s panel discussion on privacy and security in Nebraska congressman Douglas the U.S. in light of recent national security controversies.

Bereuter, former Nebraska National Guard Adjutant General Roger Lempke, Nebraska Sen. message, social media and email Danielle Conrad, Prairie Fire pub- transactions and contact lists,” the IF YOU GO lisher W. Don Nelson and former University of Nebraska-Lincoln Omaha World-Herald managing event page read. what: editor David Kotok.

Snowden told the Washington “Privacy vs. Security: Charlyne Berens, associate Post that he wanted to tell AmeriWhere do we draw the dean for the College of Journalism cans what “is done in their name and Mass Communications, said and that which is done against line?” panel discussion the panel members them,” the event when: were well thought preview said.

This is more Monday, 7 p.m. out.

The NSA where: “(Lempke) is gorelease for people to won’t ing to bring good information on Andersen Hall, Room 15 expertise and insight learn about what’s how much crime into the discussion,” happening.” it has prevented Berens said. with the controThe discussion Charlyne Berens versial security “We have no plans to take any comes in light of the features, but repassociate dean, college kind of action,” Berens said. “This news last spring that resentatives say of journalism and mass is more for people to learn about the National Security communications the features are what’s happening.”

Administration has beneficial to naBerens said it’s important to been keeping tabs on tional security as find equilibrium between the valAmerican citizens. a whole. ues of privacy and security.

“The argument (of privacy NSA officials told the Wash“I think that figuring out how versus security) has become acute ington Post that the government’s to balance our society with our insince Edward Snowden told the data is to help focus on “discov- dividual freedoms is at the heart world last May that the NSA has ering and developing intelligence of our democracy,” she said. “We been stockpiling massive amounts about valid foreign intelligence, value both of those things.” of data about individual U.S. cititargets like terrorists, human trafnews@ zens: records of phone, instant fickers and drug smugglers.” dailynebraskan.com

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Masayo Ishigure on the Koto & Kenneth Hutchinson on the Shamisen Shakuhachi:

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Penn State app to link articles, tweets

Researchers at Penn State University have developed a new smartphone app that integrates local news articles and socially generated tweets. The goal of the app, called the Local News Chatter, is to increase community awareness and engagement. The app will extract popular tags from articles published in the Penn State area, including the university’s student newspaper, the Daily Collegian, and will use them to find associated tweets from Twitter. It then presents both the article and the tweet to the user. LNC is available on the Android network to users in the Penn State area.

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Minnesota students, faculty pledge to ‘quit and win’

More than 200 University of Minnesota students, faculty and staff pledged to stop using tobacco products for the month of November. The pledges were made as part of “Quit and Win,” sponsored by the university’s Boynton Health Service.

The prizes for the challenge include $2,000, $1,000 and $500 Amazon gift cards. The participants are also offered Nicotine Replacement Therapy, as well as counseling and support services throughout the month.

Michigan neuroscientists design test for creativity

Testing creativity may be possible with a simple association test. A team of researchers led by a Michigan State University neuroscientist has created a two-minute “noun-verb” test that asked 193 participants to name a verb that corresponded to the noun they were shown. The researchers took note of the more creative responses. Participants were also measured for creativity though a series of more in-depth methods including story writing, drawing and real-life creative achievements. Researchers found that those who gave more creative answers in the noun-verb test were most creative in the other tests as well. The researchers are planning to expand the study and are working to repeat the test while observing participants’ brain activity in an MRI.

Indiana campaigns for $10,000 to fund short films

Students in a film class at Indiana University have launched a crowdfunding campaign, hoping to raise $10,000 to cover expenses for 13 short films. The class posted a promotional video on the site Indiegogo.com to ask for donations. In return for a $500 donation, the class is offering a chance to be an executive producer for one of the movies. Other gifts offered to potential donors include movie posters, signed posters and placing the donor’s name in the credits. The class is taught by Robby Benson, veteran film and television actor, director and producer. Films will be premiered at the university’s IU cinema in April.

Ohio state researcher studies violence in children’s works

Violence and murder have always been integral parts of popular children’s literature. Michelle Ann Abate, associate professor of literature for children and young adults at Ohio State University, found 3,000 citations for the word “murder” in a database for novels, stories, poems and plays meant for children. Abate’s new book, “Bloody Murder: The Homicide Tradition in Children’s Literature,” explores the pervasiveness of violence in children stories. From classics including “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer” and “The Call of the Wild” to the modern young adult novels such as “The Hunger Games” series, Abate said she sees multiple patterns in the way children’s literature treats violence. However, she said violence is treated differently, than in the past ­— perhaps children are less protected against it.

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OMPROMISE? Bipartisanship could provide the impetus for much-needed compromise in Congress or it might just cause inevitable decisions to be postponed for later sessions.

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The political minority in Congress needs to stand up for the the correct decision, regardless of whether it’s popular.

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Bipartisanship! We all celebrate the compromises of democratically elected leaders, who, during the last five years have come together to repeatedly screw the American people. Between the Democrats shoving their agenda down our throats and Republicans bowing down to what they call compromise, “We the People” suffer.

There have been times when bipartisanship has worked. For instance, in the ’60s, President Kennedy was supported by Republicans, and in the ’80s, President Reagan was able to get support from Democrats. However, bipartisanship isn’t always the answer.

Many times, one side is wrong, and the other side is right. This became all too clear with the end of the slavery, which was opposed by southern Democrats and championed by northern Republicans.

This bipartisanship led to a civil war, which was primarily about the South’s ability to keep its economy. But we went to war, and the slaves were freed. Where would we be today if both sides had compromised, and the South got to keep slaves, while the North chose not to?

Where would we be if the legislation said, “Article 1: the North shall remain free and any slave who makes it here will never be in chains again. However, the South will forever have the ability to keep and trade slaves willingly between themselves, as long as said slaves are taken care of adequately”?

Today, this hypothetical example would be hailed by many as great bipartisanship and great compromise — but we might still have slavery if it had happened this way. Sometimes the tough road is the right road.

Another example is the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which is when the rights of minorities and women were expanded.

Northern states’ representatives voted in favor of the act, and the southern states voted against the legislation. What if the northern states had bowed down to the staunch resistance from the South? Where would we be today? Would we be a truly equal country where people working hard can achieve whatever they want?

In the modern era, partisanship has been thrown out the window for a fake form of bipartisanship.

We recently saw this with the government shutdown.

A faction of our elected representatives fought for what was right: to get spending under control and to rein in our debt.

However, in the end, they were forced to raise our debt ceiling and forced to accept a budget that did nothing but push the problems down the road. The Obama administration achieved exactly what it wanted: a false sense of security about its policies. The administration failed to face the facts, and it continues to fail to face the truth that its liberal theories and well-meaning policies have failed. They pull in Republicans who don’t want to step up to the plate and put forth a fight for the people who voted them into office. According to Keith Poole, a professor at the University of California, San Diego, bipartisanship, which typically is supposed to have sweeping support from both parties, is no longer seen.

Bipartisanship now means that one side shoves through a resolution that has barely enough votes bought from the opposing party to pass. It is disgusting, revolting and, any way you spin it, hurtful to the American people.

How hard is it for Republicans, Democrats and the American people to see when a policy, a theory and a party have failed?

Obviously, it must be pretty damn hard. If the Obamacare rollout, which has been fraught with technical glitches, premium hikes and private policy cancellations, isn’t enough for us to want someone to take a stand on our behalf, then what is?

What this all boils down to is under the current administration (and this can be applied to

any bad administration), when policies aren’t working and bills are costing Americans their American dreams, it’s time to end the bipartisan bandwagon.

I want someone to stand up for what is right, no matter what anyone else says. I want a fraction of our government to say we have had enough; we are not bowing down to this insanity anymore. How much more proof do we need? Just because you mask a policy in bipartisanship doesn’t mean it is any less of a failure. We need partisan action; we need Republicans to stand up for the people. An administration and well-meaning ideology with bipartisan support has brought on more debt

by March of 2012 ($4.939 trillion) in the last five years than Bush did and has passed a healthcare bill taxing Americans for the freedom to choose health insurance plans.

Bipartisan support has cost us dearly during the last five years. It’s time for some partisanship to be had. The American people need to join in and say enough is enough. You have tried and failed. Now step down and let us fix the mess your bipartisanship has put us in.

Zach Nold is a senior English Major. Reach him at opinion@ dailynebraskan.com.

Taking a more moderate perspective into account when making the tough decisions would result in fewer extremist policies.

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his month, 150 years ago, Abraham Lincoln delivered his famous Gettysburg Address. In this speech, after one of the bloodiest battles of the Civil War, he declared that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth. President Lincoln led the United States through some of the biggest challenges our country has ever faced.

The partisanship caused by the argument of slavery was so strong that it threatened to permanently divide our country into two separate nations. Today, we are finding ourselves in one of the most partisan times since the Civil War. Once again, Americans’ ideologies are clashing so strongly that it’s bringing new threats that could threaten the sovereignty of our nation.

The problem that we face today isn’t that there is too much bipartisanship, but rather too much partisanship. The bipartisanship that does occur often isn’t representative of what the people want. What America needs from Congress now is honest bipartisanship that will result in a government that is once again of the people, by the people and for the people. I think if there’s one thing the country can agree on right now, it’s that this isn’t happening.

Both political sides have displayed extreme partisanship, which has been becoming increasingly dangerous throughout the years. The most recent

peak of this harmful partisanship can be seen with the most recent government shutdown. The shutdown cannot solely be blamed on one person, party or group. It was not the fault of President Obama, the Democrats or even the Tea Party. This shutdown was the result of each level of our legislative and executive branch failing to do what was in the best interest of the American people, instead of pushing their own agendas.

From the proposal of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, or “Obamacare,” to the most recent government shutdown, the fingerprints of partisanship and a lack of willingness to compromise can constantly be found. We can discern this from the voting record on the ACA and the fact that not a single Republican would vote yes on the final draft of the bill.

Regardless of your opinions on the actual bill itself, you have to be worried about the possibilities that could unfold when a bill is passed without a single affirmative vote from one of the two major political parties. In fear of not reaching the 60 votes needed to block a Republican filibuster in the Senate, the Democrats explored whatever options they needed to get every Independent and Democrat on board to block the Republican opposition.

This resulted in tremendous pressure on Nebraska’s Sen. Ben Nelson and the need for his support on the bill, despite representing a state vocally opposed to the bill. After 13 hours of negotiation, Nelson agreed to vote yes on the bill, blocking any chance of a filibuster and resulting in what would be dubbed the “Cornhusker Kickback.” Sen. Nelson supported the bill in return for a revision on the way abortion was treated under the bill and an amendment to offer a higher rate of Medicaid reimbursement for Nebraska, which was later removed from the final bill.

This is a classic example of the failing job Congress is doing to support the will of the American people. Instead of worrying about representing the moderate view of the United States and working to win over moderate Republicans, Congress has preferred to work by passing bills solely with the majority party’s consent and to bribe dissenters in their own party.

Nearly four years after the passing of the Affordable Care Act, Republicans would take their ill-plotted, partisan-based revenge against “Obamacare.” After an emotionally-charged 21-hour speech on the Senate floor by Ted Cruz, the Republicans in Congress would make the decision to delay the passage of a resolution to fund the government and raise the debt ceiling until concessions were made on the ACA. This resulted in the 16-day government shutdown that started on

Oct. 1. To avoid the risk of the U.S. defaulting on its loans, the budget would be passed with zero changes toward the implementation of the ACA, and the Republicans most vocally opposed to the bill would come home with little more than pride to show to their constituents.

Personally, I don’t support the entirety of the Affordable Healthcare Act and think it needs serious revisions if we’re going to implement it.

The federal government has already proved it can barely keep a post office in business and hasn’t developed the ability to run the website controlling healthcare insurance, let alone the product itself. However, I don’t believe letting a minority of the members of Congress shut down the government was a good decision. It was the same selfish partisanship that’s been wearing down the American people and threatening the security of our economy. Congress needs to be seeking resolutions to our problems that are truly bipartisan and representative of the public. Progress doesn’t come from bills that are only supported by one political party, but by a coalition of people willing to work together to find real solutions. Real bipartisanship exists, and there are politicians on both sides willing to make it happen.

A great example of this right now is the coalition of liberal Democrats, constitutional conservative Republicans and anti-authoritarian libertarians on both sides that are coming together to protect the public against government spying. The USA Freedom Act, which is currently being planned to be introduced by the creator of the Patriot Act, is expected to be introduced, severely reducing the capabilities of the National Surveillance Agency and bringing transparency to warrantless spying on American citizens. This new bill would help to end bulk metadata collection, disclose decisions made by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISA), provide greater transparency for the amount of data collected by the NSA and close loopholes for procedures that are being misused.

This is precisely what our country needs. Abraham Lincoln’s idea that the people deserve to be represented truly shall not perish from the earth, but our Congress certainly hasn’t shown us that recently. We need Congress to show us that they’re willing to work together to build trust with us again.

We need Congress to once again prove to us that they can provide a government of the people, by the people, for the people.

Wade Burkholder is a senior Business Administration major. Reach him at opinion@ dailynebraskan.com.

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UNCONVENTIONAL NebrasKon convention provides a space to interact with people who enjoy cosplay, costumes, Japanese anime culture stories by Maranda Loughlin and Nathan Sindelar photos by Tyler Meyer Since 2004, each year has seen the arrival of yet another Anime NebrasKon, a convention dedicated to cultures and communities surrounding the TV shows, films, manga and video games of popular and cult fandom.

Known for the famed voice actors, charity auctions, educational and entertainment panels, as well as its annual costume play contest, the event just finished its 10th outing. Here’s a look at what the three-day convention offered show goers — from its sights and sounds to its casual attendees and hardcore cosplay devotees.

The cosplay contest, one of the main events at NebrasKon, gives convention-goers the chance to dress up as their favorite characters and to show their love for the series from which they came, as well as their costume-making abilities. The contestants are judged by a multiple-judge panel.

Rachel Busskohl and Brian Vanderostyne pose with fans just after winning Anime NebrasKon’s Best in Show award. They dressed and performed as Teemo and Maokai from the free-toplay video game, “League of Legends.”

Best In Show: Teemo and Maokai It took Brian Vanderostyne an entire summer to create his cosplay character, Maokai, a fantasy treant from the video game “League of Legends.”

“It was pretty much eat, sleep, work and cosplay,” Vanderostyne said.

Vanderostyne and his girlfriend, Rachel Busskohl won first place for Best in Show at the NebrasKon convention.

While Vanderostyne performed as Maokai, Busskohl was Teemo, “the swift scout” from League of Legends.

The couple still can’t believe they won.

“We did not expect to win. There were so many great costumes. It was such a great honor to be up on stage with the Garrus cosplayer and such,” Busskohl said. “As soon as the Garrus character was announced, we thought ‘We can’t be better than that. There is no way.’”

For winning the title of Best in Show, the couple received a $100 cash prize, as well as a gift bag with an assortment of other goods. Busskohl will be letting her boyfriend Vanderostyne keep the money because his costume cost roughly $200.

The Maokai costume is mostly made up of cardboard and expanding spray foam that is commonly used to fill up cracks in sidewalks. After layering cardboard tree in the foam, Vanderstyne whittled the tree to create a texture.

This came with a couple cuts and minor injuries.

“I ended up with a couple scars,” Vanderostyne said. “I had to go to the emergency room and get four stitches.”

Robert McCown, a UNL graduate and Love Library employee, won first place in craftsmanship at Anime NebrasKon for his work on Garrus, a character from the “Mass Effect” video game series.

This was his first entrance into competition.

Amanda Fehlner, Sarah Dirks and Mary Porter won a judge’s award for their performance as the Sanderson sisters from Disney’s film, “Hocus Pocus.” The trio acted out and lip-synched the song “I Put a Spell on You” as speakers played it out for the watching crowd.

First Place Craftsmanship: Garrus

Judge’s Performance award: Hocus Pocus trio

Robert McCown works for Love Library’s Access Services, but when he’s not there, he works on cosplay costumes, taking them to conventions around the country.

This year was McCown’s first time competing at NebrasKon. There, he won Best Craftsmanship for his creation of Garrus, a character from the Mass Effect video game series. McCown wasn’t concerned about winning, he was more worried about performing on stage.

“I was just nervous that I wasn’t going to be able to see where I was going,” McCown said. “Because I can wing it, but if you can’t see where you are going, you’re kind of screwed.”

The hardest part of creating the costume was the lights, McCown said. Organizing the LEDs and circuitry took an entire week to finish.

After competing in his Garrus costume, McCown is already brainstorming for the next convention. A character has to look really cool or be really challenging for him to create it, but building cosplay costumes is just a hobby for McCown.

“I just do it for fun,” he said. “I needed something constructive to do instead of playing video games at home.”

Despite winning at NebrasKon, McCown is not sure if he will compete with his Garrus costume in other conventions.

Three cosplayers entered the stage singing “I Put a Spell on You,” and the crowd erupted.

Amanda Fehlner, Mary Nicole Porter and Sarah Megan Dirks portrayed the Sanderson sisters from Disney’s “Hocus Pocus.” The trio won a Judge’s Performance award at Anime NebrasKon, but not without spending a lot of time and money on their costumes. “(Winning) made it so worth it, so worth the months of planning, the money spent and the coupon-ing,” Porter said. “We’re very good at deals, but when it comes to 6 yards of velvet, it’s hard to make that cheap.”

Among the costly props was a pair of fake teeth to recreate Winifred Sanderson’s pronounced buck teeth, multiple wigs and hundreds of bobby pins.

“It’s going to be a very big hell taking this off and finding all the pins. In my hair alone, there is probably 50 pins,” Porter said.

The group plans on taking the costumes to more conventions in the Midwest.

Wild Garden Cosplay inspires complex costuming Some anime convention-goers simply want to throw on the costume of their favorite character and celebrate the weekend with friends.

Others want to craft 1000 hours-worth of painstaking beadwork and embroidery, recreating the exact pattern their character’s artists envisioned.

This level of detail is right where Mandi Johnson and Christine Rost feel at home. The duo, from Denver and known together as Wild Garden Cosplay, delivered an hour-long panel on Saturday, “2D to 3D Costuming,” which was dedicated to those who seek the most ornate and authentic designs of all. “(Some convention-goers) just want to put on a costume and run around with their friends,

and that’s completely legitimate,” Johnson said. “There’s nothing wrong with that, but Christine and I, our big, fun thing is going into the details and getting the lingo and the historical background.”

Through a series of slideshows and demonstrations, including their own creations, the women gave their insights to a packed room, with attendees lining the entryways and back walls. Slides considered aspects such as costume eras and historical contexts from the Victorian to the American Civil War. Others looked at fabrics and how their variations differ in presentation when shown under stage lights or in taken photos. The team even dove into the fiction of characters and how their stories might be reflected in the outfit, ei-

ther through the likes of location or class.

With only beginning-level high school sewing classes, both Johnson and Post are essentially selftaught with a repertoire of skills they’ve picked up during their 10 years of costuming, Post said.

“A lot of it, with cosplay, is community,” Johnson said. “You see someone who made something, and you’re like, ‘That’s amazing. How did you do that?’

And you go up and you kind of corner them and make them tell you how to do that.”

Johnson also cited the Internet as a major source of information and aid. From YouTube tutorials to written guides with pictures detailing the creation process, someone looking to build a particular

Christine and I, our big, fun thing is going into the details and getting the lingo and the historical background.”

Mandi Johnson wild garden cosplay

outfit can find almost anything they need, she said. “Google is your best friend.”

For Rob Gerber, one of the audience members during the panel, this type of educational presentation was just the sort of thing he was looking for.

“I don’t know anything about costuming to speak of, and this entire place, this entire idea of co-

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splay is a dream to me,” Gerber, 28, said. “The way my mind works is that if I don’t know how to do something, I can’t approach doing it. Whereas, if I have an idea of how it works, later on I can approach the idea and put something together.”

While Gerber doesn’t have immediate plans for a project for himself to wear, he does have

something in mind for his girlfriend.

“My girl likes corsets, so we buy them online. But actually knowing how to make a corset is useful,” he said. “When you are dealing in a world where people sell things on eBay, and you can’t get them in the right sizes or fabric, it’s kind of luck of the draw. If you can take control of that, then you have the ability to solve the problem.”

Johnson and Post, whose team was awarded second place in the 2013 World Cosplay Summit, were the Craftsmanship judges at this year’s NebrasKon cosplay contest.

Both have judged contests in the past, specifically at Denver

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Dante Basco’s talents extend to poetry at convention Basco conveyed his emotions and advice through poetry at this year’s NebrasKon Dante Basco is an actor, a dancer, a rapper and a voice actor. He’s in the process of writing his own play and managing a T-shirt company.

He’s also a poet.

But in the anime world, Basco is more commonly known as the voice of Prince Zuko in the TV series “Avatar the Last Airbender,” or as Rufio, the leader of the Lost Boys, in the 1991 film “Hook.”

Basco hosted a poetry lounge session Saturday at Anime NebrasKon. There, he spoke on life experiences, relationships and the courage to be different.

“Go and dig what you dig,” Basco said. “You don’t just have to like whatever is the most popular book on the stand or the most popular movie. You can dig what you like.”

At the poetry lounge, Basco passed around a small orange notebook. NebrasKon goers signed up to read their own poetry to the audience. One member of the crowd, 21-year-old Katherine Kasselman, walked up onto the stage in her cosplay ensemble. She wore a bright blue wig with a tan shirt and skirt that exposed her back enough to see her black and white tattoos.

Kasselman finds it hard not to be inspired to write poetry at a place like Anime NebrasKon. “When you look at all of the

Devyn Placzek, 12, attended colors around the convention, and the poetry panel. Her wheelchair you see all the different shapes and was steered into the back by her sizes...How does that not inspire one syllable of poetry?” Kasselman two friends. This was her first asked. “I mean, I’ve seen so many anime convention. Although she didn’t dress up, she did wear creatures and ghouls and monsters 3-inch-tall fuzzy cat ears. here, it’s just incredible. I wouldn’t Placzek was particularly taken be surprised if someone wrote a by one of Basco’s poems. story about it.”

“Dante gives you reasons to This was Basco’s first time readkeep going, even if you don’t ing poetry at an anime convention.

Basco is used to reciting poetry at want to,” Placzek said. “Like, as he said, ‘The only way out is goDa Poetry Lounge, a business he ing through.’ It’s giving encourstarted 15 years ago located in Los Angeles. DPL is the nation’s largest agement to keep going instead of quitting.” weekly open mic.

After the stand-up poetry perWhile Basco’s friends found it very strange for him to be hosting a formances from Basco, the poet remained on stage. A line of fans poetry lounge at an anime convention, Basco continues to compare waited with camera phones ready, “Avatar” DVDs to anime enthusisign or even just for asts to football You don’t just a hug from the multifans. talented performer.

“On Sunday, have to like Whether people you are going recognized his voice to go to a bar so whatever is the in “Avatar the Last that you can go Air Bender” or as watch football,” most popular book the leader of the Basco said. on the stand.” lost boys, Basco was “You’re wearing Dante basco widely known across a freaking hat da poetry lounge owner the convention. In and jersey, and fact, multiple cosplayyou aren’t on the ers dressed up as the football team.

What do you think that jersey and red-and-black-mohawk-ed, angsty teenage boy who wears leather, that hat is but a cosplay?” adorned with bones and feathers.

“You’re in a room or a bar with Basco ended the poetry lounge hundreds of people, cheering, jumping up and down celebrat- with “A Poem Called Give.” In this ing, and none of us are on either poem, he addresses the world inone of these teams. Yet we are just structing them to give. To “give a celebrating something that we are dollar, give a penny, give a dime. all into,” Basco added. “It’s the Give a second of your time.” He same exact thing going on here, lists off examples such as giving just in a different light. And it’s not advice to a child or simply giving as weird as you think it is. It’s just a smile.

Throughout the entirety of something that you might not be this performance, Basco interacted exposed to yet.”

Keith Silverstein gives pointers on voice acting NebrasKon provides a space for Silverstein to interact with fans, fellow voice actors For Keith Silverstein, being a voice actor is not about getting recognized in public.

Silverstein, the voice behind dozens of characters in video games and TV shows, is widely recognized at Anime NebrasKon for his work in the anime series “Naruto.” While in everyday life, fame’s not a large topic of interest, Silverstein appreciates going to these conventions because of the response he gets from the fans who do know.

“When you are a voice actor, it doesn’t matter what you do voice-wise, you won’t be recognized on the street,” Silverstein said. “Voice actors don’t do it for the fame and fortune. You do it because you love it.”

At NebrasKon, Silverstein signs autographs, takes pictures with fans and gives advice to people who want to get into the voice acting business.

“It’s nice to come to a place where everyone is accepting, everyone is open, and they appreciate this little show that no one else knows anything about,” Silverstein said. “Here, everybody knows the show. It’s just really nice to get some feedback and connect with the fans.”

This weekend, Silverstein presented the second annual “Voice Over Games Challenge Thingy” competition, in which attendees battled over who was able to give the best vocal impressions of any character or scene.

Competitors were given a series of vocal tasks to perform for a full audience. These included: Tortured and Pleading for Your Life, Horse-falcons, Elephant-

of said dream. The majority of the wasps, Face Burned by Acid and money was used to build a mic Stumbling and Falling Off of a booth to practice his voice imperLedge. sonations.

One competitor, 20-year-old This NebrasKon, Beischel was Catie Neal, did not hear about pleased with the monologue he the event until the day of, yet was given. still made it to the final five of the “The monologue was my facompetition. vorite part that I did, because last “I just saw it on the schedule year I couldn’t really do anything and thought ‘Oh my gosh. It’s a with my monologue because it voice-over competition.’ Maybe I was very quiet and monotone,” will get to show my skills,” Neal said Beischel. “This year, I am said. like, finally, I can put nine years Neal came in fourth. Although she’s now a science major of acting into experience.”

Silverstein stuck around the at the University of Nebraska at auditorium for a few minutes Omaha, in high school, Neal did after Beischel was announced as improv and theater. Voice-over the winner of this year’s event. work has been a hobby she has He gave a few pieces of advice for always enjoyed. people such as Beischel who want “I have always mimicked othto pursue voice er peoples’ voices acting as a career. ever since I was “You’ve got to little. I went to It doesn’t want it. You’ve got ‘Harry Potter,’ and matter what to really want it,” I saw ‘Lilo and said.

Stitch,’ and then I you do voice-wise, Silverstein “Very few people was doing British you won’t be get super lucky accents and Lilo with any kind of impersonations all recognized on the entertainment, over the house,” and then they just Neal said. “I’ve al- street.” happen to meet ways liked acting Keith silverstein the right person.” and doing voice “ naruto ” voice actor Silverstein overs and differstarted off waiting ent things.” tables on the side.

The series of It took him years and years for bizarre and often uproarious acts him to make a career out of voice of made-up animals and scenarios concluded in battling mono- acting. Even then, anime is still the least paying genre of voice logues between the final two acting. competitors.

“Some people do want to get Winner, Mark Beischel, came into it either to be rich and fain second place last year at the first “Voice Over Games Chal- mous, or just because they want to do anime. You can start that lenge Thingy.” way, but you’ve got to know, you “I was kind of out for blood this time around,” Beischel said. have to realize it’s a much bigger world than that.”

“But also, I just wanted to prove “The truth is anime is really to myself that I could do it, bethe worst paying gig. Is it a fancause this is my biggest passion. I’ve wanted to voice act for tastic gig? Do people who do it love it? Absolutely,” Silverstein the past three years. That is the added. “But people don’t do andream.” ime to make a lot of money.”

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cosplay: from 5 Comic Con, Post said.

“You get asked by people just because sometimes finding judges is really difficult,” Post said.

“It’s a long-time commitment, and when you see 75 people, you say, ‘How do I judge one person over the other.’ You get asked sometimes, even if you’re not a master. It’s just because they need a body. But luckily, I think Mandi and I have enough experience that we actually bring some history to the table.”

As craftsmanship judges, Post and Johnson took time with each contestant before the stage show and inspected their works up close. They looked at several of the aspects covered during their panel, as well as more holistic considerations.

“I think the No. 1 thing, at least for me, is thought and care put into an outfit,” Johnson said.

“Because when you’re judging a contest, you have all different ranges of experience. If this is the first costume someone’s ever made, you don’t judge them on the same expectations of someone who’s been sewing for 20 years.”

“It’s kind of like taking the freshman team and a varsity team and you have to judge them

But luckily, I think Mandi and I have enough experience that we actually bring some history to the table.”

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all together in one big thing,” Post added.

During their panel, Post and Johnson made points about understanding the varying purposes attendees and designers bring to the costuming community.

Whether one wants the exclusive and professional photo-shoots, the glory of a first-place prize or just some fun on their feet all day with fans and friends, there are important creation factors that play into it.

For Post, it could be even be a matter of comfort.

“I try to make costumes that I can disrobe in during panels because I get hot,” she said with a laugh, having just rid herself of her costume’s blue and gold robes. “I get costume weary fast.”

This combination of skill-

level, execution and intent direct both their assertions as judges and the ways in which they approach educating and entertaining the community at large.

“Knowing them as a pair, their focus has been so much on educating the community, aside from their own work that it’s made them really visible in a positive way,” said Beverly Warner, another member of Denver community in the panel’s attendance. “I think they bring really positive things to the community in having people understand this as an art form. You develop skills, you learn, you make friends, and those are their motivations. People get excited about that more than anything else, I think.” arts@ dailynebraskan.com

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Two con attendees dress up as Zer0 and Maya from the popular first-person shooter “Borderlands 2.” In addition to outfits, the contestants also constructed replicas of weapons and other props used by the characters. with the audience through his spoken word verse. Randomly, Basco would sing a few lines of poetry or gesture with his hands to emphasize particular parts of the poem.

He even asked the crowd what they would like to hear.

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me telling people what to do, and it’s really a story-telling time,” Basco said.

Although Basco was at NebrasKon to perform his poetry and speak about his life lessons, he also draws inspiration from other peoples’ poems and experiences as

well.

“All of these kids are, like, so creative from their costumes to their animation to their illustrations to their writing,” Basco said.

“And we all have stories to tell whether they are fun or painful.” arts@ dailynebraskan.com

Another year, another NebrasKon. This is the third I’ve been to, each more fun than the last, and every year I walk away with new memories carved inside of me. Here are the best memories of this year.

1.

Forming a dance circle. Saturday night, we hit a rave, ready to face whatever the night might bring. What it brought was sweat and a good number of bass drops. At one point, we formed a four-man dance circle, but it quickly expanded to 15-plus dancers. We grabbed con-goers we didn’t know and made them dance for our amusement. Sorry for springing all that attention on you, 40-year-old dude who wasn’t really dancing in the first place. Hope you had fun — I genuinely liked the palms-to-the-sky-as-your-knees-bend move you were doing.

2.

Watching a drunk guy fall over by our hotel. We were driving to our room and some inebriated dude straight up tripped on the curb and nose-dived into the grass, dignity-first. To his credit, he got up quickly and laughed it off with his friends, but it was too late. A friend rolled down a window in our car and calmly asked the guy, “Turn down for what?” I’m not usually one for yelling at people (or talking to them), but the drunken group laughed as we drove off, and we felt young again.

3.

Watching the karate performance. In between the cosplay contest and the swimsuit contest, a group of karate-ers took the stage and performed moves for a crowd of more than 500 people. For the first half of the performance, they kinda just did kicks and punches to dubstep, which was cool, but during the second half, they starting breaking shit. To a Fall Out Boy cover of “Smooth Criminal,” dozens of boards were broken, and only one dude accidentally got kicked while holding a board. And then a guy did a backflip while breaking a board! Great moment.

4.

A guy wearing a “Bad Religion” T-shirt with a 4-foot chain tied to his neck talked to me. He actually came up to me, wordless, and gave me the end of the chain, effectively giving me control over his life. It took me a second to realize what exactly was going on (and what my next move was), but I luckily recognized that I had interviewed him last year, though at the time he’d had a leash on his toddler as the two wandered the convention. He told me how this year he was able to bring his daughter, who had been guiding him around using the chain. It was a surreal moment that’s hard to express through words, but basically this guy let me hold his chain as he told me how proud he was of his two kids, so it makes the list.

5.

The swimsuit contest. I had missed it the last two years, so one of my main goals for the weekend was to see some skin. We sat front row for the show, as half-dressed ladies and men paraded in front of us. It was exactly what I thought it’d be like — a little creepy, but also kind of empowering (for them, not us). Women and men of all sizes showed us what their mothers gave them, some a bit conservative, others leaving little to the imagination. No matter their body type, they all walked the stage, unashamed as hundreds of people cheered them on, something I’d be hard-pressed to do, so props to them. It was a good microcosm for the build-me-up mentality of the entire con, and I liked it, and the con, a lot.

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Daniel Hatcher

Daniel Hatcher typically goes all out for his costumes.

The blacksmith, engineer and convention enthusiast said he has made entire suits of armor for cosplay and costume purposes but decided to buy his costume for NebrasKon. “This (costume) is pretty much my rendition of what people classify as ‘steampunk,’” Hatcher said. “It’s just a congregation that I found of things that I like to wear, and then there are certain things that make it more interesting and it allows me to talk to more people.”

Hatcher said what he truly loves at conventions is getting to know fellow attendees, something which he feels must be provoked.

“I mean, most people are shy and bashful, so if you put something like (this octopus) on your arm, then people will come up because they love the octopus and they’re willing to talk to you,” Hatcher said. “If you’re coming to these things to meet people, you have to give them a reason to come talk to you.”

Though creating costumes and seeing panels are important, Hatcher said it’s all about the people when attending events.

“I go to cons, festivals, anywhere I can find interesting people,” Hatcher said. “I mean, it’s not one demographic that comes to these. You can get someone who does ‘Pokemon,’ and then you can get someone who does science fiction mechanical work.”

Holly Letenyei

Though only 14 years old, Holly Letenyei has been attending conventions for nearly five years.

The Iowa native attended her first NebrasKon this past weekend in full cosplay gear.

“I’m cosplaying as Kyko Sakura from Madoka Magica, and it’s basically your magical girl anime but it’s a bit more depressing than, say, ‘Sailor Moon,’” Letenyei said. “It’s a bit more grim than everything else, but it’s very cool and stuff.”

Though many cosplayers will spend weeks, or even months, preparing a costume for conventions, time and money restraints prevent some cosplayers from creating an outfit from scratch.

Letenyei said her store-bought costume was very pricey, but she lacked the sewing and designing skills to create a homemade costume.

“It costs a lot, though, and my bank account was drained afterwards,” said Letenyei. “I want to cosplay as a lot of different characters, but I never really have the time or money to do it. It’s disappointing, but I do try.”

Jeff Trumble and Travis Bohrer Jeff Trumble and Travis Bohrer only attended the Sunday events for NebrasKon, but the two Iowa natives decked themselves out in Kingdom Hearts cosplay for their first con and cosplay experience.

Trumble dressed up as Roxas, the hero from “Kingdom Hearts 2,” while Bohrer took a darker approach, deciding to dress up as an Organization Thirteen member on the lookout for Roxas.

Both Trumble and Bohrer said they were im-

pressed with other cosplayers at the convention and admired anyone who dressed up for trying.

“I don’t recognize a lot of them, but I still think they’re really good,” Bohrer said.

Because cons typically unite people with similar interests, many attendees enjoy the bonds and relationships that can be made simply from attending a con filled with people of similar taste.

“There are people here that we actually have common interests with and large numbers of

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Nebraska beats UT-Martin behind improved air rifle Sophomore Denise Martin leads Huskers with 587 in air rifle, 584 in smallbore as NU wins on road Natasha Rausch DN The first and only away meet of the fall season ended in a win for the Husker rifle team this past Saturday, when it faced the University of Tennessee at Martin in Murray, Ky. Nebraska won the match with a score of 4,655-4,426.

“They did great on their first road match,” coach Stacy Underwood said in an email interview.

“I think we had a great smallbore score. We improved our air rifle score, but we still left some points on the line.”

In the weeks before the match, the team focused on improving its performance in the air rifle portion of competitions (there are 60 shots for smallbore and 60 shots for air rifle). The Huskers beat the Skyhawks 2,339-2,236 in air rifle.

Underwood is pleased with the air rifle performance, but thinks there is still room for more practice.

“I think we did better,” said Underwood, who is currently in

our game plan.” her second year coaching at her Apart from Denise Martin alma mater. “There we executed 30 shots well, but fell short on the and Rachel Martin’s leading in rest. But it was definitely an im- smallbore, junior Kelsey Hansen provement, and we are headed in finished with a smallbore score of 571 and an air rifle score of 583. the right direction.”

Hansen said overall, the team In smallbore, the Huskers shot a season-high score of 2,316, members improved on what they while the Skyhawks shot a score have been working on in practice of 2,190. The co-ed UT-Martin and it showed in the match on Satteam was led by sophomore Nikki urday.

“Everyone contributed Kroll, who shot a 561 in smallbore and a 574 in air rifle. For the strengths in this competition,” said Hansen, who Huskers, sophomore averaged a comDenise Martin and freshbined score of 1,151 man Rachel Martin were last year as a sophthe top scorers in smallomore. “We imbore with scores of 584 proved, but there is and 583, respectively. still room to grow.”

“I think Rachel and With the only Denise led our team in away meet out of smallbore today,” Unthe way, the Huskderwood said. “In air riers are looking to fle I think all the squadprepare for the rest ded members had a of the fall season at portion of the match that their home venue. they executed perfectly.”

D. Martin Underwood is hopAccording to Undering to continue wood, the challenge in working on the intensity in air ririfle competitions is there is no defense, only offense. Underwood fle and maintain smallbore as they thought the Nebraska team was prepare for the coming meet. The next match will be held at the Neable to overcome this in its perforbraska Rifle Range against Memmance this past Saturday.

“This match was just like ev- phis at 8 a.m. on Nov. 9.

“In the next week, we will be ery other match,” Underwood said. “Sixty shots smallbore and working on individual fine-tuning to improve our performance 60 shots air. That is how we have against Memphis this weekend,” to approach every match. We canHansen said. not influence the performance of sports@ the other team, so we have to stay dailynebraskan.com focused on ourselves and execute

Men’s, women’s teams finish in 11th place at Big Ten meet Vanessa Daves DN Before the Big Ten Championships, a meet cross country coach Dave Harris and the team consider the most important event of their season, Harris said he was confident in both teams’ abilities and training.

He expected the men’s team to place in the top seven and the women’s team to do the best it could.

Before the meet, he said he just wanted the runners to have their best races of the year.

At the meet, the men came in last, placing 11th out of 11 teams.

“I was disappointed with the men,” Harris said.

“I thought we were ready to run to a higher spot and beat some teams. I don’t think anyone thinks they had their best race.”

The men were led by freshman Joe Harter, who placed 62nd with a time of 25:37.1 in the men’s 8-kilometer race.

“I don’t think Joe is pleased with his race,” Harris said. “He came in first for the team, but at the same time he wasn’t as high up as he wanted to be. He was hoping to place in the top 50 – and at the Big Ten Championships, that’s really respectable.”

Senior Jarren Heng said he was hoping the team would place in the top seven, and individually he wanted to place in the top 25. He finished

65th with a time of 25:40.6. problems and was in pain every time “I think it’s really unfortunate she ran. Before the weekend, Peer for our senior captains,” Harris said. wasn’t sure if she’d be able to race.

“I think they wanted to see the team “I feel extremely blessed,” Peer make a breakthrough and get out of said. “The game plan was to go out, last place.” and hopefully the adrenaline would Harris said going into the meet kick in, and I’d be able to make it that he hoped the women would just through. After probably the first go out and have their best race of the straightaway and first down-hills, I season. didn’t feel it. This season, Harris my goal was to place in said he the top 50 at the Big Ten considers Championships, and I’m the team really happy to have acto be complished that.” slightly Peer is also pleased younger with the team’s perforand less mance overall. experi“We made some big enced strides this year in terms than the of training,” Peer said. men’s “We have so much more Peer Harter team. At potential. I’m excited to the meet, see what we can do in the womtrack, and hopefully we en placed 11th out of 12 teams. keep continuing to improve.”

“The women got out of last place Although Harris left the meet – we beat Iowa,” Harris said. “It’s disappointed overall, he said he sees a good start to making our way up a bright future for the team. the Big Ten ladder, which is what “We had freshmen finish first for we talked about as a team and as a us,” Harris said. “That speaks well program. If we’re going to be better, for us for the future.” we’ve got to start kicking off some With one meet left in the cross teams.” country season, Harris said he hopes Harris said he feels good about the team can pull itself together the women’s performance and thinks to finish out the season well. The it says a lot about where the team is NCAA Midwest Regional meet in going. They were led by freshman Ames, Iowa, is on Nov. 15, so the Anna Peer, who placed 50th with a team will spend the next two weeks time of 22:16.8 in the women’s 6-ki- training in preparation. sports@ lometer championship. Earlier this dailynebraskan.com week, she was dealing with some hip

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Three Huskers take first place in season opener in SD staff report DN On Sunday, the No. 12 Nebraska wrestling team traveled to Brookings, S.D., to compete in the Warren Williamson/Daktronics Open.

The Huskers placed 15 wrestlers in the tournament and had three champions: juniors James Green and Robert Kokesh and redshirt freshman Collin Jensen.

In the 125-pound weight class, the Huskers placed two wrestlers.

Redshirt freshman Tim Lambert was the runner-up, losing 3-1 in

the final to North Dakota State’s Joshua Rodriguez, and senior Shawn Nagel placed fifth. Lambert had two technical falls on his way to the silver medal. Nagel had a pin in his first match on his way to fifth place.

In the 133-pound division, redshirt freshman Ben Morgan walked away with the bronze medal after a pin, a technical fall and three major decision wins.

Sophomore Anthony Abidin placed second in the 141-pound weight division. On his way to the championship match, Abidin had

a pin and a technical fall against Midland’s Jacob Luning-Hoshino and Missouri’s Lavion Mayes, respectively.

Junior Jake Sueflohn lost only one match in the 149-pound division. It happened to be the championship match. Sueflohn fell short against Missouri junior Drake Houdashelt, who placed sixth at the NCAA Championships last year.

All-American junior Green walked away as champion in the 157-pound weight class. Green won by pin, technical fall and ma-

jor decision before winning the “Overall the whole team did well, championship match by way of an but Kokesh and Green wrestled tough. They are the injury disqualification. leaders of the team, Junior Brandon Wiland they won like they bourn placed fourth in should.” the 165-pound weight It was a battle class. of Nebraska redAll-American jushirt freshmen in the nior Kokesh and red184-pound division. TJ shirt freshman McCoy Dudley beat teammate Newberg placed in Aaron Studebaker to the 174 weight class. get the bronze medal.

Kokesh was the chamDudley won the match pion, going 5-0 with by way of decision two pins, a technical with a score of 9-4. fall and two major decikokesh In the 197-pound sions. Newberg lost his weight class, junior first match but battled Spencer Johnson back through the consoplaced third. Johnson finished the lation bracket to get fourth.

“James Green and Robert day with two major decisions and Kokesh stood out,” Jensen said. a technical fall.

The heavyweight division had two Huskers on the medal stand, one of which stood at the top. Redshirt freshman Jensen won the gold in the 285-pound weight class.

“I felt like I was in a lot better shape than a lot of the guys,” Jensen said. “Toward the end of my last couple matches, I really wore the guys down and came out on top in the end.”

He had a pin in his first match and rode that momentum all the way to the championship. Placing seventh was Nebraska junior Nyle Bartling.

The Huskers will be in action Friday for their intrasquad wrestle-offs in the Bob Devaney Sports Center. sports@ dailynebraskan.com

Nebraska beats UNK despite sloppy play In second exhibition game, Huskers rout Lopers with a 36.5 field goal percentage for the contest Natasha Rausch DN Nebraska women’s basketball coach Connie Yori said she wanted to start off the news conference after the exhibition game against Nebraska-Kearney with a joke.

“Last night, our football team won on a Hail Mary,” Yori said.

“And if we play like this against UCLA, we’re going to have to do a lot of praying.”

According to Yori, even though the Huskers won the game 75-34, they still have a lot of work to do before the first regular-season game.

After recovering from an ankle sprain that kept her on the bench the first game, sophomore guard Rachel Theriot was able to take her starting position against the Lopers.

To start the first half, Nebraska senior forward Jordan Hooper won the tip off against NebraskaKearney’s Amarah Williams and missed a 3-point shot on the first possession.

A minute later, in a breakaway play, junior forward Emily Cady missed a layup but was fouled by Nicole Arp and was able to make both free throws, scoring the first points of the game. Following Cady, Hooper made the second field goal of the game after missing her first two shots.

“The shots will fall,” said Hooper, who made 8 of 18 shots against UNK. “They just didn’t fall today. We really didn’t do what we wanted to do at all this game, offensively or defensively.”

The Huskers had a 48.6 shooting percentage in their exhibition game against Pittsburg State, but they dropped to a 22.6 percent with four minutes remaining in the first half against the Lopers.

UNK, on the other hand, was shooting 20 percent.

After fouling on Arp twice in the first two minutes, the Huskers quickly entered the bonus in the first half. The Huskers were able

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Junior forward Emily Cady drives against Nebraska-Kearney on Sunday. Cady had her second straight double-double, recording 11 points and 12 rebounds against the Lopers. to have a 77.8 free throw percentage in the first half, scoring almost half of their first-half points from free throws.

After making 18 turnovers, the Lopers put up 11 points on the board, falling short of Nebraska, which had six turnovers and 35 points at the conclusion of the first half.

In the first four minutes of the second half, the Huskers made four of five shots, improving their field goal percentage to an 80.0 while holding the Lopers to zero out of six field goals and one out of two free throws made.

At halftime, the Huskers had six turnovers, and in the second half they had another 16 to add up to a total of 22, while the Lopers committed 33 turnovers in the game. In the first exhibition game, Nebraska had only 11 turnovers.

“We didn’t take care of the ball very well today,” said Hoop-

er, who had two turnovers. “We’ll definitely have to work on that in practice. We have to do the little things a lot better in order for the big things to work.”

In the final minutes of the game, both teams were in the bonus, Nebraska with 10 fouls and Kearney with nine. The Lopers finished with 42 total rebounds and a 20.8 field goal percentage, while Nebraska took 51 total rebounds and finished with a 36.5 field goal percentage.

“I thought we took a step back today,” Yori said. “We’ve been practicing OK, but we were really sloppy, especially in the second half. We’re going to have to get a lot better.”

With the exhibition series out of the way, Nebraska will start its season Friday at noon against UCLA at the Pinnacle Bank Arena. sports@ dailynebraskan.com

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The Nebraska soccer team celebrates its first regular season conference championship since 2000 after beating Indiana.

NU claims Big Ten soccer championship Freshman receiver Jordan Westerkamp hauls in a last-second Hail Mary for a touchdown as Northwestern defenders look on.

Catching victory

Story by Chris Heady Photo by Jake Crandall

Senior Kellogg gets hero moment as Westerkamp catches 50-yard heave

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n the middle of the field, his eyes looking straight forward and a 300-watt smile on his face, fifth-year senior Ron Kellogg III was alone for a brief moment.

The cameramen around him took their eyes away, reporters scurried around the field looking for the wide-receiver hero, and teammates rushed past Kellogg as he made his way to the tunnel and the locker room.

This was the five-year senior’s moment, finally. The one he had waited for since walking on in 2009.

A year of redshirting. Two years of no playing time. One year of only nine passing attempts. Everything paid off for Kellogg in this moment, as he walked toward the tunnel and toward screaming fans.

Kellogg came into the game with 1:14 left and engineered a drive that ended in a 49-yard Hail Mary pass to redshirt freshman receiver Jordan Westerkamp as time expired.

“I’m still not really sure what happened,” Kellogg said after the game.

The 27-24 last-second win put Nebraska (6-2) back in the Legends Division race at 3-1, and it could be the rejuvenation the team needed after a loss in Minnesota last week, Nebraska coach Bo Pelini said.

After redshirt Tommy Armstrong Jr. was picked off by Tyler Scott with 3:16 left in the fourth quarter, Northwestern found itself on the 7-yard line with goal to go. Nebraska’s defense then stopped the Wildcats from scoring a touchdown, and Northwestern kicked a field goal to take a 24-21 lead with 1:20 left in the game.

With the game on the line, Pelini elected to put Kellogg in over Armstrong, who started the game.

“I always said that if we ever got into a twominute situation, it’d probably be Ronnie,” Pelini said.

Kellogg, who had an interception and just seven completions in the game, began the drive with a 12-yard pass play to junior running back Ameer Abdullah, and he again found Abdullah for three yards on the next play. After an incompletion and a sack, and no timeouts left, the clock began running down from 24 seconds, and the Huskers faced a 4th and 15.

With 21 seconds remaining, Kellogg dropped back and again found Abdullah, who caught the ball a few yards short of the first down.

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From where Pelini stood, he had no clue why Kellogg decided to throw to Abdullah, but it was the exact throw Kellogg wanted.

“I love throwing to a check down, especially to Ameer,” Kellogg said.

Abdullah came into contact with two Northwestern players near the 39-yard line, and reached out for the ball just past the 40 for the first down, keeping Nebraska’s hopes alive.

Kellogg found sophomore Sam Burtch for an 8-yard gain and then again for a 4-yard gain for a first down. After an incompletion to senior Quincy Enunwa on the next play, the clocked stopped, and Nebraska had 2nd and 10 with four seconds remaining, 49 yards from the end zone.

Kellogg took the snap with four seconds left, bobbed twice and then moved to his right, looking for more room as the pocket collapsed. A hole cleared in his line, and Kellogg stepped up in the pocket. He patted the ball with his left hand twice, and heaved it down field 49 yards, aiming for Enunwa.

The ball bounced off of the pile of about five players at the 1-yard line, flying into the air before it found a home in Westerkamp’s hands.

Westerkamp came down with two feet in the end zone and the Husker bench cleared, with 2724 as the final score.

“Just another ho-hum win, huh?” Pelini said.

Hardly.

Nebraska trailed 21-14 at the half after two touchdown runs from Northwestern running back Treyvon Green, who finished the game with 149 yards rushing. Nebraska tied it 21-21 after an

interception return for a touchdown by redshirt freshman defensive end Avery Moss with 7:10 left in the in the third quarter.

Neither team would score again until Northwestern’s field goal with 1:20 left in the game, making it 24-21. “(Kellogg) did what we thought he would,” Pelini said. “He did a heck of a job.”

Westerkamp finished the game with 104 receiving yards and one touchdown on four catches; It was the first 100 yard-receiving game of his career. Armstrong was 15-for-29 for 173 yards and a touchdown, as well as three interceptions.

With the Hail Mary pass, Kellogg finished the game 7-of-13 for 104 yards, one interception and one miraculous touchdown.

Walking off the field, near the 20-yard line close to the tunnel, senior Taylor Martinez found Kellogg, and the two of them embraced in front of thousands of cheering fans in the west section of Memorial Stadium. Over the crowd noise, Martinez spoke into Kellogg’s ear.

“Great play. I had faith in you,” said Martinez, who has been the man in these moments during Kellogg’s tenure.

The two walked off the field, side by side.

As they got closer to the tunnel, the crowd grew louder and louder.

Kellogg raised his hands toward them, laughing as he did, embracing the thunderous applause.

This was finally his moment. sports@ dailynebraskan.com

Josh Kelly DN The Nebraska soccer team had the same goal since day one.

Now, the Huskers have accomplished what they set out to do, becoming Big Ten champions after defeating Indiana 3-1 at home.

“It’s surreal,” senior defender Ari Romero said. “We’ve been saying this since summer, and it’s finally happened. It hasn’t kicked in yet. Once we set our minds to something and put in the effort and all the hard work, then we can do anything.”

Last season, the Huskers were on the other end of the spectrum, finishing in seventh place in the Big Ten standings. Although the team wasn’t as successful last year, they still believed they had a championship team.

“Last year, we almost had the same team except for the freshmen coming in,” junior forward Mayme Conroy said. “In the summer, we just worked hard, and our goal was, as always, to become Big Ten champions, and it’s something that we said after every practice.”

In the final game of the regular season, the Huskers took the field against Indiana, which entered as the No. 3 team in the Big Ten. The first score of the game came in the 34th minute of the first half.

Senior forward Jordan Jackson passed the ball into the box, and after a second bounce, Conroy blasted it into the left corner of the net to give the Huskers a 1-0 lead against Indiana.

Just a minute into the second half, Indiana scored a goal of its own after converting on a penalty kick to even things up with the Huskers.

Nebraska eventually answered back when freshman forward Jaycie Johnson scored her 10th goal of the season to give her team the lead again.

A few minutes later, weather became a factor and the field became dark. With very windy conditions and a few minutes of heavy rain, the ball was flying everywhere, and the Huskers used that to their advantage.

In the 84th minute, senior goalkeeper Emma Stevens took a goal kick from the left corner of the box.

Stevens then launched the ball. As it crossed to the other side of the field, the ball took a huge curve and went past the Indiana goalkeeper for a goal. In pure shock, the team celebrated.

“We didn’t even know what to do,” Romero said. “We were running in circles, and we just ran to her. I didn’t even know what to say.”

Stevens didn’t expect the ball to give her the first goal of her career.

“I was being told to kick it long, and I went to drop kick it, and then I see it go over her head, and I was just in shock,” Stevens said. “I’ve never scored as a goalkeeper.”

Stevens was more proud of the fact that she contributed in a major game rather than achieving a personal accomplishment.

“It’s something that you get to say, that I scored in the game where we won the conference title, and it’s amazing,” Stevens said.

As the final seconds approached, the players on the sideline were anxiously awaiting the celebration that was about to happen on the field. The whistle blew, and the team was finally able to celebrate after a long season.

Now they can call themselves champions.

“It’s a goal that we even set in last spring,” Stevens said. “To even accomplish it shows all the hard work we’ve had all season long. We’ve been doing everything our coaches have asked us to do. It’s been amazing.” sports@ dailynebraskan.com

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Huskers come back to beat Wildcats in five sets Eric Bertrand DN The No. 11 Nebraska volleyball team pulled off a comeback win against the Northwestern Wildcats (21-25, 25-17, 21-25, 25-17, 15-13), just as the football team did hours earlier.

“It’s an exciting day, and you’ve got to love the Big Ten,” coach John Cook said.

The Huskers opened the match with a different starting lineup.

Freshman Brenna Lyles took over the libero role, and freshman Melanie Keil started over sophomore Meghan Haggerty at middle blocker.

According to Cook, players earn their right to play during the week of practice.

“We had some kids this week that didn’t earn those rights,” he said.

“They have to live at that standard if they want to play.”

Game 1 started with a see-saw battle until the score was tied at 10 on a kill from sophomore middle blocker Cecilia Hall. Then the Wildcats built up a slight advantage.

“I think we started off slow, and that’s part of being a young team,” senior outside hitter Kelsey Robinson said.

The Wildcats built up a 4-point lead on three different occasions in the set, with the last one coming on a kill from Northwestern senior Stephanie Holthus to make the score 2420. After a Wildcat service error, the set finished on a double block from Holthus and junior Savannah Paffen.

The first game was Northwestern’s best offensive showing in the match. With 14 kills and only three attacking errors, the squad put up a .268 attacking percent.

The second set began much like the first, as the two teams had a backand-forth battle until the score was tied at 12. This time, the Huskers were the squad to create a lead.

With the score at 14-13, Haggerty came into the match to relieve Keil and added an assist to Robinson on her first play.

The Huskers managed an 8-point lead at 24-16, and after a kill from Northwestern junior Katie Dutchman, Hall ended the game on a kill.

The Huskers had their best offensive showing in Game 2 by converting 14 of their 22 kill attempts, which gave the team a hitting clip of .545 percent.

Both teams struggled on offense in the third set, as the two squads

combined for 17 attacking errors and five service errors. The Huskers led in both categories for the set with 10 hitting mistakes and four serving errors.

Five of the first seven points in the game were counted as attacking errors.

Despite all of the mistakes, the Huskers managed to pull even with the Wildcats at 19 points each. But the Huskers committed three offensive errors in the final points, which allowed Northwestern to take the set.

Nebraska was able to turn around its attacking efficiency in the fourth set by notching 12 kills on 23 swings and only accumulating one hitting error. The Huskers also recorded five total blocks in the set.

Once the Huskers grabbed the lead early in the set, they would not give it up. The squad mounted an eight-point advantage at 23-15 on an attacking error from Northwestern.

The game was taken by Nebraska four points later on one of freshman outside hitter Amber Rolfzen’s 11 kills in the match.

The two squads headed into a winner-take-all fifth set.

The crowd of 8,123 at the Bob Devaney Sports Center stood and let out thunderous roars for the entire

set.

“One of the things we do is try to get the crowd in it early in Game 5, and that really gives us a ton of momentum,” Robinson said.

The Huskers jumped out to quick 9-4 lead with three double blocks and three kills by Robinson. Northwestern used a timeout.

The Wildcats started a comeback effort and tied the score at 12 after two consecutive kills from Holthus.

Cook called Nebraska’s second timeout.

The Huskers used two quick kills from Amber Rolfzen and Robinson to get to match point. Holthus responded with a kill of her own to force another match point.

On the next play, Robinson notched a kill to secure a Nebraska win.

Cook said he was impressed with Robinson’s play in the final set.

“She’s big time,” Cook said.

Both Robinson and freshman outside hitter Kadie Rolfzen recorded a double-double in kills and digs in the match. Robinson earned 21 kills and 16 digs, while Kadie Rolfzen tallied 18 kills and 17 digs.

Holthus led Northwestern with 17 kills and 12 digs, and she posted

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Senior outside hitter Kelsey Robinson led the Huskers with 21 kills, including the game-winner, and recorded 16 digs. a hitting clip of .239 percent. Sophomore Caroline Niedospial led the Wildcats’ defense with 21 of the

team’s 58 digs.

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Senior quarterback Ron Kellogg III and freshman receiver Jordan Westerkamp, who connected on a last-play touchdown to beat Northwestern, celebrate after the game.

nebraska 27, northwestern 24

hail mary huskers outlast wildcats with touchdown on last play

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NINE 104 After allowing 222 yards and 21 points in the first half, the Nebraska defense gave up only 104 total yards and 3 points in the second half.

The Huskers allowed 160 yards in the first quarter.

The Hail Mary pass from Ron Kellogg III to Jordan Westerkamp on the final play of the game covered 49 yards. The touchdown was the first of Westerkamp’s career, and the play is believed to be the first game-winning Hail Mary in Nebraska history.

For the fifth game in a row, Nebraska scored a touchdown on its opening possession. The Huskers have scored first-drive touchdowns in six of eight games this season.

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Northwestern quarterback Kain Colter stiff-arms Nebraska cornerback Ciante Evans. Colter had 86 yards rushing in the game.

Nebraska’s final drive covered 83 yards in 1:14. Ron Kellogg III was 6 for 8 passing on the drive, including a 16-yard catch and run by Ameer Abdullah to convert a 4th and 15 with fewer than 30 seconds left.

From the 6:37 mark of the second quarter to the 1:20 point of the fourth quarter, 20 straight drives ended in either a punt or an interception. The only score was Nebraska defensive end Avery Moss’ interception returned for a touchdown to tie the game in the third quarter.

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Nebraska coach Bo Pelini talks with Big Ten Network after the Huskers’ final-play victory on Saturday.

game balls Jordan Westerkamp

There’s no argument: Redshirt freshman Jordan Westerkamp gets the game ball for the lastsecond 27-24 win against Northwestern on Saturday.

No, seriously, Westerkamp has the actual game ball. Westerkamp said after he grabbed the game-winning touchdown, he kept the ball. And after picking up 104 yards off four receptions, including snagging the 49-yard, last-play catch, the receiver earned it.

kyle Cummings, assistant sports editor

Ron Kellogg III

There’s no miraculous catch without a miraculous throw, which is why a game ball must go to Ron Kellogg III. After sitting most of the game behind redshirt freshman Tommy Armstrong, the fifthyear senior stepped up with a throw Husker fans may never forget. Kellogg finished 7-of-13 for 104 yards, one interception and one touchdown.

Chris Heady, football beat writer

Ameer Abdullah

Ameer Abdullah can’t stop racking up triple digits. For the seventh time this season, the junior running back ran for more than 100 rushing yards in a game. Abdullah’s 127 yards helped him eclipse the 1,000-yard rushing mark (1,108 total) for the second consecutive season. He is the first player to do so in eight or fewer games since Ahman Green in 1997.

Nedu Izu, football beat writer