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DANIEL WHEATONDN

Gov. Dave Heineman is put-ting every tax exemption on the table as part of his new tax pro-posal — including nonprofits’ kitchen sinks.

Heineman announced his new tax plan during his State of the State address on Jan. 15, and details were announced at a press conference Friday. Heine-man aims to end as many tax exemptions as possible so he can eliminate the state income tax. Heineman says this shift in tax burden will make Nebraska more appealing to businesses.

“Taxes are too high in Ne-braska,” Heineman said. “High taxes impede economic growth, and high taxes aren’t attractive for entrepreneurial growth and high paying jobs.”

State Sens. Brad Ashford and Beau McCoy said they will in-troduce bills Tuesday that bring Heineman’s tax plan to the floor of the legislature. The first bill eliminates approximately $2.4 billion in sales tax exemptions, Ashford said. The second bill eliminates $395 million in ex-emptions. Both bills exempt food from taxation. Sales tax ex-emptions on the chopping block include newspapers, school lunches, nonprofit health clin-ics, the lottery and laundromats.

The second bill also elimi-

nates the corporate sales tax and exempts the first $12,000 of retirement income for mar-

T he four students wore black hoodies, jeans and a black veil to conceal their identities. They chanted to an excited crowd of about 40 that responded with

cheers, clapping and chanting. On Thursday night, University of Nebraska-

Lincoln students crowded around the Broyhill Fountain outside Nebraska Union in the cold to support their fellow Greeks in a step out cere-mony where four new members of the Phi Alpha chapter of Sigma Lambda Beta were revealed.

“The coming out is a big thing for the Greek community,” said Shams Al-Badry, a junior po-litical science major and president of the Mul-ticultural Greek Council. “A lot of people look forward to it.”

Virginia Calderon, a sophomore accounting major and member of the sorority Sigma Lamb-da Gamma, was in attendance.

“It is always fun to try to figure out who the new members are,” Calderon said.

After the veiled members were brought out, they danced and took part in ritual chanting.

They chanted facts about their fraterni-ty.

Founded: April 4, 1986 in Iowa City, Iowa, the men said in unison.

Flower: Red carnation. Colors: Royal purple and pure white. Mascot: White stallion mustang. The four initiates recited from memory the

names of all 18 of their founding fathers to a cheering audience.

The founding members believed in fair-ness and equality and opportunity for all men regardless of their ethnic background or race, according to David Pacheco, cultural awareness chair of Sigma Lambda Beta.

“Sigma Lambda Beta is a relatively young fraternity compared to other organizations, which have been around for close to 100 years,” said Pacheco, a senior mechanical engineering major.

To become a member of Sigma Lambda Beta, the students had to go through an acceptance process.

In 10 weeks, a member learns the history of the organization, connects with other members and develops leadership and time management skills.

“It is very rigorous in terms of knowing the history (and) knowing the organization,” Pa-checo said.

After the students revealed themselves, they told everyone their line name, a nickname the student goes by within the fraternity.

“(The names) represent who they are as

an individual,” Pacheco said. “They earn the name.”

Victor “Tejón” Romero, a sophomore biolog-ical science major, was one of the newly initiated members.

“Tejón” means “badger” in Spanish. After the ceremony, Romero said the night

was special for him.

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Nebraska state senators on Wednesday will wrap up 10 days of introducing new bills for the 2013 legislative session. Next, legislators will begin indi-vidual debates of each bill. Here are some highlights of more than 400 bills introduced so far.

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The bill would prevent em-ployers from asking for employ-ee’s login information to social media or other online accounts.

Larson said several other states are considering this leg-islation. Illinois has a law that protects employees’ social me-dia privacy. It went into law on Jan. 1.

“There is a divide between someone’s personal life and their work life,” Larson said.

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This bill would provide expe-dited concealed handgun permits for victims of domestic violence.

Police officers would decide which cases of domestic violence would necessitate a concealed handgun.

“This is not an in-your-face pro-gun bill,” Bloomfield said.

Bloomfield said in rural ar-eas of Nebraska, police can take a long time to respond to a call. If police fear they could not pro-tect the victim, they can offer the service.

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This would allow for vot-er pre-registration of 16- and 17-year-olds. Minors would have the option to pre-register to vote. McGill said the bill would require some clerical changes in the voter rolls to indicate their eligibility.

“The earlier the better,” Mc-Gill said.

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The bill suggests structural changes to Nebraska’s foster care program allowing college-age foster students to voluntarily stay in the program until the age of 22. Those in the system would also receive additional services to help the transition into adult life. McGill said the current foster care system doesn’t adequately prepare children and young adults for adult life.

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A bill introduced in the Nebraska Legislature by Sen. Jeremy Nor-dquist would ban Nebraskans 18 and younger from using public tanning beds. But LB132, known as the Skin Cancer Prevention Act, could make an impact on tanning businesses as well as on the teenagers who frequent them.

Nordquist will present the bill to the Health and Human Services Committee Friday. Ne-braska, which currently has no laws regulating tanning salon usage, would be the 34th state to implement this type of law.

According to the American Journal of Public Health, each year, more than 20 percent of teenagers ages 14 to 17 use arti-ficial tanning methods. The Skin Cancer Foundation said indoor tanning increases the risk of mel-anoma by 74 percent. Nordquist considers statistics like these vi-tal to his proposed legislation.

“It is clear that there is a cor-relation between the tanning bed utilization and skin cancer,” Nor-dquist said.

What isn’t clear is how his bill will affect local tanning busi-nesses. In a study referenced by the American Academy of Der-matology, researchers found that

approximately 8 percent of in-door tanners are teenagers. Max Tan owner Michelle Grubbs, one of many tanning salon owners fighting against LB132, is con-cerned that the bill could hurt her business.

“There are some financial im-plications,” she said.

And the financial loss is not

limited to tanning salon owners. “A decrease in business can

mean a decrease in staff,” Grubbs said.

Arielle Hurd, a senior busi-ness administration major, works for Grubbs as a senior sales as-sociate and said she loves her job. As a member of Max Tan’s creative team, she gains experi-

ence relevant to her major. Most importantly, she said she’s learn-ing business ethics through re-sponsibility.

“We go through hours of training,” she said. “I like that I can educate people about how to tan responsibly.”

Grubbs and Hurd said they both care about their clients’ safe-

ty, and they believe that without proper guidance teenagers will put themselves in a greater dan-ger by overexposing themselves. They also worry about their cli-ents who have medical reasons for utilizing their services.

Dermatologists provide pho-totherapy prescriptions for seri-ous skin disorders such as pso-riasis and some forms of eczema. Grubbs’ business supplies those who cannot afford the prescrip-tion a way to still receive the nec-essary and accurate treatment.

“It’s our job to help,” she said.Nordquist is optimistic about

the success of this bill, and he said he thinks it’s important to overall public health.

“We regulate minors from us-ing tobacco,” he said. “It doesn’t seem right that we have a prod-uct, according to world experts, that is (just) as dangerous and we let minors utilize that product.”

He also doesn’t have signifi-cant worries about how this bill could affect local tanning busi-nesses.

“I always put public health over any business any day,” he said. “I think there’s alternatives to market indoor spray tans.”

Grubbs remains adamant in her opposition to Nordquist’s bill. She said she believes that the issue is complicated and the bill doesn’t reflect the issue as a whole.

“If you’re going to target UV exposure, go across the board,” she said. “Don’t just target my business.”

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UNLPD offers safety tips

“It sums up what I’ve worked hours being a part of,” Romero said, “something more than just me.”

Senior elementary education major Katie Kodad, who works at

the Jackie Gaughan Multicultural Center, said she is friends with many of the Sigma Lambda Beta fraternity members.

She came to show her support and to see the initiation of the new

members. “To see them get through the

struggle of the process of joining … it is really good,” Kodad said.


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Several years ago, two students strode across campus carrying rifles. Only one person called the police.

As it turns out, the rifles were not loaded and the students were headed to a University of Nebras-ka-Lincoln Young Republicans meeting, which was discussing the National Rifle Association. Though the students had no mali-cious intent, this served as an exam-ple of a situation that should have triggered more than one phone call to police, said UNL Police Officer Aaron Pembleton at a situational awareness meeting last Thursday.

The purpose of the meeting, held in the Nebraska Union, was to educate students, faculty and staff about how they can improve their safety by being more aware of their surroundings.

“What we want you to pay at-tention to is the things that don’t seem right, the things that seem out of place,” Pembleton said. “That strangeness could be a danger, and that’s something we want you to pick up on.”

A person who is wearing too many layers for a hot day, someone with a blank stare or avoiding eye contact and someone who looks generally disgruntled were all mentioned by Pembleton as behav-iors that should raise flags.

While Pembleton lectured to a group of mostly faculty and staff, he also offered safety advice rel-evant to students.

“At 2 a.m., (the bars) drop 2,000 people who have been consuming alcohol, and that’s when a lot of our assaults happen,” he said. “So if you’re walking home and you’re paying attention to what’s going on, maybe you can avoid that type of stuff.”

He also cautioned women to be especially alert at parties or while walking through campus to help avoid purse snatching. Pembleton explained that making eye con-tact with others around you while walking and occasionally looking behind you is the best way to pre-vent your purse from being stolen.

Theft is the biggest safety con-cern at UNL, Pembleton said. Al-ready this month there have been 16 reported cases on campus. Most cases come from leaving belong-ings unattended at places such as the Nebraska Union, the Campus Recreation Center or a classroom.

Along with being aware of any abnormalities wherever you are, you also have to know how to act appropriately given the cir-cumstances. The “active shooter” scenario was the common exam-ple used at the meeting.

“In this day and age, what would lead you to believe that someone wouldn’t come in to a theater, mall, school, a place of work and shoot somebody,” said Pembleton. “We don’t want to get caught up in the denial that it won’t happen.”

Pembleton advised students to know all the exits in the build-ings they frequent as well as safe places to hide and how to protect themselves if a shooting or anoth-er extreme situation were to occur.

“You should know every exit in the building you work, or in a building you spend a lot of time in,” he said.

After devising the best exit plan, it is important to walk the route frequently to build muscle and visual memory, according to Pembleton.

Pembleton gave several acro-nyms to help someone get through a traumatic event smoothly:

• O.O.D.A.: Observe, Ori-ent, Decide, Act. This procedure prompts someone to scan their en-vironment, synthesize what they are seeing into information and comprehend it, consider their op-tions and act accordingly.

• D.E.E.R.: Direct, Encourage, Example, Redirect. The D.E.E.R. model is to calm the chaos during an incident and provide a process to getting any involved to safety.

Meeting attendees were also reminded to sign up for the new version of UNL alerts. Anyone us-ing the old system must re-sign up.

Pembleton encouraged stu-dents to come to these situational awareness meetings. They are typically held at the beginning of each semester. Students can find out about meetings through the UNL Today website, the UNLPD’s Facebook page and the UNL calendar of events on the UNL homepage.

The next meeting will be Feb. 22 at the Nebraska East Union in the Sunflower Room from noon to 1 p.m. Anyone can sign up for UNL alerts at emergency.unl.edu/unlalert.


TIpS FOr STAyING SAFE ON CAMpUS

• Be aware of your surroundings at all times. Someone wearing too many layers for a hot day, someone with a blank stare, avoiding eye contact or who looks generally disgruntled could be a danger.• Women should be especially alert at parties or walking through campus to avoid purse snatching.• Avoid having things stolen by keeping your possessions with you at all times.• Know all the exits in buildings you frequent. devise an exit plan and practice it.• Know where you would hide in a building if a shooter or other situation were to arise.• Know unLPd Officer Aaron Pembleton’s acronyms for getting through a traumatic event smoothly:

•O.O.d.A.: Observe, Orient, decide and Act •d.E.E.R.: direct, Encourage, Example, redirect

A SHOvEL FuLLOfficer urges people to be aware of their surroundings, know their exit routes

Adam Peters shovels snow off the sidewalk in front of the university Lutheran Cen-ter on Q and 16th streets in downtown Lincoln on jan. 21. A band of moderate snow moved over the Lincoln area during the late morning and early afternoon hours, de-positing approximately 2 inches of light, fluffy snow – the first accumulating snowfall the area has seen since december.

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Ashford’s bill prohibits the un-reasonable placement of a firearm where a minor may possess it. Ash-ford said this bill was inspired by the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Conn. The Sandy Hook gunman used weapons registered to his mother.

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The bill would allow gun owners to store their guns in their vehicles, even if their workplace bans guns on their property. This applies to any place a vehicle can be legally parked, except for school parking lots. The fire-arms must be hidden from plain view. The bill would hold the owner of the parking lot liable if the owner of the firearm was unable to defend him or herself from an act of violence while unarmed.

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Chambers’ bill would cap the

amount of sales tax levied by cities to 1-and-a-half cents. The bill opposes a law that allows cities to increase their local sales taxes. Lincoln and Omaha both have raised taxes un-der the law. Chambers introduced

this bill because he said taxes dis-proportionately fall on low-income people.


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Superhero cartoons could be sending children some not-so-super messages about criminals and the justice system, according to a recent study by a University of Nebraska-Lincoln researcher.

“In short,” said Lisa Kort-But-ler, an assistant sociology profes-sor who authored the study, “the idea is that people who commit crime are ‘bad’ and different from the rest of us, and the way to deal with ‘those’ kind of people is prison, thus rejecting or down-playing either reha-bilitation or forgive-ness.”

Kort-Butler devel-oped the idea for the study from her son. During the middle of an episode of a super-hero cartoon, he told her that a character was ‘a bad guy.’” She was curious how he knew the character was a “bad guy” because they hadn’t discussed it, she said.

She’d studied representations of crime and justice in adult pro-gramming, but not kids’ program-ming, she said. And “no other researchers had investigated how crime and justice are represented in superhero cartoons,” she said.

The study, titled “Rotten, Vile and Depraved! Depictions of Criminality in Superhero Car-toons,” focused on several key themes in three animated televi-sion cartoons: “Batman: The Ani-mated Series,” “Spider-Man” of the 1990s and the post-9/11 series, “Justice League Unlimited.”

Organized crime was a central explanation for criminal behavior, she found. And there was large emphasis placed on greed as the main motivation of an antagonist, the study found.

Another theme was criminals choosing to commit crimes for self-interested reasons.

“The antagonists in these shows are largely portrayed as ‘rational,’” Kort-Butler said. “They know the difference be-tween legal and illegal, right and wrong, and willingly flaunt that in their actions.”

The possibilities of redemp-tion or rehabilitation were only for ‘worthy’ antagonists, the study found. Scenes showing “forgiveness, reconciliation or

change of heart” determined their worthiness, and the younger the character, the easier their salva-tion from a life of crime.

The study also found that criminals experienced a stigma from the community that pre-vented them from being treated fairly. This stigma often made them commit more crimes.

The study referenced an epi-sode of “Batman” in which Pen-guin attempted to assimilate into high society after his release from prison. Society welcomed him, “but

only as a form of enter-tainment and mockery,” which caused him to lash out and kidnap a socialite in revenge.

Main antagonists were not typically granted a chance for redemption because of a prevailing message that “criminals are different than us and that it is something inherent about them that lead them to com-mit crime,” the study found.

“I like to think that all crimi-nals act out of desperation,” said Jamison Schuster, a senior com-puter engineering major. Schus-ter watched “Batman” when he was a child. “I’d argue that those who commit certain crimes were forced to that point by circum-stance.”

A good way for researchers to continue study, Kort-Butler said, would be to have children watch an episode of a show and discuss what they thought of the content. This method, she said, could teach researchers how children interpret the messages and images of crime and justice.

Senior journalism major Carl Mejstrik watched Batman and Spider-Man when he was younger and learned valuable life lessons from the shows like, “sticking up for what you believe (in) and doing the righteous thing.”

Mejstrik said he believes antag-onists “had bad situations thrust upon them like the heroes but went a different path.”

“I ascribe to the idea that media reflects and reaffirms our culture, but does not direct it,” Kort-Butler said. “By focusing on what’s ‘wrong’ with an indi-vidual, we also avoid asking the harder questions about the social and cultural roots of violence.”


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ried couples. Heineman said this would make Nebraska more at-tractive for retirees.

According to the State Busi-ness Tax Climate Index, Nebras-ka ranks 31st. Nebraska’s rank-ing is lower than all its neighbors except for Iowa, ranked 42nd.

“Being in the bottom half of all states is mediocre, at best,” Heineman said.

McCoy said the exemptions would incentivize job creation in Nebraska. Citing his own past as a small business owner in west-ern Nebraska, he said this would attract more young talent to the state.

Seth Giertz, an assistant pro-fessor of economics, said the tax plan would create a better business climate in Nebraska.

“As with everything, there will be winners and losers,” Giertz said. “But this is no free lunch.”

Giertz said all of the business benefits would not occur sud-denly. Once the market readjusts to the new taxes, Giertz said new industries might flock to Nebras-ka. He said removing tax exemp-tions allows the market to trade

more freely. Tax incentives alter the price of goods and services. Heineman said the exemptions make the government favor certain industries.

Heineman said he under-stands that the legislature will want to keep some of the ex-tensions — ones that assist the poor and invest in education. He said he wanted to put every-thing on the table to allow for a discussion.

“I want to hear from all Ne-braskans,” Heineman said. “If you feel you should keep your extension, please tell me what you would cut.”

Heineman’s plan would shift the tax burden from people with higher incomes to people who consume more. The tax system would shift from progressive to regressive. When asked about how the system would impact college students, Heineman did not offer specifics, saying only that his tax reform plans may cause some changes in economic behavior.

Ashford said this bill fulfills his dream of modernizing the tax code.

“This is the big enchilada,” Ashford said.


Taxes are too high in nebraska. High taxes impede

economic growth, and high taxes aren’t attractive for entrepreneurial growth.”

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Dressin’ uptop: C Styles, drag king and member of boy band Crush, accepts a tip with a smile from an audience member at a show at Club Q jan. 18.

left: Cherry Pop danc-es on stage to a Para-more song at a drag show to raise money for unL students to attend a BgLTa confer-ence in michigan.

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right: drag kings Bruno stars and Zack Slutty dance to “Thrift Shop” by Macklemore and Ryan Lewis as part of their act on Friday night.

below: unL student and drag king Lennox Bower West steps out on the runway at Club Q to perform.

Today marks the anniversary of one of the most polarizing Su-preme Court rulings ever. The 7-2 ruling on Roe v. Wade le-galized abortion in the United States in 1973. The ruling is still

a hot-button topic. Neither side is willing to budge on the issue. Likely, the Roe ruling will continue to divide the country.

Readers, I don’t hope to change your mind on this issue. Abortion is a topic that so many of us care deeply about. Maybe you regard it as a moral issue. Maybe you regard it as a fairness issue. Again, I don’t hope to persuade you away from your position. In-stead, I want to talk to you about two things. First, abortion is a complex issue and should be discussed openly. And second, that over-ruling the Roe decision would be problem-atic for a number of reasons.

But first, a little history.In the 40 years since the

Roe ruling, the Court has had ample opportunity to revisit the issue of abortion and possibly overturn it. The Court could’ve done so in 1989 with Webster v. Repro-ductive Health Services. But it didn’t. The Court could’ve done so in 1992 with the Planned Parent-hood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. Casey ruling. But it didn’t. However, that ruling does allow states to put limitations on abor-tion — more on that later.

There are a few interesting things about the Roe ruling, especially when you know a little history. First, the moderate Burger Court ruled on the issue. Second, there

were no women justices yet. (Sandra Day O’Connor wouldn’t be nominated until the Reagan administration.) Third, abortion was legal for most women in the U.S. prior to 1867. If it was illegal, it was considered a minor crime.

Why was abortion illegal after 1867? The history is a little surprising and has a lot to do with the medical profession devel-oping into a “respectable” line of work (dis-tinguished from midwives and whatnot). From my law textbook “Courts and Judicial Policymaking” by Christopher P. Banks and David M. O’Brien, “By the mid-nineteenth century, most states permitted abortions until the first movement of the fetus, or ‘quickening’; and in jurisdictions criminal-izing it, abortions were generally minor transgressions. In light of growing pressure

by the medical profession and antiabortionists, states ratcheted up penalties and enforcements.”

More ironic still? The Court ruled in favor of le-galizing abortion in 1973 largely because the medical profession pushed for it, not necessarily because every-day women had demanded

it. “The majority opinion described abor-tion as a medical decision and recognized the right of physicians to practice medicine without undue interference,” scholar Leslie Reagan writes in her book, “When Abortion Was a Crime.”

So to recap: Doctors pushed to criminal-ize abortion in the late 1800s and 100 years later pushed for its decriminalization. They

won both times. However, overturning Roe and going back to the era of criminalizing abortion is something many Americans want. Maybe even some of you reading to-day want this. All right, let’s say that hap-pened. Let’s say that the Roberts Court (one of the most conservative Courts in Ameri-can history) overruled Roe tomorrow. How do you propose to enforce an all-out abor-tion ban?

This is one point where abortion oppo-nents run into trouble. In order to enforce antiabortion laws, people had to do despi-cable things, one of the most vivid exam-ples being the “dying declaration.” Reagan writes about them in her book, but Katha Pollitt, in a piece for the Atlantic Monthly, describes them quite aptly: “(W)omen on their deathbeds (because a botched illegal abortion) were informed by police or doc-tors of their imminent demise and harassed until they admitted to their abortions and

named the people connected with them -- including, if the woman was unwed, the man responsible for the pregnancy, who could be arrested and even sent to prison.”

During this time of abortion bans, some doctors and women tried to get around the rule with “therapeutic abortions.” These abortions were loosely defined as a preg-nancy which was dangerous to the woman’s health and therefore needed to be ended. However, officials caught onto this and created committees that decided if women could have an abortion.

Can you imagine being harassed on your deathbed? Can you imagine a commit-tee of doctors deciding if you needed a treat-ment or surgery? That’s incredibly scary, and some version of this would likely come to pass if Roe were overturned.

Like I mentioned earlier, the Court has had plenty of chances to overrule Roe, but it hasn’t. Not yet at least.

However, the Court has chipped away at women’s access to abortion. In 1992 the Supreme Court ruled that states could in-deed limit access to abortion. Many red states have done so, including our own (i.e. the “fetal pain” limitation). Earlier this month in Virginia, the governor signed a law that said abortion clinics had to be held to the same standards as hospitals.

On the surface, that may not seem like a bad idea, but it’s designed specifically to limit abortions and access to them. “These kinds of harsh, strict regulations are not ap-plied in any other medical context,” said Julie Rikelman, litigation director of the Center for Reproductive Rights in a Jan. 7 NPR article. Waiting periods, mandatory ul-

trasounds and all sorts of things are part of state restrictions on abortion.

These restrictions are ridiculous. Get-ting an abortion isn’t a decision women make lightly; a longer time to stew about that choice doesn’t mean she’ll change her mind. It’s one that requires much thought and reflection. Nor is an abortion a happy event. I’ve never heard of a woman jumping for joy after deciding to undergo an abor-tion.

Undoubtedly, Roe and legalized abor-tion will continue to polarize our nation for the next 40 years. However, there are a couple of changes we can make when dis-cussing this issue. These changes can help keep discussions more civil and maybe even more productive.

First, we need to eliminate the stigma of abortion. One in three women in this coun-try will have an abortion by age 45. Abor-tion is common and maybe even someone you know has had one, but hasn’t spoken of it. Even though abortion is a serious topic, it shouldn’t be one that we never speak of. We need to be able to talk about it openly and honestly.

We also need more media outlets to drop this binary dialogue and acknowledge nuances and different perspectives. Yes, this issue is controversial and sometimes a little scary, but that doesn’t mean we can ignore it or oversimplify it.

Roe’s legacy doesn’t have to be one of polarization; it can be one of conversation.

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Tired, hungry, with the drool of an unapologetic fellow bus rider still seeping into my jacket, I rolled up to the Love’s travel stop in Utica, Ill. at an obscene hour on a cold De-cember night. Cold enough that I

witnessed polar bears pumping unleaded gaso-line into luxury mid-sized sedans.

Inside, I noticed, a disinterested store clerk worked the register with robotic persistence, almost like a robot, for real (robot metaphors lacking). The scanner beeped, the receipt ma-chine churned out its usual wax paper, and then she chimed in with a spirited-yet-forced “Merry Christmas!”

Three times I observed it happen before ap-proaching the counter myself, gas station sun-dries in hand: Jerky. Some variation of Arizona-brand sugared water. Hand lotion for my ashy knuckles. Little did I know I was about to ex-perience the fatal flaw of political correctness firsthand. I’d only come in for a snack.

“All set?”It was all very to-the-book, really — until

— with the force of a speeding Piers Morgan’s ratings colliding with a pathologically insane Second Amendment freak, the moment came.

“Thank you. Happy holidays.”… Happy holidays? I’m sorry what?The exchange, admittedly, wasn’t much, but

to me it affirmed a long held notion that politi-cal correctness is, in its essence, lazy, stupid — a sorry excuse for racial and cultural awareness. A new form of pluralistic ignorance.

Those are some big charges, so hear me out. See, I was targeted that night. Pigeonholed among a homogeneous group of people, deter-mined to be different. Determined, apparently, to be a pariah unworthy of everyone else’s holi-day parting wish. A seemingly innocuous and faith-neutral gesture, “Happy holidays” ended up reading more like: “happy eternal damna-tion, brown man” “happy get-outttaa-my-country” — at the very least “happy whatever, asshole.”

And sure, maybe I’m overthinking the or-deal a bit. Let’s assume the clerk was just trying to be nice, inclusive. But then why, after all, did she refrain from offering the same vague holi-day wish to the white customers who stood in

front of me? The answer, of course, is obvious. The fatal flaw of political correctness lies

therein: It dehumanizes the unfamiliar. Imple-ments a standard procedure for dealing with perceived ”exotics.” Encourages us not to learn and accept the folkways of minority groups, but, rather, to minimize harm inflicted upon them by watering down basic human inter-action. “Merry Christmas” certainly isn’t a message tailored for me — a practicing non-Christian — but I’d certainly have preferred if the gas station clerk graced me with the same words she did the other customers that night.

At least instead of catering a dull, unenthu-siastic holiday message on the basis of my being brown-skinned. And probably by contractual obligation. (Not that I’m one to care, but then she would have been at fault having wished me anything, considering that I haven’t celebrated a religious holiday since October.)

Political correctness has been under fire a lot lately, well with elected officials prattling on about “legitimate rape,” others classifying rape as “something god intended,” and entire parties being dispatched to diversity training camps to show their members how to, essen-tially, be human. How to interact with a constit-uent of color without accidentally calling him a racial slur, canvass to women without breaking into misogynist invective.

But the men responsible for the outrageous gaffes outlined above didn’t simply fail to ob-serve the bounds of political correctness, they

failed to exhibit basic human decency. If they hadn’t, their careers wouldn’t be tarnished in-delibly by scandal. These men, perhaps, are re-quiring of a roadmap for conducting relations with those unlike them. For the rest of us, com-mon sense should suffice.

The argument against petty political cor-rectness is that simple: treat people equally, fairly — treat people like humans — and it doesn’t have to be a concern at all. Treat people like entities, like a scourge upon the venerated institution of clerk-to-customer interaction, and yeah, maybe the “politeness” won’t scan.

Cordiality isn’t reflected, for example, in re-ferring to challenging circumstances as “gay,” calling an annoying friend a “faggot,” asking a Muslim man if he’s going to commit “jihad” against someone who has wronged him. We all know that much. Some of us have experienced it.

But to think the introduction of standardized interaction is a solution to such blatant stupid-ity is to think the new way to insult annoying friends is by calling them “LGBTQIA.” A uni-form system of communication is simply no match for judgment.

“Happy holidays” would have served me adequately that night had it been the clerk’s standard yuletide farewell. Because it wasn’t, I left the gas station feeling like a burden.

Either way, I saw the face of ethnic profil-ing on a cold night in December, and admit-tedly, it was kinda hilarious. Like the face of a reefered-up Leslie Knope watching “Seinfeld,” or a completely normal Mitch McConnell sim-ply existing upon this Earth. In another sense, though, — a more important one — the encoun-ter offered a sad truth.

As a final thought: If you ever see me on campus during the holiday season and feel in-clined to wish me a “Merry Christmas,” don’t hesitate.

I’m a Muslim hip-hop fan studying jour-nalism in Nebraska, a 19-year-old outspoken liberal in an unforgiving Sea of Red.

Rest assured, I’ve been told worse.faiz siDDiqui is a sophomore

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Students should attend campus

events to honor MLkToday is Tuesday, but it feels a lot like a Monday, thanks to having

yesterday off. While most (if not all) of us are aware that yesterday was Martin Luther King Jr. Day, we at the Daily Nebraskan ask you to take a minute and think of what the day stands for beyond an extra day to sleep in.

Sure, we know King as the man who gave the “I Have a Dream” speech. Somewhere, buried in our secondary education memories, we dig up sporadic facts about his life: he fought for racial equality as well as socioeconomic equality during the Civil Rights Movement; he believed in non-violence; he was killed for his beliefs. No matter which of these facts you most readily attach to him, it’s important to take a moment to remember them and not to simply “thank him” for a day off of class and work.

One way you can continue to honor him and his cause is to attend one or several events being held on the University of Nebraska-Lincoln campus this week. The festivities kicked off last Friday with the MLK Freedom Breakfast at the Embassy Suites Hotel, but your next chance to learn about, remember and honor King comes tonight at 5 p.m. in the Nebraska Union Auditorium. “Birmingham Revisited, 1963: A Trilogy” will feature three women talking about Dr. King’s eulogy for their sister, who was killed in a 1963 bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Alabama. And that is only one of many events that will continue throughout the week. Events will be sponsored by multiple groups and feature a wide spectrum of topics to offer a wide variety of view points. You can check out the list at mlkweek.unl.edu.

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Notes HEADPHONES FACTS & ADVICE: +Jan 21 6:32 AM

1.There is no marked difference in potential hearing

damage between earbuds and over-the-ear pieces.

2. If you’re unable to hear a person 3 to 5 feet away,

turn the volume down.

3. Turn down the volume if there’s any detectable

ringing or buzzing of the ears after listening.

4. Genre of music (including presence of bass)

makes no difference in potential hearing loss.

5. Duration of exposure, as well as volume, has an

impact in potential hearing loss.

SOURCE : Audiologist Roy Christensen, Christensen

Audiology & Hearing Aid Center

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W hether it be walking five min-utes to the Campus Recreation Center or twenty minutes to Andersen Hall, it’s not diffi-

cult to spot at least a few students with headphones, listening to music. From Dr. Dre’s Beats to Apple’s EarPods, head-phones on the University of Nebraska-Lincoln campus are so common, they’re forgettable.

But as concerned spectators might point out, as people walk around with headphones in, contently immersed in their favorite song, there is an inevitable lack of social interaction. Though some may see those who constantly listen to music as antisocial, some students simply see using headphones around campus as a way to make the trip to class more pleasant.

“I don’t think it makes people more isolated. I just think that it probably makes their walk more enjoyable,” said Megan Huelskamp, a freshman psychol-ogy major.

Freshman business administration major Claire Wieger said she also feels the common usage of headphones doesn’t pose a problem as far as social interaction goes.

“Maybe for some people it is a way to avoid talking to people passing by,” Wieger said. “But for the most part, I think people just use them to use them, you know?”

Though common between most pass-ing periods, the chance of seeing some-one walking around campus with head-phones on can change as the day goes on.

“I think it depends on the time of the day,” Wieger said. “I especially see it walking to my early morning classes. Al-most everyone has headphones in.”

While the changes to the way people

interact socially can be obvious, heavy headphone usage has other, much more subtle effects.

“Hearing loss is the main concern with long exposure to loud sound from headphones,” said Roy Christensen, an audiologist from Christensen Audiol-ogy & Hearing Aid Center. “The longer the exposure, the more likelihood of per-manent damage. Sometimes a very loud sound that lasts for moments can do the same damage as a much softer, but still loud, sound will do over a much longer time.”

Christensen said finding the appro-priate volume levels when wearing ear-buds or headphones is not difficult. He said as long as you can hear another per-son speaking, you are in the clear.

“If someone is wearing open earbuds or headphones, then I would say, if a person within three to five feet away can hear any sound from your earphones, it’s too loud,” Christensen said. “With head-phones that are custom molded, I would say that if you cannot hear someone talk-ing to you without you having to turn down the volume, then it’s too loud. If after listening through headphones you detect a ringing or buzzing in your ears, then the music was too loud.”

Though Huelskamp said she doesn’t worry about damaging her own ears, she does wonder about those who listen to music at a much higher volume.

“When I can hear someone else’s mu-sic through their headphones, it makes me wonder how their ears can stand that much sound,” she said.

Christensen said the general idea that using headphones that fully cover the ear will cause less damage than using small earbuds isn’t quite the case.

“There is no measurable difference,”

he said. “I can say that in the past when people used walkmans — antique now, I know — they had open headphones. They tended to distort when turned up too loud. With today’s better technology, this kind of harmonic distortion is rare and some people tend to turn them up louder.”

As for what Christensen uses himself, he recommends Bose headphones with custom-made earmolds.

“That combination gives the best sound quality,” he said.

Though finding information about the potential damage of headphones is easy, some students are skeptical that recreation-al use will have any ill effects.

“I mean, it has crossed my mind be-cause I’ve read about how it can actually damage your hearing,” Wieger said. “But I don’t think listening to Mumford on my way to class is going to cause too much damage.”

Though it may seem listening to Mum-ford would damage less than listening to DMX, Christensen said the genre has noth-ing to do with the potential damage listen-ing to music can cause.

“There is no difference between types of music and the damage that is done to the ears,” Christensen said. “It all comes down to loudness. The louder the music, the more the damage.”

As for ways to avoid damaging your hearing, Christensen said it comes down to one thing: volume.

“If you turn the volume down now, you’ll thank me later,” he said. “Listen-ing to loud music for half an hour will do just as much damage as using a chainsaw for the same amount of time.”

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these are the new iphone ones for the iphone 5. i don’t own an iphone 5, but i just

like them... the sound has really improved since the last ones.”

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i bought these at Walmart for, like, five bucks. they’re good for what i want, which

is walking to class and to and from my house.”

though these are headphones, they also have the capabilities of being a microphone.

i usually use them for the language-learning tool, rosetta stone.”

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A man of few shirts but many words, Andy D is here to make you dance.

Promoting his new album, “War-cries,” the Indianapolis-based electro/hip-hop/dance musician and song-writer is playing at Knickerbockers Tuesday night.

Andy D, usually donning a denim vest with no shirt, fanny packs and ’80s moustache/rattail duo, said his mis-sion is to fill a void in the world with the music he thinks is missing. Start-ing in 2007, his debut album, “Choose Your Perversion,” was a self-produced synth album with comedic verses fea-tured in equally comedic songs such as this from “God Loves Drunk Chicks”: “The way she wear them shoes, she thinks she’s a looker/Her body is a nerd, but her feet is a hooker/She stumble on the dance floor, drag you along/Yell in your face, ‘I love this song!’”

His sophomore album, “Songs in the Key of Life” was released in 2011 and now, his latest album, “Warcries,” tells the story of a future war between aliens and humans eventually resolved by humans re-teaching the aliens how to dance.

About one week into his national tour, Andy D took time to do a phone interview while driving into Chicago with his wife, musician Anna Vision (real name Victoria Duncan) and crew.

Daily Nebraskan: Many of your lyrics depict nightclub dance scenes full of drunk girls. How much comes from your real life, and how much is imaginary?

Andy D: Almost none of them. The third verse of “Party Nite” actu-ally happened. The first two verses never happened. Pretty much all of it is embellishment or outright fabrication. I’m going with the old adage that it’s

harder to lie than to tell the truth. I try to get some underlying theme or idea, and I’ll spin a yarn in order to get there. That’s my policy of truth in lyrics.

DN: Has anyone ever told you your speaking voice sounds identical to comedian Nick Swardson?

AD: (Laughs) I love Nick Sward-son. I’ve never heard that, but thanks. That’s great. Thank you so much.

DN: How does your music affect your personal style — the mustache, the rattail, the denim vests and vice versa?

AD: It’s all a manifestation of the same thing. I am attracted to bright things, and I make the music I want to hear in the world. My music is high energy, upbeat, funny and I’m trying to get people to laugh. If someone is dancing and laughing, now they’re really having a good time. My style is just a manifestation of me becom-ing an adult and realizing it’s not all about having responsibility. Being an adult is about doing whatever the hell you want because no one else is telling you not to anymore. My parents can’t tell me not to have a rattail. So now I can have a rattail and decide what that particular hairstyle means to me. I’m the person with the rattail. I like

to wear bright clothes and bright things. If something looks awe-some to me, I’m going to put it on my body.

DN: Is your cur-rent tour pulling mostly from your newest album, “War-cries,” or are you per-forming your older music as well?

AD: We’re doing a lot from “Warcries.” It’s a post-apocalyptic-

theme concept album about robots and humans fighting in the future because they forgot how to dance. So we have to go there and teach them how to dance, basically. It’s like a love story in a post-apocalyptic, war-torn world, but it’s all party songs and high energy and epic and triumphant and all those words we like to use to describe our-selves. I’d say about half the set is new stuff and half is a mixture of old stuff.

DN: What’s your fan following like, and how has it grown over the years?

AD: I started doing this music and

thought it would hit college crowds really well and people who dig col-lege humor but really, it’s been much broader than that. The only thing that ties our fans together is that they like to have a good time. We have a ten-dency to win everyone in the crowd over. There will be a couple people at every show that just aren’t digging it or just aren’t feeling it. Someone once said, “The only way to fail is to try to please everybody.” My mom doesn’t like The Beatles, so there’s no one thing that can be liked by everybody. We just try to have a good time, and (if) you like to have a good time and you come to a live show, you’re probably gonna like us.

DN: You’ve put three albums on

iTunes in the past five years. What have you learned about yourself and your music in the process?

AD: If you listen to my demos from my first album compared to now, there’s an obvious and palpable progression in the sophistication level both musically and content-wise. I’ve learned so much about actually mak-ing music and what themes and topics from sexual politics to mythology and types of science-fiction that resonate with me as an artist. I’ve learned what I like. I want to make music I want to hear in the world, and I’m finding out what that is. We had a successful Kickstart campaign and I used that money to revamp my home studio. I recorded all of this new album there,

and I’m really happy with how it came out. I think it sounds really good, and I’ve gotten a good response from it so I’m even more confident in my song-writing abilities.

DN: Many of your songs feature a woman named Anna Vision. How long have you and Anna Vision been working together, and what’s your connection to her?

AD: She’s my wife. We met at my second show ever and in 2009, I con-vinced her to take the stage with me. She helped write one of the songs on the first album, so she’s been in it since the beginning. The last two albums have featured her heavily on backing vocals and chorus. She’s from Omaha originally, but we met in New York.

She moved to Indiana, and we started doing shows while she was getting her second master’s degree at Indiana University. We started doing regional tours, and I pretty much convinced her to start touring with my full-time.

DN: Being based in Indianapolis, is there any shortage of support for dance music like yours? Do you feel like you could have more success on one of the coasts?

AD: I actually got more support when I moved back to Indiana, where I’m from originally. It’s easier to tour from here. I started doing this in New York, but there’s no reason to have a car there. It’s actually a liability to have a car. It was really difficult to tour, and I didn’t play any shows outside New York. Frankly, in New York and L.A, — and we’ve lived in both — people are just so busy. They get to the point where they can’t enjoy living in a cos-tal city because they’re too busy work-ing in the rat race just to make rent. I don’t know if people in the Midwest are more laid back or enjoy taking in culture more or just have more time to do so. I’ll always love New York, but everyone has their own thing going on at all times of the week. Our best places are Walla Walla, Washington and Greenville, South Carolina and Panama City, Florida — places you wouldn’t really expect but we just get great responses.

DN: For any students reading this, how can they mentally prepare for your show at Knickerbocker’s on the 22nd? Or is it even possible to prepare?

AD: (Laughs). All I can say is to expect the unexpected. You have to keep an open mind and be ready to be shocked and surprised and won over. If it’s possible to prepare, that would be my advice: just keep an open mind.


6 tuesday, january 22, 2013 dailynebraskan.com

this week in music

live shows:

railroad earth w/ whitewater

ramblewhen: tuesday, 8 p.m.where: the slowdown, 729 n 14 st., omahahow much: $20 (in advance), $25 (day of show)

satchel Grande w/ wild belle

when: saturday, 9 p.m.where: the slowdown, 729 n 14 st., omahahow much: $10

new in RecoRds:

“la costa Perdida”

artist: camper Van beethovenlabel: 429 recordsgenre: alternative rock

“beta love”artist: ra ra riotlabel: barsukgenre: indie rock

“anything in return”

artist: toro y moilabel: carparkgenre: electronica, chillwave

caRa wilweRdingdn

Karaoke is one thing, but karaoke with a live band is a completely dif-ferent animal, according to audience members at Duffy’s Tavern on Thurs-day nights.

Live karaoke bands are a trend that have recently popped up in Chi-cago, San Francisco and Los Angeles. But Lincoln may have boasted one of the first. Shithook, made up of three middle-aged hooligans, is a regular and well-known group at Duffy’s.

“We started out as a real band, but then it decayed into this,” drum-mer Dave Robel said. “We still play at parties and stuff, but we’ve been playing together every Thursday at Duffy’s Tavern for 19 years.”

That’s a lot of Thursdays. Robel estimated that, over the years, they’ve played between 700 and 1,000 shows together. Last Thursday, they played back-up music for the Gong Show, a new monthly talent show at Duffy’s.

On a regular night, however, per-formers may choose from Shithook’s infamous stack of sheet music that boasts 250 songs. Band members claim to only play about 25 songs out of the stack on any given Thursday, though. Favorites include “Jeremiah was a Bullfrog,” “I Love Rock and Roll,” “Sweet Caroline” and “Hit Me With Your Best Shot.”

“I wouldn’t care if we ever had to play ‘Brown Eyed Girl’ ever again, but it’s so popular we have to leave it

in the pile,” guitarist Phil Shoemaker said.

Along with the regular perform-ers, Shithook has sang back up for LCD Soundsystem, Maroon Five and Bright Eyes. Bassist David Boye said his favorite memory was playing for members of Chicago’s Second City comedy group, who were perform-ing at the Lied Center that weekend.

“They came down here, and Phil asked if they wanted to do a routine here,” Boye said. “They said ‘no,’ but sang all night. Then they got us fifth-row tickets to their performance the next night.”

When singers are doing well on stage, Shithook lets them do their thing. Shoemaker remembers one performer in particular, “a hippie chick,” who couldn’t sing, but cap-tivated the audience with back flips and a crazy show.

“Maybe when there’s a really good singer up there or somebody who’s really a great performer, we kind of have a way of supporting them without getting in the way,” Shoemaker said. “We like to horse around, but sometimes it’s better to step back and let a good singer do his thing.”

Shoemaker said it’s nice to hear a good performance occasionally.

“It’s cool to see someone sing a song and do it really well,” he said. “That can be kind of meaningful. But usually we’ll follow it with some-thing horrible so that takes away the meaning.”

For those who aren’t as comfort-able on stage, Robel, Shoemaker and Boye help calm their nerves. Pamela Myles sang with Shithook at the Gong Show Thursday and said she was nervous before going on stage.

“I started singing and they started playing,” Myles said. “(Shoemaker)

said ‘You’re gonna be all right.’ They just started playing, and it sounded great.”

While Megan Spain has never sung with Shithook before, she’s a regular at Duffy’s and said she sees how the band interacts with audience members.

“They make you feel really com-fortable when you’re on stage,” Spain said. “Even if you’ve never done karaoke, you still feel great. They’re easy-going, and they understand that you may not know all the words. If you have a moment that you don’t know the words, they will play music over it.”

Along with the weekly shows at Duffy’s, Shithook is also known for wedding performances. Some of the couples they perform for actually met at Duffy’s karaoke shows.

Robel said wedding performanc-es can be kind of weird, because some people are unsure about live karaoke.

“A lot of times the bride and groom dig it, but the parents don’t know,” Robel explained. “The thing with Shithook is that a 4-year-old kid will come up and sing ‘Bad to the Bone’ and immediately, everyone loves it.”

While they don’t expect to see fame or fortune come from live kara-oke, members of Shithook said they are content. Duffy’s pays them a little “walking around money,” and they make bar-goers happy. That’s the point, Shoemaker explained.

“It’s not fun to have a lot of origi-nal music and play to eight people, but it’s fun to come down here and have people enjoy themselves, come up and sing and have their friends around,” Shoemaker said. “It’s a good time for everybody.”


party hip-hop artist eschews clothing for chaos

courtesy PHotoandy d’s music and style are part of the no-rules lifestyle he’ll bring to knickerbockers thursday.

recycling the ‘80s means missing true

musical icons

shithook provides comfortable atmosphere at duffy’s tavern

joe wadeMusic is like wine. When analyzing and talking about the two, you can only capture the individual experi-ence of the listener/drinker with similar descriptors.

For example, the song “This Ladder Is Ours” by the band The Joy Formidable off its brand new album, has a punk essence with a pop/rock texture. In wine terms it would be a syrah or shiraz (same thing) with good fruit, black cherry sweetness and a light finish. It’s maybe not as interesting as an old vine classic, such as David Bowie’s coming album, “The Next Day” (scheduled for a March 12 release). But for those who like rebellious, sweet wines, a bottle of The Joy Formidable is nice to have around for a rainy day.

The reason music and wine complement each other is because analytically both are naturally contemplative. The individual is allowed to experience and then imagine whatever comes to mind.

For me, “This Ladder Is Ours” reminds me of bands like The Cranberries, Garbage and an ever so slight hint of the Sex Pistols. There is no real rhyme or reason to that analysis, it just is. Like wine, there is no mathematical formula for making it great. For an artist, there is observation, experimenta-tion and informed choices. Wine is the grapes from the vineyard, to the winery and eventually to someone’s tongue; music is the sound from the instrument, to the studio and then to someone’s ear.

OK, there is a little more to it than that, but a good artist, like cab-ernet grapes, can grow in anything. The question is: Will we like it?

For many, the current musi-cal climate has been seemingly lackluster. Blame YouTube, blame Facebook, blame “American Idol,” blame smartphones and blame Britney Spears (more on her in a bit). Everybody wants to be a star, recording gear is a cheap app and our musical world is overpopulated with talented individuals. This is the new trend. This is the music we are experiencing and going to be ex-periencing. It sucks.

What music lacks is the iconic rock star that breaks the rules and takes us out of the slump. Music needs an individual who will freak out and actually crash the cameras.

It’s like Californian wines: At one point they were new and stood against the grandiose French author-ity of fermented grape juice. Now, however, they may as well be the same thing. Drugs, guns, boobs and f-bombs get blurred and bleeped, but otherwise are a regular occur-

rence. The shock value is gone. With-out the label, I probably couldn’t tell the difference between a $6 bottle and a $600 bottle. Our institutions and open-minded, yet high, moral values produce hipsters with stuffy, casual dress and regard for their fel-low man.

Actually, wait.In the ’50s and early ’60s, these

individuals would have been beat-niks; that’s good soil from which to grow. For them I recommend the new, groovy album by Foxygen. If history repeats itself, we should have a new Bob Dylan to pine after. Burgundy is a favorite of his ac-cording to old interviews. Anyway, all those things I was just blaming are mere clutter and noise, which we are experts at ignoring; possibly just fodder for humorous memes. Again, just like wine: At some point the alcohol takes over, and we don’t care what it tastes like as long as the glass isn’t fucking emp-ty. That is a sad, scary thought be-cause some of the clutter and noise could be worth savoring.

So what is up with will.i.am’s “Scream & Shout” featuring Britney? This is not the direction I hoped music would go. In the video she is fist-pumping and singing in a pseu-do British accent. And, if you listen closely to the chord progression it’s the same as Journey’s 1981 hit “Don’t Stop Believing.”

I wonder if Axis of Awesome has noticed. This pseudo ’80s trend should be noticed for the wine cooler it is. On the bright side, both ‘80s tunes and wine coolers are good for a party.

The odd thing, so far, in 2013 is that the ‘80s similarities keep com-ing.

Solange’s “True” is a ’80s throw-back. One of MTV’s artists to watch, Robert DeLong, has the “Global Concepts” video that opens with him standing at a keyboard in A Flock of Seagulls’s “I Ran” fashion. Maybe it’s just me, but Tamar Braxton’s new video for “Love and War” has a cer-tain Michael Bolton vibe to it.

Most music fans have a favorite ’80s one-hit-wonder, but it’s safe to like it because those songs are com-partmentalized in a bygone decade.

The ghastly extraterrestrial fash-ions — pop stars using too much AquaNet hairspray — were not freely roaming our streets; just the Pandora’s Box of our YouTube recommenda-tions. But to have a trend like this come into the fullness of popularity, at least, could be cathartic in getting it out of our system.

For me, it’s like the rare craving for the gut-rot that comes in a brown paper bag. Four-day hangovers are rough, but they prove a point: things could always be worse.

joe wade is a junior jour-nalism major. reacH Him at

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One could call Yo La Tengo’s new album, “Fade,” archetypal or even genre-defining.

However, I don’t mean these in the sense that generally comes to mind. I mean “Fade” could be used to define the term indie-rock. There is nothing exciting, new or surprising on the now nearly 3-decade-old group’s most recent effort, and perhaps this is also unsurprising, considering it comes from a group that has made critically acclaimed music for so long.

Moving past this, one real-izes “Fade” is actually very well-constructed. It has a diverse and pleasant sonic palette, complete with droning strings and horns alike, in no small part aided by the band’s work with a new pro-ducer, John McEntire (of Tortoise), for the first time in its long career.

Thematically, Yo La Tengo grapples throughout “Fade” with the harshness of enlightenment that comes with age, and, in do-ing so, it seems to suggest a co-herent and robust philosophy. It begins with “Ohm,” a song built on a single, building, jangly chord that is at once nostalgic and exis-tentialist: “But nothing ever stays the same/Nothing’s explained/Lose no more time/No time.”

This almost post-modernist philosophical attitude abounds in “Fade.” It is a continual acknowl-edgement of the strict limits of mortality culminating in a song that literally asks, what is “The Point of It.”

The record also hints at the dynamics of a relationship that is both a marriage and musi-cal partnership. Frontman and songwriter Ira Kaplan is married to Georgia Hubley, the band’s percussionist. She primarily sings backup, but in the album’s best song, “Cornelia and Jane,” she is the only vocalist.

It’s through this relationship that Ira and Georgia find sol-ace and shelter from the mortal blues that pervades the album. When they ask what “The Point of It” is or when they worry about “running out of time,” the answer inevitably lies in the shared experience of two

people, contentiously that of this spousal songwriting duet. This is best shown from “Before we Run:” “Pulling in all of this, and then we run/Running away from the end/Running away from the end/Running away to say/There’s only us.”

There is a lot to relate to in this relatively short, 10-track al-bum. For fans of the band, or for straight ahead indie-rock, “Fade” delivers. Yo La Tengo has been a steady hand of the indie scene for almost 30 years, and this new al-bum has solidified that position for them.


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A film starring Academy Award-winner Russell Crowe and the new lead of the “Transformers” fran-chise, Mark Wahlberg, seems like it would be a sure thing. A film that’s set against the backdrop of the breathtaking New York City skyline seems like it would convey a grand, overarching story. Ultimately, “Bro-ken City” falls short in achieving both of these mild goals.

Wahlberg (“Boogie Nights,” “The Departed”) is Billy Taggart, a police officer who is introduced to us immediately after shooting a young man to death. The details of the night are kept purposefully vague until the climax of the film, but director Alan Hughes and writer Brian Tucker make it their mission to paint every character a shade of gray. Police Commissioner Carl Fairbanks (Jeffrey Wright), Mayor Hostetler (Crowe), congressmen and even cops themselves are all schemers. Each character is a pro-ficient liar with the ability to stab anyone in the back (metaphorically) or shoot someone in the head (liter-ally).

Nobody personifies the sleazi-ness that permeates the New York of “Broken City” like the mayor.

Crowe’s sliminess oozes off the screen as he talks about helping or-dinary folks during a debate after it’s been revealed he just ordered a hit on one of his enemies. All of the moral ambiguity is nice, but it can be hard to find a place for the audience to establish an emotional investment when the choices are which murderer to root for. Wahl-berg lends physical authenticity and toughness to his role, but he doesn’t show much complexity or likability beyond that.

The mayor seems unfazed by the sketchiness of Taggart’s emotional stability and champions him as a hero after he’s acquitted of charges. Commissioner Fairbanks doesn’t see eye to eye with Mayor Hostetler and forces Taggart to step down. We flash forward seven years later, where we find the ex-cop struggling to get by as a private investigator and living on the wagon with his girlfriend (Natalie Martinez).

Tucker gives the meatiest dia-logue to Crowe and Wahlberg and leaves the obtuse for the rest. In the first scene between the Taggart and his girlfriend, she utters the lines “I’m an actress” and “I’m a vegetar-ian” to define her character. Normal humans never speak this way, and lazy introductions such as this al-ways distract from the overall aspi-rations of the film.

Mayor Hostetler hires Taggart to follow his wife, who he suspects of infidelity. $25,000 now, $25,000 when the deal is done. As we know from the brief amount of time spent in the “Broken City” and from what wrestling legend “The Million Dol-

lar Man” Ted Dibiase told us, every-body has a price. Cathleen Hostetler (Catherine Zeta-Jones) is the most virtuous character in the film, which is like being the most famous per-son on “Dancing With The Stars.” She doesn’t really get a chance to do much, though, as most of the time we see her is through Taggart’s cam-era lens as he stalks her.

With the zigzag way the story unfolds, the mystery and general aura of menacing paranoia that runs rampant, “Broken City” would make a perfect film for a master-ful director like Alfred Hitchcock

or Martin Scorsese. Unfortunately, Hughes can’t quite seem to pull all of these story threads together into one cohesive package. The perfor-mances are mostly there, especially

the perennial stalwart Kyle Chan-dler, but it’s not enough to make up for the clichéd dialogue and pat ending. “Broken City” isn’t a terrible film, it’s just another in a long line

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The undisputed Queen of Pop in the 21st century apparently comes from a talented line.

Beyonce’s little sister, Solange, is heating things up with the re-lease of her new EP “True,” which was produced by Solange and Dev Hynes.

The album has been available digitally since November, but on Jan. 8 was brought into Madon-na’s “material world.”

In a recent interview on KISS FM in London, the R&B singer said her next full-length album is at least a year away. How-ever, with the radioactive, retro warmth of “True,” I doubt fans will mind waiting.

This is one of those albums the listener has to feel his or her way through. Solange doesn’t even give the listener the option to do anything but feel.

The hypnotic, rhythmic embrace of the opening track, “Losing You,” is drenched with campy, New Wave warmth and 21st-century radio friendliness. In other words, for all those mu-sic fans who have been saying music was better back in when-ever, this could be the album they’ve been wanting. Vocally, Solange commands a rich, occa-sionally wispy, dynamic. It’s like Mariah Carey paired with Martin Gore from Depeche Mode and

Quincy Jones as the engineer.The feeling of nostalgia on

this album takes me back to when I first started listening to pop tunes. I’d lie awake in bed, pretending to sleep if my parents came to check, listening to the radio. The smooth sound of stu-dio-created, synth-based music from artists such as Janet Jack-son and Prince, when he was still “Prince,” opened my world to all the things non-John Denver. The music, then and now, has a spa-cious groove for the listener to sink into. It’s the feeling of new-but-familiar that makes “True” exceptional to the Top 40 songs that have grown so tiresome.

Pop tunes are generally danceable, baby-makin’ anthems, and for the better part of contem-porary music, there has been a lot of curvaceous booty shakin’ go-ing on. Conversely, the area of ac-tion during the 1980s New Wave scene was mostly in the shoul-

ders. The tight mix on “Some Things Never Seem to Fucking Work,” aside from being a dark and moody ballad, certainly has me attempting to Pop’n Lock. Yeah, it’s that kind of nostalgia.

Lyrically “Some Things” con-veys a heartbreaking moment of telling a former lover to stay away. The soul Solange has put into this song is an image of Rich-ard Gere sitting alone at a piano or, sadly, me dancing by myself to Janet Jackson’s song “Again” alone in my room at age eight.

Musically, the rhythmic punchiness begs for the fluid softness of the instruments. Go-ing back to the idea of feeling, the complimentary mix of rhythm and melody is soothing. The only

out-of-place element on the al-bum occurs on “Some Things” when a male vocalist enters on the second half of the song. It sounds gimmicky and was too typical of the ’80s and early ’90s.

The rest of the album is more of the same nostalgic fun for listeners to enjoy repeatedly. “Locked in Closets” is a must-listen. My favorite is “Bad Girls (Verdine Version)” for its brood-ing vibe and ethereal counter-melody. Non-pop fans may not appreciate this album, but I pre-dict most of us will be hearing these songs whether we want to or not.



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Travel back in time with me for a moment to 1993. The Queens-based hip-hop collective, A Tribe Called Quest, is releasing its third studio album, “Mid-night Marauders.” I am 2 years old at the time and as such, am unaware of this release. I have no idea of its buttery-smooth beats or the vibes of “Electric Relaxation” being pioneered. I lack any notion of the unique-ness of its style or of the spon-taneous and honest lyrics be-ing delivered in rhythm so as to melt and become one with the instrumentals. I am utterly oblivious to one of the quint-essential albums of hip-hop’s rich history.

Snap back to 2013. Many

people still have never listened to A Tribe Called Quest. May-be you’re one of them. Maybe you’re one of the people who dismisses rap music as cacoph-onous, shallow and vulgar, based only on what is played on the radio. Do me a favor. Listen to “Midnight Maraud-ers.” Listen to A Tribe Called Quest. Listen to Jurassic 5, Hieroglyphics, Mos Def, Com-mon and the countless other Golden Age rap artists. The hip-hop of the ’90s was soul-ful and conscientious. It was the product of a cultural move-ment rooted in togetherness and creativity. It was so fresh, and that’s why “Midnight Ma-rauders” (plus most all of ’90s hip-hop) will always be “my jam.”


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With smooth and rythmic sound, Beyonce’s rising sister impresses

Director Alan Hughes fails to successfully create cult of mystery and paranoia

courtesy PHotorussell crowe and catherine zeta-jones star alongside mark Wahlberg in the new york crime drama “broken city.” the film is wrought with corrupt public officials and seedy urban underbellies.

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Veteran band asks “What is the point?” throughout new album

courtesy PHotosolance strikes a balance on her new ep “true” between top 40 sugar and the spice of a layered ‘80s homage. the artist’s third solo effort was released earlier this month.

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Between the NWU Invitation-al and the adidas Classic, the Husker track and field team had a busy weekend. It was a success-ful weekend, too.

At the NWU Invitational on Jan. 18, the Huskers won four titles. Mila Andric won the 60 meter hurdles with a time of 8.70. Greta Kerekes placed after An-dric with a time of 8.73. On the men’s side Janis Leitis won the 60 meter dash with a time of 6.92. Teddy Lampkin placed after Le-itis with a recorded a time of 6.99.

“Overall both the men and women had good meets. We had a few people on the men’s side that we need to get back into the fold and competing,” Nebraska coach Gary Pepin said.

Veronica Grizzle won the weight throw with 57-2 1/4 and Tristen Sharp came in second with a throw of 55-6 1/4.

Patrick Raedler jumped 49-8 1/4 winning the men’s triple jump. Seth Wiedel followed with a jump of 45-10 3/4. Devandrew Johnson set a personal record of 6-8 1/4 winning the high jump.

At the adidas Classic on Jan. 19, both the men’s and women’s team won the meet overall. The men’s team won 205.33 points while the women’s team won 207 points. They also won 19 event titles combined.

James White placed first in high jump for the second week in a row with a height of 7-0 1/4. Carlos Hernandez placed second with a jump of 6-8 3/4 while Tra-

vis Englund placed third with a leap of 6-8 3/4. On the women’s side Jillanna Scanlan recorded a personal best of 5-9 1/4 to place third in high jump. Coach Dusty Jonas was pleased with the jump-ers performances.

”I think they did well on both sides for the most part. We are still working pretty hard and are working towards doing well at the conference championships,” Jonas said.

Mara Griva won the women’s long jump title with a mark of 19-7. Kari Heck jumped 18-7 1/4 earning her third place. On the triple jump side, Anna Weigandt won with a leap of 40-7.

Leitis competed in long jump in the adidas Classic and placed first with a leap of 24-8 1/4. Raedler finished after Le-itis with a mark of 23-11. Nikita Pan-kins leaped 23-10 1/4 securing him third place with Teddy Lampkin placing after him with a mark of 32-4 1/2.

Chad Wright won the men’s shot put with a throw of 61-6 1/4. He is now ranked third in the na-tion and leads the Big Ten in shot put. Taylor Shapland earned sec-ond place with a throw of 57-5 this also ranks him sixth in the Big Ten. Cole Ingram competed in the weight throw and placed fourth with a mark of 56-10 1/4.

On the women’s side of shot put, Annie Jackson put up a mark of 52-5 1/2. This personal record ranks her fifth in the Big Ten. Carlie Pinkelman placed second with a mark of 50-3 1/2. Veronica Grizzle took third with a throw of 49-0 1/4. Tristen Sharp placed fourth with a throw of 46-5 1/4.

Tess Merril earned her first

event title in the pole vault with a mark of 12-8 1/4. Craig Driver placed second on the men’s side with a height of 16-1 3/4. Erik Sutterfield came in fourth with a mark of 15-7 3/4. Christian Sand-erfer tied with Sutterfield but came in fifth.

Andric competed in both meets this weekend and won the 60 meter hurdles with a per-sonal best of 8.60. This ranks her seventh in the Big Ten. Oladapo Akinmoladun won the 60 me-ter hurdles with a time of 7.83, which ranks him eighth in the na-tion and first in the Big Ten.

Jessica Furlan earned first place in the mile with a time of 4:47.07, she is currently ranked third in the Big Ten and thir-

teenth in the en-tire nation. Con-nor Gibson placed third with a time of 4:10.22, his per-sonal best. He is also ranked No. 8 in the Big Ten.

Mara Weekes recorded a time of 7.54 in the 60 meter dash secur-ing her first place. Breunna McCarty

came in fourth recording a time of 7.67. Weekes also won the 200 meter dash with a time of 24.24.

Tommy Brinn continues to be ranked first in the Big Ten for the 600 meters and ran a time of 1:18.06. On the women’s side, Jelena Andjelkovic placed sec-ond, recording a time of 1:33.94. Ellie Grooters came in after An-djelkovic, recording a time of 1:35.31. Morgan Woitzel finished after them placing fourth and earning a time of 1:36.25.

Leitis also competed in the 200 meters and won the event with a time of 231.45. Furlan won the 800 meter with a time of 2:12.38 and on the men’s side,

Alney Tobias won with a time of 1:53.82. London Hawk came in third, recording a time of 1:54.13.

In the women’s 3,000 meters, Katie White placed first recording a time of 9:56.83. On the men’s side Trevor Vidlak placed third and recorded a time of 8:35.70.

The men’s and women’s

4x400 meter relay teams both won event titles. Heck, Andric, Shawnice Williams and Weeks ran a time of 3:46.73 while Levi Gipson, Ricco Hall, Miles Ukao-ma and Jodi-Rae Blackwood re-corded a time of 3:12.70.

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The No.7 Nebraska women’s gym-nastics team won all four events en route to a 196.7-192.1 win against Michigan State Saturday at the Bob Devaney Sports Center.

The Huskers, after opening on the road in Ann Arbor, Mich., returned home to host the Spar-tans of East Lansing, Mich., in the Huskers’ home opener.

“It was nice to come back home and have a strong performance like we had,” women’s gymnastics coach Dan Kendig said. “This was a great team win, but we know we are not where we want to be. We need to keep working, but we are getting better.”

Junior Emily Wong was the top performer overall Saturday night, earning three individual event ti-tles and the all-around title. Wong earned awards on vault (9.90), un-even bars (9.95) and beam (9.925), totaling a 39.650 all-around perfor-mance.

“Emily is a gem, in so many ways,” Kendig said. “First of all, she is a great student. Her work ethic is very good, and she tries to get better and better everyday. She did a great job tonight.”

Returning to Lincoln, in front of the home crowd, gave the Husk-ers a little bit more energy, Wong said.

“The crowd tonight was amaz-ing,” Wong said. “It was one of the bigger crowds I have seen since I have been here. It is great to have their support, and it gave us a lot of energy tonight.”

Kendig agreed, saying, “The crowd is a big help. They pick up our athletes to do better. It means a lot to have their support.”

The Huskers started the night off on vault, totaling a score of 49.05. Emily Wong led the way with a high of 9.90 and sophomore Jessie DeZiel followed close be-hind with a 9.85.

“Jessie is tremendous competi-tor,” Kendig said. “She works very hard, and it showed tonight.”

Nebraska followed up the strong score on vault with an even better performance on the bars.

Wong led the Huskers with a career-best score of 9.95. DeZiel and sophomore Jennifer Lauer each added a 9.90 to the mix.

The Huskers totaled a 49.45 on the bars. Coach Kendig was very pleased with the result.

“So far this season, through one meet and all the practice meets, we have not broken a 49 on bars,” Kendig said. “That was the highlight of the night, to get a good score on bars. We started off good on vault and continued with the bars.”

Freshman Hollie Blanske, a Minnesota native, provided anoth-er spark for the Huskers.

Blanske set a meet-high on the floor routine with a score of 9.90. It was not known, however, if she would be able to go on Saturday. Kendig is glad she did.

“A few days ago, we weren’t sure is she would go tonight,” Ken-dig said. “Hollie suffered a knee in-jury in high school, and we didn’t want any setbacks. But we’re glad she did go, because she looked good.”

The Huskers next three meets are all against ranked opponents, starting Friday at Ohio State. Coach Kendig said that is not the focus, however.

“We just have to focus on us and on getting better,” Kendig said. “We can’t worry about what other teams are doing. We can only focus on what we can control.”

Nebraska returns home to the Devaney Center on Feb. 1 when they take on conference opponent Illinois.


penn statePenn State’s dominance showed full force with an 84-

40 victory against Wisconsin on Jan. 17, which extended the No. 8 Lady Lions’ winning streak to eight. Maggie Lu-cas (19 points per game) and Alex Bentley (12 points and 4 assists) seem to be one of the top duos in the country.

purdueThree straight overtime victories over Illinois (one OT),

Nebraska (one OT) and Ohio State (triple OT) have boost-ed Purdue’s confidence of finishing off games through the roof. A small road-bump at Iowa (a 62-46 loss) derailed the No. 15 Boilermakers for a moment, but there’s no doubt they’ll be able to keep up with Penn State to contend for the Big Ten title.

michiganThe 15-2 Wolverines have yet to lose in Big Ten Play

and are finally ranked in the Top 25, now sitting at No. 23. after a 67-53 win against Northwestern on Jan. 17. Behind Katie Thompson’s 15.8 points per game and 48 percent shooting from three, Michigan could give Penn State some trouble on in the coming weeks.

michigan stateAside from getting pummeled by Penn State on Jan.

6 76-55, Michigan State has been nothing short of impres-sive, with wins against Illinois, Iowa and Indiana. A Jan. 24 matchup with Nebraska will be vital for the Spartans to be in the top tier of the Big Ten.

nebraskaA disappointing 62-52 loss at home to Illinois on Jan.

17 sent Nebraska back a few steps, but a dominant 84-63 win at Minnesota seemed to get them back on track. Jor-dan Hooper has been stellar for the Huskers thus far, aver-aging 17.8 points per game, and senior Lindsey Moore has also been a stud, with 15.5 points per game and 5.5 assists.

iowaIowa had an impressive win over No. 12 Purdue on

Jan. 20 62-46. The Hawkeyes are the first team to really ex-ploit the Boilermakers on offense, and stifled a very high-powered offense. The Hawkeyes could very well win a few in a row if they can continue their defensive pressure.

illinoisIllinois (10-8, 3,3) will be lucky to finish above

.500 this season because of its inconsistency. They beat a solid Nebraska team on Jan. 17, only to lose to a mediocre Northwestern team on Jan. 20. Ka-risma Penn has been a consistent star for Illinois, though, with 18.6 points and 10.3 rebounds per game.

minnesotaThough 13-6, Minnesota doesn’t seem to be able

to play with lots of Big Ten teams. It got blown out at home by Nebraska and one of its two wins is a five-point win against Wisconsin, who is currently last in the league.

indianaIndiana’s sole win in the Big Ten was a 68-64

win against Northwestern on Jan. 6, and since then it has struggled to even compete, losing by double digits to Nebraska, Ohio State and Michigan State. Aulani Sinclair seems to be the only bright spot in this group, averaging 18.1 points per game.

northwesternNorthwestern’s 9-9 record has them in the bot-

tom of the Big Ten, and so far, an easy win for teams that are going to contend for the Big Ten title. The Wildcats haven’t scored more than 72 points yet this year and really struggle to score against any defensive pressure.

ohio stateThe Ohio State team that took Purdue into triple

overtime on Jan. 14 and the Ohio State team that lost to Wisconsin on Jan. 20 seem like polar oppo-sites and is why they are at the bottom of the list. Inconsistent is an understatement for this team.

wisconsinWisconsin will be lucky to get another game

like they did against Ohio State on Jan. 20. The Badgers average just 59 points per game and shoot just 36 percent from the floor. That’s not exactly a winning formula.

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The NU men’s gymnastics team couldn’t overcome a poor start and finished fourth in the Stanford Open on Saturday in Palo Alto, Calif.

The Huskers did improve three points from their last meet, but it wasn’t enough to beat No. 3 Oklahoma, No. 5 Stanford or No. 6 University of California, Berkeley.

The results were: Stanford-437.55, Okla-homa-433.45, UC Berke-ley-425.9, and Nebras-ka- 421.9.

“We just had a poor start,” coach Chuck Chmelka said. “But we kept fight-ing and kept our composure to have a strong finish.”

A possible factor for the poor start was crowd noise, Nebraska gymnasts said.

“The more people there re-ally motivates me to do better, and takes some of the pressure off me,” said junior co-captian Eric Schryver. “The noise could have

really put some pressure on the younger and newer guys.”

Although the meet was in Cali-fornia, the Huskers had a large fan section.

“The judges had to cover their ears during the parallel bars be-

cause it was so loud in there,” Schryver said.

The Huskers also had to face adver-sity in the tournament when sophomore An-drew House suffered an injury while com-peting in the vault. He injured his knee and is not expected to return to the team any time in the near future.

“Our emotions are down due to a key teammate going down with an injury,” junior

co-captain Mark Ringle said.This year’s Husker team has a

lot of camaraderie and is the closest team that Schryver has ever been on, he said, and this helped the team put up a strong finish in the tour-nament.

The Huskers finished the tour-nament on the parallel bars and the high bars.

Nebraska had very little, if any, mistakes on parallel bars, accord-ing to Chmelka, and freshman Sam Chamberlain put up a team-high score of 14.40. The high bar had a similar outcome for the Huskers.

“With the way we finished, we really showed everyone what we were made of,” Schryver said. “We were right there with those teams at the end.”

The overall feeling from the team is that they left points on the floor and they made a lot of mis-takes, but even with all of that they still improved from the first tourna-ment.

“Everything that went right in the Rocky Mountain Open went wrong this week. Everything that went wrong in the last tournament went right this week,” Chmelka said. “If you could put the two together, then we killed it. That’s where we are trying to get.”

Even with a good start to the season, the Huskers are in a position to continue building and improving every day, Ringle said.

“It’s all forward progress for us, and the mistakes we made are easily fixed,” Ringle said.


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michiganA decisive 83-75 win against No. 9 Minnesota on

the road solidified Michigan as the top dog in the Big Ten. The team members show shades of the 1994 “Fab Five” team with their incredible athleticism and their ease to score. Trey Burke could very well be on his way to a Big Ten Player of the Year award, averag-ing 18 points and shooting 50 percent from the field thus far.

indianaDropping a game at home to Wisconsin really

hurt Indiana, but they still seem to be in control of most of their season. Cody Zeller may be out of the Player of the Year spotlight, but is still producing great numbers for his team, shooting 62 percent from the floor and averaging 18 points and eight boards a game.

wisconsinWhy Wisconsin isn’t ranked in the AP Top 25 is

unfathomable. Besides a small hiccup at Iowa on Jan. 19, the Badgers seem to be kryptonite to every Big Ten powerhouse thus far. A huge win at then-No. 2 Indiana really raised some eyebrows, especially after beating No. 12 Illinois just days before. A three-game stretch against No. 13 Michigan State, No. 12 Minne-sota and No. 14 Ohio State in the coming days will really show if this team is ready for that Top 25 rank.

minnesotaArguably the most athletic team top to bot-

tom with all five starters averaging better than nine points, Minnesota hasn’t caught many breaks in the past few weeks, playing top-tier teams and just barely losing. An 88-81 loss at Indiana and an 83-75 home loss to Michigan has Minnesota on their longest los-ing streak of the year.

michigan stateMichigan State’s last loss was a month ago, to

then-No. 9 Minnesota 76-63. Since then, Purdue, Iowa, Nebraska, Penn State and Ohio State have all had to deal with Tom Izzo’s squad and its hard-nosed defense. The Spartans have only given up more than 65 points once this entire year, which was an 81-72 win against Penn State.

ohio stateRounding out the very top heavy-Big Ten is Ohio

State, whose crowning achievement thus far is a 56-53 win against No. 2 Michigan. Deshaun Thomas has been solid all year for the Buckeyes, playing a large role in the team’s offensive sets, and averaging 20.8 points and 6.6 rebounds per game.

purduePurdue continues its reign as the best of the worst

in the Big Ten. The Boilermakers squeaked out a win in Lincoln against Nebraska 65-56 on Jan. 16 and pound-ed Penn State 60-42 on Jan 13. But the team has yet to prove it can play with the big guns. Purdue will get its next opportunity to prove itself with a matchup against No. 2 Michigan on Jan. 24.

iowaIowa stayed on track to a possible NCAA bid with

an impressive 70-66 win against Wisconsin on Jan. 19. No individual player stands out for the Hawkeyes (their leading scorer, Ron Devyn Marble, averages just under 15 points per game) but their cohesiveness and chemistry has given lots of teams trouble. A matchup with No. 14 Ohio State would really look good on Io-wa’s resume to get into the tournament in March.

northwesternNorthwestern’s 11-8 record really shows where

this team stands: just a bit ahead of the curve, but re-ally nothing to write home about. Reggie Hearn leads the team with 14.5 points per game and 4.6 rebounds per game and has two counterparts who average above 10 points per game with him as well (Drew Crawford and Dave Sobolewski), but those three won’t be giving many teams trouble in the near future.

illinoisOnce one of the best teams now looks like a team

searching vigorously for identity. Illinois ranked 302 in the country in assists per game (10.8) and is ranked 66 in the country in pointer per game (72.8.) Which clear-ly means there’s way too much one-on-one play, and not nearly enough movement of the ball.

nebraskaNebraska’s first Big Ten win would be a very im-

pressive one ... if it weren’t against the worst team in the league. A 68-64 win against Penn State gave Ne-braska just above a .500 record (10-9) which may be one of the last times it can say that for the remainder of the year. A Jan. 22 meeting with Illinois is a tough matchup for Nebraska, who only goes seven deep on a good night.

penn stateIf moral victories were accounted for, Penn State

might lead the Big Ten. Decent efforts against Nebras-ka (a 68-64 loss) and No. 18 Michigan State (a 81-72 loss) made games close, which is about as much as you can say about this team.

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told him the other day that there’s no ceiling here, there’s no ceiling. Don’t just be happy with 18 or whatever it might be because the sky’s the limit.”

Shields finished the first half sinking all of his seven attempted field goals successfully and con-tinued the hot streak ending with a 10-for-11 showing from the floor. His near-perfect performance is one shy of a Husker freshman re-cord, which was set by Tyron Lue when he made 30 points against Oregon in the 1995-96 season.

Miles said he only sees Shields improving from Saturday’s game through the rest of his collegiate ca-reer. The guard was awarded the Big Ten Freshman of the Week honor

Monday for his star-studded perfor-mance against Penn State.

“You got a great opportunity here to build this program right with us, and he’s got a chance to be really, really good player. Tonight was critical and he was huge. I think he’s just going to get better and better,” Miles said.

And if the Huskers hope to build on their latest victory, they are going to need a couple more stellar performances by Shields and his teammates.

After its first road win in over a month, Nebraska will return home to host Illinois (14-5, 1-4). In their last matchup (Feb. 18, 2012), the Huskers shot 55.6 per-cent from the floor en route to an

80-57 win. The Feb. 18 matchup still stands as the highest shooting percentage put on by the Huskers in conference play since its inau-guration in 2011.

Although the Huskers em-barrassed the Fighting Illini with its best marginal victory last sea-son, the home team knows it can’t downplay its opponents on Tues-day night, Ubel said.

“That was definitely a fun game but this is a different team this year for both of us,” the senior forward said. “Obviously, we both have new coaches, new styles, a few new players — so it’s definitely going to be different.”


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waiting for someone else on the team to elevate his competitive-ness to the level of Kokesh and Ih-nen — and Johnson filled the void Friday night.

“It’s a slow building job of get-ting some of our other guys to real-ly believe and trust in themselves,” Manning said.

In the first match of the dual at 133 pounds, Illinois’ Daryl Thomas (No. 11) beat Shawn Nagel 10-8. No. 8 Conrad Polz and No. 11 Ma-rio Gonzalez also won their match-es for the Illini.

Entering the heavyweight bout, Nebraska had a 15-9 lead with two

matches and Illinois’ best wrestler — No. 5 125-pounder Jesse Delgado — still to come, and Johnson knew his match was going to be vital.

“I’ve had a number of matches like that. Thinking back in high school where I would have to win to win the dual,” Johnson said. “It feels like a lot of pressure, but you’ve got to rise to the occasion and just know that you’ve got to trust in your conditioning and trust in your tech-nique.”

After a scoreless first period, Johnson scored the only point of the second period with an escape. In the third period, Johnson started on top of

Lopez — who had a stall warning to give a point to Johnson — and stayed on top until Lopez escaped with eight seconds left. Johnson added a point for a riding time advantage of more than a minute.

In the waning seconds of John-son’s 3-1 decision, his teammates stood up and contorted their bodies, willing Johnson to stay on top with their body language. But Johnson was too busy to notice.

“I was so focused in on my match that I had no clue what they were do-ing,” Johnson said.


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what her team accomplished Satur-day, she said.

“Even though we didn’t win, we stepped up in a big way,” Un-derwood said. “Very tempting to think about instant success, in the end we were rewarded.”

Nebraska has a lot to be happy about after Saturday. The Huskers fared well against the No. 1 team in the country, while they also put up their second-best performance of the season, which should help

them out with qualifying for the NCAA championship for the first time since 2010.

Next Saturday begins the Withrow Invitational in Murray, Kent. The invite will be hosted by No. 9 Murray State. Other nota-ble teams competing in the meet are No. 15 Ohio State, No. 16 Ten-nessee-Martin, No. 18 Columbus State and No. 20 UTEP.

The Huskers are confident heading into next weekend’s

two-week invitational after com-peting against No. 1 West Virgin-ia and also being the top-ranked team that will be competing in the invite. The meet will span over two weekends (Jan. 19 and Jan. 26). If the Nebraska rifle team shoots like it did on last Saturday then look for them to find a spot in the NCAA championship this season.


The only match in a dual between Nebras-ka and Illinois Friday that did not feature a nationally ranked wrestler gave way to

the loudest roar of the night in-side the NU Coliseum.

Nebraska heavyweight Spen-cer Johnson led Illinois’ Chris Lo-pez 2-1 entering the third period of their match, and Johnson did not relent. With his Husker team-mates standing and hollering in front of their bench and the Coli-seum crowd bellowing into the rafters, Johnson stayed on top of Lopez for nearly the entire final period and won the match 3-1.

“I could hear the crowd roar-

ing,” Johnson said. “I knew I could ride that kid out.”

Johnson’s victory in the sec-ond-to-last match of the dual gave the No. 14 Huskers an 18-9 lead against fifth-ranked Illinois, and Nebraska held on to upset the Fighting Illini 18-15.

With the exception of the heavyweight match, in which neither wrestler was ranked, each match was won by the higher ranked competitor. No. 19 Ridge Kiley, No. 12 Jake Sue-flohn, No. 4 James Green, No. 4 Robert Kokesh and No. 8 Josh Ihnen won their matches for the Huskers, but Nebraska coach Mark Manning wants his team’s non-ranked wrestlers to step up.

“We’ve got to be better there,” Manning said. “You’ve got to beat good people.”

Kokesh defeated No. 8 Jordan Blanton 8-3 to earn his 20th con-secutive victory, and Ihnen beat No. 18 Tony Dallago with a 5-4

decision. Ihnen trailed with less than a minute remaining in the match before getting a point off a Dallago penalty, earning an es-cape and avoiding another take-down to squeeze out the win.

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Tim Miles gazed up at the scoreboard with a distinct smile on his face.

It was a look neither the Nebraska men’s basketball team nor its fans have seen in three weeks. The coach and his players had finally won their first Big Ten Confer-ence game of the season.

After dropping their last five consecutive matches, the Huskers de-feated Penn State 68-64 on the road to improve to 1-5 in conference play this season and 10-9 overall.

Freshman guard Shavon Shields led the offensive forefront with a career-high 29 points, while senior guard Ray Gallegos and senior for-ward Brandon Ubel notched 15 and 12 points, respectively.

The three top scorers anchored Nebraska to its first victory since its 68-59 trump on Dec. 29 against Nicholls State.

“It’s never easy to go on the road and get a win, especially in confer-ence,” Ubel said after the first game he played in nearly two weeks. “The fact that we could get our first win on the road, and now we’re coming back home — we definitely got some good confidence.”

Going into Saturday’s match, Ne-braska and Penn State resembled each other in several ways, including their two last-place positions in the confer-ence standings and injured senior players.

Penn State was hit with staggering news when senior guard Tim Frazier suffered a season-ending injury in November. The absence of the team’s leading scorer through three games (21.7 points) has resulted to a 0-6 re-cord (8-10 overall) in conference play.

Fortunately for the Huskers, its in-jured player, Ubel, would be back on the court after just two games.

The senior forward’s presence proved valuable as he went on to sink a total 12 points, with half coming from free-throws. Penn State, which entered the matinee leading the conference in free throws, shot just 62.5 percent (15-for-24) Saturday, in-cluding five consecutive missed free throws late in the game.

Penn State coach Patrick Cham-bers said the Nittany Lion’s inability to execute on foul shots played a vital role in his team’s loss.

“You have to shoot a high clip be-cause getting to the foul line is difficult in this league,” he said. “When you get there you have to convert.”

Nebraska finished with a perfect showing from the foul line, nailing all 16 attempts, including an 8-for-8 showing by Shields.

Although freshman guards also led the team with six turnovers, Miles said he was more than pleased with the numbers Shields put up on offense.

“He just keeps getting better and better,” the coach said. “I think I

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With qualifying for the NCAA Championship approaching, the eighth-ranked Huskers’ focus was crucial against No. 1 West Virginia Saturday at the Moun-taineer Rifle Range in Morgantown, W.Va.

The Mountaineers had an overall record of 9-0 heading into Sat-urday’s matchup. They were also 4-0 against Great America Rifle Conference opponents. While the Mountaineers were trying to keep an undefeated season alive, the Huskers were shoot-ing for their ninth win of the season (8-4 overall).

Saturday morning in Morgan-town, W Va., started out with small-bore competition. Nebraska was led by senior Janine Dutton, shooting 580, which was the highest total in the category for the team that day. Nebraska had shot above season av-erage that day finishing with 2,303 point in smallbore.

However, Nebraska trailed West Virginia 2,324-2,303.

The Huskers performed above average in smallbore, but the team

did their best on the air rifle range. Nebraska scored 10 points above

its season average on the air rifle range. Three personal bests were set Saturday. Sophomore Kelsey Han-sen shot 589, senior Katelyn Wolt-ersdorf shot 591 and Junior ReAnn

Wilson shot 584. Senior Janine Dut-

ton had another great weekend, shooting 591 in air rifle and 580 in smallbore. Dutton is currently holding the highest-average score in both categories for the Huskers. Saturday was her second highest score in air rifle compe-tition and she also tied her highest total of the season.

“Janine’s been great; she held us in there,” Nebraska coach Stacy Underwood said. “It’s very comforting for everyone else when she’s setting a steady score.”

Even though the team set a season-high air rifle score with 2,352 points, the Huskers lost to the Mountaineers 4,689-4,661. West Vir-ginia finished the day with 2,365 in air rifle. Underwood was still satis-fied with the results and proud of

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The lead changed 11 times before the Nebraska women’s basketball team was able to secure an 84-63 win against Minnesota Sunday.

Senior guard Lindsey Moore led the attack for the Huskers, tal-lying 26 points and seven assists.

“We just wanted to play well for ourselves,” Moore said after the game. “We talked a lot about that in the locker room before the game and that we haven’t been playing Nebraska basketball. So we just wanted to get back to feel-ing good about our game and each other. It was important for us to come out and get a win like that.”

Nebraska came out strong, as junior forward Jordan Hooper and freshman guard Rachel Theriot led the team to a quick 10-0 start. Just as fast as Nebraska built a double-digit lead, Minnesota capped a 10-0 run themselves to tie the game. The Golden Gophers, through the physi-cality of junior forward Micaella Riche in the paint, the hot hands of freshman guard Shayne Mullaney and sophomore guard Rachel Ban-ham, continued to trade punches with Nebraska for the first seven-teen minutes of the game. Finally, as halftime crept closer, Nebraska

broke away with enough momen-tum to out produce Minnesota and head to the locker room with a 41-38 lead.

Not even three minutes into the second half, Nebraska had set up a 10-point lead again. This time, the gap proved to be too much for Minnesota to come back from.

“There are a lot of games to be played,” coach Connie Yori said in a radio interview after the game, “but every win is a big win and when you can win on the road in this league, it

makes it that much better.”While Moore had a strong game

with 26 points, Nebraska’s win was put on the shoulders of the entire ros-ter.

“When you get nine-plus points from every starter, you have a really good chance to win,” Yori said.

Other than Moore, Nebraska’s starters production included Hooper with 17 points, Theriot with 13, soph-omore forward Emily Cady with 12 points and sophomore guard Hailie Sample adding nine points.

Finding production through-out the roster has been key for Yori and the Huskers this season. With a shortage of players because of inju-ry and teams zeroing in on Hooper and Moore, Nebraska has needed a boost of offense from others.

Making that boost for Nebraska through the conference season has been Cady.

“We need Emily,” Yori said. “We’re down to four guards and four posts and (sophomore forward Katie Simon) doesn’t play a lot for us, so we need big things from Em-ily game in and game out. She’s got to be consistent for us.”

Through Nebraska’s 3-3 confer-ence record so far, Cady is averag-ing a double-double. Of those six games, two of which were against ranked opponents, she has recorded an average of 11.5 points and 10.5 rebounds.

“Coach always talks about how I need to be more aggressive, and I guess I finally started being more aggressive,” Cady said.

Yori would tell Cady through-out the season that she needed to be the aggressor, Yori said, but now that conference play has start-ed, Cady has allowed herself to be more selfish and take more looks at the basket. Throughout the first half of the season, Cady was knocked at being too set on running the intend-ed plays, she said.

“I try to bring the same inten-sity to all games,” Cady said, “but I guess since it’s the Big Ten maybe I decided to play better.”


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Huskers defeat Minnesota 84-63

photo by andrew dunheimer | the daily collegiansenior forward brandon ubel notched 12 points during nebras-ka’s defeat over penn state saturday.

kaylee everly | dnjunior jordan hooper reaches for the ball during the women’s basketball game against minnesota on sunday. the lead changed 11 times before the team was able to secure a 84-63 win.

With production from entire team, NU beats Golden Gophers

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nebraska wrestling Upsets no. 5 illinois

sophomore james Green wrestles illinois’ matt nora during a match at the nu coliseum Friday. the no. 14 huskers upset fifth-ranked illinois 18-15.

it’s a slow building job of getting some of our other guys

to really believe and trust in themselves.”

Mark Manning wrestling coach

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