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There’s a newcomer in the extra curricular arena here at the University of Nebras-ka-Lincoln, and the club is ready to change the world one service project at a time.

UNL Service and Leader-ship was founded on the idea of fostering student’s relationships with the com-munity through service, leadership and networking. The club was conceived af-ter a volunteer trip last year.

“We all went to the Alter-native Service Base to New Orleans through the Service Learning here on campus,” said Liz Allen, a senior hos-pitality, restaurant and tour-ism management major and a co-chair of the club. “When we got back, we wanted to continue volunteering here in Lincoln.”

She said she wanted to create a club that continues

volunteering beyond the trip and get more people in-volved.

Allen co-chairs UNL Ser-vice and Leadership with Danny Martin, a senior en-vironmental studies major. Sarah Kalhorn, a senior Eng-lish and psychology major,

runs communications coor-dination.

The club’s first official meeting was during the last weeks of school last spring, but with a new school year underway, UNL Services and Leadership hopes to gain more momentum.

“We decided we’d really start getting our group going this (fall),” Allen explained. “Right now we’re focusing on recruitment; our goal is

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T he College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Re-sources at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln made the largest undergraduate student growth in the past 10 years, according to recent university census fig-

ures. Since fall of 2002, undergraduate student enrollment at

the College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources (CASNR) jumped 44.7 percent to 1,938 students from 1,339, according to Institutional Research and Planning.

Steve Waller, the college’s dean, said the growth came across the board, not just in farming areas.

“CASNR is more than production agriculture,” Waller said. “We’re preparing our students for careers in everything from animals to plants, soil to climate, golf to business, mechani-zation to leadership and food to forensic science.”

Waller said the college also looks to attract more students with a joint microbiology major shared with the College of Arts and Sciences starting next fall. It’s all a part of increasing enrollment numbers to match UNL Chancellor Harvey Perl-man’s goal of 30,000 students on campus by 2017, Waller said. Looking ahead, Waller and other UNL deans said size will make teaching and scheduling adjustments necessary, but the move to be big doesn’t mean a bad education for future students.

“Big is important and big is a challenge,” said Marjorie Kostelnik, dean of the College of Education and Human

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The sports broadcasting class offered through the College of Journalism and Mass Communications at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln is one of a kind.

It is an elective class for students of junior status and above that allows pupils to broadcast on the radio through the university’s ra-dio station, 90.3 KRNU. The students broadcast com-mentary and play-by-play events for all sports.

The sports broadcasting class could even be con-sidered a large lure for the journalism college, profes-sor Rick Alloway said.

Josh Peterson, a senior broadcasting major from Omaha, said it was one of the reasons he came to the

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University of Nebraska-Lincoln Recycling has been given permission to collect recyclables after football games again.The group opened an email from Nebraska Athletics on Sept. 12, which allowed them to once again collect recyclables inside Memo-rial Stadium after football games.

Fewer than 10 volunteers showed up after Saturday’s game, however. The group was hoping for 30 to 40 vol-unteers.

With two weeks until the next home football game, Neil Tabor, a senior envi-ronmental studies major and president of Sustain UNL, will work with UNL Recycling to create flyers and spread the word.

Tabor is not sure if in-sta-dium recyclable collection will happen after the Ohio State homecoming game on Oct. 8.

“We’ll see how things go

and see if there is student interest,” Tabor said. “We’ll be at the Michigan State game for sure. The rest will depend on support and co-ordination.”

Recycling pickup inside the stadium after the Michi-gan State game on Oct. 29 will be a part of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Game Day Chal-lenge, a competition to pro-mote waste reduction.

The system for in-stadium recycling will be the same as the Game Day Challenge used in 2010.

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neil taborsenior environmental studies major

broadcasting course gives pupils real-world experience

new student organization offers services to communities locally, nationally

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‘the tragedy of WilliaM Jennings bryan’ lecturewhen: tuesday, sept. 20, noonwhere: college of law’s ha-mann auditoriumwhat: lecture by gerard magliocca, a professor from indiana university’s school of law, on his book.

interior dialogue: a panel discussion on psychology and the creative Writing (and reading) processwhen: tuesday, sept. 20, 3 p.m. where: nebraska union au-ditoriumwhat: author timothy schaf-fert, unl psychology depart-ment chair david hansen and debra hope, the director of the anxiety disorders clinic,

will speak on how the sci-ence of psychology can help with the writing fiction. cost: free

russian club Meeting when: tuesday, sept. 20, 4 p.m. where: Kawasaki reading room (11th floor oldfather hall)what: meeting of the russian club

backpack assessMentwhen: wednesday, sept. 21, 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. where: health education and outreach booth at the nebraska unionwhat: backpack assessment by the health education and outreach and the physical therapy department at the university health center to see if backpacks’ weights are bad for one’s back. cost: freecontact: deb henderson at 402-472-7442 or dhender-son1@unl.edu

study strategies Workshopwhen: wednesday, sept. 21, 4 p.m. to 5 p.m. where: mari’s lounge in the abel/sandoz complexwhat: Kenneth Kiewra will lead the workshop for stu-dents interested in learning how to integrate information.

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‘bloodlands: europe betWeen hitler and stalin’when: wednesday, sept. 21, 7 p.m. where: sheldon museum of art, auditoriumwhat: lecture by timothy snyder, professor and histo-rian at yale university. cost: free contact: betty Jacobs at 402-472-2069

school of biological sciences seMinar serieswhen: thursday, sept. 22, 3:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. where: hamilton hall, room 112what: lecture by concetta dirusso. contact: tammy Kortum at 402-472-6676 or tkortum1@unl.edu

faculty artist: kevin hanrahan when: thursday, sept. 22, 7:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. where: Kimball recital hallwhat: recital by Kevin hanra-han. cost: free and open to the public

fifth annual pi Mu epsilon lecturewhen: friday, sept. 23, 4 p.m.

to 4:50 p.m. where: avery hall, room 115what: lecture by paul zorn about elementary calculus. refreshments beforehand in avery hall, room 348 from 3:30 p.m. to 4 p.m. cost: free and open to the public

‘bring nature hoMe’ when: friday, sept. 23, 7 p.m. where: hardin hallwhat: lecture by author douglas tallamy on his re-search on plant and insect interaction. cost: $10 for arboretum members, $12 for general public or free for unl stu-dents with i.d. tickets can be purchased at arboretum.unl.edu/tickets or at 402-472-2971.contact: Karma larsen at 402-472-7923 or klars-en1@unl.edu

national falls prevention aWareness day screeningswhen: friday, sept. 23, 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. where: barkley memo-rial center on unl’s east campuswhat: risk-of-falling screen-ings to promote and in-crease public awareness on how to prevent and reduce

falls among older adults. cost: free contact: Julie honaker at 402-472-5493 or jhon-aker2@unl.edu

fall plant salewhen: saturday, sept. 24, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. where: east campus greenhousewhat: plant sale of rare, na-tive and rain garden plants.

Quilts for coMMunitywhen: saturday, sept. 24, 10:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. where: international Quilt study center and museumwhat: interact with the lin-coln Quilters guild as they work on Quilts of valor. contact: 402-472-6549 or info@quiltstudy.org

sixth annual veg festwhen: saturday, sept. 24, 5:30 p.m. where: bethany parkwhat: cooking demonstra-tions, vendors, environment education and workshops. contact: 402-474-9802 for more information or visit www.communitycrops.org/vegfest

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what: watch party to watch the huskers play wyoming on the memorial stadium jumbo screen. free food, giveaways and contests.

lutheran student center Wood auctionwhen: sunday, sept. 25, 5:30 p.m. where: the lutheran student centerwhat: fundraiser for the lutheran center. meal, chats with artists and bidding on wood items such as furniture and art. cost: $35

WoMen’s self-defense classwhen: sunday, sept. 25, noon to 4 p.m. where: campus rec centerwhat: class for women to learn basic awareness posture, how to stay vocal, deal with carjackings and using everyday-purse items as weapons. pre-registration required. cost: $25 for unl students and crec members, $75 for general public. visit http://crec.unl.edu/recclasses for more information. contact: 402-472-3467

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More people than ever are studying to become lawyers, but fewer people are suc-ceeding, according to a re-cent New York Times study.

According to local lawyers, the reality of the market is close to home.

Harry Moore, a criminal defense attorney in Lincoln, said that many go to law school in hopes of finding a good-paying job immedi-ately after graduation, which doesn’t always happen.

Moore said this is partial-ly because of the economy. He remembers there being a higher need for lawyers when the economy was bet-ter. He said now the number of lawyers is higher than the demand for them. The mar-ket gets tougher as more students choose law school, raising the competition.

Moore even sees a tough market in Nebraska, where the economy hasn’t hit as hard.

“Nebraska is good for job opportunities,” he said. “But it’s still not as good as it was.”

Ramzi Hynek, a practicing lawyer at Rembolt Ludtke in Lincoln, graduated from law school in 2007. She said the market was still full of many opportunities when she first entered her job field. How-ever, in just four years, she’s seen those opportunities di-minish.

Hynek is involved with re-cruitment for her firm, and while the firm’s “hiring ef-forts have been consistent,” she still sees a tough field for many recent graduates.

“I have seen and heard, anecdotally, students have had difficulty in finding po-sitions, both as law clerks and full-time positions upon graduation,” she said.

The result, Hynek said, is more creativity in how stu-dents try to land jobs. While still in school, students will ask to shadow an attorney or take unpaid internships, to

better “gain real life experi-ence-getting out of the class-room, basically.”

Despite the difficulty, Hynek doesn’t discourage law school.

“Most students’ only expo-sure to the legal field is TV and movies,” she said. “What they don’t realize is that an education in the field of law will open many different doors to them.”

Omaha lawyer Jim Cle-ments, who practices in liti-gations, agreed with the Lin-coln attorneys. Many of his own friends and people he knows are facing that same tough job situation that he says is not as easy as it seems up front.

Like Moore, he said that the tough job market, com-bined with high numbers of students and law schools in general can keep recent law school graduates from landing jobs in their field. Some students, he said, go into law school to put off having a job after their four-year degree. They still face a hard situation afterward. “Students going in might not realize this isn’t the answer to getting a job right away,” he said. “Even with a law de-gree.”

This adds to another of Moore’s opinions that the job market is scary for more than just paying bills.

Moore said that while law school is a great time for stu-dents to put off their loans, they add up fast after gradu-ation, especially when they don’t find jobs right after law school.

“I’ve heard numbers as high as $150,000,” he said.

However, Clements said that if anyone is seeing it, it’s the law schools themselves.

“At least some are starting to realize that more students are graduating or being ac-cepted” than there are jobs when they graduate, Cle-ments said.

Clements was right. This isn’t the first time Tasha Ev-erman, assistant dean and director of Career Services at

the UNL College of Law, has heard of the tough job mar-ket for lawyers.

“The class of 2010 faced the worst job market nation-ally since the mid-`90s and the class of 2011 is facing a similar market,” she wrote in an email.

Everman agreed with Hynek that while the mar-ket may be tough, jobs are still available, just not al-ways ones that everyone first thinks of. She said that while some graduates still choose private practice, others take the path of policy, non-profit management, corporate gov-ernment or private business ownership.

“What constitutes a ‘good job’ is different for each graduate,” Everman said.

“There are opportunities for ‘good jobs’ in Nebraska and nationwide. The key is finding the right fit for each graduate.”

And, while Everman still encourages law school for anyone interested in it, writ-ing that the education is what leads to “meaningful employment,” she’s not in denial about the tough mar-ket for law school graduates.

“I think you would be hard-pressed to find anyone who is not aware that we are experiencing a tight legal market,” she said. “We (Ca-reer Services) focus on who is still seeking and what we can do to help them find that first post-graduate position.”

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Sciences, “but big does not preclude being good or being personal.”

Kostelnik has seen her col-lege’s undergraduate popu-lation grow 21.6 percent in the past 10 years. With 3,200 students enrolled this fall, the CEHS is the second-largest college on campus behind the College of Arts and Sci-ences.

Since 2004, CEHS, like CAS-NR, has seen steady, upward growth. Kostelnik said she expects that to continue. For professors, that likely means more students in introductory courses and larger classes. But Kostelnik said CEHS and UNL are not about to become institutions of mass lectures.

“We’re certainly not going to do business as usual and stuff more kids in the seats,” she said.

Instead, Kostelnik envi-sioned a large lecture space with mobile chairs where groups are able to move into smaller groups for discussion. She said the interaction is the key to helping large classes learn.

UNL’s College of Journal-ism and Mass Communica-tions did not experience the kind of growth that CEHS or CASNR did since 2002. Census figures pin un-dergraduate enrollment at 861 for this fall — 9 percent lower than 2002’s 946 students .

But College of Journal-ism and Mass Communica-tions Dean, Gary Kebbel, said the freshman class in-creased 24.6 percent from last year, from 138 to 172. Kebbel credited the enroll-ment boom to UNL’s move to the Big Ten, saying many of the new students have come from conference cities such as Chicago and Minneapolis.

Faculty and administrators at the journalism college hope that is the beginning of a new trend. Kebbel said some of the increase is due in large part to the college’s addition of a public relations sequence to its advertising major, which now puts the college on par with other journalism and

mass communication colleges across the country.

This year’s increase and the prospects of future increases mean an entirely new en-rollment animal for Kebbel’s college to handle. A majority of Kebbel’s class sizes have accreditation demands at-tached to their capacities. To keep the college’s journalism and mass communication ac-creditation, skills classes in the journalism and advertis-ing sequences need to have no more than 18 students, he said.

So an increase in the num-ber of students and a stable, if not increased, retention rate puts pressure on classrooms across Andersen Hall, he said.

However, Kebbel said that problem can be easily ad-dressed by fixing Fridays. Many instructors do not offer classes on Fridays at the col-lege, he said, and the build-ing is by no means booked for the entire day. The dean said journalism college facul-ty and staff will look into how to efficiently use the building, so the college can handle the ambitious enrollment he thinks the college and univer-sity are likely to see.

At Agriculture Hall, Waller said CASNR wants to not only add 635 students by 2017, but he said the college also wants its total enrollment to increase from 3,056 profes-sional, undergraduate and graduate students to 4,200.

At Andersen Hall on the other hand, Kebbel said he’s looking to boost enrollment and eclipse one of the jour-nalism college’s competitors — the Medill School of Jour-nalism — in Evanston, Ill.

“Northwestern (University) has about 1,000 students,” he said, “and I just want to be bigger than them.”

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college. “When I first came here,

I heard about the class on a tour and immediately be-came interested,” Peterson said.

Alloway teaches the class every Thursday night in Room 15. Last Thursday, the students analyzed in-terview profiles they had recorded, which included intimate details and little-known facts about vari-ous players and coaches. Through this night class, students are given oppor-tunities to learn and make mistakes in real-life situa-tions, helping to prepare themselves for life outside of Andersen Hall’s walls.

Marc Zakrzewski, a se-nior broadcasting major, who attended the Univer-sity of Notre Dame for his first two years of college, said, “I wanted to do sports broadcasting and this was the best place to do it.

“I mean it’s kind of a weird meeting time and you have to sacrifice some of your schedule, but it’s worth it because Rick knows more about this stuff than proba-bly anyone else in the state and being able to work in real-life situations is going

to help us so much in the future.”

Soon, the sports broad-casting class will be get-ting to broadcast nationally through the Big Ten Net-work, giving the students another opportunity to start broadcasting for the Internet and cable televi-sion. The class is one of four sports media courses offered at the journalism college, allowing for 12 possible hours of sports-reporting experience.

“This is my favorite class to teach and it is a big draw for journalism students, and I’m very appreciative of the athletic department to have all of the opportunities the department gives us,” Allo-way said.

Having a recorded pro-fessional portfolio, national broadcasting and hours of real-world experience un-der their belts, these stu-dents are going to be more prepared for their futures than they ever could have imagined. They have been allowed to improve their skills with the best tech-nologies there are to offer through HuskerVision and KRNU, Alloway said.

“I know it sounds super

corny,” Peterson said, “but I feel blessed to have the

opportunity to report live on the sporting events.”

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honorary society seeks noMinees Making a difference internationallyphi beta Delta is seek-ing nominations for new members for the university of nebras-ka-lincoln chapter. nominees must have made a significant contribution to inter-national education at unl or have distin-guished themselves in an international con-text. undergraduate stu-dent nominees need to have a 3.25 grade point average and have junior stand-ing by the end of the fall semester. Gradu-ate students must be enrolled in a degree program. nominations should be mailed to phi beta Delta, c/o international affairs, 420 university terrace-0682 by Sept. 30. For more informa-tion, visit http://www.phibetadelta.org.

unl libraries aids teachers through creation of resources to help grant Writingthe university of ne-braska-lincoln librar-ies are helping faculty write science grant proposals and get funding for research. unl libraries have programs that teach faculty how to cre-ate data management plans by workshops and personal consulta-tions. the library also has a website resource for faculty that in-cludes sample plans and checklists. Faculty can get more information by visiting http://go.unl.edu/t3g.

unl naMes nanoscience building after donorsthe university of nebraska-lincoln will name its new nanosci-ence technology build-ing in honor of a pair of donors who gave a campaign gift to unl. unl college of en-gineering alum Don Voelte and his wife, nancy Keegan, chair of the university Foundation’s board of directors, contributed a $5 million campaign gift to help nanosci-ence research. the 32,000-square-foot nanoscience build-ing will allow better collaboration among physics, chemistry and engineering research-ers.

unl bike shop connects unl caMpus With doWntoWn eateriesthe unl campus Recreation center is getting students to see downtown lincoln from a different per-spective. the center is hosting weekly bike rides so students can explore local restaurants in lincoln. the series “bike and Dine” is free, though students should bring cash to eat at the restaurant. Students can also rent bikes and gear from the unl bike Shop for a fee. Students interested in participating in these bike rides should meet at the nebraska Recreation center’s outdoor adventures area before 3 p.m. on Fridays. Restaurants include Grateful bread, buster’s bbQ and la paz mexican Restau-rant. For more infor-mation, visit http://go.unl.edu/dayride

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After the football game, volunteers meet around Gate 15 in the northeast corner of the stadium. Vol-unteers then head out into the stands with canvas bags in hand to collect plastic bottles. Volunteers start col-lecting recyclables before Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC) members come out for trash pick-up.

Tabor said there has been a lot of cooperation with the U.S. Navy branch of ROTC.

“If they catch up with our volunteers, we’ve informed ROTC to leave plastic be-hind,” Tabor said.

If 30 to 40 volunteers come, collecting recycla-bles from the whole sta-dium should only take an

hour and a half, said Ta-bor.

Jeff Henson, communi-ty and regional planning graduate student and UNL Recycling coordinator, said he hopes many of the vol-unteers from “Go Green for Big Red”, a pregame recycling pick-up around Memorial Stadium, will come after the game to re-cycle.

“I think the best thing is that students are st i l l able to watch the game and sti l l be able to con-tribute,” Henson said.

Recycling inside of the stadium will be left up to Tabor and Sustain UNL, making it a student ef-fort . UNL Recycling will st i l l help with recruit ing volunteers and support the effort , according to Henson.

“We feel it’s important that the students led this to show the university that sustainability is im-portant for the student body as well,” Henson said.

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year include volunteer op-portunities at organizations like Habitat for Humanity, the Open Door Mission and local nursing homes. The club will also promote larger trips through the Civic Engagement Center.

“There is going to be a trip this fall in Missouri, helping out with some of the tornado wreckage that went through there,” Kal-horn said. “And this winter we’re going to Alabama.”

Allen says she hopes the club will make volunteer-ing easier and more ac-cessible for interested stu-dents.

“We just want to show kids the opportunities that we have for them,” she said. “If people in our club decide they want to buddy up and go volunteer one weekend they can. They

don’t have to try really hard to get those options; it’s easy for them to find without having to search everywhere for it.”

Martin said the club is providing an opportunity for students to get in-volved in the community.

UNL Services and Lead-ership’s next meeting will be tonight at 8 p.m. in the Nebraska Union.

“It’s really important to just volunteer,” Allen said. “It looks good, and it’s a great feeling putting smile’s on people’s faces.”

Kalhorn agrees. “One of the best ben-

efits (of our club) is just the people you meet,” she said. “You all have the same goals – you just want to help people. They’ll be your lifelong friends.”

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Quick! What’s the difference between farther and fur-ther? How about weather and whether? How do you use an apostrophe? Don’t know the answers? You’re

not alone. Mastering the English language can be

a challenge, especially when so many of the rules are broken on a regular basis. How someone uses language and style also varies when your audience changes: for example, the difference between journalistic writing and histori-cal writing.

However, what’s terrifying is that I see so many of us just give up or disre-gard the rules on a regular basis. I see friends and family use “ur,” instead of “you’re” or “your.” Sometimes, I’ll see a misplaced apostrophe. Sometimes, I’ll see a string of spelling errors. My friends and family members aren’t the only people who do this – it’s all over the place. I’ve seen these atrocious er-rors in TV shows, movies, signs, posters and on T-shirts.

The moment I try to point out a mistake, I’m labeled a “Grammar Nazi.” Sometimes I’m called “elitist.” It’s dis-concerting when you try to help a per-son clarify his or her meaning and that person spits insults at you. One day, I’m sure “you’re so educated” will become derogatory.

I’m more lenient with those who make a mistake when speaking. I get tongue-tied, too and occasionally the wrong conjugation of a verb slips out. But when the mistake is in writing, I’m less sympathetic. Presumably, if you’re writing you have time on your hands to check these things.

Is it just me, or do we have no re-spect for our language? Knowing how to communicate your exact meaning should be something we all strive for. So why is that so many of us don’t?

See, bad grammar can make even a genius look like a moron in an instant. Isn’t it worth a little bit of your time to ensure that you come off as smart as you are?

Now, I might be in the minority here, but I don’t think we suck at grammar

because we’re lazy. Nor do I blame text messaging or the media.

I’ve heard these explanations in the past 48 hours. They are annoying. “Text messaging is bad because people don’t spell out everything!” “The media (media is a plural, damn it!) are evil because they are perpetuating terrible grammar in our culture!” “Americans don’t care about grammar because they’re lazy!”

Text messaging or chatting online isn’t the problem. In these conversations, it’s usually about speed of communica-tion. The person you’re communicating with probably knows you well and can infer your meaning without too much trouble. I should add that this person is probably a peer of yours and not a boss or a professor.

Media aren’t the problem either. The media’s job is to communicate to the public. Sometimes, that means dumbing down a thing or two. There isn’t a mass conspiracy among the media to make language skills deteriorate. If anything, editors strive to bring back class and finesse in writing, but it’s difficult be-cause the audience might not get it.

Who or what is to blame for the sad state of our grammar? I believe that being apathetic toward grammar is a bit like being apathetic toward politics. The complaints are similar enough: The rules are nonsensical and too complex. People are fed up with it. They’ve decide to live in a Wild West state of grammar.

And it doesn’t help when sticklers fight each other regarding established rules. For example, an article in the Chronicle of Higher Education on why “Strunk and White’s Elements of Style” is “stupid” a few years ago.

Try reading through that one, I dare you. Parts of it are interesting, but most of the article is dull and nitpicky. The criticism is certainly valid – I’ll give the author that. However, when trying to discuss this article with people, their eyes will glaze over and they won’t pay attention.

These are the exact things we need to avoid when we write about gram-mar!

So here’s what we need to happen for a more harmonious world of gram-mar. First, debate is important, but we need to make our rules and reasoning accessible to someone who doesn’t necessarily know every little detail of the debate.

Second, we need to focus on com-munication. Saying something like, “Hey, I wasn’t sure of your meaning here. Do you mean that the panda eats then shoots up the place and leaves the premises? Or did you mean something else?” is much more effective than simply berating that person for a comma issue. (Bonus points to the readers who get that reference.)

Third, if you’re being corrected by somebody, know that this person means well, usually. He or she isn’t trying to make you feel bad about yourself. All we want is to help you out.

Lastly, we need to make sure that we teach grammar in schools and enforce it. In my high school career, our class discussed grammar for about a month in one of my sopho-more English classes. We weren’t taught very well. Learning the rules and respecting them are the keys to getting better grammar in the world.

What I’m asking here is simple: Let’s respect our language by using it cor-rectly.

And hey, if you still can’t wrap your head around misplaced modifiers, hire a proofreader. We love fixing this stuff.

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‘Wet-day’ policy may benefit police, football tailgaters

The sun is shining, the cars are lined up and the dirty 30 on the grass is looking more and more delicious with each passing gameday hour. It’s time to tailgate at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and the only thing that could stop the party on this dry campus are some vigilant police officers.

UNL enforces a dry-campus policy prohibiting the pres-ence of alcohol anywhere on university property, except in cases of special permits. This poses a problem with the number of tailgaters, who participate in gameday activities off campus but also spill into areas such as residence hall parking lots. Many of those who consume on and around campus, including alumni, are at least 21.

With University Police already focusing attention on Memorial Stadium, as assistant chief Charlotte Evans de-scribed in a Sept. 16 Daily Nebraskan story, the resources to actually enforce dry-campus policies aren’t always there. Implementing these policies prompts tailgates to spread throughout Lincoln, increasing potential for drunk driving and making catching minors far more difficult. The inability to bring alcohol into Memorial Stadium also contributes to the need for additional security at its en-trances, as attendants feel they have to consume more — often too much — beforehand. Police remove about 25 to 30 people from each game due to intoxication, according to Butch Hug, associate athletic director of facilities and events management. Perhaps that amount could be cut down if fans felt they could save some beer to pace out between plays.

It’s nothing new. Tailgating, and the drinking that ac-companies it, has been a part of UNL for decades. Yet UNL now finds itself in the company of four other schools that have found a solution to some of the problems of gameday drinking with limited resources – allowing it to happen.

Indiana University, Northwestern University, the Uni-versity of Minnesota and Penn State University are Big Ten schools that enforce dry-campus policies, except for tailgating on gamedays.

Penn State, for example, opens up a tailgating park-ing lot at 8 a.m. each gameday. While its police force responds to unruliness, all problems are confined to a single, authorized, on-campus area. Students and alumni can enjoy their tailgating in a way far more conducive to police patrol and within walking distance. It’s safer, easier and doesn’t spread resources thin in attempts to stop a practice which cannot be stopped.

The Daily Nebraskan isn’t asking UNL to reverse its dry-campus policy. We simply ask that officials take a look at the examples peer schools have set and examine whether or not UNL might benefit from a few wet days each fall.

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Lately, I’ve started to re-alize I have the tenden-cy to idealize women. In truth, the fault is all mine, and there really is no such thing as a per-

fect girlfriend.I would say I have a new

kindergarten crush at least ev-ery other week. I’ll meet a girl, be impressed by her style, by something she says, by what she’s reading, or shoot, even by the fact she reads. My brain will then begin to construct a mental postulation of what she must be like, based solely on that minimal information.

What always happens next is the discovery that the mental construction of my crush, and the tangible person I actually interact with are not one and the same. This revelation leaves me some-what deflated and frustrated.

Until recently I was unsure of the origin of my vexation. I kind of just chalked up each miscon-ception to be her fault; I felt like she had deceived me. As if some-time, during the banal discussion about things that could be found on our respective Facebook pages, she had somehow prom-ised to embody all the qualities of my perfect girlfriend.

In the past, the idealization has gotten so intense that I found myself unable to approach a crush. Here’s an example: One day last semester after microeco-nomics, I was chilling with my friends by the fountain, chat-ter boxing about the ethics of swooping. The most attractive girl I’ve probably ever seen walks past us. Her hair was dark and long, her yellow dress stood out, her boots were hip; my friends said it was like I blacked out for seven seconds.

One commented he had seen her around before and suggested I go talk to her. I was hesitant; I had never spoken to a goddess before. Yeah, I know, sounds dramatic, cliché, objectifying and all of that stuff. But that’s kind of the point.

When I blacked out, I uncon-sciously elevated her to deity status. When stated this way, it sounds kind of cool, even flat-tering. But here’s another way to put it: By placing her on a pedes-tal, I completely ignored that she was first and foremost a person. I idealized her to the point where I couldn’t conceptualize actually speaking to her. In a way, she wasn’t even real.

Here’s another (I’ve got tons of

these but you’ll have to be satis-fied with two). Last year I spent a significant amount of time in the Nebraska Union people-watching. I saw one girl almost every day. I remember her be-cause she wore this weird hipster beanie thing and scarf everyday. She had a Moleskine (which is like my kryptonite) and I imme-diately assumed she must be the bee’s knees, even though I didn’t know anything about her.

No, I didn’t talk to her either. If I spoke to her, something that she did or said might shatter my mental image.

What I’m trying to get at is, by idealizing these women, I was holding them to expectations no women should be expected to meet. I mean, God forbid any girl have a blemish, or Moleskine-girl actually be writing in a regular notebook that just happened to

resemble a Moleskine. Idealization has other forms.

Take, for example, what has become a tendency to assign women value via the use of num-bers. “She’s a 10, but I would probably only give her a seven.” Categorizing women and declar-ing 10s to be worth (as if they’re commodities) more than sev-ens isn’t just superficial, it also inhibits their ability to exercise their individuality without fear of social reproach from men. It means if a woman is to be con-sidered supremely desirable, then she must embody qualities that a male thinks she should embody, whether or not this is truly who she is.

It seems to me, in a large sense, to idealize women is to as-sume that there is such a thing as the “quintessential woman.” No such thing exists. Furthermore, it takes away an important degree of humanity.

I’m going to take a leap here and assume this problem of ide-alizing women also afflicts other males. Our brains are hardwired to objectify and idealize women. It’s reflexive, a sort of default setting. To those males: If you’re hoping that I will present to you the solution to circumventing this

thought pattern, this is all I’ve got. I would pose that half the battle is simply acknowledging it’s something you do.

Once you are fully aware of your tendency to pedestal-ize women, the real work starts. Every time you consciously make an assumption about a girl with-out sufficient information to back it up, throw the thought out. Just throw it out. Or better, why don’t you ask her? Take an interest in her, discover the person she is. Maybe you’ll find the real person is better than the one you imag-ine.

Then again, maybe not, but I’ve come to realize finding out for sure is a hell of lot better then conjuring up images and becoming disillusioned later. It’s surely better than becoming so transfixed by the mental pic-tures that you are left sitting by the fountain, or in the Nebraska Union, mouth agape in self-im-posed wonder.

I’m going to make more of an effort to stop playing in the clouds. I’ll be sure to let you know how it goes.

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As the venerable Albus Dumbledore would say, “words are our most inex-haustible source of mag-ic.” In the realm of reality, many writers would agree, and might also extend the quote to describe words as a prominent vehicle for social change.

Kwame Dawes, one of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s newest English professors and the recently appointed editor of “Prairie Schooner,” will be participat-ing in 100 Thousand Poets for Change with a poetry reading at Lincoln’s Crescent Moon Coffee this Saturday.

100 Thousand Poets for Change is part of a world-wide effort to celebrate po-etry, while promoting politi-cal, environmental and social change. This global demon-stration will occur on Sept. 24 at 600 different locations stretching across 450 cities in 95 countries.

Dawes will join 10 other writers at Crescent Moon’s poetry reading, including UNL’s Stacey Waite, an assis-tant professor of English, and Grace Bauer, a professor of creative writing. The poetry reading will run from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the Crescent Moon, located on 8th and P streets.

Melinda Martinson, the owner of Crescent Moon, is encouraged by the celebra-tion of poetry.

“We know that there is music and we know that there is visual art, but I think people miss out on poetry as a performance art,” she ex-plained. “I think we miss out on poets sharing their feel-ings with us. You can find yourself in a lot of poems.”

Dawes agrees with that sentiment and encourages people to stop being intimi-dated by poetry.

“We fear poetry because one day, probably in middle school, someone told us to explain a poem,” he said. “Someone asked us, ‘What

does it mean?’ That killed it for us. We realized that someone knows that mean-ing and we could be wrong.”

100 Thousand Poets for Change plans on 250 sepa-rate reading locations in the United States alone. Satur-day’s reading at the Crescent Moon will be a part of what Stanford University recog-nizes as a historical event – the largest collective poetry reading in history.

So what can we expect from Dawes’ reading?

“I trade in beauty,” said Dawes. “Not prettiness, not

cuteness, not elegance — not beauty in that sense, but beauty in the Aristotelian sense — a constructed sense of the world that appeals to us for its truth, for its integ-rity and for the grace that it promotes.”

The experience of a poetry reading is extremely per-sonal one, not only for the audience, but for the poet, as well.

“I remember reading in Swansea, Wales about 15 years ago, to a small audience of older folks,” Dawes said. “It remains for me, though,

one of the most moving ex-periences I have had as a reader. They breathed back to me in ways they told me that we were being a com-munity in that instant.”

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Despite being separated by several countries, two of history’s most heinous and notable dictators per-secuted many of the same victims.

Timothy Snyder, a profes-sor of history at Yale Uni-versity, will lecture on his book “Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin” Wednesday at the Sheldon Museum of Art. Snyder specializes in Eastern Euro-pean history and his book focuses on the connections between Soviet and Nazi policies on persecution.

In the course of his re-search, Snyder observed that much of the brutal-ity perpetrated by both re-gimes occurred in the same countries, including Po-land, Ukraine and Belarus, areas he’s come to refer to as bloodlands. Historians who write strictly national histories of these countries, Snyder believes, miss the big picture. According to Snyder, the story is broad enough to overlap both histories.

“This was the great un-written book in Eastern Eu-ropean history,” he said.

The lecture is sponsored in part by the Harris Center for Judaic Studies, an insti-tution that was interested

in Snyder’s research on Ad-olf Hitler’s policies toward Jews.

“He has a lot to say about the Holocaust,” said Jean Cahan, director of the Cen-ter for Judaic Studies.

Snyder ties the Holocaust to Stalin’s genocides in the Soviet Union by recounting

both countries’ actions in the bloodlands, as well as their relations with each other. The countries were allies at the beginning of World War II, but Snyder suggests the level of their atrocities may have been heightened when they be-came enemies.

“They provoked each other to do things worse than they would do other-wise,” he said.

Soviet brutality began long before the Holocaust,

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In a novel with no deep-seeded historical context, we don’t often think of creative writers as striving for any great academic ac-curacy. Timothy Schaffert, the author of “The Coffins of Little Hope,” is an excep-tion.

During the creation of Schaffert’s latest novel, which received widespread critical acclaim in the past year, he consulted with University of Nebraska-Lin-coln’s David Hansen, the chair of the department of psychology at UNL for some analysis on one of his char-acters. Schaffert, Hansen and Debra Hope (the direc-tor of the Anxiety Disorders Clinic) will publicly discuss their efforts and how psy-chology can inform litera-ture in a panel discussion this week called “Interior Dialogue.”

The pairing of Schaffert and Hansen was a bit of a unique instance in the first place.

“I wouldn’t say it was ter-ribly common; if you’re a creative writer, you’re most likely relying on your imag-ination and memory and perspective,” said Schaf-fert, who is an English de-partment lecturer at UNL. “Nonetheless, something

like a novel will require a fair amount of research, and several writers I know have consulted with profession-als of various kinds in order to create an authentic por-trait of a time or a place or a character.”

In “Coffins of Little Hope,” the author and the psychol-ogist collaborated primarily regarding Schaffert’s char-acter Daisy, the mother of a potentially abducted child and a woman who possess-es what her creator terms “warped maternal instincts.” The opinion of townspeo-ple and professionals on Daisy’s hysteria was so cen-tral to the novel that Schaf-fert felt a professional opin-ion was pertinent.

“Ultimately, she becomes a sensation in the little fic-tional town of the book and she’s analyzed by both am-ateur and professional psy-chologists,” Schaffert said. “I needed to know more about how society would

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After a weekend of perfor-mances at the Walnut Valley Festival, Jason Shaw was fi-nally able to sit down for an interview.

The performer was in Win-field, Kan. during the week-end and will now showcase the musical chops that have won him local and national championships.

The Lincoln Association For Traditional Arts (LAFTA) will be hosting Lincoln’s leg-endary folk artists in their Winfield Winners show on Saturday at 7:30 p.m.

LAFTA is a local non-profit organization that promotes traditional music, dance and other art, with an emphasis in folk music.

The show will feature four artists: Bruce Graybill,

Steve Hanson and John and Jason Shaw.

The Shaw brothers and Steve Hanson are no strang-ers to the LAFTA stage, but Graybill will be making his debut performance.

The musicians will play two separate sets, one fea-turing individual perfor-mances and another where the four will play together.

Shaw promises a variety of music, including folk, bluegrass, jazz and classi-cal.

“If it’s bluegrass, it’ll be jumping too,” said Charles Wooldridge, the president of LAFTA. “You may see things like two people play-ing the same fiddle!”

The featured artists play a variety of instruments, and

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“Hang down your head, Tom Dooley …”

So goes the first line of “Tom Dooley,” a folk song by the Kingston Trio, which tells the story of a mur-dered girl and her killer. Even though it’s based on real people who lived in North Carolina in the years following the Civil War, the song itself may be far from the gospel truth.

And Sharyn McCrumb’s novelization of the events, “The Ballad of Tom Dooley” paints a far more intricate picture.

After the death of a local girl, Laura Foster, two sus-pects are taken into custody: Ann Melton and Tom Dula. Ann is the beautiful wife of a local farmer, famous for her laziness and tem-per. Tom is her childhood sweetheart, a Confederate soldier with a profound dis-taste for employment.

“The Ballad” tells the fa-miliar story from two new perspectives. Zebulon Vance is Tom “Dooley” Du-la’s lawyer and an ex-Con-federate soldier who will

do everything in his power to help his former brother in arms, Tom. Pauline Fos-ter is the unfeeling cousin and servant of Ann Melton, Tom’s married lover, who will stop at nothing to bring trouble to the picturesque Ann.

The story itself is intrigu-ing, but McCrumb’s writing renders the novel some-what confusing. Adding a second narrator to a story can be tricky business and it’s clear that McCrumb did not make ideal use of their unique perspectives.

Vance and Foster come from different social stand-ings and levels of educa-tion, but at times Foster uses the same language (and at times, the exact same sentences) as Vance. As I saw it, only one nar-rator was needed, because they essentially provided the reader with the same in-formation.

There was also an intense repetition of clichés in the text that added nothing to the language. How many times can Pauline say some-thing was a “nine days won-der?” Too many, apparently.

As a reader, I try to identify

with one of the characters and see the world through his/her eyes. Unfortunately in this novel I couldn’t find a character with any re-deeming qualities and most were flat to boot. The only character with an ounce of sense is Pauline and she spends all her energy trying to bring on the destruction of everyone in her life.

If any of the characters had been worth my empa-thy, the story could have been appealing, but in the end, the only good thing I can really say about the novel is that there was a lot of relevant historical infor-mation about the Civil War and the Reconstruction Era. McCrumb did her research, but the execution (pardon the pun) was poor.

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The first five minutes of “Drive” play like a cinematic “Grand Theft Auto” mission: two thieves rob a pawn shop and escape into the backseat of a white Chevy Impala driv-en by a silent chauffeur. They skirt the fuzz and disappear into the night.

With skillful editing and a dynamic soundtrack, Nicolas Winding Refn makes his Hol-lywood directing debut with a thunderous roar. The cast of “Drive” and its pitch perfect blend of tenderness and vi-ciousness makes this film the most entertaining and origi-nal movie of the year. When award season rolls around, don’t be surprised if the di-rector and stars score a boat-load of nominations.

Ryan Gosling’s stoic perfor-mance as a Hollywood stunt-man, who drives a getaway car for criminals by night, is a tour-de-force, and proves that an actor doesn’t need lengthy monologues to showcase his acting chops.

“Drive” is essentially two movies. The first hour fol-lows Gosling and his attempt to befriend a beautiful wom-an (Carey Mulligan) and her young son, who live down the hall from him. The family is awaiting the return of Mul-ligan’s husband from jail and

Gosling provides a friendly face in their troubled exis-tence.

The film’s supporting cast reads like a who’s-who of today’s hottest television ac-tors. There’s Bryan Cranston of “Breaking Bad” fame, Ron Perlman from “Sons of An-archy” and Christina Hen-dricks, who is best known as Joan, the secretary from “Mad Men.”

The return of Mulligan’s husband marks a shift in the tone and style of the film. The husband is bru-tally beaten and assured that unless he carries out one more heist, his entire family will be killed. Ryan Gosling agrees to drive for him and from then on the film puts the pedal to the metal and drops the audience into a tale of revenge, carnage and redemption.

With “Drive,” Refn brings fresh blood to the elite realm of Hollywood’s top directors. Not since Quentin Tarantino’s “Reservoir Dogs” has the mainstream movie industry seen such a unique

and polarizing film enter the public consciousness.

I have a feeling “Drive” will divide moviegoers: some people will leave the theater bitching about the

lack of dialogue and cheesy 1980s music, but just as many people will leave with a strong sense that they’ve seen something special. I be-long in the second category.

“Drive” is one the best mov-ies I’ve seen in years. I love the over-the-top violence, I love the `80s soundtrack and retro credits. I think Gosling is going to blow up

as a result of this movie. “Drive” is out now, and

if you’re looking for some grand, American violence, go along for the ride.

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‘Ballad’ offers little more than historical intricacy

Murals connect vietnamese history to lincoln residentsBRianna FosteR

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California artist and pho-tographer, Binh Danh, sheds light on the Viet-namese community in Lin-coln, Neb., without the use of words.

With help from myriad individuals, Danh was able to both capture and collect enough photographs to create two murals, which will be displayed at the Sheldon Museum of Art.

“We have never had an exhibition that encouraged participation and involved partnerships and collabo-rations from people in the Vietnamese community,” said Sharon Kennedy, cu-rator of cultural and civic engagement at the muse-um. “We are proud of that and hope it will bring peo-ple in to talk more about that history.”

The plan to collaborate with Danh began after Kennedy viewed the artist’s work. It was decided early on that the project would focus on the Vietnamese community in Lincoln. The rest of his plans for the exhibition, however, were not predetermined. Having visited Lincoln multiple times before, Danh recog-nized the diversity within the city and decided to il-lustrate it through collages.

With the sponsorship of the Lincoln Community Foundation, the project was funded and came to fruition. Sarah Peetz, one of three vice presidents for community outreach at the Lincoln Community Foun-dation, spoke on the im-portance of the exhibit.

“We really like this proj-ect because it supports arts and culture, raises awareness and brings at-tention to the very unique

relationship Lincoln has with Vietnamese culture,” Peetz said.

In one week, Danh reached out to the Viet-namese community by re-questing photographs from various families. Some of the photographs are dated as far back as the 1980s. He also worked with sev-eral additional groups in the community and on the University of Nebraska-Lincoln campus. Although he has never been a resi-dent of Nebraska, past vis-its contributed to his desire to photograph the commu-nity. Additionally, the im-mense amount of support Danh received, combined with the close-knit feel of the city, made this project more intimate.

“Lincoln wasn’t too big and people would recom-mend other family mem-bers to participate,” Danh said. “I was thinking of Omaha also because I was told there was a larger Vietnamese community there, but focusing on Lin-coln was enough. I was able to get personal with the community rather than try to include all of Nebraska.”

“Viet Nam, Nebraska,” will feature two murals and archival footage. The exhibition will be open for viewing beginning Friday, Sept. 23. Danh hopes viewers will feel connected to the mural, just as he has his own connection to the proj-ect. As refugees, Danh’s family emigrated from Vietnam to the United States when Danh was only 2 years old. Grow-ing up in California, Danh wanted to be more in touch with his fam-ily history in Vietnam. This was difficult, as his

mother had not brought any family photographs to the United States. As a result, Danh became more intrigued and inter-ested in the importance of photography.

“Photography became important to document my life in the U.S.,” Danh said. “Through my child-hood and teenage years, and through college, pho-tography has always been there.”

Through this, Danh has been able to provide in-sight into both the past and the present.

“I use the camera as a tool to research these his-tories because when we look at history, we look at pictures,” Danh said. “I fill in the history that I feel like I’m missing. This project became a part of that history, too.”

Prior to the debut of Danh’s murals and archi-val footage, the artist is scheduled to give a pho-tography tutorial on Tues-day, Sept. 20. As a whole, Danh’s artwork is likely to provoke thought and discussion among people of all backgrounds.

“This exhibit helps us think about our history and our family’s immigra-tion ... recognizing that we all make sacrifices for a better life,” Kennedy said. Ultimately, the imagery provides a refreshing look at history through the pho-tos of local families.

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At this point, Snyder be-gins to bring together Nazi and Soviet histories. Both countries invaded Poland and engaged in what Sny-der calls “cooperative de-capitation.”

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sHafferT: FROM 5regard her.”

In the opinion of Judith Slat-er, a UNL professor of creative writing, while the collabora-tion between writer and psy-chologist may be unique, this kind of in-depth and uncon-ventional research is typical of what readers have come to expect from Schaffert’s work.

“Timothy Schaffert is indeed a special novelist and from what I know of his books and the way he writes, he’s con-stantly doing research,” she said. “He’s curious in the best sense of the word and that cu-riosity, that constant question-ing, gives his novels added depth and richness.”

Slater also offered the per-spective that learning a few ins and outs of psychology is an essential instrument in any fiction writer’s toolbox.

“I’d encourage both psy-chology and creative writing students to attend this pan-el because I’ve always felt strongly that writers have to

be part detective, part psy-chologist in order to write convincingly about what Flannery O’Connor called ‘the mystery of personality,’” she said.

As for whether or not we can expect this brand of re-search from Schaffert in the future, the writer feels that the name of the game is rel-evance.

“I don’t feel inclined to research everything I don’t know,” he said. “For exam-ple, I didn’t interview any 83 year olds despite the fact that I was writing from the point of view of a woman that age. In some cases, it’s important for a writer to rely on instinct.”

Schaffert has just seen the rights of his forthcom-ing novel, “The Swan Gon-dola,” bought by Riverhead, a literary imprint of Penguin Publishing.

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Barney Cotton has been under fire for the last couple of weeks. The offensive line coach has seen his unit struggle at times while adjusting to new faces and a new offense. He’s been second-guessed by many people, few of whom truly un-derstand all the facets of his job.

So after a strong performance by the offensive line in Saturday’s 51-38 win against Washington, how did Cotton plan to celebrate, a reporter asked. Was it time to kick back and relax? Enjoy a beer, perhaps?

“I’m going to go home and probably go to sleep,” Cotton said. “It’s been a tough three-week run so far. This hasn’t been a cakewalk. Tonight’s a night to rest and get ready to get up tomorrow and get ready to do it all over again.”

At least after this game, he can sleep easy.

The Huskers posted their highest rush-ing total of the year by far (309 yards) despite missing starting left guard An-drew Rodriguez and replacing him with Seung Hoon Choi, a walk-on who had played in just two career games previ-ously.

Much of NU’s success was due to a new wrinkle Cotton and assistant John Garrison implemented. The Huskers started Yoshi Hardrick, Choi, Mike Ca-puto, Spencer Long and Tyler Moore, but unlike previous weeks in which only five or six linemen played, NU rotated players on a predetermined schedule. Jeremiah Sirles, Marcel Jones and Bran-don Thompson were subbed in to keep

everyone fresh, and the results were promising.

NU averaged 5.6 yards per carry and scored a season-high 51 points. As the game progressed, Sirles said he could see the Washington linemen start to wear down.

“There was no way we were going to lose that game,” tight end Ben Cotton said. “We wanted to do it up front. We wanted to be the ones that finished on the field. It didn’t matter if they played 11 guys in the box. We’re going to run the ball right at you and that’s what we did.”

Nothing exemplifies this point bet-ter than a string of fourth-quarter plays. Trying to bleed the clock, passing was nearly out of the question for NU. So the Huskers lined up and ran Rex Burkhead over the right side of the line time and time again, 10 times in 11 plays during a span of two drives.

One of those drives resulted in a touchdown, the other a turnover on downs after moving the ball to the Hus-kies’ 22-yard line.

“It’s pretty demoralizing when you say, ‘All right, we’re going to line up right here and run it right here. Stop it,’” Sirles said. “We just kept doing it and doing it and it seemed to work.”

“That’s the kind of football we want to play,” Thompson added. “We were calling the same exact play the last few drives when we were moving on them.”

Another reason for the success was increased level of comfort for several of the younger players. Moore, Long, Hardrick and Choi had never started a

game before this season, but are begin-ning to get comfortable and settle in.

“I think all those guys that are starting for the first time are starting to figure it out, and it’s only going to get better as the year progresses,” Sirles said. “I re-member last year in my first few starts, it felt like the world was spinning. As you progress, you start growing into your role and start figuring out what’s going on. I think that’s what happened to those guys.”

So don’t blame Barney Cotton if he just wants a chance to rest. He’s had to quickly prepare a group of green young-sters while adjusting to a new offense and hearing criticism from nearly every direc-tion. Saturday’s performance validates the job he’s done, and while Cotton said the line isn’t a finished product, it’s improving.

Now maybe he can get everyone off his back.

“People have no idea,” Cotton said. “All I care about is doing a good job for Bo, doing a good job for our linemen. I absolutely will not now, or will not ever, derive my self-esteem by what others think about me.”

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Ameer Abdullah’s 100-yard kick return for a touchdown against Fresno State was a taste of the young talent Ne-braska boasts this season.

The Cornhuskers’ game against Washington may have provided a mouthful of food for thought on Nebraska’s young talent.

Aaron Green led the way for Nebraska’s freshmen in Saturday’s 51-38 win over Washington. The San Anto-nio native had the best game of his young collegiate career, carrying the ball five times for 36 yards and a touchdown. All of which came after a 25-yard touchdown catch in the sec-ond quarter.

“I didn’t really expect to play that much, but whenever my number is called, I’m go-ing to give it my all,” Green said. “I just tried to get in there and contribute to the team.”

Green’s performance came after a tough experience last week when he didn’t get into the Fresno State game.

“Last week was pretty hard,” Green said. “Coming from high school you’re used to playing a lot and I didn’t play at all last week. I just had to keep my head up, and just keep praying and stay focused and stay positive.”

Green wasn’t the only fresh-man back who got in for the

first time since Nebraska’s game against Tennessee-Chat-tanooga. NU back Braylon Heard also carried the ball five times for 34 yards.

“These kids are competi-tive and they expect to play,” NU running backs coach Ron Brown said. “They want to get out there and contribute. I was really proud of Aaron – he and Braylon both. Just the way they handled not being able to play last week, coming in and playing the way they did today.”

While opponents have chal-lenged them, Brown feels that the young running backs are showing real progress.

“There have been a lot of people doing things against us where we just don’t get just gaping holes to run through all the time, but they’ve made a lot out of small creases so far,” Brown said. “And the young kids are starting to come along.”

Green’s performance high-lighted a freshman class that gave sizeable contributions to the Huskers’ scoring cause.

NU coach Bo Pelini was pleased with the new backs’ performance as well.

“I thought Aaron (Green) ran great, I thought Braylon (Heard) did some nice things,” Pelini said. “I feel good about our backs.”

NU’s defense avoids ‘terrifying’ fans

matt paluApparently people really care about helmet color.

On the morning of Nebras-ka’s biggest test of the young season, a rubber match with Washington, the Husker re-gion of the Twitterverse was buzzing not with last-minute analysis of the opponent, but rather with rumors of NU wearing black helmets for the game.

However, by the end of the game the query du jour shift-ed subjects from the color of helmets to the color of shirts, leaving people wondering, “Where are the Blackshirts?”

The Nebraska defense gave up 38 points and 420 yards of total offense to the Huskies. Washington gained 340 yards of total offense in their 19-7 Holiday Bowl win against the Huskers last sea-son.

The vast improvement showed in the Nebraska of-fense hanging 51 points on Washington on Saturday may have overshadowed the un-derwhelming defensive per-formance if it were not for last week’s game with Fresno State.

The highly touted Husker defense has given up more than 400 yards of total of-fense, more than 250 passing yards and have allowed op-posing running backs to rush for more than 100 yards in each of its last two games.

Moreover, the defensive line, which entered the sea-son regarded by some as

the best in the nation, has amassed only two sacks in two weeks.

So, it’s time to panic, right?No. Not hardly. “The sky isn’t falling, de-

fensively,” Bo Pelini said af-ter the game.

While Saturday’s defensive performance wasn’t the 2009 shutout of Arizona in the Holiday Bowl, it wasn’t the 2007 41-40 Ball State debacle either.

If anything, the play of the Husker defense in the lat-est Washington game should lead to as much optimism as possible for a game in which 38 points were given up.

In order to look at the big picture defensively let’s first zoom in, specifically to the third quarter.

Nebraska outscored Wash-ington 17-0 in the third quar-ter after entering halftime ahead 20-17.

The Huskers outgained the Huskies 231 yards to 63 yards, allowing only 21 yards rushing, four first downs, one successful third-down conversion and forcing a turnover on downs, all while having the ball for less time than Washington. All of this without Alfonzo Dennard, who very well may be the best player on the defense.

The defense that played the third quarter was the de-fense Husker fans expected to see throughout the first three games.

The fourth quarter that fol-lowed was frustrating. But being frustrated is better than being terrified. Though the Husker defense looked lax in the game’s final quarter, giving up three touchdowns, a Washington game without

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after struggling to adapt a new playbook in the first two games, nebraska’s offensive line had a breakout game, helping the teammates behind them post 309 rushing yards.

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to figure it out, and it’s only going to get better as the year progresses.”

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As far as cyclones go, the one that hit the Devaney Center seemed pretty mild.

After spending the week looking for more consisten-cy, the Nebraska volleyball team found it Saturday night, thoroughly dominating 12th-ranked Iowa State in a 25-23, 25-15, 25-18 sweep. The match — which happened before 10,380 fans at the Dev-aney Center — was huge for a Cornhusker team looking to move past uneven perfor-mances earlier in the season and assert itself heading into its first ever Big Ten match Wednesday against four-time defending national champion Penn State.

The match didn’t start off great for NU, however. ISU went on a 4-1 run to take a 10-6 lead in the first set, aided by two service aces and a NU service error, and NU coach John Cook called timeout. Af-ter the timeout, NU stormed back with a 7-2 run to take the lead and only trailed by more than one point in a set once (when they went down 13-11 in the third) the rest of the match.

Cook tallied the sustained NU run to his players, as op-posed to anything he said during the timeout.

“That was the thing we did well tonight … we didn’t play up and down all night – we played at a pretty consistent level,” he said. “And that’s something we’ve had a hard time doing this year so far. When we play consistently well, we have the ability to put up sustained runs.”

The biggest cog behind those runs was Gina Man-cuso. She had 11 kills, seven digs, a service ace and no

errors of any kind on 18 hits the first two sets, for an in-credible hitting percentage of .611. While she cooled off in the final set — only hitting .118 — her totals of 14 kills, three aces and .371 hitting percentage (with just one er-ror on 35 hits) led the team, and her 11 digs were second only to Hannah Werth.

“It’s a very nice accom-plishment, but the team made it so easy for me tonight, I couldn’t have done it without them,” Mancuso said. “They were taking care of every-thing, they were getting digs, Lauren (Cook) was setting, everyone was slowing their offense down, it was just easy.”

Another notable perfor-mance to Husker fans was Werth’s – though not solely because of her performance. Werth was back in her iconic

goggles, something Cook said will “make a lot of happy kids.” Unfortunately, her use of said goggles came from a recurring eyesight issue and, after receiving them Friday, she only had half of a prac-tice to adjust to them before the match.

Cook said that may have had something to do with her .091 hitting performance — lowest of any NU player with five hits — that brought her season average down to .153. However, Werth’s defense was stellar, as she led the team with 14 digs, including several nearly impossible saves that led to NU points.

“This whole season, teams are going to make great plays,” Brooke Delano said. “Knowing that we can put away a ball still and keep fighting around to get a point is encouraging.”

NU prevented ISU from making very many great plays, as they had a 13-to-1 blocking advantage and held the Cyclones to a .087 team hitting percentage. While ISU may not have been as strong as their No. 12 rank indicated — they were also swept Tuesday at No. 15 Northern Iowa — the big win against a former Big 12 rival seemed to be satis-fying nonetheless.

“There was some really good volleyball played to-night,” Cook said. “(We played at a) much higher level than anything we’ve done this year, I can tell you that. I told the team Iowa State was going to bring out the best in us, and they cer-tainly did that.”

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Sweep of no. 12 Iowa State brings back confidence

Big ten play approaches with Huskers clicking on all gears

robby kortHDaily NebraskaN

That was exactly what Nebras-ka needed.

In a convincing 25-23, 25-15 and 25-18 sweep of No. 12 Iowa State, the Huskers finally looked like the team they can be.

With as much talent and ath-leticism as No. 10 Nebraska has, it was surprising when they lost their first two sets to New Mex-ico State, stunning when they went five sets with St. Mary’s and finally won the fifth 15-13 and absolutely shocking when they lost to Colorado State.

Now it appears as if NU has arrived.

ISU was the highest-ranked and most-talented team Nebras-ka had met up with this year. The team felt magic from this victory, and their confidence is soaring.

“Going back into the locker room was a different feeling that we haven’t felt before,” middle blocker Brooke Delano said. “We want to remember this and keep going back into the locker room and ending a game feeling like this.

“It’s great.”Who can blame the Husk-

ers for feeling great? Finally, they left a game confident and collected, looking more like a team that can go deep in a tour-nament than ever before.

The positive feeling couldn’t have come at a better time ei-ther.

Nebraska is gearing up for a high-intensity game against another elite program, opening Big Ten Conference play with No. 5 Penn State on Wednes-day, and they needed to hit their stride if they want to win that game.

Penn State has been the powerhouse of the Big Ten and

college volleyball as a whole this millennium. For the past eight years the Nittany Lions have won the conference, and they also have captured the last four national title crowns.

However, Penn State has looked vulnerable this year, with a loss to Oregon snap-ping a 94-game home winning streak and losses in Palo Alto, Calif., at the Nike Big Four Vol-leyball Classic at the hands of Texas and Stanford.

Confidence will be key Wednesday night and Nebraska has plenty of it, thanks to the sweep. Following the victory against the Cyclones, NU was riding high and chatting about bringing on the Nittany Lions.

“Right when we got back into the locker room we were talking about getting ready for Penn State now,” Delano said. “That’s going to be our mental-ity … on our day off and Mon-day come practice time we’re going to be ready for it.”

Now that NU is confident, it’s time to get ready for a big chal-lenge. It’s going to be a tough new season; the Big Ten is a talented volleyball conference and with five teams excluding Nebraska in the top 25, coach John Cook thinks that this win couldn’t be more helpful.

“Our team took a step for-ward,” Cook said. “We’re get-ting better. And we need to get better with the schedule of the teams we’re playing coming up. But this was a great test.”

That great test should pay huge dividends going into this week when Nebraska faces PSU and No. 25 Ohio State on Saturday. This win will go a long way in building a success-ful season.robby korth is a sophomore broaDcastinG major. reach

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volleyball Nebraska 3, ioWa state 0

Cross-country women win, men finish third at home invite

Staff reportDaily NebraskaN

There were a lot of things to be smiling about for the Nebraska cross-country team Saturday.

The 22nd annual Woody Greeno/Nebraska Invitational was held Saturday at Pioneers Park on a day that brought success for NU’s squads.

The women’s team finished first, winning their seventh consecutive Woody Greeno title, while the Husker men finished third.

The Husker ladies were led by Jessica Furlan, who finished third with a time of 21:32.08. Erica Hamik, Katie White and Ashley Miller all had top-15 finishes and Sarah Plambeck just missed the top 15 by fin-ishing 16th.

Although the men’s teams didn’t finish as well as the women’s team did, there were still a lot of positives to take from Saturday’s meet. Trevor Vidlak finished fourth with a

time of 24:46.30 and senior Brad Doering placed 10th. Do-ering’s performance was par-ticularly notable due to the fact that he was out all last season after tearing his hip flexor.

“I think I’m finally over it,” Doering said. “I don’t feel any worse today and I think the in-jury is finally behind me.”

A healthy Doering could be a boost for the Husker men this season as the team feels they are getting better every day.

“We’re heading in the right direction,” Doering said. “We just have to keep putting our-selves in the right position to improve.”

Despite the team’s impres-sive performance, Saturday’s meet also had a bittersweet feeling to it as it was head coach Jay Dirksen’s last Woody Greeno/Nebraska Invitational. Dirksen has been a major con-tributor to the meet and has played a huge role in help-ing the Huskers host almost

60 teams and more than 700 student-athletes annually at the meet. Dirksen was given a plaque by Nebraska Wesleyan head coach Ted Bulling, com-memorating all the hard work Dirksen’s done for the Nebras-ka cross-country program and the Woody Greeno/Nebraska Invitational.

Being that it is Dirksen’s last year as the head coach, both the women and men teams feel a bit of added pressure and motivation to succeed this year.

“I mean the motivation’s definitely there in our heads,” Doering said. “Before the race we talked about how we were the end of coach Dirksen’s leg-acy, so we need to go out and make his last season a good one.”

Overall, it was a successful day for the Nebraska cross-country team and maybe a sign of things to come.

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Marlborough records second hat trick in conference opening anDreW WarDDaily NebraskaN

The Nebraska women’s soc-cer team kicked off its first Big Ten season in victorious fash-ion Sunday afternoon.

The Huskers defeated Northwestern 3-1 at a soggy Nebraska Soccer Field.

Junior forward Morgan Marl-borough said that NU played well in its first Big Ten Confer-ence game.

“Every game counts wheth-er or not it’s in the Big Ten,” Marlborough said. “We need to take everyone the same way day by day, this is a good start.”

It was Marlborough who once again led the way for the Huskers. She recorded her second hat trick of the year, scoring her 10th, 11th and 12th goals.

Marlborough also increased her status as one of Nebraska’s

all-time-best goal scorers. She became just the fourth player to score more than 50 goals in her career and is now third on the all-time goal list with 51, trailing Christine Latham (69) and Kim Engesser (53).

The sloppy conditions had no affect on the Huskers as they came out and scored early. Junior Jordan Jackson recorded her fifth assist of the year at the 14:46 mark in the first half to Marlborough.

Marlborough said that the conditions really had no effect on NU’s game plan.

“Our coach is big on get-ting one-on-one situations and today was no different,” Marl-borough said. “We knew that the ball would slip away more and it’s more difficult to con-trol but we still can do what we need to do to win.”

The wet ball showed even less affect on Nebraska when Marlborough tapped in her

second goal with her heel af-ter receiving a low cross from senior Molly Thomas. The as-sist was Thomas’s third on the season.

It seemed the Huskers were going to roll into their first conference victory of the year going into halftime with a 2-0 lead, but Northwestern came out with a much more aggres-sive tempo in the second half.

A handball by sophomore Stacy Bartels allowed the Wildcats a penalty kick, and they did not miss the opportu-nity as Northwestern’s Briana Westlund put the ball in the back of the net.

Northwestern dominated most of the second half, giv-ing NU almost no chances to score.

However, it was Marlbor-ough who sealed the game at the 76:10 mark when she rocketed a shot off the cross-bar and into the back of the

net.Nebraska was just too com-

fortable with its lead at the start of the second half, which was the reason for the slow start, according to Marlbor-ough.

“The two-goal lead just made us a little too comfort-able,” Marlborough said. “We started out the second half re-ally slow but we came out of it and ended up playing pretty well.”

The Big Ten Conference schedule continues for Ne-braska, as it will travel to Pur-due on Friday.

Senior Michaella Fulmer said that the Huskers will con-tinue to play confidently.

“We have played well the last few games and our record shows it,” Fulmer said. “We will take that confidence into our next games.”

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nickolai hammar | Daily nebraskanMorgan Marlborough continued to put balls into the net, finishing the weekend with 12 goals this season.

bethany schmiDt | Daily nebraskannebraska celebrates a point against Iowa State. team confidence will be necessary as the Huskers enter big ten conference play, which has five teams ranked in the top 25.

The first play from scrim-mage featured wideout Kenny Bell, who hauled in a 50-yard catch to set up Nebraska’s first touchdown one play later.

“Taylor (Martinez) told me right before we went out,” Bell said. “He told us exactly what the play was; he said, ‘Get open, I’m gonna throw it, and go get it.’”

Bell, who got the first start of his college career, was tackled just short of the end zone and finished with two grabs for a team-leading 59 yards. Fellow freshman wideout Jamal Turner also grabbed two catches for 34 yards.

Before leaving the game late

in the first half with an appar-ent injury, running back Ameer Abdullah racked up 129 yards on three kick returns. Abdullah returned the game’s opening kickoff 40 yards to set up the NU offense’s first score. His lon-gest return went 66 yards early in the second quarter and gave NU the ball at the Washington 34. Four plays later, Martinez hooked up with Green for the freshman’s first touchdown.

While the freshmen had solid performances, there was also plenty of praise for the veterans on the NU roster.

“I thought it was pretty good,” Green said of NU’s running game. “Especially

at the end when Rex (Burk-head) put us on his back. We just had some amazing runs. I could have swore on one of those runs he broke like 10 tackles over on the right side. We kept calling the same play and they couldn’t stop it.”

Bell believes there is no re-placement for having the abil-ity to break open the big play, but having Burkhead is never a bad thing.

“With a guy like Rex Burk-head, moving the chains isn’t going to be too much of a problem, I don’t think,” Bell said.

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the defense performing like it did in the third quarter would be terrifying.

Husker fans now know how well their defense can play, they don’t assume it. The key for NU is now sus-taining a high level of play the likes of which they main-tained in the third quarter.

Getting to that point will undoubtedly come with sev-eral more moments of frustra-tion, but it’s certainly a much quicker fix than upgrading a flat-out bad defense.

With two weeks until Wis-consin, fixing fundamentals and upgrading assignment-recognition are much easier

than making your players bigger, faster and stronger in short order.

Knowing what the Husker defense needs to improve on is infinitely better than not knowing what it’s ca-pable of.

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pAlu: from 8

matt masin | Daily nebraskanrunning back rex burkhead flips upside down during one of his career-high 22 carries. He finished the day with 139 all-purpose yards.

patrick breen | Daily nebraskanlinebacker lavonte David (4) beats Washington’s austin Seferian-Jenkins (88) to the ball, recording his first intercep-tion of the season.

kyle bruGGeman | Daily nebraskanabove:fullback tyler legate (48) finds his way into the end zone after a 3-yard pass from quarter-back taylor Martinez for nebraska’s first touchdown Saturday against the Huskies.

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the last time nebraska started three offensive linemen who originally joined the program as walk-ons. center Mike caputo, who was put on scholarship in 2009, was flanked by walk-on guards Spencer long and Seung Hoon choi to start Saturday’s game.

number of games it took nebraska to score a touchdown on its first possession again. the last time the Huskers were able to find the end zone on their first drive was against Missouri last season. nU needed just two plays to score on its first possession Saturday and took an early 7-0 lead.

number of points nebraska kicker brett Maher has scored this year. the junior was a perfect 3-for-3 on field goals Saturday, moving him to 7-for-7 on the season. He’s also a perfect 16-for-16 on pats.

number of teams in the big ten conference that remain undefeated. nebraska is joined in that category by Illinois, Michigan and Wisconsin. this is the third time in bo pelini’s four seasons as head coach that the Huskers have started 3-0.

nebraska’s rank in scoring defense in the big ten after three games. the Huskers have given up 24.7 points per game, including 29 to fresno State and 38 to Washington. the last time nU gave up 29 points or more in back-to-back games was in bo pelini’s first season (2008) against oklahoma and kansas.

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taylor martinezthe sophomore signal caller threw for

two touchdowns and ran for another in the husker win. Martinez also showed

improved field awareness, having zero turnovers and even showing off a couple slides to avoid potential big hits on

run plays.— matt palu, football beat writer

Game ballsbarney cotton

the offensive line coach rotated linemen in and out on a predetermined schedule, keeping his players fresh. the result was a strong performance by the line, particularly in the fourth quarter,

when the huskers repeatedly pounded the right side of the line with rex burkhead, consistently gaining yards and bleeding the clock.

— Dan hoppen, football beat writer

rex burkheaDrex burkhead managed to rack up more than 100 yards on the

ground for the second time against the huskies in 12 months, finding the end zone twice in nine seconds in the third quarter. burkhead got

most of his work done late in the game when NU offensive coordinator tim beck called the same running play 12 times in a row. With his yards on the day, burkhead moved up to 33rd on the NU all-time

rushing yards list with 1,547 yards on the ground. — jeff packer, assistant sports eDitor