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One more semester is left for the East Campus Ac-tivities Building, otherwise known as the East Cam-pus Recreation Center. But the end might come sooner than May 14.

Since the heat was turned on in October, more than a dozen minor steam leaks occurred, said Stan Camp-bell, director of University of Nebraska-Lincoln Cam-pus Recreation.

If a major steam leak were to happen, the build-ing would be closed and equipment moved to the temporary building.

“If we do have a major steam leak, it’s going to be a lot of money to re-pair,” Campbell said. “It just doesn’t make sense to put a lot of money into a building that’s going to be demol-ished.”

The finishing touches on Fleming Fields Annex

Building (FFAB), located near 33rd Street and Leigh-ton Avenue, will be finished by Jan. 1, 2012.

Equipment will be moved into the FFAB if a major steam leak occurs.

“I think we could do it in a two-week period,” Camp-bell said. “We’d have to hire a company to move the

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A still-unidentified man shot and killed a patrol po-lice officer before apparent-ly killing himself yesterday afternoon on the Virginia Tech University campus in Blacksburg, Va., accord-ing to law enforcement and government officials.

Deriek Crouse, 39, was a four-year veteran of the university’s force and is survived by a wife and five children and stepchildren.

Crouse was shot shortly after noon in front of sev-eral witnesses at a routine traffic stop in a parking lot near Lane Stadium and McComas Hall, a gym and sports building. The shoot-er, who was not involved in the stop and apparently walked up to Crouse, then fled the scene, police said.

A campuswide alert and description of the shooter, conveyed by text, phone, email and other media, soon followed from the univer-sity. It warned all students and faculty to stay where they were and lock their doors and city residents to stay away from campus. That alert was lifted af-ter four tense, rumor-filled hours, when law enforce-ment officials determined there was no longer an “active threat.” They didn’t clarify the shooter’s status or whereabouts at the time the alert was lifted.

Soon after the officer was shot, more gunshots were reported in another park-ing lot called the Cage, next to the university’s Coliseum and less than half a mile away. A second male was found there with a fatal gunshot wound, according

to the Virginia Tech Police. A weapon was recovered near the scene.

The man was initially identified as a victim, but after widespread specula-tion, officials announced late Thursday evening that the man was indeed the shooter.

This is the second shoot-ing on the campus since April 16, 2007, when stu-dent Seung-Hui Cho killed 32 students and faculty and wounded 25 others before killing himself. It was the deadliest school shooting in the country’s history, and Thursday’s news brought it once again to everyone’s mind.

“Today, tragedy again struck Virginia Tech,” the uni-versity’s president, Charles Steger, said in a hastily called afternoon press conference that coincided with the end of

the campus alert. “I can only say that words don’t describe our feelings. Our hearts are

broken again, for the family of our police officer.”

University officials had

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adrian lara, a computer science graduate student, rides his bike to work at the Scholl Center every day. he said if the five-minute ride was any longer, it might prevent him from commuting with his bike during the winter time.

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Thursday, an unidenti�ed man shot and killed a Virginia Tech police o�cer at theCassell Coliseum lot. The man then �ed toward The Cage parking lot, where he wasfound with a fatal gunshot wound and died at the scene.

When Rafael Leano, a Colombia native, gets ready to head to class this win-ter, he doesn’t just throw on a coat for

a brisk walk. He layers. And layers. Leano will bike to class, all harsh-Nebraska-winter long.

Leano, a first-year graduate student in com-puter science, is just one of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln students who will continue biking to campus, despite freezing tempera-tures, icy sidewalks and streets that may not always be cleared.

Unable to depend on the shuttle system ev-ery day, which only runs until 5 p.m., Leano either bikes both ways to class or brings his bike with him on the shuttle to bike home.

And Leano is no snow-biking expert – this is his first winter in the United States. With bike routes from his apartment not being cleared

off, he said he rides in the street where the roads are usually cleared. When they aren’t cleared, Leano often has to get off his bike and walk it for part of his trek.

Leano said his experience with Nebraska winter drivers has been positive so far.

“When they pass, they keep distance,” he said.

But he still takes extreme caution.“I’m still taking the chance,” Leano said.Though he’s currently trying to purchase a

car, Leano said driving would be just as chal-lenging, because he’s never had to drive dur-ing winter conditions.

“If you ride in the snow and you fall, you get up,” he said. “If you drive, then you could get in a crash.”

Leano said he still plans to bike after buying

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On freezing-cold winter nights, students at the Uni-versity of Nebraska-Lin-coln’s Lutheran Chapel hit the streets.

New this year, Pastor Bill Steinbauer got the idea for a personal-delivery blan-ket drive from friends who were handing out food to Lincoln homeless.

“I have some friends from another church who have spontaneously gone around town and handed out food, and I started to think of oth-er needs we could meet,” Steinbauer said.

The need for blankets was something that hit close to home for the Lutheran Cha-pel.

“We have quite a few homeless in and around our building,” Steinbauer said. He said he asked a few small group Bible studies to help hand out blankets to these people and others who are homeless in Lin-coln.

“There’s a bridge on West O Street, there’s an ongo-ing homeless community

that lives underneath that bridge,” Steinbauer said. “It’s a very transient com-munity so we’ve met new people every time. There’s also a community under the bridge on North 27th Street where we’ve delivered blankets.”

Steinbauer said the need for blankets is ever-present, as the people of the home-less community don’t have anywhere to secure their belongings.

“What we’ve learned is that during the day these people will go somewhere to get warm, and they’ll come back and find their stuff stolen,” Steinbauer said. “We can give them a blanket on Wednesday night and by Friday night it’ll be gone.”

Freshman business admin-istration major Mike Wal-lace got involved through a freshman Bible study. He helped deliver blankets un-der the O Street bridge.

“Some guy took a liking to me and started talking to me about being in the Viet-nam War,” Wallace said.

Steinbauer said the war veteran was still “reliving

some of the atrocities of war, and he had such an incredibly guilty heart. Ev-erything he’d experienced, it was just a part of being a soldier, but he started weeping and grabbed onto Mike,” he said.

“He hugged me a lot, so I was kind of out of my com-fort zone,” Wallace said.

After the initial shock, Steinbauer said Wallace was able to comfort the man.

Junior electrical engineer-ing major Isaiah Burger has also gone to deliver blan-kets.

“I just felt really sad for them,” Burger said. “They’re living under the bridge and it was freezing cold out-side.”

He said that the people he delivered to said they don’t want to go to home-less shelters for various rea-sons. Steinbauer said that this is why students person-ally deliver the blankets.

“There are two reasons we deliver. The first is that these individuals don’t ac-cess the services of the shel-ter, and there are a lot of reasons for that,” Steinbau-er said. “The other reason

is that when I look at the heart of Jesus, he was about meeting tangible needs in simple ways,” Steinbauer said, “And that’s what we’re doing, it’s a way to follow Jesus.”

Wallace and Burger both felt it was important to per-sonally bring the blankets to the homeless communi-ties rather than just donat-ing them to a shelter.

“I think when you actu-ally go and talk to the peo-ple you’re giving them to, you can actually hear their stories, and they know you care,” Wallace said.

“When we deliver in per-son, (the people receiving blankets) get to say, ‘Hey, look, someone cares for me, they know we’re down here,’ instead of, ‘OK, the institution cares for me,’” Burger said.

Students wanting to do-nate new or gently used blankets can drop them off at the University Lutheran Chapel at the corner of 16th and Q streets. Donations will be delivered through-out the winter.

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The University of Nebras-ka-Lincoln cannot con-tinue planning as usual, according to UNL Chan-cellor Harvey Perlman.

At Thursday’s Univer-sity of Nebraska Board of Regents meeting, Perl-man called for a change in campus planning as the university prepares to in-crease its student body, faculty and research fund-ing by 2017.

“(Change) is pretty hard to avoid at this po in t , ” P e r l -m a n said.

M o s t of the 2 0 0 6 -2 0 1 5 U N L M a s -ter Plan projects are completed or close to completion. Perlman told the board that the uni-versity plans to bring in a private planning con-sultant to develop a new master plan in the next two years. So far, the uni-versity has completed or pending completion for 21 City Campus projects and 12 on East Campus.

A growth to 30,000 stu-dents, increase of faculty by 160 and pursuit of $300 million in research fund-ing will likely mean ad-ditional housing on East Campus, larger buildings and an increase in scale and campus density.

“Ten years just seems like too long a time with o u r c a m -p u s e s g o i n g through t h e s e c h ang -e s , ” said NU P r e s i -d e n t J.B. Mil-liken.

F o r that reason, Milliken said the university chancellors will now provide master plan “snapshots” at the midpoint in their campus’ 10-year plan to assess the u n i v e r s i t y ’ s progress.

The notion that East Cam-pus housing should be rel-egated to ag-riculture stu-dents has to change, Perl-man said. As the student p o p u l a t i o n grows, the chancellor said a new master plan will have to include additional resi-dence halls, open to all students.

In addition to logisti-cal changes on East Cam-pus, such as increasing transportation availability, Perlman said the private

consultant also will re-view the possibility of retail growth across Hold-rege Street. Increased re-tail development could lure more students to East Campus, which Perlman said was important to po-tential housing expansion.

“You can build hous-ing, but you’ve got to get students to want to live there,” he said.

Another possible change to the City Campus layout might be the development of the green space north of Kaufmann Residence Hall, which Perlman said officials have looked at as a possible site of a new business college.

The university of the future could feature taller buildings and fewer open spaces, he said, as the campuses’ space supply shrinks.

Perlman said future building construction could stress taller build-ings, making the three-story buildings obsolete.

Despite taller buildings and a denser campus, the university will not morph into a concrete jungle, he said. The university will do its best to maintain green space and aesthet-ics in the master plan up-dating process, he said.

University officials will launch a request for con-sultant bids in the spring, Perlman said. He esti-mated the consulting cost at around $100,000, but the final cost will depend upon which firm receives the contract.

Increasing UNL’s size and scope will require input from students and faculty in the process. Staying ahead of the ex-panding university will not be easy, Perlman said.

“We have a lot on our plate … it will be com-plicated and not a simple matter to get there,” he said.

At the meeting, the board approved the elimi-nation of the industrial and management systems engineering department in the UNL College of En-gineering.

The department was among the budget cuts an-nounced last spring. The cut does not affect the 30-40 students currently en-

rolled in the ma-jor, who will be a l l o w e d to fin-ish their degrees , Pe r lman said.

T h e universi-ty did not terminate any fac-ulty in the cut,

and many moved to the college’s mechanical en-gineering department, the chancellor said. Those professors will continue to teach some of their specialty areas, he said.

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Ten years just seems like too long a time with our campuses going through these changes.

a car, as long as there’s no ice. He said biking in the winter isn’t too difficult. He just gets tired more quickly.

Adrian Lara, another first-year graduate student in computer science also rides to school in the winter, but, in contrast to Leano, he loves the conditions.

This is Lara’s second North American winter, the first having been spent in Jackson, Wyo., after moving to the United States from Costa Rica.

Biking is most convenient to Lara, who said buying a car would be expensive.

“I don’t have a bus stop in front of my apartment,” he said. “A bus would take walking a lot, so I don’t do it.”

In fact, the conditions are what Lara loves most about biking.

“I can use my bike as transportation,” he said. “But I prefer if it’s challeng-ing. Winter is the time to do it.”

Lara isn’t the only UNL student who loves the chal-lenge of winter biking. Many students who work at Outdoor Adventures, the on-campus outdoor activi-ties store, continue to bike

through the winter.Andrew Holcomb, a 2011

UNL graduate who will re-turn as a graduate student next semester, said that while not every employee rides year-round, many of them take pride in it.

“A lot of us were look-ing forward to the first snow,” he said. “We call it ‘adventure biking.’ It’s s o m e t h i n g we look for-ward to each day.”

W h i l e some em-ployees of Outdoor Ad-ventures do have cars, and simply choose to ride to school in winter conditions, Holcomb, like Lara, doesn’t have a car. He’d rather not pay for gas or parking, he said.

This is Holcomb’s second winter on bike. Last year, he said, he would park some-where close to campus for free and bike the rest of the way.

Lara and Holcomb both have the same, practical strategy.

“If it’s a snow route, I take

the street,” Lara said. “If it’s not a snow route, I take the sidewalk.”

Holcomb said that while his usual bike trails didn’t get scooped the earliest, “the roads have been really good.”

E v e n when sur-rounded by ice, Lara said he manag-es to find a patch of ce-ment to con-tinue biking on. The only time he has to walk his bike is when leaving his

parking lot, which is com-pletely iced over, he said.

While Lara said he’s not scared when biking in win-tery conditions, he’s also careful.

“I’m going slow,” Lara said. “I can stop whenever I want.”

Holcomb is a bit more concerned about traffic when he’s biking.

“A lot of people will fol-low you way too close,” he said. “It’s definitely some-thing I think about – wheth-er people will stop in time.”

Lara said that though it

would hurt more if he fell on his bike, it would cost more to be involved in a car accident. Holcomb said that while he has personally fallen on the road before, he has never been seriously injured.

One thing that helps Hol-comb this winter are new tires, specifically designed for the conditions, he said.

“Winter tires have tread on them like a car tire,” he said. “Summer tires have ab-solutely no tread. It’s slick.”

Some tires are even de-signed with pieces of metal that come out of the tread, he said.

While this is the first snow, Holcomb doesn’t be-lieve the winter cyclists on campus, especially those at Outdoor Adventures, will be tired of “adventure bik-ing” by the time the last snow rolls around.

“We all enjoy it quite a bit; it’s a different way to bike,” he said.

While Lara said he be-lieves it’s not as safe to be on a bike in the winter as it would be in a car, he can agree with Holcomb that this adventure makes the biking all the more fun.

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biking.’ it’s something we look forward to each day.”

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As a college town, Lincoln has its fair share of teenage and 20-something waiters, waitresses and bartenders trying to earn some extra money while managing school. Hannah Gappa, senior marketing major, is no stranger to that scene. Hired at Lincoln’s The Bar 2-1/2 years ago, Gappa is described by The Bar’s general manager Colin Daro as “an excellent bar-tender.”

Playboy agrees.The company recently

awarded Gappa with the title “Barmate of the Year” and gave her a deal film-ing ads for Sobieski Vodka. Gappa filmed two short clips advertising the liquor. She described the ads as “safe for work.”

G a p p a was no-ticed by Playboy af-ter submit-ting pho-tos in the summer of 2010, just before she entered her junior year. P l a y b o y e m a i l e d G a p p a back and f o l l ow i ng some cor-respondence, flew her out to Chicago for a photo shoot. Gappa was initially Barmate of the Month in July 2011, and her pic-tures ran in the Playboy magazine. The Barmate of the Year is only noted online, so the award is on the Playboy website rather than in the magazine.

Before submitting the photos, Gappa said she was nervous about becom-ing affiliated with Playboy. She said her motivation came from her best friend and roommate, who, “ w a t c h e d ‘The Girls Next Door’ religiously.”

H e r friend’s ad-vice brought results for Gappa, who then had to face the re-actions of her peers.

“At first, my par-ents were shocked,” she said. “But they know I’m an adult and let me make my own

decisions.”Despite her fears, Gappa

has not en-dured much criticism.

“ E v e r y -body’s been really sup-portive,” she said.

Gappa said she was se-lected Bar-mate of the Year by a group of Play-boy staffers.

“They’re a really, really good compa-

ny to work with.”The process

Gappa had to go through was pro-longed, because she applied and was selected be-fore she was 21. She had to wait un-til her 21st birthday before filming the Sobieski ads.

Gappa was in-vited in August to spend six months bartending in Cabo San Lucas at for-mer playmate Jayde Ni-

cole’s bar Pink Kitty. Her last day at The Bar was Dec. 1.

“We al-ready miss her,” Daro said. “(But) who gets to bartend in Cabo? It’s awesome for her.”

Daro said that although

he isn’t sure how much business has increased af-ter Gappa’s photo shoot

for Playboy, he has no-ticed some increased con-versation between patrons when she works.

“I definitely know people have come in just to see her,” he said. He described these people as being of all ages, from “young col-lege guys to old guys.”

According to Daro, the reputation of The Bar didn’t suffer because of Gappa’s decision to pose for Playboy.

“I don’t think it hurt us by any means,” he said. “A great-looking girl isn’t go-ing to drive anyone away.”

He said that he some-t i m e s n o -t i c e s p e o -p l e t a l k -i n g a bou t h e r at the b a r . He be-l i eves p a r t of the reason p e o -

ple are so interested in Gappa is because The Bar is in a college town. He said The Bar and many of its regulars will miss her.

According to Gappa, other waitresses often get asked about her. The buzz she and other employ-ees at The Bar hear isn’t a problem for her. She said that after her photo shoot, the biggest difference was that more “random” people came to The Bar, which she said usually has mostly regulars.

“It doesn’t bother me,” she said. “I embrace it.”

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Playboy picks UNL student as Barmate of the Year

HANNA GAPPAsenior marketing major,

“barmate of the year”

At first, my parents were shocked,” she said. “But they know I’m an adult and let me make my own decisions.

HANNA GAPPAsenior marketing major

Everybody’s been really supportive. (Playboy’s) a re-ally, really good company to work with.

COLIN DAROgeneral manager of the bar

I don’t think it hurt us by any means. A great-looking girl isn’t going to drive anyone away.

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equipment, because you’re talking about very heavy equipment.”

At this point, Campbell said proposals from moving companies have not been looked at.

The East Campus Rec Cen-ter is in rough shape, said Association of Students of the University of Nebraska Sen. LJ McElravy, a human sciences graduate student.

McElravy has worked on the “Say Yes 2 Better Rec Centers” since its begin-ning.

“It seems like there’s someone working on the pipes each time I’m in there,” McElravy said. “Ev-ery morning, I work out at the East Campus Rec Center and each morning, I won-der if it’s going to be closed for good.”

An average of 350 to 400 students visit the East Cam-pus Rec Center daily, ac-cording to Campbell.

McElravy said the FFAB is

going to be a fantastic tem-porary location and it will have a lot of space for car-dio.

“The biggest drawback is that we’re not going to have an open court,” McElravy said. “But there’s no really good options to have a tem-porary facility to have that kind of service.”

An advantage to the FFAB is the Fleming Fields park-ing lot, which is not UNL property, so a permit is not required.

Campbell said a path will be created from the parking lot to the FFAB, which will be finished in the spring.

“I think the people who use the East Campus Rec will continue to use the temporary East Campus Rec Center,” McElravy said. “The other location may be more conveniently located for students who live off campus.”

While fingers are crossed for the East Campus Rec

to remain open through the spring, an architect has been chosen to design the new East Campus Rec Cen-ter. “It’s an exciting time for us to finally be working with architects and improve the facilities on East Cam-pus,” Campbell said.

The architect will be on East Campus during Finals Week to gather student in-put. The meeting will be Dec. 14, from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. in the Nebraska East Union’s Sunflower room.

“Because of this proj-ect having to be approved by the state legislature, we couldn’t start working on some of those details until a decision was made,” McEl-ravy said. “We want to get student input, so it’s better to do it during finals week than waiting either until students come back or even doing while students are gone.”

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Dear Reader,

I could write you a lengthy discourse about how, as a Muslim, I have a fundamentally different relationship with Christmas

than you do.Imagine that. We’d delve into the tradi-

tional Islamic customs that take the place of gift-opening and family bonding. (NBA on Christmas, anyone?) We’d explore the vast cultural differences, the societal folkways and the rituals that further divide us as people. We’d carefully examine my experi-ences, juxtapose them with yours, reach some foregone conclusion about how we aren’t all that different. Blah, blah, blah.

The editors would like that.Instead, I’m going to rant about how

inconceivably terrible my life is because I won’t be receiving a pair of Air Jordan 11 Concord’s at any point in the foreseeable future.

This isn’t new. I’ve never celebrated Christmas and thus have never actually reaped the benefits of the self-indulgent consumerism preached by Christians’ Lord and savior Jesus Christ. But this year, I’m especially torn up about it.

After all, these are the shoes that Michael Jordan wears in the 1996 live-action anima-tion thriller “Space Jam,” which is arguably the greatest film ever to irreversibly damage the last VCR your family owned. The Christ-mas Eve “Concord” release will inspire thousands of dedicated shoe aficionados to give up food and hygiene and a maybe a few frost-bitten fingers (ah, the true sac-rifice of Christmas) for the noble cause of getting their hands on a single pair of footwear’s $175 patent-leather-heavy incarnations of Jesus. Picture this material-istic pursuit as Occupy Wall Street with a foreseeable end, a tangible incentive and a totally consumerist agenda.

Like many other sneaker junkies, I must have these shoes.

To put this in perspective, the Air Jordan 11s have only been for sale three times since 2000. The shoes don’t usually hit store shelves – but only because they sell out at midnight releases. Without them, I’ll probably curl up and die an agonizing, despair-ridden death – or at the very least, be stripped of yet another opportunity to have the living daylights beaten out of me for my sneakers. And frankly, I’ve always found the prospect of that thrilling. It’s safe to say the Air Jordan 11’s sit atop the unfortunate list of items I’ll be sorely disappointed not to receive this Christmas. Also included on this extensive, hapless collection of likely unfulfilled wishes are following:

1. Apple Thunderbolt Display (27-inch: Because anything bigger is excessive)

2. Amazon Kindle Fire (Mostly for Angry Birds, though – who reads?)

3. HP Photosmart Premium Network-Ready Wireless e-All-In-One Printer (room-mate still unaware I’ve been using his all semester ... not sure if he reads these things or not)

Now, some of you may be wonder-ing, justifiably, why I, a non-Christian, am essentially issuing a Christmas list to you, thousands of cash-strapped university students – instead of maybe to Santa Claus or some other person/entity that’s more likely to respond. That fact remains, I don’t actually need any of these things, nor do I expect to receive them. I don’t celebrate Christmas, remember? I’m sure Santa has me on a separate list titled “not even wor-thy of coal.”

But that doesn’t make me a victim, or a person worthy of a drop of your sympa-thy. I hope I didn’t have it earlier (if I did, bear in mind that I wear a size-10 shoe). But time and again I’ve been told, “Oh, that sucks,” or, “Wow, that’s bullshit” in response to the notion that I, as a Muslim, don’t celebrate Christmas. I guess people think I’m somehow deprived because I’m not showered annually with a mess of gifts including, but not limited to, the newest game systems and fashions and waterborne vehicles. Well, here it is. Why not just forgo the agony? Here’s what I want ...

Any takers? Thought so.This holiday season, those of moral fiber

and hedonic irreverence alike should take a step back and reexamine some important virtues. No, not the irrelevant, arbitrary political gestures that see all secular institu-tions equipped with Yule Trees and Festi-vus Poles. Rather than finding ourselves hung up on the frivolous politicking that

appeases those who don’t celebrate Christ-mas, let’s first make sure we accommo-date for those who do. As an ethnic and religious minority who has suffered from the effects of actual bigotry, I find that I can refrain from taking offense to the sight of a decorated evergreen tree with relative ease.

What’s really offensive, though, is the decadence, the obsession with obtaining the most extravagant material things at a time when some are just concerned with finding a pair of shoes that fit. Unsurpris-ingly enough, a recent CBS News poll indicates that half of Americans won’t be able to afford Christmas this year. Aside from economic factors, this is probably because of a perception of the ideal Christmas, which certainly entails a sizable amount of wastefulness.

Let’s face it: We’re a society obsessed with things. Even those who go to mid-night Mass and say, “Jesus is the best gift of all” would be livid to find the 55” 3-D television they ordered a month earlier arrived late. Christmas is, ironically enough, the consum-erist stronghold that defines our moral depravity. Mine included. I’ll always remember the envy I used to feel upon visiting the fellow neighborhood kids on Christmas Day. They would show off their shiny new

game consoles and bikes and Air Jor-dan’s on a day that, to me, only meant I’d be forced to see Kenan Thomp-son illustrate the downfalls associated with gluttony in that film depiction of Fat Albert (that was the point, right?)

Needless to say, things are different now. And I do have an actual, reason-able wish for this holiday season: that Christmas celebrators everywhere take it down a notch. Economic woes are obvi-ously incompatible with this boundless pursuit of material things. Americans can’t afford Christmas because they’ve set an unsustainable precedent of excess and indulgence – with the celebration of a man whose mere existence was defined by modesty and humility.

As someone who doesn’t celebrate Christmas, it’s easy for me to play armchair quarterback and highlight the obvious flaw in this logic. But that’s mostly because the inherent hypocrisy here is punching me square in the face, drawing blood and taking my broken my nose and teeth for souvenirs.

To my fellow Air Jordan connoisseurs: Spare me the jealously, forget the Air Jordans and request a shiny new pair of Reeboks this Christmas. The world will be better for it.

And to anybody who’s feeling extra gen-erous this holiday season, know that No. 3 on my hopeless list still stands. Please, spare me the hassle of having to repeat-edly ask roommate’s permission to use his printer. I could really use one of my own.

Besides, isn’t Christmas basically secular nowadays?

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christmas commercialism saturates all aspects of society, even for people who don’t celebrate the day.

christmas means gifts, santa and hope. but for christians, the season’s greatest message is love.

so this is

“Worship we the Godhead, Love Incarnate, Love Divine.”

The above lines, from

Christina Rossetti’s poem “Love Came Down at Christmas,” have stuck with me since I heard them at church on Sunday. Although I’m a Roman Catholic, when I am in Lincoln, I attend First Plymouth Congregational Church, down at 20th and D streets. For the season of Advent — the awaiting of the celebration of Jesus Christ’s birth — sermons focus on this poem. Namely, love.

To some degree, Christmas is about other things. First, the holiday falls on the

former Roman winter

sol-

stice. Christians need to get over

it and acknowl-edge that the early church set Christ’s

birth on an ancient feast day to gain converts and ease

the transition from Pagan tradition to

organized Christi-anity.

Christmas is about giv-ing gifts, inspired by the legend of three wise men, or, depending on your reading, kings, who gave decidedly useless gifts to the newborn Jesus. Seriously, what kid needs frankincense or myrrh?

It’s about Santa Claus, and a generous spirit. Christmas is about consumerism, too, for better or worse.

Most of all, Christmas is about love. The love God showed in coming to dwell with us, to teach us and to, yes, save us. Yet, Christians need to realize we saw this be-fore in history, too: the Egyptian pharaohs believed they were the embodiment of a god on Earth. God dwelled in the temple in Jewish rites, which is why its destruc-tion — twice — horrified the Jewish inhabitants of ancient Canaan.

God dwelling with humans is nothing new. But it’s special at Christmas. Maybe it’s the two billion people worldwide celebrating with one voice (with a few ex-ceptions who don’t celebrate) unlike any other Christian holiday. Christmas is Dec. 25, whether you’re in Jordan, Nigeria, Chi-na or America. Easter shifts based on the

calendar of your specific sect – Eastern Orthodox Christians and Roman Catholics have feuded about this for years. But on Christmas, we are grateful beyond our wildest imaginings as one.

My experience is no exception. Once upon a time, I was a deist, having fallen away from the Catholic Christian belief of my family. Deism is the belief in a supreme being. While it can take many forms, generally the belief maintains that the being has no interest in worldly af-fairs, and, for that matter, doesn’t interfere in them.

Interestingly, I became a deist after flirt-ing with atheism for a week, ending with Easter Mass at Creighton University. In hindsight, it was obvious then and there

that my belief in a god that didn’t interfere wouldn’t

stand for very long. Whether because of cultural upbringing or personality, a be-lief in an intensely personal yet im-mensely incompre-hensible being was bound to return.

And so it did. At midnight Mass, Christmas Day, in the same year in

which I became a deist, love came down

and caused me to be-lieve in the Incarnation

again. I hadn’t converted yet, but I was on my way

back to a Christian faith.Fast forward to 2010. Living in

Jordan for seven months, surrounded by Islam everywhere you turn, doesn’t

sound easy to most Christians. Perhaps it’s a bit frightening, given American percep-tions and stereotypes of Islam and of Muslims. But after I returned, friend after friend remarked how spiritual and reli-gious I had become – as a Christian.

Surrounding yourself with another religion can cause a number of things. It can make you withdraw into yourself, like many Western (especially Protestant) Christians do in Jordan. It can make you convert and give up your background, assimilate into the belief of the envelop-ing culture. Or, you can learn from both religions and come out stronger. I’d like to think that’s what I did.

Christmas meant so much to me com-ing back from Jordan. At midnight Mass, I openly wept in church at the beauty of ritual, the majesty of the celebration of God becoming man. Perhaps I wept be-cause I was up for 23 hours. But maybe, church at midnight, surrounded by loving and caring family and friends, was the reason.

It’s that love that Christmas is also all about. The love of human to human, the giving of gifts, the miracle of charity. Would that it be Christmas season year-round! There’s a reason, be it guilt or God, that people open up their pocket-books this time of year.

But I want to return, one more time, to love. Love came down at Christmas, Ros-setti said. Worship we the Godhead, Love Incarnate, Love Divine. The Bible tells us God is love, and Christmas is about God becoming man. Love, too, became man two millennia ago. Christmas isn’t just the winter solstice, the retelling of an ancient legend of God becoming man or God dwelling with us.

Christmas is something new. Christmas is love dwelling with us.

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Most of what I know about Christmas stems from TV specials, movies and TV shows. I learned about kindness and the ben-efits of being a misfit

from “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer.” I learned about generosity from “A Christ-mas Carol.” I learned about embracing the Christmas spirit from “Elf.”

And my favorite, “A Charlie Brown Christmas,” taught me that consumer-ism shouldn’t overshadow kindness. The criticism that Christmas is too commer-cial rings even truer today than it did in 1965.

There are a dozen other lessons here too, like treasuring your loved ones and helping those who are less fortunate than yourself. None of these shows are particularly religious, with the excep-tion of “A Charlie Brown Christmas.” But even then, you don’t have to be a religious person to enjoy any Christ-mas special. Nor do you have to be a religious person to celebrate Christmas.

Let me make a quick distinction here: There’s Christmas the religious holiday, the mass consumerist “holi-day” and then there’s the warm, fuzzy nonreligious Christmas that’s full of good cheer and joy. I support celebrat-ing the last one.

Christmas hasn’t been a truly Chris-tian holiday for a long time. The mind-less mass-consumerism that’s seized our country is about as un-Christian as you can get. I doubt Jesus would approve of people pepper-spraying one another for $2 waffle irons.

To be fair, the Christians first stole Christmas from the pagans. The early Christians incorporated the winter solstice into their celebrations in order to gain more followers. The “Su-pernatural” episode, “A Very Supernatural Christmas,” explains the Pagan origins better than I can.

Sam: I mean, pretty much every Christ-mas tradition *is* Pagan.

Dean: Christmas is Jesus’ birthday.Sam: No, Jesus’ birthday was prob-

ably in the fall. It was actually the winter solstice festival that was co-opted by the church and renamed Christmas. But I mean the Yule log, the tree, even Santa’s red suit that’s all remnants of Pagan wor-ship.

Dean: How do you know that? What are you going to tell me next, the Easter Bunny is Jewish?

To be fair, then the CEOs, businessmen and businesswomen stole Christmas to turn bigger profits in the last quarter of the year. Christmas shopping starts right after Halloween for this reason. This is why we barely talk about Thanksgiv-ing anymore, Christmas has stolen all its thunder. (Black Friday, Cyber Monday, anyone?)

The nasty aspects of the holiday are sometimes difficult to reconcile. The moment you point out that Christmas has become super materialistic, you’re called a Grinch. Or at least I am.

Now a quick word on the “War with Christmas” wherein big-box store greet-ers say, “Happy Holidays” instead of “Merry Christmas!” Of all the things to flip out about, this should be near the bottom of the list. I’d be more worried about those who break limbs in the name of your holiday. That being said, not everyone is comfortable celebrat-ing Christmas, though it has increasingly become secular, so they celebrate other holidays in their culture. Nothing wrong with that. And big-box stores don’t want to potentially alienate any clientele, so

“Happy Holidays!” is a smart thing to say.

The ideals of Christmas: kindness, generosity, treasuring your loved ones and accepting others for who they are, are notions everyone should embrace, regardless of religion. If your religion helps guide you to these ideas, that’s fantastic. But, do recognize that sitting in a church pew isn’t necessary for learning morality and acting as a moral person. If morality were entire- ly dependent on religion, you’d hear about atheists pillaging cities every day in the news. And that’s certainly not the case.

That’s not to say that you can’t make Christmas a reli-gious holiday. Many families attend special church

services. (And

some-times that’s the only time they go to a church.) I’ve spent a handful of Christmas Eves in a church – against my will. And before you ask, no, I didn’t catch on fire. Actually, there’s a small population of athe-ists (about 17 percent) who do attend church on Christmas, for a variety of reasons.

One of the wonderful things about Christmas being thoroughly non-re-ligious is that anyone can celebrate it pretty much however he or she

wants to. The holi- day is flexible enough in its presentation and traditions that you could do all sorts of things.

We should embrace the ideals of Christmas all year long, whether we’re religious or nonreligious.

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the true meanings of christmas should be universal. kindness and giving are necessary lessons for all.

For Jews, christmas is a day of loneliness and chinese food. hanukkah can’t stack up to christmas.

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The casual observer would think that “Miracle on 34th Street” — the original with Edmund Gwenn — is a de-lightful little film with few so-cial implications and a strong

message of choosing the Christmas spirit over the Christmas dollar.

I remember the first time I saw it as a young child after the Macy’s Day Parade. There he was, that American icon, sing-ing to some Dutch orphan and preaching about love, hope and identity. But, as I matured, I see films of this nature for what they are: further proof of a collec-tive knowledge that everyone is going to spend thousands of dollars, hang up the lights and dig out the Griswold family Christmas tree.

And I sit and watch you do it, silently shaking my head, while looking through the window of a Norman Rockwell painting of Christian perfection I can’t attain.

I wasn’t invited to the party. I have to wait until you people fin-

ish up your seven-fish dinner so I can get back to being produc-

tive. Have you figured it out yet? I am a Jew.

On Christ-mas, it doesn’t

matter how strong your faith is, in heart or reality. You celebrate Christmas or you’re a terror-

ist. It’s as simple as that. And Jews have reconciled this fact for years, while trying to remain relevant: We tried to popularize “Hanukkah Harry” and introduce the dreidel in casinos, both to no avail. Some pandering Jews have even blurred the lines of being American and being Jewish by bringing “Hanuk-kah bushes” into their living rooms. No bush in the world is going to make that fat man in red forget your last name is Weintraub – You’re off the list!

Recently, during a particularly slow evening at the restaurant where I work, one of my co-workers — the quintes-sential Nebraskan (Read: fearful of minorities, foreign languages and vegan food) — asked me what I’d be doing for Christmas.

“Same shit I do every year,” I said. “Go to the movies and eat Chinese food.” Then, “Those are the only things that are

open.”“You have a tree, though, right?”“Of course I don’t have a tree. I’m a

Jew.”The look of horror on her face was one

of the main reasons why, when I gradu-ate next week, I won’t miss Nebraska that much. It stands to further my theory of Christmas and patriotism being inter-twined. My interview continued for sev-eral minutes, including questions about whether I decorate my house, if my fam-ily exchanges gifts on Christmas morning or if we go to church.

While I enjoy driving around my New Jersey suburbs examining the lights dur-ing the weeks preceding Christmas with my other Jewish friend Spiel, I don’t participate. Mostly, it’s funny seeing the gentiles piss their money away, but I can appreciate the aesthetic value of lights and colors and music, after all. But, of course, my family doesn’t go to church.

Though again, as a person who can appreciate the tradition in organized re-ligion, I have been to Christmas Mass. It was OK. I recognized a lot of the songs. I enjoyed the wafer but found the impli-cations of eating it a little heavy for such a small snack.

Where the true alienation for Jews — and all non-Christians in this very Chris-tian society — originates is in the com-mercialization of gift-giving.

“But, Noah,” they all say, “You have Hanukkah. That’s eight nights of pres-ents!”

Listen up, goyem. Hanukkah is a scam. Not only is it a fake holiday invented to combat the tear-swollen eyes of Jewish children in late December, eight days isn’t an advantage. By night four or five, you’re getting pencil cases, gift cards for car tune-ups, puzzles,

off-brand action figures and all the bullshit that accrues in medium-sized

residential homes. With eight days, parents’ originality runs thin, and much like Christmas, you get two or three gifts you actually wanted and a bunch of crap that, while you probably need it, you don’t want to receive it with the pretense that it’s some exciting

surprise.Another plight of the Jews is dealing

with this month-long inundation of Nat King Cole, Dean Martin and Josh Groban singing about how this is such a wonder-ful goddamn time of year. Has anyone been outside lately? This is a terrible time. But we’re all so distracted by Santa that we’re willing to call it negligible.

There’s nothing better than a white Christmas, unless you’re a Jew

trying to get to work at your video store job and no one

felt like plowing the roads.What else is there to Christmas that everyone

is so excited about? No one actually likes

spending time with family. That’s the

gamble that keeps liquor

stores in business. Maybe Natalie Wood — the

innocent child from “Miracle on 34th Street” — really wanted that humble little split-level in Ossining with her uptight mother and the recently un-employed lawyer she fashions as a father, but no one really wants to spend more than a montage with his or her relatives.

The reason films like “Christmas with the Kranks,” “Deck the Halls” and what-ever else do so well in the days follow-ing Jesus Day: Sure this movie sucks, your father thinks, but at least I can be distracted from my yuletide misery by someone else’s. I quote my favorite holiday film, “Christmas Vacation:” As she lights a cigarette brought on by the stress of being around her family for only a few scenes, the matriarch tells her teenage daughter, “I don’t know what to say, except it’s Christmas and we’re all in misery.”

Perhaps that’s the solace the Jews can have to keep them warm Dec. 25: You’re way more miserable than we are, and we can have General Tso’s instead of your aunt’s infamous fruit cake.

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At this time last year, while most University of Nebras-ka-Lincoln students and fac-ulty were finishing up the semester and winding down from their studies, a team of UNL researchers was tack-ling a brand new project.

Allan McCutcheon, pro-fessor of survey research and methodology for UNL’s Gallup Research Center, as-sembled a team of research-ers last winter to apply for a grant from the National Sci-ence Foundation.

Co-investigators for the project are Robert Belli, Kris-ten Olson, Jolene Smyth and Leen-Kiat Soh. Belli, Olson and Smyth are members of the Gallup Research Center.

According to McCutcheon,

the team thought of several ideas before deciding on one that will improve the ac-curacy of the next national census.

He said the team then spent most of the holiday break writing their proposal and filling out the application for the grant.

The National Science Foun-dation award-ed six large grants and two small grants. UNL received one of the large grants and was award-ed $2.97 million. McCutch-eon and his team will use this money to develop a software that will potentially be used by the U.S. Census

Bureau in the 2020 Census.McCutcheon said that in

the past, census data has been collected through a two-part system. First, forms are mailed to every resi-

dence. Sec-ondly, door-t o - d o o r p e r s o n a l visits were initiated at the homes that did not return the form.

McCutch-eon iden-tified this

as an extremely expensive method for collecting data.

He and his team are try-ing to turn the census into a three-part system. In this, the two methods listed above would be used only

after an Internet data form was made available for people to fill out. McCutch-eon said the Internet is the cheapest way to gather data.

“The Census is a monu-mental process,” McCutch-eon said.

According to him, each census requires between 12 and 14 years of work from the planning stage to imple-mentation to data analysis.

Belli sees the grant as an opportunity.

“Academic, corporate and governmental partners are all involved,” Belli said.

UNL is one of only three universities in the nation to produce doctoral degrees in a research and survey-related program. The pro-gram at UNL is called Survey Research and Methodology and is affiliated with Gallup

Research Group.The other two universi-

ties that produce doctoral degrees in this field are the University of Maryland and the University of Michigan. Although both of these uni-versities applied for grants from the National Science Foundation, UNL was the only institution of the three to be awarded one.

“We felt very pleased,” McCutcheon said. “I think it’s very good (for UNL). It gives us some additional vis-ibility in the field.”

The grant will be dis-bursed during a period of five years. Belli said he hopes to use the first five years to gain knowledge and practice the team can then use in the years after the grant runs out.

According to McCutcheon,

the focus of the group is determining how to design effective questionnaires. He said that when individuals are confused by a census question, they have the op-portunity to ask the door-to-door researcher who comes to collect data for clarifica-tion. McCutcheon wants to design the questions so that confusion doesn’t arise and the Internet surveys will be effective.

The work completed at UNL will eventually be used in both the government and private industry.

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unl researchers earn grant to create Census software

been in Washington, D.C., yesterday, appealing a $55,000 fine from the U.S. De-partment of Education for its handling of the 2007 shoot-ing, which the government charges included dangerously vague and delayed emails. The incident led to an over-haul of the university’s alert system to include other me-dia, such as text messages.

The University of Nebras-ka-Lincoln’s present alert system, UNL Alert, was put into place after Virginia Tech’s 2007 shooting. It also includes text messages and emails, and in recent years has been used most often for dangerous weather con-ditions. It was used on Feb. 25, however, to alert the uni-versity of an alleged gunman on East Campus, which led to a campus lockdown but was never confirmed. On March 11, students were alerted to a bomb threat to the College of Business Administration that turned out to be a hoax.

UNL and Lincoln Police had begun searching the areas of concern within minutes of the first sightings or phone calls. Many students didn’t re-ceive the text or phone alerts, which are sent to devices stu-dents must designate ahead of time.

Kasey Kraft, a Virginia Tech freshman, said by phone that

the parking lot where the of-ficer was shot was across the street from her dorm. She’d been taking a nap at the time, she said, but was roused by the sudden influx of texts, phone calls and emails that started shortly after 12:15 p.m. Her roommate returned soon after.

“We both tried to keep calm,” Kraft said. Most peo-ple on her floor quickly locked themselves in their rooms and kept quiet, she said, and she could hear oth-ers all-out run-ning to do the same. The pair were able to find a link to the Blacksburg police radio, she said. Kraft was also able to quickly make contact with her mother, who was nearby to pick her up for the weekend.

“It was terrifying,” Kraft said bluntly.

Meanwhile, texts alerted her to every turn of the story.

“They just kept coming in, kept coming in,” Kraft said, and she only hoped it wouldn’t get worse. “Then we heard about the second victim, and it brought back a lot of memories from 2007.”

John Koussis, 22, a recent Virginia Tech graduate and civil engineer in Virginia, said he saw the news while he was at work.

“Very quickly, people knew something had hap-pened, and they were all very concerned and con-

fused, and d e f i n i t e l y very worried,” Koussis said. “I was so nervous for everyone I knew, and ev-eryone down there.”

K o u s s i s still has sev-eral friends at the univer-sity, where he transferred his sopho-

more year, two years after the first shooting. He said phone lines had been “really swamped,” and Twitter and Facebook had been a huge help in finding information and connecting with those friends. When he’d been at the university, he said, the personal impact of the 2007 tragedy was still apparent, though no one thought of it as an unsafe place.

“It really created a very strong bond between all the students and faculty,” Kous-sis said, and he predicted

it’d be more of the same this time around. “Today, it just reiterates that fact.”

Kraft agreed and said the students around campus had been largely “trying to stay strong to encourage other students.”

She expressed frustration of the ubiquitous references

to the 2007 shooting, saying it created an inaccurate pic-ture and brought up a past the university was still trying to move beyond. She was on her way to buy candles for a candlelight vigil that was scheduled for 8 p.m. Thursday but was resched-uled for Friday.

“No school deserves this to happen to them,” Kraft said, but she added Virginia Tech would deal with it bet-ter than any other. “As tough of as it is, there’s a sense of community, even more than there was before.”

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heavily armed police move toward the residential side of campus in search of the gunman.

JOHN KOUSSISrecent virginia tech graduate

Very quickly, people knew something had happened, and they were all very concerned and confused, and definitely very worried.

We felt very pleased. i think

it’s very good (for unl). it gives us some additional visibility in the field.

allan mccutcheonprofessor of survey research and

methodology

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OK, Hollywood, I get it. You are completely cre-

atively bankrupt.That’s not entirely true, and I’ve never

been an across-the-board remake hater. But when I started writing this column, I

anticipated that I would dislike most of the remakes I had to review. While it’s true that some of the newer versions were pretty awful,

there were a handful of films that improved upon the originals.

I’m not inherently against movie re-makes, but I wish there were a lot less of them. I would prefer to see a new, original film rather than something merely rehashed from the past.

The remakes that I found most worthy were from great directors whose work I admire anyway. The Coen brothers, Christopher Nolan and Steven Soderbergh all made remakes that brought something new to the table.

This fall, a slew of remakes hit theaters, titles from the `70s and `80s that aren’t that old at all. Are new versions of “Straw Dogs,” “The Thing” and “Foot-loose” really that essen-tial?

Oh, and “Scarface” is getting remade. Again.

While remaking older films is not necessary, I find it more reasonable than something from the past few decades. If the goal is to sell tick-ets, it makes sense to

update an old black-and-white film like “Mr. Deeds Goes to Town” (1936) into color with Adam Sandler. For better or worse, audiences will go see that. While I do not necessarily find any reason to remake older films, it makes much more sense than updating a film that’s not even 20 years old. Movie studios are prep-ping a plethora of titles for revitalization that haven’t even faded from recent memory.

A remake of Paul Verhoeven’s cult classic “Starship Troopers” is in the works, a film that was released in 1997. That’s like remaking “Men In Black” (of course, part three comes out next spring). Another unfortunate remake recently announced is “American Psycho.” Mary Harron directed the 2000 film based on Bret Easton El-lis’ satirical novel and starred Christian Bale as a bored banking executive who moonlights as a serial killer.

If it weren‘t enough that films from the `80s, `90s and even the 2000s are getting updated, it seems that auteur films aren‘t safe either. A company called Splendent Media has acquired remake rights to dozens of catalogue titles from Akira Kurosawa including “Rashomon,” “Yojim-bo” and many more. This deal does not include remakes that were already in the works, in-cluding “Seven Samurai,” “High and Low“ and “Drunken Angel.”

So, what is the point behind all these re-makes? Why are film studios obsessed with them? I don’t know if there is any one answer, but making as much money as possible is a big one. It’s much easier to launch a franchise and make a billion dollars if the audience is already familiar with the product.

Of course, films like “Harry Potter” and “Twi-light” have made huge bank in recent years, partially because people were familiar with the books. Movie franchises are getting sequels

decades after the originals because the titles are familiar. Two precariously subtitled se-quels to 1980s films, “TRON: Legacy” and “Wall Street: Mon-ey Never Sleeps” came out last year.

Movie series are being reboot-ed precariously close to their predecessors, and the gaps are getting ever smaller. “Star Trek” got rebooted seven years after its last film. Andrew Garfield will be-come “The Amazing Spider-Man” next summer, a mere five years after Tobey Maguire last put on the tights. And Warner Bros. will release a Bat-man reboot in 2015, three years after Nolan’s “The Dark Knight Rises.” Nolan will produce the film himself.

It’s getting a little redundant, Hollywood.So please, the next time you’re flipping

through Netflix, consider trying the original version of a film you enjoy. Give a black and white film a try. Try watching a foreign film; subtitles aren’t bad, I promise.

Appreciate film as the wonderful art form that it is. Great films come in all varieties, sometimes even as a remakes.

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Reading through Joshua Ware’s poetry gives a fair-ly accurate portrait of the man: uncommonly witty, fascinated with language and form and unabashedly unconventional.

Currently in the English Ph.D. program at the Uni-versity of Nebraska-Lincoln, Ware has authored the poetry chapbooks “Excavations” and “A Series of Ad Hoc Permuta-tions,” and coauthored “I, NE: Iterations of the Junco.”

Next week, Ware will be moving to Denver, Colo., and amid finishing his dissertation and applying for tenure-track teaching positions, Ware spoke about some of the early lessons in becoming a published writer.

First of those, he said, is to not worry about becoming a published writer.

“Sometimes it can bedevil you a little bit,” Ware said about the publishing indus-try. “You should always just write what you feel you need to write.”

More important than pub-lishing, Ware said, is finding a strong community.

“One of the great moments of being here is developing a community of writers,” Ware said, “who are both good writers in and of themselves, but are also interested in, for one, my work, but also in col-laborating. Those are things that I never really had before. And there’s some great writ-ers here.”

Ware brings a unique eye to the poetry world, often ma-nipulating forms as diverse as SONY MC-90 cassette tapes, calendars, diagrams and graphs. Many incorporate their own explanatory notes into the poetry, adding lay-ers and angles that Ware says come naturally.

“If you’re not doing some-thing that can be turned into a poem, why do it?” Ware said. This approach often transgresses normative ways of conceiving poetry.

“I feel sometimes if you just

write a poem that looks like a poem, that has a couple words and then you break a line, and then you write an-other couple of words and then you break a line, that seems like a really reductive way of thinking about po-etry,” Ware said. “I don’t see why a computer program can’t be a poem. I don’t see why a visual collage can’t be a poem. It’s an aesthet-ic process. If you want to shape or form your car into a poem, then why not?”

Ware acknowledged that every poet writes from his or her own inclinations or perspectives and what is natural for one writer isn’t for others. But he said poet-ry’s history shows that rep-resentation and form has al-ways been important, citing spoken Old English poetry as an example.

“The way they remem-bered these poems was to have certain linguistic sig-nifiers, mnemonic devices,” Ware said. “They had cer-tain beats or certain rhymes. Certain auditory and vocal patterns, so they could re-member these stories.”

As culture and technol-ogy evolves, representation evolves with them.

“Once the printing press came along, those things

kind of started falling out of use,” Ware said. “You didn’t need them anymore, materially speaking. As we move toward the digital, vi-sual culture, there’s no rea-son I think that poetry can’t change with the material conditions.”

Ware has become deeply familiar with the digitiza-tion of literature, working as an editorial assistant in the Whitman Archive. There, Ware creates programs that automatically encode Walt Whitman’s documents and make them viewable for computer browsers.

“If poets’ legacies are go-ing to continue and flourish, those poets will need advo-cates that are adept in the world of digital technology,” he said. “And they’ll need to be able to promote them and have the poet proliferate, via something similar to the Whitman Archive.”

While much of the job re-volves around the more mi-nor and pedantic details, Ware says he’s gotten to work with many fascinating ele-ments as well.

“I think it’s an important project,” he said. “I’m glad I was able to have the experi-ence of working on it and con-tributing in some way to it.”

Jeff Alessandrelli, a close

friend of Ware, recalls many instances that showed Ware’s character and personality since the two met in UNL’s Ph.D. program.

“I would describe Josh-ua as intelligent, outgoing, honest, muscular, capable and unkempt,” Alessandrelli said. “He’s a pretty cerebral dude, but he hides it be-hind constant ‘Weekend At Bernie’s 2’ jokes and bacon-flavored bubble gum.”

John Chávez, who re-ceived his Ph.D. at UNL in the spring before moving to Dixie State College of Utah, remembers Ware fondly as well.

“Four years ago, Joshua thought about leaving the program,” Chávez said. “I’m glad he didn’t. As was my argument then, the poetry scene needs a wildly playful yet smart poet like him.”

Though his next chapter takes him to Denver, Ware’s signature personality and style will leave an effect on many who knew him in the Lincoln area.

“Joshua is truly one of the most unique, worthwhile people I’ve met since I moved to Lincoln,” Alessan-drelli said. “I’m honored to call him my friend.”

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“The Best College Band You’ve Never Heard Of,” a name given to The Nadas by Playboy Magazine in 2001, is coming to Omaha. The Na-das are bringing 18 years of music and experience to their favorite Omaha venue, The Waiting Room Lounge, Friday at 9 p.m.

The Nadas have been around since Jason Walsmith and Mike Butterworth met in college 18 years ago. They came out with their first al-bum in 1995. Since then, they have seen a number of faces join and leave the group.

“Some members who were in the band pop back in now and then,” Walsmith said. “We’ve got a large family of players in the band.”

The current band consists of Butterworth and Walsmith on guitar and vocals, Jon Locker on bass and Jason Smith on drums.

“We (Butterworth and Wal-smith) didn’t even know each other when we started play-ing together,” Walsmith said. “It was a total blind date kind of thing.”

“I don’t think we had any expectations past a year, maybe two,” Butterworth said. “We had built this col-lege hobby band into some-thing that was working and touring and making records.”

“We said from the begin-ning that we would keep do-ing it as long as it was fun,” Butterworth said. “And here we are this many years later. Obviously we’re still here, so obviously it’s still fun.”

Before the band started, Butterworth was enrolled at Iowa State University. He was in the architecture program, as his father had done. That lasted for about a week, until he looked back through the curriculum book.

“I thumbed through until I found something I wanted to do, and that was art,” Butter-worth said. “But I spent all of my college years concentrat-ing on the band to the point where I would miss weeks of school at a time to go to band stuff.”

The Nadas built an audi-ence at their school, Iowa State, by playing at coffee houses and parties. They played a CD release show for their first album, “Not A Sound,” in 1995 at a frat house. They sold 400 records to an audience of 200 people.

“We sold piles and piles and piles out of the trunk of our car,” Butterworth said.

Butterworth and Walsmith work together to write and produce their songs. The band’s country-rock style comes from the Butterworth’s rock influences and Wal-smith’s country influences growing up.

“Each record’s a little dif-ferent. One might be a little more acoustic, one might be a little more country, one might be a little more rock, but we’re in the same spec-trum,” Butterworth said.

Their latest album, “Alma-nac,” was produced in one year. Each month, the band wrote and recorded one song and released it to their sub-scribed fans online. Along the way, they delivered live feeds of the production pro-cess. The goal was to create a reflection of 2009.

“It built a new form of communication with our

fans,” Walsmith said. “They see what we did behind the curtain and engaged people in a different way.”

On the first day of each month, they met with a blank sheet of paper and scrapped together ideas, which turned into a song that would be released by the end of the month. The tight time frames allowed the band to produce in-the-moment music.

“You can overproduce something and overwork something to a point where you squeeze the original life out of it,” Walsmith said. “It’s kind of cool that we stayed on that schedule for the al-bum. It created a different fi-nal product.”

The schedule was not easy for the band to follow, how-ever. While each month de-manded a new song from them, the members were still on tour, still took family va-cations and sometimes only had a few days to press out a new song.

“Early on — it was either February or March — we said, ‘Huh, this is going to be a failure. We’re going to have to give everyone their money back,’” Butterworth said. “But right at the zero hour, we got it done.”

The last song on the al-bum, “New Years’ Eve,” re-flects the members’ anticipa-tion for the end of the year and beginning 2010 without the demand for a new song.

“At the end of the month, you’re so relieved that you’ve done it, but you have to turn around the very next day and start over and do it again,” Butterworth said. “Looking back, I’m glad we did it, but while we were doing it, it was a total drag.”

The album reflects the year 2009 in general, influenced both by the members’ per-sonal lives and by newswor-thy events.

“There are specific mo-ments in our lives that came through and they may be hidden in the songs,” Wal-smith said. “‘Long Goodbye’ in February is related to the death of one of my grandfa-thers.”

In October 2009, the band began writing “Parachute,” a song about falling to the ground. Later that month, stories of the little boy stuck in a flying hot air balloon hit the news.

“We were literally sitting there writing it, watching the news when they thought he was in the balloon flying over Colorado,” Walsmith said. “That was really weird.”

For the upcoming year, the band has tossed around the idea of creating another, less-demanding subscription for their fans. For each month, they hope to release some-thing new, anywhere from a live version of a song to a cooking video.

“We’re kind of funny dudes, so we would make it funny and interesting, but in the end it’ll teach you how to cook Chicken Kiev,” Butter-worth said.

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In his new documentary “Into the Abyss,” Werner Her-zog delves into the senseless depths of the death row sys-tem, extracting powerful testi-mony from every side of the debate. It won’t change any policies, and even with Her-zog’s uncomfortable lines of questioning, the film is under-stated to the point of aggrava-tion. Still, Herzog presents an emotional film mostly free of judgment, with the same ex-pertly unconventional eye he brought to “Grizzly Man” and

“Cave of Forgotten Dreams.”The film centers on two in-

mates, Michael Perry on death row and Jason Burkett with a life sentence, convicted when they were teenagers of mur-dering three people for a red Camaro. There is no voiceover narration, statistics or outside footage, apart from a grisly crime scene videotape show-ing blood spatters and smears while cookie dough sits un-baked on the stove. Herzog prefers to simply sit and talk to Perry, Burkett, Burkett’s father (also incarcerated), the victims’ siblings, a former death row guard and Burkett’s

mysteriously pregnant wife.Herzog makes no claim of

being unbiased, at one point alluding to the Old Testament to describe capital punish-ment. But his difficult ques-tions follow a delicate craft that keeps him on the out-side looking in. When an in-terviewee shies away from a difficult subject, he carefully urges it out of them, opening boxes that the interviewees themselves would never face. Talking with a former guard, who was pushed to quit after overseeing 125 executions, Herzog uncovers a traumatic weight the guard still grapples

with intimately. If the purpose of “Into the Abyss” is simply to showcase spiraling loss and tragedy, Herzog succeeds. Little hope and confused ex-planations make for an often muddled film, but Herzog knows what he’s doing. His abyss is a muddled one, too.

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In spite of all his mainstream success, Simon Pegg seems to retain his geek cred as the years go by.

He starred in the nerdy Brit-ish television show “Spaced.“ He had roles in the cult favor-ites “Shaun of the Dead” and “Hot Fuzz.” He was cast as Scotty in the recent “Star Trek” reboot. And now, even as two of the largest-scale films of his career are released, Pegg takes it all in stride.

Both “Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol” and “The Adventures of Tintin” will be released Dec. 21. The former is directed by Brad Bird and the latter by Steven Spielberg, but no matter what kind of film project Pegg takes on, he thinks of them all in the same way.

“I try and approach each film as an individual thing anyway as opposed to part of a series,” Pegg said in a

conference call. “When you make a movie, it’s very much about that movie and you rarely think, ‘Oh, I wonder what I’m going to be doing in the next one.’”

Pegg is no stranger to fran-chises now, and is returning to the “Mission: Impossible” series. His character, Benji Dunn, debuted in “Mission: Impossible III” as a research and development character, more Q than James Bond. In the fourth “Mission: Impos-sible” film, Dunn gets upgrad-ed to a field agent. Pegg said he and director J.J. Abrams found a comfortable working dynamic on “M:I III” and that planted seeds for his charac-ter’s improved role in the se-quel.

“I think the idea of bring-ing him back in a more sort of proactive role was always something we joked about,” Pegg said. “It was ‘Imagine if Benji actually got out into the field? You know, what would happen then?’ And

then J.J. literally emailed me one morning and said, ‘I think we’re going to do that. And I was, you know, extremely ex-cited and surprised.’”

Spielberg‘s “Tintin” is also based on a popular franchise: the comic series by Hergé. The series is known for its adventurous story lines and clean drawing style. The look of the comics is being faithful-ly represented, and is possi-ble thanks to motion capture. Pegg donned a motion-cap-ture suit to play Inspector Thompson. Motion capture records the movement of ac-tors and uses that information to animate a digital character in their place. Spielberg wait-ed for years to get the look just right.

“Steven had been in pos-session of the rights to make ‘Tintin’ into a film for 30 years,” Pegg said. “And I think together they found a way of finally getting it on screen in a way that Hergé would have approved, you know, because

it’s very much in keeping with his original drawings.”

So after playing characters in well-known geek worlds from “Doctor Who” to “Star Trek” and working with direc-tors as big as Spielberg, Pegg

tries to stay grounded.“You know, I never lose

sight of what it means to work with these people,” Pegg said. “You just sort of say ‘hello,’ and ‘nice to meet you.’ And you behave like a normal

human being. And then when you leave the room, you jump up and down and scream. And I think that’s the kind of way to go about it.”

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When it comes to college sports, many athletes might redshirt their first year be-cause of an injury suffered prior to the season.

But for track and field run-ner Ter-an Wal-ford, that w a s n ’ t the case.

W a l -ford red-s h i r t e d his first season at Nebraska because he wanted to be-come a more versatile for his team.

“I wanted to learn all the events I didn’t know,” Wal-ford said. “Because in high

school I only competed in the hurdles, high jump and pole vault.”

Since competing at Ne-braska, the now-junior track runner competes in 17 events for the Huskers – 10 outdoor and seven indoor.

In his first season, Wal-ford set personal bests in the 60 meters (7.40), 60-me-ter hurdles (8.57), long jump (19-11) and 1,000 me-ters (2:44.10). In his first Big 12 Championships he took fifth place with a score of 6,731. It was in that meet where he broke his high jump record with a 6-2 ¼ leap.

Walford surpassed all his personal bests his sopho-more season.

The York, Neb., native set a career-high in the 60 me-ters (7.25), 60-meter hurdles (8:42), long jump (21-6 ¾) and 1,000 meters (2:42.77).

Walford said his knowl-edge and focus on the sport was the biggest difference between his first and sec-ond year.

“My mental aspect was that I knew for myself I should have done better,” he said. “And since the ex-pectations are that you’re supposed to do better each year only added more pres-sure.”

Walford also achieved a season-best 14-5-¼ on the pole vault at the adidas Classic and a career-best throw of 125-11 at the Ne-braska Open.

Track and field coach Gary Pepin said he’s proud of the improvement the ju-nior has shown since join-ing the team.

“He’s stayed healthy and has improved a great deal,” he said. “I think he’ll keep getting better.”

Walford is one of only two athletes on the roster to compete in combined events.

“He’s a big team guy and we’re pleased to have him on the team,” Pepin said. “I think he’s been training and participating in events that have the potential for him to help this team the most.”

Walford is a nutrition, sci-ence and dietetics major and said that the classes have helped him maintain his health.

“Competition-wise, my coaches help me a lot and put the technical stuff into perspective,” he said. “But in class it’s interesting to see how what I learn relates to my own nutrition. Hearing what the basic standards for exercise are makes you feel better in certain aspects.”

This past summer Wal-ford said he ran a lot, trying

to get stronger by running stairs daily and improving his overall fitness.

He added that his goals for the 2011-2012 track and field season is to continue increasing his personal re-cords.

“Overall I hope to get PRs in the decathlon and hep-tathlon, along with indoor and outdoor events,” Wal-ford said. “And, if all goes well, make nationals in the decathlon. You need a big PR to get that, so we’ll see.”

Walford will be compet-ing for one of 32 spots on the team’s indoor champi-onship team.

Pepin said he’s hopeful that the junior will have his best season yet this year.

“I think providing that he stays healthy and has good work ethic he’ll get better in his events,” the coach said. “He should have a chance

to compete in the Big Ten Championships this year.”

The Nebraska track and field team will compete this Friday, Dec. 9 for the Red and White Nebraska Intra-squad meet. The meet will be hosted at the Devaney Center Indoor Track at 5 p.m.

Walford said that although it’s an exhibition, there’s many reasons why he’s ex-cited to run again.

“The winner gets a pizza party, so it’s kind of nice,” he said with a laugh. “It’s always good because you start practicing when the school year starts. You’re competing against your teammates but it’s still fun.

“It’s a nice indicator of how the season will go so we’ll all definitely want to do well.”

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Players talk bowl game

This time last year the Nebraska football team knew it would be play-ing the same Washing-ton Huskies team it had throttled in Seattle three months earlier in the same bowl game it had played for the year before.

With a fresh opponent in South Carolina and bowl on the opposite coast in the Capital One Bowl, the Huskers are ex-cited for the game. Their performance in the Holi-day Bowl is a motivator this time around.

“I think our focus is where it needs to be,” NU running back Rex Bur-khead said. “We have a challenge in South Caro-lina. They’ve got a very good team defensively and offensively, so we’re going to have to come prepared. Last year was kind of a bad deal and we definitely do want to go out there and put some-thing on the field like we did last year.”

While some are enam-ored with the SEC, NU cornerback Alfonzo Den-nard doesn’t hold the Gamecocks on a pedestal.

“It’s just another team. I mean, SEC, Big Ten, Big 12, it don’t really matter,” Dennard said. “As long as you go out there and per-form and compete, every-thing should be good.”

For senior All-American Lavonte David, this bowl is a slice of familiar.

“Personally, for me, it’s a chance to play in Flor-ida, last game to play in my home state,” David said. “As a team, we’re

getting fired up at the chance to play in a great bowl game like that. It means a lot – go out with a bang in my home state.”

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It was bound to hap-pen. That’s the way La-vonte David sees it.

“You know it was going to come sooner or later because he’s a great foot-ball coach,” David said. “A lot of people were probably gunning for him, so you’ve just got to take your hat off to him – to get the opportunity and he took advantage of it.”

David spent two years under Carl Pelini’s tute-lage and pointed to his leadership as a key to his climb up the coaching ladder.

“He’s a great motivator and he’s a great coach as a whole,” David said. “He look out for his players and he puts them in the best position to succeed.”

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Senior Austin Cassidy and juniors Rex Burkhead and Sean Fisher were named to the Capital One Academic All-America Di-vision I football team on Thursday. Nebraska now has 294 all-time CoSIDA academic All-Americans, the most of any pro-gram in the country. Cas-sidy was named to the first team for the second straight year.

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Mancuso, as well as the highly versatile second-teamer Mor-gan Broekhuis. That won’t be the end to NU’s talent at the position. Taylor Simpson’s back injury, which limited her to 12 games this season, should heal enough for her return, and the Huskers add Kelsey Fien, prepvolleyball’s No. 19 overall prospect, to the mix as well.

Mancuso finished eighth in the Big Ten in kills per set, despite other top targets getting more touches, and Werth’s skill on both ends makes her “a rare talent” to assistant coach Dan Meske.

The Huskers also return libero Lara Dykstra and de-fensive specialists Paige Hubl and Shelby Winkelmann, who combined to help NU hold opponents to a paltry .145 hitting percentage in 2011. The only problem spot may be at middle blocker, where Brooke Delano and

Jordan Wilberger, the starters for NU’s final game, graduate. But Hubl has seen a highly skilled replacement during practice.

“I’m excited to watch (Ce-cilia Hall) play,” Hubl said. “I’m really excited to see us unleash the Swede. I don’t know if you can replace (Del-ano and Wilberger) but she’s going to have a fun impact. She’s an incredible player. I can’t wait to see her play.”

Beyond Hall, Hayley Th-ramer, who started 21 games, returns and Allison McNeal, who missed the 2011 season, has eligibility remaining as well.

All of this points to a high preseason ranking for the Huskers, despite the fact the team fell before regionals for the first time since 1993. The key, coaches and players say, is continued growth by the team before next season be-gins.

“As the season went on, we knew we’d get everyone’s best shot,” Meske said. “We made adjustments, but the second time around (in Big Ten play) it didn’t always go our way. When we passed well, we were almost un-stoppable ... it’s really hard to pass really, really well and lose. We want to be the best passing team in the country next season.”

Another issue will be lead-ership. With the loss of Root and Wilberger, co-captains in 2011, and Delano, a co-captain in 2010, new captains will need to be elected by the team in the spring. While Root said four or five play-ers are in the mix and Hubl said anyone on the team is capable it’s worth noting that Cook, Hubl, Mancuso and Werth will all be seniors next season.

“I think everybody could (be captain),” Hubl said.

“Everybody’s willing, every-one’s ready. That’s the nice thing about this team – ev-erybody gives, there’s no one who’s greedy and takes and takes. It’s good for us to be in that spot.”

That amount of senior tal-ent has a downside: While Nebraska may reload as op-posed to rebuild, there is no doubt NU has a great oppor-tunity for a national champi-onship.

“I think, (the team) is going to have so much talent,” Root said. “Obviously, they have a majority of the girls return-ing who have played and also some great recruits coming in, so talent-wise, they’ll be great. They can really build on (the Big Ten Title this season). With the new girls coming in, the key will be be-coming a team and becoming great.”

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easily can be. From what I’ve seen, this is arguably the most talented team Sadler’s had.

Bo Spencer is NU’s best offensive player since Aleks Maric. Dylan Talley is fight-ing through injuries but can still provide a great scoring punch and long-range shoot-ing off the bench. Toney Mc-Cray is inching ever closer to realizing his potential.

Even guys who have strug-gled offensively, such as

Caleb Walker and Brandon Richardson, provide valu-able leadership and on-ball defense.

This team has a chance to make some noise, especially if Andre Almeida is able to return from injury at some point. But the current effort isn’t going to cut it.

It’s hard to describe how the Huskers looked against FGCU. They appeared tenta-tive and overconfident at the same time, passing up lots of shots but still hoisting more shots outside the arc than

inside it. The overall energy level seemed low and the of-fense sluggish.

Where was the run-and-gun offense NU displayed during those first five games? That was a team that looked like a good bet to make the tournament.

The latest editions appear CBI-bound.

That’s not going to cut it in the Big Ten, which has quickly staked its claim as one of the country’s best conferences. But let’s not get ahead of ourselves.

First, the Huskers need these next three. Without those three wins, the wheels could come off the track rather quickly.

Like Sadler said, it’s all about making it to Dec. 27. As they seem to do every year, the Huskers have left spectators wondering what they can expect from the squad.

The next three games will tell us a lot.

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Nu to welcome No. 11 Wyomingby 10 points or less enter-ing Wednesday’s contest.

“We’re really excited about that,” Talley said about the tight win. “We’re just relieved to pull out a close one and that will help us in the next close game. All the games from here on out are going to be tough.”

That includes NU’s game this Saturday against TCU. The Horned Frogs are 7-2, their best start since the 2000-2001 season, and are coming off a victory against Texas Tech. The Huskers beat TCU 70-56 at home last year, but now they must travel to Fort Worth, where the Horned Frogs are 4-0.

But TCU is far from per-fect. They are allowing op-ponents to shoot 45 percent from the field while only shooting 43 themselves, including 31 percent from long distance.

What the Horned Frogs lack in field-goal defense, they make up with turn-overs. TCU is forcing an average of more than 20 turnovers per game, and the Huskers aren’t the most cautious with the ball. NU coughed up the ball 18 times against the Eagles.

One of the problem’s Sadler said he needs to solve is the team’s energy level. Both he and forward Brandon Ubel admitted af-ter Wednesday’s win that the team came out flat and struggled to provide the type of energy it needed to pull away from Gulf Coast.

“They’re not very emo-tional guys, I don’t think,” Sadler said. “I don’t know what they get excited about. I get excited about winning. There’s so much pressure on these guys to do that. It’s almost like a sigh of relief to them and it can’t be that way.”

That issue has to be ad-dressed soon. The Huskers already have three non-conference stumbles and narrowly avoided a fourth against FGCU. That kind of effort likely won’t be enough to beat TCU on the road, and, thanks to previ-ous nonconference losses, the margin of error is razor-thin.

“Our backs are against the wall,” Ubel said. “We can’t make any more mis-takes in the nonconfer-ence.”

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Jake Sueflohn’s last match may have ended in defeat, but he still came away with a fourth place finish at the Cliff Keen Las Vegas Invita-tional.

“It felt good,” he said. “I had some g o o d matches, but also I had some bad matches.”

T w o b a d ma t ches , to be ex-act. Sueflohn fell twice in the invite: first to Oregon State’s Michael Mangrum, then in the consolation final to Kellen Russell of Michi-gan. There is, however, a major difference between Sueflohn and the No. 3 and No. 4 wrestlers in the nation at 141 pounds.

Sueflohn (No. 12 in the country) is a true freshman.

For the season, the Water-town, Wis., native is 10-3. His only other loss of the

year came to No. 15 Evan Henderson of North Caro-lina — a defeat he avenged in Las Vegas.

But Sueflohn is not the only true freshman mak-ing noise for the Huskers. James Green, a freshman from Willingboro, N.J., also notched a top-four place-ment at the Cliff Keen. No. 16 in the country at 157 pounds, Green is 14-3 on the season.

NU coach Mark Manning said Sueflohn and Green have made the transition to Division I wrestling look easier than it really is.

“It’s a tough thing. Big adjustments, quite a chal-lenge,” Manning said. “But they’re on their way. They’re showing a lot of promise.”

Sueflohn said being able to train with the team dur-ing the summer was valu-able.

“I just kept working hard and we’re seeing it pay off, I guess,” Sueflohn said.

Manning also compli-mented the true freshmen on performing at the level they are.

“It’s a great credit to both James and Jake. They both

expect to win,” he said. “They have the mentality to wrestle anyone in the coun-try.”

On Saturday, “anyone in the country” will be in Lin-coln.

Wyoming enters its dual with Nebraska Saturday as the No. 11 team in the country.

“They’re a really good team. It’s probably one of their best teams ever,” Man-ning said. “It’s a stiff chal-lenge for us.”

The Cowboys are fresh off a third-place result in Las Vegas, where the Huskers came in fourth. In its 2011-2012 home opener, Ne-braska will face off against a team that has two third-ranked wrestlers: Shane Onufer at 165 pounds and Joe LeBlanc at 184.

“They don’t have many weaknesses,” Manning said. “It’s going to be a great match and we’ll be ready Saturday night. It’s about getting out there and wres-tling our best.”

Manning said he expects to see Sueflohn and Green put in good efforts Saturday.

“They’ve got some experi-ence under their belt now,”

he said. “We don’t look at them as freshmen anymore. I think our team feeds off of those guys’ performances.”

Sueflohn said he has ad-justed well to the level of competition and that his mental strength is a key as-set.

“Every match is a battle,” he said. “So the fact that I can stay in it is a big advan-tage.”

But Sueflohn is not letting his young career’s successes get to him.

“It’s nice, but I’ll just take it for what it’s worth,” Sue-flohn said.

And while some may believe Sueflohn’s early achievements have been surprising, don’t tell that to his family and friends.

“They expected this of me, as did I,” Sueflohn said.

Manning agrees that Sue-flohn and Green’s success has not been a fluke.

“I wouldn’t say they’re a surprise,” Manning said. “They’ve risen up to the challenge of the other guys and they’re great competi-tors.”

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dan hoppen“We’re not ready. But come the 27th of December, we’ll be ready. Those guys are too good. They’re practicing too hard. They will be ready to play their best game of the year Dec. 27. I believe that 100 percent.”

Those were Doc Sadler’s words after Wednesday’s nailbiter against Florida Gulf Coast. If you haven’t figured it out, that’s when Wisconsin comes to Lincoln and con-ference play begins.

“We’ve just got to find a way to get to the 27th.”

That was the way Sadler finished the above quota-tion. The coach’s confidence is admirable, but it’s ques-tionable if the team will get to Big Ten play with post-season aspirations judging by the way it’s playing now.

After looking like an un-stoppable offense after five games, the baskets have shrunk on the Huskers. Their scoring average has dipped from 72.8 points in those games to just better than 56 points in the last three.

While the Creighton game was certainly within reach, it was an acceptable loss. The Bluejays are simply a better team right now. Ul-timately, NU didn’t have enough points to match Doug McDermott and CU. But Creighton is a top-20 team right now. That loss, while disappointing, didn’t shock anyone.

It’s the missteps against Oregon and Wake Forest that are going to come back to haunt the Huskers. Both are respectable programs and teams, but neither has superior talent to NU.

The Huskers certainly had chances to win both games. They didn’t quite make the plays they needed to.

Then came Wednesday’s near-debacle with the es-cape against FGCU, which is better than people give it credit for, but has still only been a Division I school for five years.

The Huskers now have three nonconference con-tests left: Saturday at TCU, followed by home games against Alcorn State and Central Michigan.

NU is 5-3 now. If it wants to even have a hope of dancing in March, that re-cord needs to be 8-3 come

Nebraska not yet prepared for Big ten competition

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Last Friday, Nebraska coach Doc Sadler said his team needed to find its swagger and start playing with some confidence.

One week later, the search continues.

The Huskers looked ten-tative in Wednesday’s 51-50 win against Florida Gulf Coast. They were seem-ingly content to pass the ball around the perimeter instead of attacking the Ea-gles’ zone defense. Several Huskers gave up good looks at the basket in favor of an-other pass.

Sadler said he believes his team might already be feel-ing the pressure of its three nonconference losses, all

of which have been close games.

“I think this team is try-ing way too hard,” Sadler said. “They’ve got to relax and they’ve got to enjoy the game. You’d better enjoy ev-ery game right now that we can win. You go in the lock-er room and it’s like they’re taking a big sigh. They’ve got to enjoy it. We do have a good basketball team.”

Dylan Talley had to hit a game-winning jump shot with 10 seconds left to sink FGCU, but he thinks the close victory will give the team confidence in future close games. The Huskers were 1-3 in games decided

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With four rounds left to play in the NCAA Tournament, it’s difficult to make prognostica-tions for next year. Even so, it’s easy to see how much returning talent the Nebras-ka volleyball team will have next year.

At setter, the Huskers re-turn Lauren Cook, who has won awards in three differ-ent conferences, including first team All-Big Ten this season. While the team loses her backup, Brigette Root, they add Elkhorn South freshman Lauren Sieckmann, who is considered by prep volleyball.com as one of the nation’s top recruits.

Root is convinced Sieck-mann can do just as good a job backing up Cook as she did.

“She’s great, she’s got great hands, very talented,” Root said. “Obviously, I don’t know a lot of (high school) players around the country and their skill level ... but I know Lauren’s very solid in

her skills and will be a great addition to the team.”

At outside hitter, the

Huskers return three All-Big Ten talents: first-teamers Hannah Werth and Gina

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team hits road for matchup against tcu

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Nebraska forward Brandon ubel had his first career double-double on Wednesday night against Florida gulf Coast

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Spreading the

Wealth

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Libero Lara dykstra (left) and Paige hubl will be back for Nebraska next season to help Nu’s defensive and passing games.

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Nebraska freshman emily Cady scored 13 points and added a team-high seven rebounds Thursday night against Cu.

Two points were all that separated Nebraska and Creighton seven minutes into the sec-ond half when NU’s

Kaitlyn Burke stole the ball from a Bluejay ball-handler.

That turnover led to a layup and then Nebraska’s Jordan Hooper scored another layup off of a steal on the ensuing possession to spark an 8-0 Husker run.

NU never looked back, beating its in-state rival 66-55 Thursday night in Lincoln.

“This was as typical of a Creighton-Nebraska game as there is,” NU coach Connie Yori said. “It was a physical game and we really struggled in the first half with being im-patient, especially on offense.”

For the first time in three games, Nebraska shot 40 per-cent from the field even after a poor first half of shooting. Husker starters accounted for all but seven of Nebraska’s points led by Hooper who had 22 – 17 of which came in the second half.

Both teams had problems

scoring in the first half, with a halftime score of 26-22 in favor of Nebraska. The Husk-ers used the strong play of se-nior Kaitlyn Burke and fresh-man Emily Cady to stay in the game.

“I looked up and I had no idea that Kaitlyn had 10 points,” Hooper said. “Both her and Emily stepped up to-night.”

Burke was one of four Huskers who finished in double figures for Nebraska. However, the play of Cady that stuck out the most for NU.

The freshman played a sea-son-high 35 minutes and was the most consistent player on the floor for the Huskers. She finished with 13 points, a team-high seven rebounds and a pair of blocks while playing shutdown defense on Bluejays’ leading scorer Sarah Nelson.

“I was really excited for this game because I was playing some of my teammates from high school,” Cady said. “Our upperclassmen told us that Creighton always comes to

play and I felt our team chem-istry came together in the sec-ond half.”

Nelson came into the game averaging 14.4 points a game and shooting 65 percent from the field, fourth in the nation. The 6-foot-2 Cady gave Nel-son problems all night, as she finished with just seven points on 43 percent shooting.

Yori said the strength of Cady in the paint was the dif-ference maker for the Husk-ers’ defense.

“She finished tonight,” Yori said. “Ever since high school she scores only when her team needs her to and when her team doesn’t need her too, she gets others involved.”

Guard Lindsey Moore end-ed up with a nice game for Nebraska despite having an uncharacteristic amount of turnovers with six. The junior captain ended up with 12 points, four assists and four steals on the night.

“Lindsey didn’t play very well for about 25 minutes then dominated the last 10 minutes of the game,” Yori said.

Nebraska will hop on a plane Friday morning after a brief practice to head to Northern Arizona for a Sat-urday afternoon showdown. After a game as physical as Creighton, mental tough-ness will be key against the Lumberjacks, according to Moore.

“The key will be for us to start preparing mentally right now, especially after a game like tonight,” Moore said.

Northern Arizona has a 5-4 record on the year and will be coming off six days rest when it takes on Nebraska Saturday. Yori said she is happy with how the season is going so far and her team is ready to accept the chal-lenge on Saturday.

“It’s going to be a short turnaround for us and it will be about mental toughness on Saturday,” Yori said. “With this being finals week and us playing in the altitude, it will be a good challenge for our young team.”

andrewward@ daIlynebraskan.com