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governor in 2014DANIEL WHEATON

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Every seat was filled in room 1524 at the Capitol Wednesday afternoon to hear the debate on LB405.

The Revenue Committee heard testimony from the bill’s creators, supporters and op-position for nearly seven hours Wednesday.

LB405 would eliminate $2.4 billion in sales tax exemptions to pay for eliminating the state cor-porate and income tax. The bill was written by Sens. Beau Mc-Coy and Brad Ashford of Omaha. Gov. Dave Heineman introduced the idea in January.

If the legislature passes the bill, Nebraska would join seven other states without an income tax.

The hearing began at 1:30 p.m. Discussion for and against the bill didn’t begin until rough-ly four hours later. Committee Chairman Sen. Galen Hadley of Kearney said he planned to have roughly three hours of delibera-tion, giving equal time to people

for and against the bill and those who were neutral.

The shift in tax burden has become the center of the debate. The bill’s supporters say the tax shift would make Nebraska more attractive to businesses. Its op-posers say the bill puts an un-equal burden on lower income individuals because of the pro-portion of income they spend.

McCoy spoke first, defending his bill.

“This is the lobbyist full em-ployment act of 2013,” he joked.

During his statements, Mc-Coy repeatedly mentioned the need for a dialogue about cutting exemptions.

The Revenue Committee questioned McCoy for specifics about the bill. Sen. Burke Harr of Omaha asked McCoy what his goals were for implementation. McCoy said he wanted an open dialogue to decide what exemp-tions should be cut.

One of the committee’s main concerns was how removing sales tax exemptions could harm agriculture and manufacturing. McCoy said the current version of the bill would add new layers of tax for each transaction occur-ring during production.

“We should do everything we can to protect and promote agriculture and manufacturing through this tax reform discus-sion, and we will,” McCoy said.

Heineman also spoke in sup-port of the bill. He called out Nebraska Chamber of Commerce for issuing a statement against the bill. Yet, the chamber pub-lished a report called “100 Next Generation Ideas,” which sup-ported some of the ideas in the bill. Three of those ideas – end-ing state income tax, ending de-ductions through a flat tax and retaining seniors — are included in the bill.

Heineman reiterated his claim that a better business cli-mate will attract and retain Ne-braska’s population.

He also explained the differ-ent goals in LB405 and LB406. The second bill is milder than LB405, and only eliminates $395 million in sales tax exemptions but retains the state income tax.

“You can’t have cake and ice cream too,” Heineman said, referring to lowering taxes and keeping exemptions.

Ashford also defended his bill.

In opposition, Renee Fry, founding executive director of the OpenSky Policy Institute, said the reform plans are eco-nomically damaging to people in the lower and middle classes.

“This just shifts who pays the tax,” Fry said.

She said only having sales taxes would cause lower income individuals and families to spend

less, resulting in less demand for businesses. The resulting lack of demand could cause a loss of jobs, she said.

Fry also countered Heine-man’s claim that a better tax cli-mate would draw more people to

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University of Nebraska Regent Tim Clare announced Tuesday he is con-sidering entering the 2014 Republi-can gubernatorial race, according to a Lincoln Journal Star article.

Clare’s decision comes after Lt. Gov. Rick Sheehy’s resigna-tion amid a scandal and the subsequent collapse of his gubernatorial campaign. If he decides to run, Clare will enter an already unpredict-able race as a strong possible choice for the Republican nomination.

Clare spoke with Gov. Dave Heineman on Saturday to tell him he is “going to take another look” at possibly enter-ing the race after Sheehy’s depar-ture widened the GOP campaign field, according to the Journal Star. He said he considered running late last fall but decided that was not the ideal time.

Sheehy resigned on Saturday af-ter it was discovered he had made thousands of calls on his state-issued cellphone late at night to women other than his wife. Another candidate, former Speaker of the Legislature Mike Flood of Norfolk,

withdrew immediately from the gubernatorial race in December after his wife, Mandi, was diagnosed with breast cancer.

“I respect (Flood) enormously for that de-cision,” Clare said dur-ing an interview with the Lincoln Journal Star.

Clare also told the Journal Star he is “sad for the families of (Sheehy) and his team.”

Clare said he plans to talk the decision to enter the race over with his wife, Amy, and his five children before making a family de-cision. He said his next step would be to visit leaders throughout the state, and he plans to make a final

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Fundraising for a new College of Business Administration build-ing at the University of Nebras-ka-Lincoln is nearly a third of the way complete, according to rep-resentatives from the University of Nebraska Foundation.

Matt Boyd, director of devel-opment for the new CBA build-ing, said about $24 million in pri-vate donations has been raised since fundraising efforts began last September. The goal is to raise $84 million to go toward the new building.

“We got off to a quick start, and we feel like we’re definitely on track,” Boyd said.

The names of donors are not being released yet, but Boyd said there have been four separate gifts that were greater than $2.5 million, and one of those dona-tions was $10 million.

“(The foundation) almost ex-clusively meets with alumni and businesses to talk about their philanthropic interests,” Boyd said. “The majority of what we do is meet one-on-one with po-tential donors.”

Boyd said there isn’t a spe-cific timeline for when fundrais-ing will be complete, although he said the NU Foundation hopes to have raised the necessary funds within three years. He said three foundation employees are dedi-cated full time to the CBA proj-ect.

“We know that after a year and a half we will have asked for enough money,” he said. “It’s

hard to predict how long it will take to raise all of the funds, though, because we are on the timeline of the donors.”

Fundraising coordinators estimate that donations greater than $25,000 will contribute to 93 percent of the total fundraising goal, while gifts less than $25,000 will make up the remaining 7 percent.

“Our main focus is on these larger gifts while another group works on smaller fundrais-ing donations,” Boyd said. The University of Nebraska Board of Regents approved construc-tion of a new CBA building at its meeting last September. The 240,000-square-foot facility will more than double the college’s current space, which is housed in a building constructed in 1919 that hasn’t had significant reno-vations since 1993. A new build-ing will include increased class-room and office space, as well as more lounge areas for students to utilize.

The business college saw the largest increase in enrollment among colleges at UNL this year, with a 4.5 percent overall in-crease, including a 25.4 percent increase in the number of first-time freshmen, according to uni-versity figures. The college has an enrollment goal of 5,000 stu-dents by 2017, which would in-crease the college’s size by more than 40 percent.

Boyd said initial reactions to the CBA building fundraising ef-fort have been positive, and he is looking forward to continuing to raise money for the project.

“We’re very optimistic,” he said. “We believe in this project. We’re excited about the response we’ve received from the alumni and businesses we’ve talked to.”

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plastic iphone 5 could sacrifice quality for price

kelli rollinApple’s iPhone has taken the smartphone world by storm over the past few years. A record 47.8 million iPhones were sold from

Sept. 29 to Dec. 29 in 2012, accord-ing to an Apple press release.

That number could skyrocket even more, with talk of a release of a more affordable iPhone.

Business Insider reported that Apple may release a cheaper ver-sion of the iPhone 5 later in 2013. The rumors said Apple would re-place the metal backing with plas-tic to reduce cost.

Some people may be skeptical of Apple’s attempt to replace its quality materials with plastic. For college students, money is always an issue. But the possibility of a cheaper iPhone could offer stu-dents a way to save money while still keeping up with the latest technology trends.

In terms of quality, Morgan

Yates, a sophomore iPhone owner and anthropology major at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, doesn’t think the release of a cheaper iPhone would be a good idea.

“I don’t think it would with-stand as much,” she said. “It would be more easily broken. I think people will probably back away from it more, just because a lot of people are driven to the fact that (the original iPhone is) more expensive because it’s more qual-ity. So I don’t think people will buy the cheaper one.”

When buying a phone, she said she considers price a “huge factor.” Yates said when she broke her old smartphone her mom had to pay for an iPhone at full price.

This experience made her wary of cheaper materials.

If she were to buy her phone, Yates said there would be the possibility of getting the cheaper iPhone. Despite her opinions about the quality of the plastic, Yates mentioned ways she could deal with the issue.

“There’s so many covers, too, that can also protect it,” she said.

John Gallagher, a freshman pre-health major and iPhone owner, said a release of a cheaper

iPhone isn’t a big deal.“I’m sure it’ll still be a pretty

nice version, just plastic,” he said.He noted that up until recent-

ly, Apple made MacBooks with plastic and people still bought them. Now that the iPhone may have a cheaper, plastic version available, he said the product could go over well.

“It’ll sell more, I’m sure, be-cause people complain now that they are too expensive,” Galla-gher said.

Gallagher said he didn’t pay for his current iPhone, but if he had to, he wouldn’t rule out buy-ing the cheaper one.

“I’d rather buy one that had metal, obviously,” he said, “but I suppose if it had everything on the inside and it was known to be as secure and as safe, I suppose I would.”

Gallagher said by releasing a cheaper version of the iPhone, Apple could gain more fans. He said he thinks some people might consider the company as being geared toward certain people be-cause of their expensive products. By releasing the cheaper phone, he said the company would ap-peal to a wider variety of people.


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decision most likely by this spring. If elected governor, Clare would

leave his successful law practice while facing the expenses of four of his children attending college. Two are currently enrolled at the Univer-sity of Nebraska-Lincoln.

“But if you wait for the right time, there may never be a right time,” Clare told the Journal Star.

Clare is currently a partner at Rembolt Ludtke Law Firm along with Mark Fahleson, who will leave his position as Republican state chairman in March, according to the Journal Star.

Clare told the Journal Star he would focus on “promoting the state, educating its young people, growing the state’s economy.”

He also said he has had a number of elected leaders, busi-ness owners and civic leaders from around the state reach out to him to encourage him to enter the guberna-torial race.

Clare is a political conservative, was elected to the NU Board of Re-gents in 2008 and was elected chair-man earlier this year. He is also one of the three members of the West Haymarket Joint Public Agency, which is the group that oversees construction of the new Pinnacle Bank Arena.

He graduated from UNL with his bachelor’s of science in 1985 and went on to earn his juris doctorate degree from Creighton University School of Law in 1992.

If Clare officially enters the race, he will most likely join several other potential candidates including State Sen. Charlie Janssen of Fremont.


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UHC privatization to appear on ASUN election ballot

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University of Nebraska-Lincoln stu-dents will now be able to officially voice their opinions on the priva-tization of the University Health Center.

At the Association of Students of the University of Nebraska’s Wednesday meeting, the senate unanimously passed legislation to add the question “Do you support the Bryan/University Health Center proposal to privatize the University Health Center operations?” to the ASUN elections ballot March 6.

“This is a non-binding vote,” said ASUN president Eric Kamler, a senior agricultural economics ma-jor. “But it could have a very heavy weight on the Board of Regents’ de-cision.”

UNL officials have said they plan to present a contract with Bry-an Health to the University of Ne-braska Board of Regents at its March 15 meeting.

ASUN also unanimously passed all of the University Program and Facilities Fees Fund B appropria-tions submitted by the Committee for Fees Allocation.

The most significant change from the 2012-2013 UPFF funding came from CFA’s decision to in-crease student fees for Transit Ser-

vices by 9.6 percent. Students cur-rently pay $15.46 per semester. For the 2013-2014 year, students will pay $25.09 per semester for Transit Ser-vices.

CFA Chair Kalby Wehrbein, a se-nior mechanized systems manage-ment major, said the large increase is necessary to cover the costs of the new bus fleet StarTran Bus Service is expected to operate by September.

“This is essentially phase two of the transition from the university running its buses to contracting with StarTran,” Wehrbein said. “After the five-year contract, we will see a de-crease in student fees (for Transit Services).”

CFA also decreased $40,000 in funding to the Nebraska Unions Readership Pro-gram, which provides the free national newspa-pers distributed around campus. Wehrbein said CFA believed it was necessary to cut back the funding because students aren’t reading newspapers as much as in the past.

One senator asked if CFA had considered providing students with an online subscription to the news-papers’ websites. However, Wehr-bein said there isn’t a subscription for the student body, only for indi-vidual college students who sub-scribe for the collegiate discount.

CFA also appropriated a 4.2 per-cent increase in funding to Campus

Recreation for the construction of a new facility.

“This is ultimately to support the new building,” Wehrbein said.

CFA appropriated a 1.6 percent decrease in funding to the health center as requested by the UHC. Wehrbein said this was possible be-cause the health center eliminated open staff positions and lab supplies that were no longer needed.

ASUN also voted down legisla-tion that would’ve created a voter in-formation guide on ASUN’s website, but senators had submitted an offi-cial complaint of the vote to Marlene Beyke, ASUN director, and Kaitlin Mazour, internal vice president, at press time.

The bill would’ve asked candi-dates in ASUN’s upcoming elections to say why they decided to run for an elected posi-tion and what they hope to accomplish in their term of of-fice. The profile would’ve included a candidate-pro-vided photo as well

as the candidate’s name, college, ma-jor, affiliated student election group and position he or she is running for.

The candidates would’ve had to submit their profiles to Sen. Micah Wullschleger, a senior English and anthropology major, by Feb. 19. The information would’ve then been put on the ASUN website the following day.

Some senators believed the information provided by ASUN

would become biased if not all of the candidates sent in their information.

Some senators felt it was the campaigning party’s responsibility to get word out about its candidates through its campaigning on campus and websites and not ASUN’s.

“It’s not our responsibility to do the candidate’s job for them,” said Sen. Claire Eckstrom, a junior textiles, merchandise and fashion design major.

Other senators didn’t want one person, who would’ve been ap-pointed by Kamler, to control what gets put on the website. Originally, the Electoral Commission was asked to review the profiles but didn’t want to contribute to something it saw as censoring students, accord-ing to Wullschleger.

However, other senators felt the voter information guide would provide students the tools needed to make an informed vote on the bal-lots.

“If they aren’t willing to take 10 minutes to fill out this profile, then what kind of time are they willing to commit to ASUN in general?” said Sen. Allison Morton, a junior psy-chology major.

That bill was denied 12 for, 10 against and 2 abstaining.

The senate also unanimously passed legislation to maintain the technology fee at $7.35 per credit hour for 2013-2014, selected the University of Minnesota as its op-ponent in the annual Migration Game on Oct. 26 and endorsed the Big Red Challenge setting up an obstacle race on campus benefitting wounded veterans and the children

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CamPus reC:general oPerations: $5,914,872 ($5,636,432 last year)faCilities: $916,000 ($916,000 last year)

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transit serviCes: $1,148,912 ($707,873 last year)university health Center: $5,927,118 ($6,021,643 last year)debt serviCe on faCilities: $4,245,626 ($3,614,426 last year)total fund b uPff: $22,352,653 (21,136,499 last year)

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Anais Fournier’s parents blame 48 ounces of Monster Energy drink for the heart attack that killed their daughter more than a year ago.

Since then, the US Food and Drug Administration has investi-gated the spe-cifics of five deaths linked to Monster and 13 deaths linked to 5-hour En-ergy. The FDA reported in January that h o s p i t a l i z a -tions due to energy drink consumption have doubled since 2007, with 20,000 reported inci-dents in 2011.

Yet, the energy drink i n d u s t r y raked in more than $8 bil-lion in sales between 2011 and 2012, ac-cording to a Beverage In-dustry report. And energy drinks and en-ergy shots saw a 19.4 percent and 8.5 percent boost in sales, respec-tively. Even as some experts warn Americans to treat energy drinks like drugs, consumers keep coming back for more.

Take University of Nebraska-Lincoln sophomore mechanical engineering major Riley Jones.

“I drink a lot of Monster, just cause I like it,” he said. “I’ve been drinking them for a long time, so (Monster) doesn’t really affect me.”

Monster brand drinks took a 30 percent share of the energy drink market last year, according to the Beverage Industry report. Although Fournier’s parents filed a wrongful death lawsuit, the company continues to deny any connection to her death.

The medical issues associat-ed with the energy drink indus-try have largely been identified with high amounts of caffeine.

“The effects of caffeine are one of the major problems,” Uni-

versity Health Center registered dietitian Anne Widga said.

Overdosing on caffeine – consuming more than 500 to 600 mg a day, according to the Mayo Clinic - has some serious side effects, especially if the person has any underlying

heart condi-

tions. The Mayo Clinic’s website reports symptoms include in-creased heartbeat, muscle trem-ors and insomnia. Caffeine has also been known to cause heart palpitations and increased blood pressure, among other medical concerns.

“The adverse effects are not clearly stated,” Widga said. “I certainly wouldn’t recommend an energy drink for anybody.”

Some medical profession-als worry that blaming caffeine overdosing may be off-base. Ac-cording to the Mayo Clinic, a moderate and healthy dose of caffeine is between 200 to 300 mg per day. The traditional 16-ounce Monster only has 160 mg. While the amount of caffeine in coffee varies by company and method of brewing, reports indicate that an eight ounce cup of coffee can have up to 160 mg of caffeine,

equal to the amount found in the 16-ounce Monster. In a com-pilation of statistics, the web-site Statistic Brain found that Americans drank approximately 3.1 cups of coffee a day at an av-erage of 9 ounces per cup. This is 558 mg of caffeine per day,

almost twice the sug-gested healthy

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isn’t a signifi-cant amount of data to suggest a link between ill-ness or death and an ac-tive love for coffee. In a series of five studies con-ducted be-tween 2001 and 2011 at Beth Israel D e a c o n -ess Medi-cal Center, Dr. Murray M i t t l e m a n and a team of research-ers found that regular coffee drink-ers actually have a lower risk of heart failure.

The find-ings have led some doctors

to think that the medical is-

sues associated with energy drinks

may have other causes, such as ingredients other than caffeine.

“It’s just kind of scary to look at some of the ingredients that they add,” Widga said. “We don’t have a lot of clear research on what they do.”

There is little legislation regulating the energy drink in-dustry currently, but because of the FDA’s findings, Congress is investigating the issue. Widga has some suggestions on how UNL students can stay alert and healthy.

“The best way for college kids or anybody to get energy is to eat more healthy, to get seven or eight hours of sleep and to try to be active on a regular basis,” she said. “And that’s tough for college kids, but it really, really works.”


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the state.“Taxes have very little to do

with where you live,” Fry said. Among those opposing the

bill are: The Nebraska Chamber of Commerce and Industry, the Nebraska Bankers Association, the Nebraska Retail Federation and the Nebraska Federation of Independent Business-Nebraska. Omaha Mayor Jim Suttle also an-nounced his opposition Tuesday.

“If the governor is serious about tax reform, I would urge him to bring all stakeholders to the table to develop a compre-hensive tax package that is fair, balanced and benefits all Ne-braskans,” Suttle said in a state-ment.

The University of Nebraska-Lincoln Residence Hall Associa-tion opposes LB405. RHA passed a resolution Tuesday against it because removing the tax ex-emptions would raise residence hall prices by 7 percent.

Meg Brannen, a senior ad-vertising and public relations major and RHA president, tes-tified against the bill on behalf of RHA. She said the bill would add $667 to the cost of housing at UNL. Brannen told the com-mittee about how she pays for college. She works two jobs in order to pay for her expenses.

“To me, $667 is another 92 hours I have to work,” she said.

Sen. Charlie Janssen of Fre-mont responded to Brannen, cit-ing the two-year tuition freeze as a way to reduce the cost caused by the bill.

“There has to be some give and take,” Janssen said.

Brannen responded to Jans-sen saying the increased cost might deter students from going to UNL.

“We should not be adding obstacles and barriers,” Brannen said.

Joseph Henchman, vice pres-ident of the Tax Foundation, tes-tified in support of the bill. He said that the numerous shifts to tax policy result in a convoluted tax system that hinders growth.

He described the sales tax exemptions as the government picking “winners and losers” in various industries.

“Tax systems must be per-ceived as fair by those that pay them,” Henchman said.

Doug Ewald, Nebraska Tax Commissioner, said the bill would create tangible cost sav-ings for fiscal year 2015.

“The choice is between keep-ing the status quo and remaining competitive,” Ewald said.

Sens. Harr, Hadley and Paul Schumacher of Columbus ques-tioned Ewald on how the bill could affect specific groups of individuals, but Ewald wasn’t able to provide answers.

Heineman first mentioned his plan during his State of the

State address on Jan. 15. Three days later, Heineman released the details of his plan and McCoy and Ashford introduced the bills.

The hearing for LB406 is planned for Thursday afternoon.


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Jacob Masek is afraid to go down the street.

Masek is a paraplegic, and con-struction outside his apartment at the Sullivan Building has left sidewalks on either side of 8th Street, between R and Q streets, closed.

“I don’t have a job, but I can’t stay inside all day,” said Masek, who said he has to take the long way around his building to cross the street. And it’s no easy feat when he pedals with his hands.

Located at 311 N 8th St., the Sul-livan Building is right across from a hotel being built on the east side of the street. While Roger Figard, a city engi-neer in Lincoln, didn’t know the exact hotel being built, he said the missing sidewalks on 8th Street were due to a lack of communication.

When a developer or contractor plans to build or remodel a building, he or she is required to visit the Public Works and Utilities Department and obtain a right-of-way permit, accord-ing to Figard.

“When they get that, we ask how they will provide reasonable access for pedestrians, as well as cars,” he said.

In this case, the right-of-way permit was given to a contractor. “They didn’t actually have a plan or drawing,” Figard said. “We just told them they needed to provide that.”

Instead, the contractor, whose name Figard couldn’t remember, re-moved the existing brick of the side-walk, leaving no room for pedestrians to walk — or, in Masek’s case, pedal.

Figard said the construction that closed both sides of 8th Street was sim-ply missed among all the other Hay-market construction underway, and he apologized. On Wednesday afternoon and Thursday morning, staff from the Public Works and Utilities Department spent time where sidewalks were closed off, trying to find pedestrian

access. Figard said right now they are looking at moving existing parking meters, giving pedestrians a walkway during construction.

“I don’t want to make people go all the way around the block from R to 7th (streets),” Figard said.

Jessee Puente, Masek’s friend, said he also faced a challenge when jogging to the Sullivan Building to meet Masek on Wednesday afternoon.

“I shouldn’t be running in the street, but there’s nowhere else to run,” he said. “It’s dangerous.”

Employees of a Lincoln business located in the Sullivan building who wished to remain anonymous said the construction is most inconvenient when walking to work after parking.

Meetings are also held at the

business, which is inconvenient for people who park and walk to the meetings, one employee said. “I don’t know if it’s dangerous per se, but it’s just kind of crappy,” she said.

“If we want to go eat, we have to walk into traffic,” said another.

Karen Shinn, owner and manager of Bread & Cup, located at 440 N 8th St., said the construction is worst when it’s icy.

“You’re trusting cars not to slide into you,” she said.

Still, Shinn’s customers haven’t stopped coming, she said.

“I feel like if this is their destina-tion, they’re going to get here regard-less,” she said.


Are we a country that supports marijuana consumption? Nev-er mind the prag-matism or the fis-cal responsibility.

What kind of message do we send when we legalize a potentially dangerous substance?

Washington and Colorado re-cently voted to legalize marijuana possession and consumption, despite the federal laws that still prohibit it. The amendments al-low patrons 21 or older to possess one ounce or less of marijuana. They are only permitted to use it in private areas. The amendments still prohibit the sale of marijuana among users and there are not yet any regulated, non-medical mari-juana dispensaries.

Proponents of overall mari-juana legalization see this as an important gain that is loosening the stigma against the substance. Some even praise its potential benefits for medicinal therapy or at least argue that it’s not as harmful as alcohol or tobacco.

The scientific evidence for and against marijuana legaliza-tion is controversial. The Office of National Drug Control Policy cites studies that show marijuana consumption can be addictive and lead to other harmful behav-ior such as addiction to other sub-stances and even violence. Users risk long-term physical and psy-chological effects such as chronic respiratory conditions and mood and memory problems.

Proponents claim that mari-juana can be consumed responsi-bly. Marijuana is victim to a harsh stigma when it’s no more harmful than tobacco or alcohol. Marijua-na can even be consumed for me-dicinal purposes. Medical mari-juana is already legal in 18 states and the District of Columbia.

There is significant research to prove both the harmful and beneficial effects of marijuana. At this point, disputing the validity of each case and weighing a ben-efit and harm against each other is useless. We should accept that there are both. However, the risk of addiction, abuse and ill health effects are a proven trend among marijuana and other drug users, while the benefits are not abso-lute cures for any ailments. They are therapeutic at best.

Some claim that marijuana legalization simply makes sense to protect the American taxpayer. The government spends millions of dollars every year trying to curb drug trafficking, but many find it a waste of resources. Pro-ponents say the governmental tactics against marijuana are mostly a result of a negative and poorly constructed stigma against marijuana as an absolutely harm-ful substance.

The money spent on the war on drugs may not justify mixed results. However, the marijuana

industry also encourages other dangerous and illegal behavior such as violence and exploitation. Dealers are able to artificially control their prices and can use whatever tactics, even physical threats, to protect their supply.

Just because the government legalizes marijuana doesn’t mean that the war on drugs is over. Governmental resources will still have to be used to induce and protect regulations. Illegal mari-juana dealing will still occur. In fact, it may p r o l i f e r a t e and prosper when dealers simply sub-vert the gov-ernment by lowering their prices or of-fer a stronger form of weed. If marijuana were made legal, dispen-saries will likely have to abide by gov-ernment regu-lated THC levels. THC is the prin-ciple chemical in cannabis that gives the “high” effect. C o n s u m e r s may not be satisfied with these legal resources and seek illegal dealers who can promise a more potent product.

Marijuana users will seek these illegal sources when they can get their weed cheaper and stronger than legal distributors. Likely this will promote other risky illegal behaviors and still leave all the power in the hands of dealers. They threaten not just the consumer, but the supposed well-intentioned legal marijuana industry as well. The threat could undermine the entire legal mari-juana principle.

While it may seem like gov-ernment money can be saved by legalizing and decriminalizing marijuana, government money will still be spent on these is-sues. Government resources will have to be spent on establishing legal dispensaries, educating the

population and enforcing legal amounts of possession and con-sumption.

Governmental resources will be stretched in new ways and, in addition, the government would be sending a mixed message of supposed approval and prohibi-tion. Consumers will have to be educated on the legal bounds. But when many are already in the habit of illegal choices, they can-not be trusted to follow govern-mental limits.

Proponents also argue that the government should act on its own principles by comparing the case for marijuana to that of tobacco and alcohol, two disputed but le-gal substances.

However, just because tobac-co and alcohol are legal doesn’t mean that we are obligated to legalize marijuana. We certainly can’t go backwards and ban to-bacco and alcohol but we can stop the promotion of other harmful substances.

Alcohol and tobacco are legal and regulated but can be dan-

gerous for those who use these substances irresponsibly. Alcohol abuse leads not only to harmful physical and psychological effects for the user but often to other dangerous behav-ior like violence or im-paired judgment while driving.

The negative effects of smoking tobacco have been linked to increased risk of cancer, but the practice also puts others at risk through second-hand smoke.

By legalizing mari-juana, we are giving citizens another option to harm themselves and others around them. A sensible marijuana user might be able to avoid risky behavior and

moderate the threat against those around them, but that doesn’t mean everyone can. Our gov-ernment cannot bend to the will of the few. We must protect the many.

In the end, our society doesn’t lose from not legalizing marijua-na. It’s an overall societal luxury. We can’t put a price on good prin-ciples. We can’t hide behind dis-puted benefits to deny the poten-tial threats. Legalizing marijuana says that our government and our society are willing to endorse yet another harmful behavior. Our government is forsaking the health and wellness of the citizen body at large to appease a few who want to be free of a stigma without considering the princi-ples at stake.

jane seu is a junior political science major.

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I’ve never smoked mari-juana. I have no idea how it feels to be stoned. So the current drug laws work for me because they don’t af-fect me. Still, just because

I’m fine with it doesn’t mean everyone else is, and it doesn’t mean the laws are right. That’s why discussions about mari-juana legalization – like the one hosted today by the Univer-sity of Nebraska-Lincoln – are a good thing.

Legalizing pot would mean that it could be freely used and sold by adults under a system of regulation. Alcohol is an ex-ample of a legalized drug. In our country, people of a certain age can make, sell and consume al-cohol. Just about the only time you can get punished for having a beer is when you’re in a car or when you’re making a scene in public. Legalizing marijuana would mean treating it like al-cohol, rather than cocaine or an-other hard drug.

Right now, marijuana is treated like cocaine. It’s cur-rently illegal for people to use pot for recreational purposes. Regular Joes can’t grow it in their backyards without facing jail time and a fine. In Nebraska, you’re fined up to $300 if you have one ounce or less of marijuana on you. If you’re carrying more than one pound of the stuff, you can get sent to prison for five years and have to pay a $10,000 fine.

Marijuana is the most widely used illegal drug in the world, so those punishments seem a tad strange. Ac-cording to TIME, somewhere be-tween 119 million and 224 million adults worldwide use the drug. Also, 56 percent of Americans support legalizing marijua-na for recreational use.

So why are people still talking about this?

One argument is that smok-ing marijuana is unhealthy. So is smoking tobacco, and yet ciga-rettes are free to buy in every gas station you see. Fatty foods and alcohol are also bad for you, but there are a ton of liquor stores and McDonald’s in America.

Have we forgotten about medical marijuana? Pot iss used to decrease pain in patients, and it provides relief from nerve damage and other injuries. Smoking weed also increases the appetites of cancer patients un-dergoing chemotherapy.

However, the National Insti-tute on Drug Abuse says chronic marijuana use can “lead to de-creased brain functions.” Smok-ing cigarettes or consuming al-cohol can cloud your brain, too, but they are both legal.

On that note, pot is actually safer than alcohol. When con-sidering chemical toxicity, mari-juana is “about a hundred times safer than alcohol.” The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention doesn’t even have a category for deaths caused by marijuana use. It’s virtually im-possible to overdose from mari-juana. You can’t say the same for alcohol.

As for tobacco, it can cause emphysema and lung cancer.

Pot use is not linked to ei-ther of those illnesses. Ac-cording to Dr. Richard Beas-ley, director of the Medical Re-search Institute of New Zea-land, a study showed only one of the pot smokers had e m p h y s e m a , but 15 of the cigarette smok-ers did. Anoth-er study found no connection between mari-juana and lung cancer. That means pot can cause “airflow o b s t r u c t i o n ” (because come on, it’s smoke,

after all) at best. Marijuana is harmful, but so

are smoking and drinking. So the current drug laws are rather hypocritical, in that respect.

At any rate, harming your-self is one thing, but harming others is quite another. Some get nervous at the thought of people “driving around stoned out of their brains.” Again, though, think about alcohol. In 2010 alone, 10,228 people died in al-cohol-impaired driving crashes. Driving drunk is illegal, but al-cohol is legal.

In a perfect world, people

would only drive when they weren’t under the influence of any substance. But our world isn’t perfect, and pot isn’t worse than alcohol. We’d just have to design laws to control stoned driving, much like we do with drunk drivers.

On a different note, many are worried that legalizing mari-juana would send a confusing message. Legalizing it would make it seem like it’s a good idea to smoke pot. That’s what happened with smoking to-bacco, after all. It’s not like we have educational programs set up that tackle this issue. Kids don’t take health classes in high school where they learn how to-bacco gives you lung cancer and emphysema. We just send them out into the world completely uneducated about drugs! Right.

As for the argument about pot and crime, just ask Califor-nia. Between 2010 and 2011, the state had a 20 percent decrease in underage crime. Homicide went down by 26 percent. A study done by the Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice showed that the relaxed marijuana pos-session laws deserve the credit for this change.

And take a look at the num-bers. According to the FBI, there were 1.5 million drug arrests in the U.S. in 2011. That’s one mari-juana arrest every 42 seconds. In 2010, our federal government spent over $15 billion in the war on drugs . Then the state and lo-cal governments spent another combined $25 billion. That’s a ton of freaking money that could be used for better things.

Our government wouldn’t have to enforce the prohibi-tion rules if pot was legal. That would save exactly $8.7 billion a year. Also, legalized pot would yield another $46.7 billion a year in tax revenue.

Legalization doesn’t mean that pot smokers would sudden-ly overrun the world. Colorado seems to be doing fine, now that its residents can use marijuana recreationally. Just like with beer or cigarettes, adults 21 and older can buy pot for personal use. The key here is the restrictions Colorado applied to the use of pot. Colorado residents can’t use their pot in public. They can still get fired if they test posi-tive for pot at work. And if they drive with copious amounts of THC (the primary ingredient in pot) in their blood, they get in trouble.

In the end, that’s all it would take: restrictions, regulations and taxes.

We’re not a drug-free nation when it comes to marijuana. It’s time to own up to it.

emme grafton is a junior english major.

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Columnists question if recreational use of marijuana should be legalized at federal level in response

to recent laws in Washington and Colorado

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Legalizing marijuana will add another substance for citizens to harm themselves with, society has nothing to gain by legalizing weed

Marijuana is no worse than tobacco, alcohol; Like other drugs, legalization should come with proper restrictions, regulations, taxes

We can’t put a price on

good principles. We can’t hide behind disputed benefits to deny the potential threats. legalizing marijuana says that our government and our society are willing to endorse yet another harmful behavior.”

In a perfect world, people

would only drive when they weren’t under the influence of any substance. But our world isn’t perfect, and pot isn’t worse than alcohol. We’d just have to design laws to control stoned driving, much like we do with drunk drivers.”

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Students say it’s time for hookah to make an appearance in Lin-coln’s nightlife.

While the downtown streets boast plenty of hangouts for University of Nebraska-Lincoln students of age, those

under 21 may wonder where to turn. Students such as Molly Rezich, a freshman music performance major, think a hookah lounge would be a worthwhile addition to the downtown scene.

“I think it would be a super lucrative business,” Rezich said.

“You can’t smoke in the dorms, so if there was one close to cam-pus, that would make sense.”

Marco Serrano, co-owner of Omaha’s Hookah 402, thinks a hookah bar would provide students with more options for time off from busy study schedules. He also said he hopes to build camaraderie between patrons by hosting local bands and open

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Relationships, colors inspire music major’s debut album

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Footloose & Fancy’s story began back in 1975, when the store only sold Birkenstocks.

Now Lincoln has two Foot-loose & Fancy locations. The downtown branch was recently re-named Threads-Footloose & Fancy and has sold apparel since July 2012, along with the assortment of footwear brands for which the company is known.

In 1995 Jane Stricker was hired on and found the store was a perfect fit for her. It sold a basic and necessary part of everyone’s daily outfit, but also a part some people regard as the most impor-tant: shoes.

“I’ve always loved shoes as a little girl, so that’s why initially I got the job,” Stricker said.

Stricker graduated with a bachelor’s degree of fine arts in ceramics and didn’t have spe-cific knowledge about the busi-ness side of the shoe world, oth-er than the years of experience she had working at Footloose & Fancy.

Stricker explained she con-tinues to learn more about the shoe business by traveling to markets and visiting places such as Las Vegas and Salt Lake City to attend training sessions. Stricker takes her husband and co-owner of Footloose & Fancy, Matt, to the sessions.

The store hasn’t only taught her about selling shoes; it’s also where she met Matt. He stopped in to have a pair of Birkenstock Derby’s repaired and met Jane.

Between 2001 and 2002, the couple married and decided to become owners of both Foot-loose & Fancy locations.

The two said they enjoy be-ing part of a company whose philosophy is to fit and style people for everyday life, fusing fashion with function.

“It’s a store that’s great for finding brands that you can’t find anywhere else,” said Ha-leigh Riggle, lead merchandiser at Footloose & Fancy, as well as a Newton shoe brand represen-tative. “It’s a very relaxed atmo-sphere, (here at Threads) cool in-novative products.”

Stricker said she enjoys hav-ing Threads located downtown because she remembers shop-ping downtown as a child, and she loved the idea of having a store downtown.

Stricker explained custom-ers are able to pick out an entire outfit at the Threads-Footloose & Fancy location. The other Foot-loose & Fancy, however, which is located at 70th Street and Pio-neers Boulevard, doesn’t carry clothing. Threads sells everyday wear including dresses, pants, sweaters, even denim brands like Lucky. The store also sells work-out clothes and carries popular brands like UGG and Ecco. But trends are constantly changing, and Threads is no different than any other store trying to keep up with what’s in style.

“We bring in fresh brands — keep evolving — trying to find new brands,” Stricker said. “Sperry’s are back into fashion, (so) making sure we stay fash-ion-driven.”

She said she and the em-ployees at Threads-Footloose & Fancy are more than just sales associates; they are trained and specially educated through the 3point5 program. Employees utilize their expertise about shoe and clothing brands to help customers. They know how the shoes are made, what the soles are made of and whether cloth-ing fabric is waterproof. Employ-ees have tried on all the clothes and are aware of how things fit and look. All the focal points of each brand are known so asso-ciates can effectively assist cus-

tomers that walk through the door.

Stricker said Threads-Foot-loose & Fancy prides itself on being a “sit-and-fit” customer service type of store: Custom-ers are fitted and consulted on which shoe is right for them based factors such as the size, foot ailments, heel spurs or fall-en arches.

Threads spreads customer service throughout the city of Lincoln. They participate in a shoe drive, where people can drop off gently worn shoes for Threads to donate to the People’s City Mission and Friendship Home. Stricker said most brands sold at Threads have a story be-hind them. For instance, TOMS Shoes works on providing shoes for children in need.

“We’ve taken on clothing, so we can give that same customer service for clothes, same quality service for clothes (just like we do for shoes),” Stricker said.

Along with the spirit of cus-tomer service, Stricker explained the importance of being passion-ate in one’s profession.

“You have to love what you do, wake up every morning and be excited to go to work,” Stricker said. “This is my envi-ronment.”

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kaylee everly | dnmaria Voronina and eric sullivan talk with haleigh riggle, lead merchandiser, and rich haggins, sales associate of threads-footloose & fancy on Wednesday. “it’s really chill, and since it’s a small company you get your hand in everything,” riggle said. “being downtown, you get a wide range of customers.”

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Local singer-songwriter Brittany Bydalek’s inspiration to create an organic, stripped-down sound for her first album “Cold Sun,” ranged from relationships to visual beauty.

Throughout the time Bydalek, a senior music composition major, has spent discovering her style and niche within the singer-songwriter world, she said she has realized the importance of the people in her life and how they can affect her music.

“Almost everything that’s happened in your life has to seep through in your songs,” she said. “So never date a songwriter, which Taylor Swift has shown every-body.”

Bydalek began writing songs in sixth grade when her guitar teach-er, Sommer Waite asked her to sing along with what she was playing.

“I hated it, and my voice was really weak,” Bydalek said. “I would battle her on it.”

As she got older, she enjoyed singing more and began writing her own songs.

Bydalek came to the University of Nebraska-Lincoln to study mu-sic and became interested in com-position. She said her classmates in Westbrook are extremely beneficial to her work.

“A lot of what’s happened in the music building is just forming relationships with people who are really talented,” Bydalek said, “and learning how important it is to not only gain connections but gain friendships with people ... who are passionate about what they do and you can collaborate on things.”

Bydalek has wanted to release an album for a few years, but it was too expensive.

“I wanted to either have a good CD, or not really do it until I could do a good CD,” Bydalek said.

After saving up money, By-dalek decided to make an EP for her senior thesis project saying she wanted to go big or go home.

While discovering her identity

as an artist, Bydalek looked at other singer-songwriters for inspiration — the band Nickel Creek, for exam-ple. She said their song, “Should’ve Known Better” heavily inspired one of her songs.

“It’s not half as cool as (Nickel Creek) at all,” Bydalek said. “If I could reach half the coolness of Nickel Creek, I would be so happy.”

Throughout the recording pro-cess, Bydalek was able to collabo-rate with Lexi Woodard and her quartet, as well as Philip Zach.

Woodard graduated from UNL and plays viola. She has been friends with Bydalek for a few years and has played Bydalek’s compositions multiple times.

“It’s really interesting to see how she’s progressed so much because, with her first piece that I ever played on, it was great writ-ing, but it was a really academic approach to string writing,” Wood-ard said, “which is to be expected for the first writing of your string

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Parents always seem to have that quirky way of introducing their children, you know, the light-hearted jokes that break the ice at family and friendly gatherings.

For me, it began with names and a handshake, a “nice to meet you” and then the kicker, their go-to line of dialogue.

“His virtual life is better than his real one,” my parents would say.

In junior high and high school, when things like free time existed, my favorite extra-curricular activities involved pressing buttons and making things on screen jump and shoot. Well, it’s actually still my favor-ite pastime, but whatever. The hours in my basement bedroom, oblivious to the world outside of “Metal Gear Solid” and “Shadow of the Colossus” probably justi-fied the saying.

The adults laughed that same “ha-ho-ha” they always did. “Video games, am I right?” And I laughed too. What else does

one do in the face of insistent re-iteration, time and again? While I heard a thousand variations, to each new guest or acquaintance, the punchline delivered anew.

“Yeah, in there, he’s saving the world, but out here...” They left the silence to finish the jest, a love-filled poke at the ribs.

It was funny. My parents were funny. But outside of start-ing conversations, the idea brings to mind an important question.

Are my memories, my expe-riences and profuse amounts of time spent after football prac-tices and on Saturday mornings somehow less than, in some way different? Extend that thought. Are those same parts of life, for millions of people around the world, less than or separate from “reality?”

Hopefully, the answer is no.I doubt my dad divided his

basketball life and his real life. Are all those evenings spent on the driveway court, the ones that stretched into the next morning with a group of buddies, differ-ent from reality?

I remember his stories. He described his crew as psychos and fanatics. They lived for their sports, their games. In the win-ter, they rotated two basketballs in and out of play. When one became too frozen to bounce, it went inside to thaw while the replacement came out of hiber-nation and allowed the game to continue.

When I buy an Xbox 360 con-troller, is that any different than

the Spalding they spent $50 on? Is my Playstation 3 console so far removed from the football field, the court and hoop? In size cer-tainly, but in function I’m not so sure. I’ll never forget my long nights of “Call of Duty,” shout-ing, laughing and competing with friends via Internet connec-tion, across space, into the wee hours.

Maybe the conception points to a generational divide, a dif-ference in the way we perceive life. I wonder if the kids who grow up in a world where digi-tal representations of images and information are physical entities, fully accessible to touch, slide, click and interact with, will see a separation in their experience.

Apple sold nearly 50 million copies of its iPhone last quarter, ac-cording to a press report. In one-fourth of a year, the company sold nearly 50 million touch screen devic-es, and that’s not only ignoring its iPad but the pleth-ora of other touch-oriented smart-phones, tablets and computers made by other companies as well. This physi-cal interaction is pervasive.

Does that make it more real?An upcoming game designed

by NianticLabs@Google, “In-gress,” blends digital game sys-tems with physical features of Earth. Statues, parks and librar-ies are turned into territories and landmarks that players can hack and control. The game is made for Android devices, and play-ers must be within range of these special areas to interact with

them, situating the game simul-taneously in a virtual and physi-cal realm.

This is augmented reality. Or, as the Oxford English Dictionary defines it, “the use of technol-ogy which allows the perception of the physical world to be en-hanced or modified by comput-er-generated stimuli perceived with the aid of special equip-ment.”

As our technologies advance, it seems the real and digital be-come more inseparable.

In the trailer for the upcom-ing documentary, “The Pirate Bay Away From Keyboard,” a film about the founders of the peer-to-peer file sharing website, The Pirate Bay, Peter Sunde Kol-

misoppi says, “We don’t use the expres-sion (in real life). We say ‘away from keyboard.’ We think the Inter-net is for real.”

Is that an outlandish or naive claim to-day?

In the end, I know my parents were merely having fun with me. Our lives are

different, not necessarily for bet-ter or worse, just separated by time and technology.

But the nature of play never really changes, and lessons, ex-periences and memories created on the gridiron, in the paint or even in Mario’s “Mushroom Kingdom” are equally as valu-able.

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mic nights, working with local non-profits and featuring local art-work. “It’s a very social place to be; a place where 18 to 20-year-olds can go and have a place that’s very homey and relaxed,” he said. “(It’s) something to do during the week-end that isn’t going out and drink-ing. It’s a good alternative.”

health risksMany hookah smokers be-

lieve that because the smoke goes through a water filtration system, it is safer than traditional cigarette smoke. While this filtration system may make the smoke less thick, the same chemical risks are present as with cigarette smoke.

“People using hookah aren’t using it daily or at every break like a cigarette smoker, but people are taking in more smoke when they do use it,” said Jeff Soukup, pro-gram manager with Tobacco Free Nebraska.

A study by the School of Public Health at the University of Mem-phis showed that in a 45-minute hookah session, smokers were ex-posed to three to nine times more carbon monoxide and 1.7 times more nicotine than in cigarette smoking.

Tia Macke, manager at G&G Smoke Shop, said some customers don’t know how to correctly load a hookah, which can make the smoke especially dangerous.

“It can be more harmful, de-pending on how long you have the coals burning and how close you have the coals burning to your to-bacco,” Macke said. “You’re liter-ally breathing in coal and carbon monoxide, so it’s a lot more risky.”

smokinG BanA number of roadblocks, pri-

marily stemming from Nebraska’s smoking ban, make the idea of a Lincoln hookah lounge seem far-fetched.

The Nebraska Legislature im-plemented the Nebraska Clean In-door Air Act in 2008, which “elimi-nates smoking in enclosed indoor areas including restaurants, bars, keno establishments, horse racing venues and other workplaces.” Ci-gar bars such as Jake’s are exempt from the law, so long as they hold a Class C liquor license, do not sell food and do not permit the smok-ing of cigarettes. Occasionally Jake’s customers bring in their own hookah and supplies, rather than smoking cigars.

But Jamal Husein, co-owner of Sultana’s Khave, said he doesn’t think hookah and alcohol mix.

“For some reason, when peo-ple start drinking, they start los-ing concentration,” Husein said. “When you do the hookah, you have to have charcoal involved in it and it’s a tall pipe. They start pulling the hoses, they might tip it, burn themselves, this and that.”

Other exemptions to the smok-ing ban have made hookah lounges possible, but not without their dif-ficulties. Hookah smoke is allowed in tobacco-only retailers that do not also sell alcohol, food, drinks or gasoline.

Husein used to own Nebras-ka’s first and only hookah bar, one which also sold food and drinks. He opened his shop on 1st Street and Cornhusker Highway in April 2003 but began experiencing diffi-culties when the smoking ban went into effect. He contacted lawyers, who recommended he make the lounge a private establishment.

“We made it a private club and ran it for about one year, and the health department told us we couldn’t do it anymore,” Husein said. “We had to close the shop.”

Searching for other options, Husein opened a tobacco retail store with his wife, Sana. They now sell customized hookahs, with up

to eight hoses, along with 10 dif-ferent brands of shisha, or hookah tobacco.

start-UPDespite the difficulties that they

may face, Serrano has big plans for the future. He hopes to expand his business within the next year and open an additional lounge in Lin-coln. While Serrano hasn’t decided on an exact location, he’s currently interested in a building on 9th and O streets.

“We have a lot of commuters from Lincoln during the weekend, and we had a lot of want for it, just from those people,” Serrano said. “The scariest thing about it is, dur-ing the summer months, Lincoln is basically a ghost town. To break even, you have to do well in those nine (school) months.”

Serrano’s concerns don’t seem too extreme because he’s already done this once before. With the help of his brother, Stephan, he opened Hookah 402 on Aug. 22.

Hookah 402 is listed as a to-bacco retail store, so it does not sell food or beverages. On the other side of the spectrum, Omaha’s Oa-sis Hookah Lounge is technically listed as a cigar bar, which can serve alcohol, but not food.

Starting a business can be dif-ficult, Serrano said, but that diffi-culty is multiplied when smoke is involved.

“It took us nine months to find a place in a good location that was willing to have indoor smok-ing,” Serrano said. “People were so against smoking, especially be-cause of the ban.”

To help ease these critics’ minds, Marco and Stephen talked to city officials about the chemistry behind hookah smoke.

“Cigarette smoke lingers and effects building but hookah smoke doesn’t affect the building, because it washes through that water and most of what you’re smoking is molasses anyways,” Serrano said.

While business has been steady so far, Serrano said he has doubts in the back of his mind. The ever-present possibility of a law change could put Hookah 402 — and the building owner — out of business for good.

“If the law changes all of the sudden – because Nebraska is pretty conservative – and puts me out of business, the leasers just lost out on that money and a five-year lease,” Serrano said. “But I’m pret-ty confident that it won’t change in the near future, at least in Omaha.”

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When it comes down to it, smoking hookah is a getaway.

“Rather than sitting around and watching a movie, I personal-ly would rather talk, smoke hoo-kah, hang out and have a good time,” Rezich said.

Husein, originally from Pal-estine, added hookah is not only a fun social outlet for college stu-dents, but also a way to continue Middle Eastern customs.

“It’s different overseas,” he said. “You walk to any corner and we have coffee shops with hoo-kahs. It’s just more of a tradition; people go out in the week and smoke them.”

As his business has grown, Serrano has seen a community de-velop. Hookah 402 attracts people from all ages and social groups, and these groups often break up and intermingle once inside.

“If you go out to a bar, you go to get in that different state of mind to release your troubles,” he said. “You go to have fun, but it’s not necessarily as community ori-ented as the lounge.”

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someone I know just make these huge leaps musically and turn into someone who I could actually see doing this for a living,” Woodard added.

While composing music, By-dalek said she keeps in mind the person who inspired the song.

“Knowing what (the players) are passionate about and knowing what they can really get into is re-ally important too,” Bydalek said. “Musicians won’t play things su-per well if they aren’t passionate about it. They’ll play it adequately, but they won’t put much heart in it.”

Woodard’s quartet plays in two of Bydalek’s songs, “Rhyme” and “Tranquility.” Woodard said she understands the message be-hind “Tranquility” and envisions it being clear for others as well.

“It has just a really beautiful concept, so I felt like our group really enjoyed thinking about tranquil, peace, harmony within yourself and how do you transfer the music she wrote into that feel-ing,” Woodard said. “She loves that piece, and I see so much of her personality coming through it. The lyrics she wrote are so personal to her, but so universal. She just really captures the human emotion in all of her writing.”

Zach is the owner and musi-cal producer at The Grid Studio in Lincoln. When Bydalek proposed recording at his studio, he said he was excited.

During the first few conversa-tions between Zach and Bydalek, his goal was to help her grow even more as an artist.

“That’s part of the process: fig-uring out what she wants and then chasing it in the studio,” Zach said.

Bydalek said Zach’s musical style allowed her to break away from what she is familiar with and experiment with new sounds.

“I didn’t want to have my first

CD be really sweetsie,” Bydalek said. “There are some sweetsie songs on there, but I’ve been able to work with him and get out of it a little bit and venture beyond where I normally have been.”

Zach said the combination of his and Bydalek’s styles is benefi-cial.

“I find that, many times, a col-laboration from two completely different worlds ... can produce things that are better than each other by itself,” Zach said.

The themes of Bydalek’s EP are color, list and sunrise. Though her lyrics carry the themes, so does the tonality of the music.

“It’s like a grayscale painting with just a spot of color,” Zach said. “A lot of songs are like that with the acoustic treatments and then flourishes at the end of the last chorus or something that has a lot more richness in the sounds and the tones. They’re intention-ally stripped away so you feel the absence and you feel the fullness at the end.”

One of the biggest support sys-tems for Bydalek throughout the process of writing and recording her EP has been her fiance.

“Being in a relationship with him, provides more support to my music than I would have without him,” Bydalek said. “I feel like a lot of times people view relation-ships as things that drain you and suck the life out of you, but really it’s more life-giving and he has en-couraged me more in the past cou-ple of weeks more than anybody,” she said. “I don’t know if I would be able to do this as easily without him.”

Bydalek is releasing her EP un-der the name Brittany Leigh and has posted a version of “Tranquil-ity” on her Facebook page. She is planning on releasing it in March and said she hopes to hold an event.

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ments, too.“My personal favorite moment

is definitely winning the Big 12 title in 2009,” Burroughs said. “It was sweet. Crowd was rocking.”

Just like after the Huskers came back to beat Michigan State in their final dual at the Coliseum. For min-utes following the last roar to rattle the rafters, Burroughs and Wilson become autograph epicenters. Fans crowded the maple floor to meet the Olympic champion and the new hero.

“Having it come down to Aus-tin and him hitting the twister to get the guy on his back,” Snyder said, “You couldn’t ask for a better way to send it off.”

Starting in fall 2013, the wres-tling and volleyball teams will com-pete in the renovated Devaney Cen-ter as the basketball teams relocate to the new Pinnacle Bank Arena in downtown Lincoln. Many will remember the Coliseum as an inti-mate environment. Fans sat close to the action. Noise never escaped the low ceiling. For those lucky enough to have inhabited the Coliseum, the blares of old concerts, the foot screeches of basketball games and the crowd clamoring after Nebras-ka victories will continue to echo.

“It’s been a special building that’s served Husker Athletics well for some 90 years,” Samuelson said. “So we can say good bye and al-ways have our memories.”

An hour after Wilson’s pin, the last fans finally straggled off the floor and left the building. A clean-ing crew stayed for 30 minutes after that sweeping bleachers, folding tarps and wheeling away sections of the scoring desk.

Custodians folded in the tem-porary bleachers. They switched off the spotlights. They left.

A group of student basketball players scampered around the north half of the auditorium, which was converted to a multi-purpose court about 20 years ago. Almost 90 years ago, a basketball game con-jured the first noise in the arena. On

this night, minutes after the janitors walked out, the last cagers to grace the floor depart.

The sound of their dribbling evaporates.

And more than two hours after Nebraska’s last victory in the build-ing, the Coliseum goes silent.

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Who would’ve thought a birth-day party bounce house would spark legitimate athletic inter-est? This was the case for Ne-braska’s All-American men’s gymnast Grant Perdue.

Perdue was 4 years old do-ing flips in the bounce house at a friend’s birthday party. His friend’s parents persuaded Per-due’s mother to sign him up for gymnastics.

Ever since then, gymnastics has consumed Perdue’s life. He has been practic-ing almost every day for the past 15 years, he said. At every practice he puts every-thing he has into training.

“My one thought going into to the gym is making sure that when I’m done with practice I will leave without a regret,” Perdue said.

According to Nebraska men’s gymnastics coach Chuck Chmelka, Perdue is an elegant, powerful and a stubborn gym-nast.

“He is definitely a perfec-tionist,” Chmelka said. “He will keep working on one skill over and over again until it’s per-fect.”

Perdue admitted that’s true.“There is no point in doing

it unless it’s perfect,” he said.Perdue’s perfectionist style

worked in the last meet against Minnesota, where he finished first in the floor exercise and vault.

Chmelka said Perdue was a junior floor champion, which made him a highly sought after as a recruit.

“Every skill he does, he makes it look so easy,” Chmelka said. “That’s the mark of a good athlete.”

Perdue said he believes he only has four more years of gymnastics left. Once he is fin-

ished with college, he plans to take a year off from school to train for the Olympics.

After the year of training, Perdue has his mind set on a job he gained interest in from his favorite television show, “En-tourage.”

The show is about the Hol-lywood life of an actor and his friends. Perdue would like to pursue a career as an entertain-ment lawyer or agent.

“I could represent actors or even athletes,” he said. “Just no average and no boring.”

The actor’s agent in the show has the lifestyle Perdue wants in the future.

He plans to go to the Uni-versity of Southern Califor-nia because of the specialized program there, and California

seems like the place he needs to be, he said.

As for now, Perdue will join co-captain Eric Schryver to rep-resent the Husk-ers in the Winter Cup in Las Vegas.

This compe-tition host more than 90 of the best gymnasts

from across the country, as well as a few Olympians. The three-day tournament is an individual meet where athletes try to score enough points to make the cut for each day.

“Our goal is to make it to the second day,” Chmelka said. “Just to be to this meet is an honor, and to make it to the sec-ond day is a great honor, and it’s an extreme honor to make the Senior National Team.”

Although Schryver didn’t have as strong of a meet his last time out, he is determined to put it behind him.

“It’s just a business trip,” Schryver said. “We are there to compete.”

With less at stake in this tournament, Chmelka said it al-lows the players to go for riskier moves during their routines. Even with the short week of preperation, Chmelka said this should be a good meet.

“I think both guys will go out there and nail their events,” he said.


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Brothers Jed and Guy Fenske have developed a system for compet-ing. Instead of competing in the same events, they now try to di-vide and conquer. They want to help their team get as many points as possible, instead of indulging a sibling rivalry.

The Fenskes are redshirt fresh-men from Sargent, Neb. In high school, they competed in ev-erything together except winter sports. Jed opted to wrestle, while Guy played on the basketball team. They were teammates dur-ing football and track seasons.

During track sea-son, the brothers com-peted in the 100-me-ter, the 200 and long jump. Guy expanded on his abilities to run longer distances like the 400 and 800, while Jed competed in pole vault, which has be-come his focus in col-lege.

Their relationship is built on a healthy foundation of competition and support. They share the same perspective.

“We are really close,” Jed said. “We push each other a lot because

we are trying to make each other better in everything.”

“I feel like we are pretty close,” Guy said. “We are competitive with each other, which makes us better.”

The brothers went to the 2011 and 2012 Class D Nebraska State High School Track and Field Championships. In that meet, Jed placed fifth in the pole vault and ran a leg in the 400-meter relay team, contributing to a first place finish. Guy placed eighth in the 400.

In 2012, Jed won the long jump title with a leap of 21-6 and vaulted a height of 14 feet, placing him fourth. Guy placed second in the 400 and third in

the 200 with times of 50.52 seconds and 23.09, respectively.

Guy competes in the decathlon (out-door) and heptathlon (indoor) at Nebraska. The heptathlon com-bines shot put, long jump, pole vault, high jump, 60-meter hurdles, 1,000-meter dash and the 60-me-ter dash into one event. At the Frank Sevigne Husker Invi-

tational, Guy was able to com-pete as an unattached athlete in the heptathlon. He placed eleventh in the event with 4260 points.

Jed not only pole vaults,

but he also wrestles for the Husk-ers during the fall. He received offers from the University of Nebraska-Kearney to play football and wrestle, but he decid-ed to wrestle and pole vault for UNL because of the Division I pro-gram.

“Seeing what Ne-braska has to offer made me decide,” Jed said.

Although some of their events overlap,

Jed does not feel he is being com-pared to his brother.

“We usually try to get in dif-ferent events because we know we can do well in any event we do,” Jed said.

These brothers have grown up competing against each other, but they haven’t let that competition define their relationship. They have moved on from competing against each other to competing with each other.

The brothers will not compete in the Mark Colligan Memorial meet this coming weekend due to their redshirt status. The next time they will take the track will be at the Nebraska Tune-Up on Feb. 15.


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nebraska signs 26 recruitsfootball signing day

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The future became a tiny bit clearer for Nebraska football Wednesday.

Nebraska coach Bo Pelini and his staff put the finishing touches on their 2013 recruiting class, collecting 26 signatures. The staff’s work paid off for the Huskers in the form of the No. 11 national class, according to Scout.com.

“I’d like to thank everyone that helped put together this class,” Pelini said. “We have kids com-ing in from 13 different states, plus Canada, so it took a lot of hard work get-ting it all done. I’d be remised if I didn’t thank everyone in-volved.”

Nebraska will bring in 23 freshman and three junior col-lege transfers for the fall season. Pelini said it was a diffi-cult process decid-ing just who fit his team’s mold, but in the end, the class shaped up the way he wanted.

“I think we found 26 guys that we wanted on our football team,” the coach said. “There were some kids that we recruited early on that we decided they weren’t guys that we want on our football team. These are guys that fit our team.”

Pelini and his staff look in-depth at the high school kids they recruit, Pelini said. It’s not just about throw-ing offers at the most talented kids.

“We are particular about who we go after and why we go after them,” Pelini said. “There’s a lot more than just ability. It’s how they play on film, it’s the type of charac-ter they have, it’s the intangibles, the leadership. We are looking for guys that fit our program.”

Beyond the 26 scholarship re-cruits, Nebraska will bring in more than 13 walk-on players to fill out its roster. Pelini said the Huskers have

extended preferred walk-on offers to around 15 kids, but due to a few logistical issues, he is not sure ex-actly how many will join the team.

This class adds six scholarship defensive lineman to coach Rick Kaczynski’s unit. Maliek Collins, Randy Gregory, Kevin Maurice, Di-marya Mixon, A.J. Natter and Ernest Suttles will join the team after Ne-braska recruited four defensive line-men a year ago.

“Those are guys that I think are going to make a big difference in the way we play defensively,” Pelini said.

With Eric Martin, Cameron Meredith and Baker Steinkuhler graduat-ing and Chase Rome leaving the team — Pelini did not go into why the junior-to-be is leaving Wednes-day — there is room for the young play-ers to play right away. And Pelini didn’t rule out the possibility of it hap-

pening.“Every guy is a little bit differ-

ent,” the coach said. “It depends on how they pick things up, how they work between now and when we play Aug. 31. All six guys have abil-ity. They have the potential to con-tribute.”

Nebraska also added four play-ers to the back end of its defense Wednesday. Defensive coordinator John Papuchis said getting qual-ity defensive backs is going to be a priority for the Huskers every year with the way they play defense.

“When you look at the defense, most people think of recruiting three linebackers, two corners and two safeties, but we don’t play like that,” Papuchis said. “Most of the time, we have a nickel on the field or even a dime. Those are positions that are a little bit harder to recruit to, but you better, if you are going to play dime.”

With this class over and done with, Husker coaches can begin to think about next year’s batch of players. They might want to take a little break though, after coming down to the wire on this class.

They picked up commitment No. 26 Wednesday morning when wide receiver Tre’vell Dixon flipped his commitment back to Nebraska

for the second time. That’s the tough part about recruiting, according to Pelini. You have to stay on the re-cruits down to the last minute.

“Until you get that fax, no com-mitment is worth much, so at the end of the day, you have to keep recruiting them to the end,” Pelini said.


2013 NEBRASKA FOOTBALL RECRUITING CLASSPlayer Po. Hometown

LB Lincoln, Neb.Josh BanderasTE Metairie, La.Cethan CarterDT Kansas City, Mo.Maliek CollinsWR Baldwin, La.Tre’vell DixonOL Crete, Ill.Matt FinninDB Souix Falls, S.D.Nathan GerryWR Akron, OhioKevin GladneyDE Fishers, Ind.Randy GregoryOL Kansas City, Mo.Zach HannonTE Kettering, OhioGreg HartOL Houston, TexasDwayne JohnsonDB Weston, Fla.Boaz JosephOL Brantford, OntarioDavid KnevelOL Fresno, CalifChongo KondoloLB Youngstown, OhioCourtney LoveDB Laguna Beach, Calif.Drake MartinezDT Orlando, Fla.Kevin MauriceLS Mishawaka, Ind.Gabe MillerDE Mesquite, TexasDimarya MixonDE Milton, Wis.A.J. NatterLB Gaithersburg, Md.Marcus NewbyRB West Hills, Calif.Terrel NewbyDB Jersey City, N.J.D.J. SingletonQB Rancho Santa Margarita, Calif.Johnny StantonDE Tampa, Fla.Ernest SuttlesRB Katy, TexasAdam Taylor

We are particular

about who we go after and why we go after them.”

Bo pELininebraska football coach

the fenske siblings sit out their freshmen years with high hopes for future

track and field

Jed fenske

guy fenske

perdue leads Huskers into winter cup

file photo by kat buchanan | dngrant Perdue leaps into his routine during a match earlier this season. the huskers travel to las Vegas this weekend.

he will keep working on

one skill over and over again until it’s perfect.”

cHuck cHmELkamen’s gymnastics coach

coliseum: from 10

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Nebraska travels to Las Vegas for tournament behind sophomore Perdue

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A second after Austin Wilson flipped Nick Proctor onto his back, a roar exploded into the rafters of the Ne-braska Coliseum.

The No. 13 NU wrestling team had trailed visiting Michigan State 19-17 with one match remaining – the one at 165 pounds. Wilson vs. Proctor. The victor of the last match would win the last dual under the Coliseum’s arched ceiling.

“I tried not to think about it,” Wil-son said. “I tried to just wrestle my match, pretend that the dual really wasn’t on the line.”

In the second period, Proctor earned an escape, and Wilson com-mitted a technical violation to give the Spartan a 2-0 lead.

Then Wilson pulled out the twister.He had used the move before. Wil-

son used the maneuver to win a high school state championship.

He had tried it in two matches ear-lier during his redshirt freshman sea-son and lost both times.

“You have to expose your own back,” NU coach Mark Manning said. “If you hesitate, you’re done. It’s like doing a flip. You’re going to land on your back if you stop halfway through.”

But this time, Wilson didn’t land on his back. He twisted Proctor onto the mat to score a takedown and, with 1:15 left in the second period, a pin. The fall earned six points to give the Huskers a 23-19 victory just seconds after victory was uncertain.

“All of a sudden it’s, ‘What?’” Man-ning said. “I couldn’t believe my eyes.”

The last 1,742 people to watch a sporting event in the Coliseum erupted into cheers. The Huskers spilled off their bench, jumping and pumping fists. Wilson lifted his arms above his head and yelled into the rafters.

As the concrete bleachers above the mat shook one last time, the scene begged one question.

What just happened?“Well, old Austin Wilson hit his

twister and sent the place crazy,” Ne-braska assistant and former wrestler Bryan Snyder said. “It was great in terms of just split-second sheer joy.”

For public address announcer Doug Samuelson, who has called Ne-braska wrestling for about a decade, the last-match heroics meant more than that.

“We had a wrestler from Hastings, on a night that coach Tom Osborne – a native of Hastings – was honored at intermission, in the final match ever in the Nebraska Coliseum,” he said. “What a way to end it.”

The moment was 87 years in the making.

Almost a century before Wilson’s pin, the University of Nebraska-Lin-coln still lacked an auditorium to host

huskers, on 4-game win streak, travel to northwestern

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The Nebraska women’s basketball team takes its four-game win streak on the road to Evanston, Ill., for a Big Ten road match with an 11-11 North-western squad Thursday at 7 p.m. and can be heard on huskers.com.

Nebraska (16-6 overall, 6-3 Big Ten) hasn’t lost since its 10-point home deafeat to Illinois, and since then the Huskers have been one of the hottest teams in the Big Ten. This past week Nebraska beat Ohio State on the road by nine and Minnesota at home by 24, which propelled them to a three-way tie for third place in the conference.

All-American candidate Jordan Hooper and Rachel Theriot each received Big Ten honors for their weeks. Hooper won Big Ten Player of the Week, and Theriot was hon-ored for Big Ten Freshman of the Week. Hooper averaged 27.5 points and seven rebounds in the two wins over Ohio State and Minnesota, and Theriot averaged 10 points, six re-bounds and five assists for the week.

Though Nebraska is rolling, Northwestern is primed for an upset. The Wildcats’ .500 record may not look intimidating, but Northwestern scares Nebraska coach Connie Yori.

“They’ve got good players, and they’re talented, and playing there will not be easy,” Yori said after Ne-braska’s fourth-straight win over Minnesota Feb. 3.

Northwestern comes into the game with a 3-6 Big Ten record, tied for fifth with Minne-sota. After starting off the season 5-0, the Wildcats dropped four straight and have been fighting with the .500 line since. Their biggest win came last week with a 67-65 win over No. 24 Iowa. Though they have six losses, Northwestern lost by just five points to No. 15 Purdue and 18-4 Michigan State.

Dannielle Diamant, whom Yori recruited heavily, has been the cata-lyst for Northwestern thus far, with 12.2 points and 7.5 rebounds per game. Diamant is helped by Kendall Hackney, who leads the team with 14.9 points per game, and Karly Roser, who leads the team with 6.4 assists per game. No starter averag-es fewer than nine points per game.

“I think they’re a very talented team, and I think they have really, really good players,” Yori said.

But the Husker’s offensive at-tack may be too much for the Wild-cats, and according to Hooper, the confidence in the locker room is growing.

“I think the couple of wins in a row have helped the confidence of the whole team, not just me, and we’re all shooting (the ball) pretty

well,” Hooper said.Yori agrees and

believes her young team is starting to piece things together.

“We’re playing closer to our poten-tial,” Yori said. “I think it helps when you can score. Let’s face it, when the ball goes through the basket, a lot of good things can happen.”

Senior point guard Lindsey Moore may see lim-ited playing time due to an undis-closed injury she sustained against Minnesota on Feb. 3. She was helped into the locker room in the first half, but then returned to score four straight points just minutes after. She finished with 12 points and seven as-sists.


the nebraska wrestling team walks off the nebraska coliseum mat for the last time. this was the last nebraska athletic event in the coliseum.

file photo by kaylee everly | dnJordan hooper defends an opposing player earlier this season at the bob devaney sports center. hooper averaged 27.5 points per game in the last two contests for the huskers.

Nebraska looks to keep rolling against the Wildcats Thursday night

i think the couple of

wins in a row have helped the confidence of the whole team.”

Jordan HoopErwomen’s basketball player

‘what a way to end it’

coliseum: sEE pagE 9

story by zach tegler | file photo by storm farnik | graphic by chris rhodes

2013 marks the end of the historic Nebraska Coliseum

basketball games, graduation ceremonies and other events with big crowds. In 1924, Athletic Board member John Selleck – the namesake of UNL’s Selleck Quadrangle – proposed the construction of a gymnasium near the site of the newly built Memorial Stadium.

“The same guys who mas-terminded the financing of the stadium wanted to put a Coliseum in Stadium Complex there, and they couldn’t raise that much money, so they built the stadium,” UNL architec-ture librarian Kay Logan-Pe-ters said. “Once they got the stadium built, they could charge more for games, and then they took that and financed the Coliseum.”

Two years and $435,000 later, the Coli-seum was finished. Ellery Davis and Wal-ter Wilson, who also designed the stadium, Morrill Hall and Love Library, made the auditorium a red pressed brick and Bedford limestone vault.

“They kind of were building off an archi-tectural style that had been developed in the previous decade or so by a firm from Bos-ton,” Logan-Peters said.

The auditorium, graced by a wooden stage at the north end, would host every-thing from military balls to Boy Scout events

to square dances to, in April 1954, a hillbilly show. El-vis Presley shook his hips around the stage in 1956. Future president Richard Nixon spoke there in 1960. Robert Kennedy cam-paigned outside just two months before he was as-sassinated in 1968.

“It was kind of a hap-pening spot,” Logan-Peters said.

But the Coliseum isn’t remembered for housing social gatherings.

It’s remembered for sports.

“Kansas University, the champions, started the Cornhusker cagesters out on their road of defeats by dedicating the new Field House February 6,” read the 1926 “Tales of the Cornhuskers” yearbook. “Four games lost in succession picture the slump of the team following the Jayhawkers’ invasion.”

Eighty-seven years before NU wrestlers won the last collegiate competition in the

Coliseum, a men’s basketball game between Nebraska and Kansas was the first.

Kansas triumphed, 25-14.Nebraska basketball, the building’s

main occupant until the Bob Devaney Sports Center was completed in 1976, exacted its revenge in 1958. In a con-test many called the great-est game to take place in the Coliseum, NU guard Jim Kubacki sank a game-winning shot with two seconds remaining to stun Wilt Chamberlain and No. 4 Kansas 43-41.

After the basketball team left the Coliseum with an 82-66 win against Iowa State in March 1976, Ne-braska volleyball became the sole tenant of the old auditorium.

“If the volleyball Gods wanted to build a volleyball court,” Ne-braska volleyball coach John Cook once said, “the Coliseum would be it.”

Banners honoring the program’s three national titles and 32 conference champion-ships dangle from the arching trusses bear-

ing the ceiling.In Dec. 2012, the volleyball team also

left the Coliseum with a win: a 3-0 sweep of Northern Iowa to advance to the Sweet 16 of the NCAA Tournament.

Two months later, it was time for Nebras-ka wrestling to say good bye.

Byran Snyder, four-time All-American for Nebraska at the turn of the millennium, didn’t wrestle much in the Col-iseum – the Huskers wrestled in the Devaney Center between 1976 and 2006 – but he still ap-preciates the building.

“It’s kind of old. Got those metal bleachers up there,” Sny-der said. “It’s just concrete, and it’s kind of old style. I kind of like it.”

So does Jordan Burroughs. The two-time national cham-

pion at Nebraska and 2012 Olympic gold medalist lost his first match in the Coliseum in 2006, but he has his fair share of high mo-

We can say goodbye and

always have our memories.

doug samuELsonpublic address announcer

if the volleyball gods wanted

to build a volleyball court, the

coliseum would be it.”

JoHn cooknu volleyball coach

tHE coLisEum tHrougH timE

1925: Builders break ground at the Coliseum site. The auditorium was originally planned to be part of a complex connected to the newly built Memorial Stadium, but funding fell through.

Feb. 6, 1926: In the �rst basketball game held in the Coliseum, Kansas defeats Nebraska 25-41.

Dec. 14, 1970: The NU men’s basketball team scores a then-record 116 points in a victory against Nevada - 17 years before the NCAA instituted the three-point line.

Dec. 4, 1982: The Nebraska volleyball team - the Coliseum’s only permanent tenant from 1976 to 2006 - wins its �rst NCAA Tournament game 3-0 (15-13, 15-5, 15-13) against Penn State. Two years later, the Huskers begin a 29-year streak of hosting NCAA Tournament games in Lincoln.

OCT. 28, 2012: The NU volleyball team upsets No. 1 Penn State 3-2 (12-25, 32-30, 19-25, 25-23, 15-10). Huskers defeat four top-ranked teams in the Coliseum.

Feb. 22, 1958: Nebraska exacts revenge on the Jayhawks - and Wilt Chamberlain - when guard Jim Kubacki makes a shot with two seconds left to beat No. 4 Kansas 43-41.

March 6, 1976: In the last basketball game at the Coliseum, the Huskers beat Iowa State 82-66.

March 7, 2009: Nebraska’s Craig Brester, the No. 2 seed at 197 pounds in the Big 12 Wrestling Tournament, upsets future Olympic champion Jake Varner of Iowa State to win the confrence title and lead the Huskers to a share of the conference champion-ship.

Feb. 1, 2013: The Huskers’ wrestling team comes back to beat Michigan State with a pin by freshman Austin Wilson in the last NCAA sporting event to take place in the NU Coliseum.

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