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A new major in applied climate science will be offered to students at the University of Nebraska-Lin-coln beginning in fall 2013.

“We think this is an area that there is a lot of growing interest,” said Don Wilhite, a professor in the School of Natural Resources at UNL and one of the main pro-ponents of the new major. “There are very, very few other universi-ties that offer an undergraduate degree in this program.”

The University of Nebraska Board of Regents unanimously approved the creation of the new major at its Oct. 26 meeting. There are currently no applied climate science programs in Nebraska, according to documents from the board’s meeting. The only under-graduate major currently offered in the atmospheric sciences area in the state is in meteorology and climatology.

Only a few schools nation-wide, including San Jose State University and California Univer-sity of Pennsylvania, offer applied climate science emphasis areas to students, according to board meeting documents.

“We looked at what is avail-able in undergraduate study in this area and found that most programs were offered only at the masters level,” said Betty Walter-Shea, a professor in the School of Natural Resources. “But there was nothing in this region. That was the main selling point.”

Students in the applied cli-mate science major will take a va-riety of classes in the climatology, meteorology, ecology and agricul-ture fields, among others.

Wilhite said the majority of the required classes for the new major are already offered at UNL because of an existing emphasis area in applied climate science available through the environ-mental studies program.

“It’s more a matter of repack-aging the classes in a new way so students will get a breadth of new understanding,” he said.

In the next five years, Wilhite said the department is estimating it will see between 30 and 60 stu-dents decide to major in applied climate science. Only a few stu-dents are currently on the applied climate emphasis track through the environmental studies pro-gram, he said.

“I think it really puts Ne-braska in a position of advantage to recruit students to come here specifically for this program,” he said.

The new major will allow students to experience a unique, cross-discipline education as well, said Walter-Shea.

“There’s a need to be able to have student scientists reach across different disciplines,” she said. “We’ll have well-versed students in climatology reaching across the aisle to the fields of ecology, hydrology and others. That’s the main reason to do this.”

Walter-Shea also said the new major comes at a critical time in terms of necessary scientific knowledge.

“We can use this field to make better decisions to deal with cli-mate and the variability that we are currently experiencing with climate,” she said.

Wilhite agreed, saying there is a growing need for climate scien-tists in today’s world.

“There are more jobs out there now that require a knowledge of the relationship between climate and other fields,” he said. “I think it would be a great opportunity for undergraduate students.”

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Following complaints from the public and from Daily Nebraskan editor-in-chief Andrew Dickinson, the Daily Nebraskan advertising department on Thursday evening pulled from the paper an advertise-ment that Dickinson called “offen-sive” and “disgusting.” The adver-tisement ran in the paper for four days starting Monday, Oct. 29.

The print advertisement for mean2u.com reads, “Nebraska Foot-ball Fans, want to make a real state-ment with an edgy T-shirt about the

upcoming football game with Penn State?” The “edgy T-shirt” on its website reads “Pedophile State Uni-versity.”

Dickinson, a senior journalism major, said student advertising man-ager Matt Jung, a senior advertising and public relations major, told him in a phone conversation Thursday the advertising department was pulling the ad due to conversations with the editorial department and a letter of complaint from student or-ganization The Iron N.

“This shirt is not only extremely offensive to students, athletes, and any fan of Penn State athletics, but it is also discouraging that any me-dia source representing the Univer-sity of Nebraska should promote students to visit a website in which they were selling such shirts,” the letter said.

The Daily Nebraskan has an advertising department and edito-rial department that are separate from each other, Dickinson said, and the advertising department decides which ads run in the pa-per.

“From my point of view, the ad is distasteful, offensive and hate-ful,” Dickinson said. “Personally, I think most students at UNL would not support mocking this.”

Dickinson said he requested on Tuesday that the advertising de-partment stop running the ad.

Jung replied in an email, “The ad doesn’t state anything about pedophilia, therefore it would re-quire the individual to look at the site.”

In an email response Dickinson said, “In the end it’s your choice, but at the very least I would like to

know when questionable ads are being placed … I just want it to be known that I do not support run-ning ads linking students to hate-ful, ignorant content.”

Jung responded, via email: “I’m running the ad. Next time I will give you heads up.”

Jung did not respond to the Daily Nebraskan’s attempts for comment.

Dickinson said Jung could not tell him how much money the ad was generating for the paper.

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In the 1990s, floods washed through the overused and de-graded farmlands of North Korea. Food production literally washed away and anywhere from 600,000 to 1.1 million North Koreans died.

But it wasn’t the floods that killed them, said Rhoda Howard-Hassmann in a talk Thursday eve-ning. Howard-Hassmann is one of Canada’s most prominent human rights researchers.

“(North Korea) doesn’t have enough food,” she said. “But that’s because of state policy deci-sions.”

During an hour talk on the politics of food security in North Korea, Howard-Hassmann laid out what she called the state-in-duced famine in the reclusive east Asian dictatorship, which contin-ues today, and what must be done to deal with it.

Her discussion, which was held in the University of Nebras-ka-Lincoln’s Nebraska Union auditorium, was part of the G. E. Hendricks Symposium. The po-litical science d e p a r t m e n t puts together the two-day series of pub-lic talks every few years to address major political top-ics. This year, it’s focused around both human rights and human se-curity.

Much of the sympo-sium’s goal is to tease out the dif-ference between the two concepts, said Ari Kohen, director of UNL’s Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs Program and one of the event’s organizers.

“Human security is this new thing that’s come up,” Kohen said in an interview before the talk. “But there’s a question of what it means … From a social science

perspective, what do you do with it?”

Human rights are innate, but human se-curity is often called a goal. It can involve what Kohen called “political violence,” including terrorism and governments at-tacking their people, but also natural re-source issues like wa-ter or food rights – all “hot topics” as climate shifts and population grows, Kohen said.

Security could overlap with the concept of human rights, or it could simply be updating the con-cept, he said.

Howard-Hassman’s talk land-ed squarely in that debate, she

said, because having enough food is a right, but being able to get that food, especially if the government controls it, ventures into human security issues that don’t have nearly the same international fo-cus behind them. That fact makes doing anything about millions of starving North Koreans difficult.

“One of the easiest ways to starve your people is to lock up your reporters, lock up your judges, hang them, torture them – then you can do whatever you want,” Howard-Hassmann said, starkly illustrating the mix of hu-man rights and human security. She added that North Korea has roughly 200,000 people impris-oned at any given time because they aren’t supportive enough of the government.

Most of the country is near-starving, but any dissent is met with harsh punishment for indi-viduals, as well as their immedi-ate families. Yet other countries, focused on North Korea’s weap-

ons, do nothing about the missing food.

“Why has this country sat there, starving its own people, for the last 20 years?” Howard-Hassmann asked. “We find that overall, loose nukes trump human rights.”

North Korea is particularly problematic because it is a flash-point of international politics, she said. Its government has man-aged to offend or threaten every country around it, its government ignores international treaties and it possesses weak nuclear capa-bilities.

Nuclear insecurity is a valid concern, Howard-Hassmann said, but countries like the U.S. must stop separating that concern from concerns for human rights like food. All these concerns must be brought to bear in any decision about what to give to North Ko-rea in negotiations on its nuclear program, or in addressing similar state abuses and crimes in other

countries, such as Zimbabwe in southern Africa.

“You need the freedom and rule of law rights in order to have food security,” Howard-Hass-mann said in an interview after her talk. “There are still countries around that say, ‘You know, we’re interested in food, but freedom’s a luxury.’”

The discussion of the inter-play between human rights and human security continues Friday, starting at 9 a.m. Three panel dis-cussions, involving panelists and experts from around the conti-nent, will take place throughout the day at the Nebraska Union. A full list is available at events.unl.edu. All events are open to the public.

“It’s more than simply schol-ars talking among themselves, though there will be plenty of that,” Kohen said. “It’ll also in-volve students and faculty here.”

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democratic U.s. senate candidate Bob Kerrey introduces former U.s. senator Chuck Hagel during a press conference at the nebraska state Capitol on Thursday. Hagel, a former republican senator, formally announced his endorsement of Kerrey at the press conference.

With less than a week to go until Election Day, Republican and former Nebraska Sen. Chuck

Hagel gave his support Thursday afternoon to Democrat Bob Kerrey’s campaign for Nebraska’s open U.S. Senate seat, an unexpected splash in a tight Senate race against Republi-can Deb Fischer.

Both Hagel and Kerrey, whose past terms in the U.S. Senate over-lapped, are known for breaking with their party lines – Hagel over the Iraq War, Kerrey over immigra-tion and other issues. With today’s highly divisive politics, Hagel said, that willingness to meet opponents in the middle is exactly what Ne-braskans need in Washington.

“Bob was a Democrat and I was a Republican, but it didn’t matter,” Hagel told the assembled group, echoing Kerrey’s frequent refer-ences to bipartisanship throughout his campaign. “We were serving the interests of the same people in the same state in the same country.”

Kerrey and Hagel announced the endorsement together in Lin-coln, where they met with about 60 supporters and reporters in the Nebraska State Capitol Rotunda.

Hagel, who retired from the Sen-ate in 2008 and moved away from Nebraska, said the rotunda has par-ticular significance to him: There, he announced his Senate candidacy in 1995. He said the Capitol, home to a nonpartisan, one-chamber legisla-

ture, symbolizes the need for politi-cal moderation and unity.

Hagel and Kerrey both served in the Vietnam War, after which Kerrey was awarded a Medal of Honor. Ha-gel said military experience is more important than ever when neither

President Barack Obama nor Mitt Romney, candidates for the presiden-cy, are veterans.

“When you commit a nation to war … you’d better be damn sure what you’re talking about,” Hagel said.

Meanwhile, Fischer gained her own endorsement in Omaha on Thursday from U.S. Sen. John McCain of Arizona, who ran against Obama in 2008.

Prominent Nebraska Republicans quickly dismissed Hagel’s endorse-ment, downplaying its significance and rallying around Fischer, a state senator from Valentine. Gov. Dave Heineman and current Sen. Mike Jo-hanns, who is not up for re-election this year, pointed out Hagel’s well-known opposition to George Bush’s policies in Iraq as a point against Ha-gel’s Republican credentials.

Hagel affirmed at the Capitol he is still a Republican, but said he and Kerrey largely agree on Social Secu-rity reform, foreign policy and other issues. Kerrey said he appreciated Hagel’s cross-party endorsement.

“This is an example of what we have to do,” Kerrey said. “It’s easy

Hagel and Kerrey enter the rotunda of the nebraska state Capi-tol on Thursday afternoon before the start of the press confer-ence to announce Hagel’s support of Kerrey in the 2012 U.s. senate race.

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to take criticism from your ene-mies. What’s difficult is taking criti-cism from your friends when you’re doing what you think is right.”

In a press conference in Omaha Thursday morning, Johanns also suggested Hagel was trying to score political points with the Obama ad-ministration.

“I think Chuck would love to think he’s on the list to be secretary of something,” Johanns said.

Hagel, who currently serves as co-chairman of the bipartisan Presidential Intelligence Advisory Board, bluntly dismissed that idea.

“(Johanns) doesn’t know any-thing about who I am,” he said to applause from the crowd of Kerrey supporters. “I’ve got a pretty full agenda.”

Hagel added jokingly, “If that’s my motive, what the hell am I do-ing in Nebraska? I can assure you I’d be probably in Ohio.”

No one asked him for an en-dorsement, Hagel said, but he decided Sunday to call the Kerrey campaign.

“You look over the past two or three months and it gets closer to the election,” Hagel said in a brief interview after the conference. “So I called him and asked, ‘Is there something I can do to help?’”

The endorsement comes as the Nebraska Senate campaign sprints into its final days. Over the past several months, the race has gone from a double-digit lead for Fisch-er to nearly neck-and-neck.

At a Kerrey campaign stop

on the University of Nebraska-Lincoln campus last week, politi-cal science professor John Hibbing said that trend reflects growing comfort for Congressional Demo-crats across the country.

“Things are looking better for the Democrats for holding their Senate majority,” mostly because of circumstances specific to each state, Hibbing said.

Kerrey said Thursday he ex-pects Hagel’s endorsement will only help his chances.

“I believe that we’re closing,” Kerrey said, “and it’s reasonable for me to have some expectation that on Nov. 6, we’re going to win.”

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Campus NightLife offered s’mores, karaoke, laser tag and more at its second annual “Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark” event Thursday night at the East Cam-pus Union.

This year’s event brought back many of last year’s events such as the hayrack ride and new ones as well, including a station where students could have a wax mold made of their hands. At this sta-tion, students dipped their hands into a bucket of hot wax and then into a bucket of ice water repeat-edly for about three minutes.

Dawn Carrillo, a senior psychol-ogy major, said the wax mold sta-tion was the first thing that caught her attention.

“I wasn’t nervous to put my hand into the wax,” she said. “I just didn’t know it would be so hot.”

Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark also hosted a caricature artist, make-your-own caramel apples and nachos and s’mores bars.

Abbey Klein, a freshman vocal performance major, sang along to Adele’s “Rolling in the Deep” at the karaoke station.

“I was a little nervous at first, but Adele is my car jam, so I knew all of the words,” she said. “Be-sides, any chance to perform is a good one.”

Ellen Muehling, a junior inter-national business and global stud-ies major and a two-year board member of Campus NightLife, said even though she has a busy schedule this semester and can’t

attend all the group meetings, she wouldn’t miss an event for any-thing.

“We try to have an event each month, whether it’s just get-ting people together to watch the Huskers on gameday or a holiday-themed event like ‘Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark,’” Muehling said.

Muehling estimated more than 100 people attended the event. She said the line for the inflatable laser tag arena was one of the longest she’s seen for a Campus NightLife event.

Reshell Ray, associate direc-tor for East Campus programs for Student Involvement, was im-pressed with the attendance.

“It is the most exciting, live-ly, vibrant thing when Campus NightLife has an event,” Ray said. “Only when we light it up do things like this happen in the unions.”

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Teams of students will have 10 hours this weekend to create a mobile application or website to help social justice in Africa. They’ll be competing for three $1,000 prizes.

The Ford Foundation is spon-soring the “hackathon,” which will take place from 4 p.m. to 9 p.m. Friday and 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday in room 15 of Andersen Hall. Students will set up a mobile website or crowdsourced data ap-plication, which allows users to ask questions on specific topics.

Crowdsourced data applica-tions like the ones that may be built at the hackathon give the “opportunity for the grantees to ask ‘does anyone know a solution to a problem concerning malaria, HIV, et cetera,’” said Gary Kebbel, organizer of the hackathon and director of the Center for Mobile Media. “At the same time, a wide variety of people can see that question, and perhaps someone will know the answer.”

The competing groups will fo-cus on a “proof of concept” or par-tial solution for developing their ideas into product, according to Kebbel. Their online creations

will be help 14 different nonprofit social change groups in Africa to aid others. Three judges – Cody Elmore, a junior advertising ma-jor, Adam Wagler, an educational media multimedia designer, and journalism professor Matt Waite, a creator of PolitiFact.com – will review the websites and applica-tions.

Each of the 14 nonprofit groups is a grantee picked by the Ford Foundation, which sup-ports select organizations for so-cial change. One of the grantees, TrustAfrica, promotes govern-ment accountability and socioeco-nomic equality across Africa, ac-cording to its website. TrustAfrica and the other 13 nonprofits may use the applications and mobile websites to link people and solve common problems, according to Kebbel.

As Waite sees it, this event is for “students who are developers, builders, programmers and de-signers who are visually working with students in journalism and business who have skill, want to conceptualize things and all work together.” However, the event is open to the public as well.

The rewards are impressive, Waite said, because this is an event students will “really be able

to sink their teeth into.” Students in the top three groups will also attend a mobile media conference on Nov. 30 to talk with develop-ers and journalists at the Omaha World-Herald.

However, the most important aspect of this experience, accord-ing to both Kebbel and Waite, is not just extra cash and publicity.

“We’re hoping for students to have fun learning new skills relevant to today’s communica-tion environment,” Kebbel said. “While they are learning and having fun, we hope the result of their work will be some cool new mobile apps that could be used by Ford Foundation’s social justice grantees.”

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shelby wolfe | dnmickey the shih Tzu, a long-time volunteer dog, was one of the dogs at model Un’s “Pet a Pup” event Thursday afternoon at the abel-san-doz Welcome Center.

bethany schmidt | dnformer U.s. senator Chuck Hagel leans in to hear a question from Kathryn Bolt, 6, after Hagel’s endorsement of democratic U.s. senate candidate Bob Kerrey (right) on Thursday at the ne-braska state Capitol. Kerrey took time after the press conference to greet and take photos with supporters.

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stacie hecker | dnCarolyn reiland-smith, a sophomore biology major, and Kyle Hanish, a sophomore computer engineering major, hold still while a caricature artist replicates their likenesses on paper. don’t Be afraid of the dark was hosted by Campus nightlife and held at the east Campus Union on Thursday night. other activities included karaoke, laser tag, hayrack rides and wax hand mold-making.

shelby wolfe | dnChewy, a rambunctious volunteer dog, enjoys the large crowd of students gathered around him in the abel-sandoz Welcome Center at model Un’s “Pet a Pup” event Thursday afternoon.

shelby wolfe | dnrepresentatives from the Capital Humane society brought their dogs to the abel-sandoz Welcome Cen-ter Thursday to give college students a chance to “Pet a Pup.” Here they sit with Bear, a veteran of animal-assisted activities.

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Every vote counts.

At least, that’s what they tell us. But in a society where large clumps of votes are then translated

into one vote (and at unequal rates across the country), is this really true?

Since its inception during the writing of the Constitution, the Electoral College has long been the vehicle our nation rides to elect a president. The College came under heavy scrutiny on the tail end of the 2000 election, when George W. Bush defeated Al Gore, despite Gore carrying the nation’s popular vote.

The Electoral College is com-prised of 538 electors across the nation. Each state appoints its electors, usually average citi-zens who have never held public office, on a method that varies among states. On election night, electors pledge to vote for a cer-tain candidate based on that ju-risdiction’s vote, effectively de-termining who will win when a candidate reaches the 270 mark. Those pledges come to fruition on the first Monday after the second Wednesday in December, which this year is the 17th. All of the electors cast their official vote, which is verified Jan. 6 and enacted Jan. 20 at the inaugura-tion ceremony.

“It’s a violation of the most fundamental principles of de-mocracy, meaning equality in voting,” said George C. Edwards III, author of “Why the Electoral College is Bad for America” in an interview with the Christian Post. “Under the Electoral Col-lege, every citizen vote does not count the same. As a result, the candidate who gets fewer votes can win the election. I can’t see how that’s a good idea under de-mocracy.”

A look into the Electoral Col-lege’s interesting inner workings and history can help explain why this process is no longer necessary to put our leaders in office, and why a switch to a popular vote would be optimal.

The Founding Fathers cre-ated the Electoral College in the Constitution as the best way to ensure a speedy and precise election using available colonial technology. Each jurisdiction would vote and send their Col-lege representative to a central location to determine the result. Counting the votes of a few doz-en representatives is much eas-

ier than a popular vote would have been in that time.

Today, though, technology readily exists to provide every voting member in the United States an opportunity to in-stantly cast their ballot. Addi-tionally, technology exists for computers to effortlessly count the tens of millions of votes a presidential election will garner. Some kinks in the system will have to be fixed and security is-sues will have to be solidified, but after those relatively minor details, there’s no reason why some states should still be using decades-old punch card readers to vote.

In essence, the Electoral Col-lege’s original reason for exis-tence is now obsolete. Thus, it’s time to move on to more efficient and accurate means of voting.

Indeed, a Gallup poll taken last year shows that 62 percent of Americans would prefer the switch to a popular vote.

The process by which the Electoral College is comprised and operates could also result in counting errors. Despite an elector pledging to vote one way, he or she could do the op-posite or abstain from voting all together on Dec. 17. Such was the action of Washington, D.C., elector Barbara Lett-Simmons in 2000, who went against her previous pledge for Al Gore and instead abstained from voting. The election was not derailed in this instance (because of Lett-Simmons, anyway), but this still exposes a flaw in the system wherein a large number of like-minded electors could wreak havoc on the process. Currently, only 24 states have laws prohib-iting electors from voting oppo-site their pledge.

Attention to swing states is another downfall of the current program. Ohio, Florida, Colora-do, New Hampshire and Penn-

sylvania are usually considered to be on the fence, and candi-dates campaign at a higher rate in these areas where they aren’t considered either a shoe-in or heavy underdogs.

Some may argue that states in the Midwest may lose elec-tion importance in a popular vote because the candidates’ concentration will be on those in highly populated states. While this may be true, it still ensures candidates would have to pay attention to the 15 mil-lion in the middle of the nation (North and South Dakota, Ne-braska, Kansas, Missouri and Iowa) rather than assuming the outcome of its 33 of 538 electoral votes. However, emphasizing the equal value of votes on the individual level is paramount, especially in a society where we are all “created equal.” This will mean everybody’s vote for their chosen candidate matters.

With the current voting sys-tem, all states except Maine and Nebraska’s electoral votes go exclusively to the winning can-didate in that state. A person’s Democrat vote in a traditionally Republican state is, essentially, nullified. So in a sense, your vote truly only matters if you’re voting for the winner. With a popular voting system, your vote counts regardless of the color of your state.

In Maine and Nebraska, however, each district votes in-dependently and those states’ five and four electoral votes, re-spectively, reflect this with the possibility of the votes being split representatively between candidates. A move to a system like this one nationwide, while still not perfect, would at least offer somewhat of a more accu-rate final result.

If voting is a right and par-ticipating in the electoral pro-cess is truly necessary, the time has come to abandon this ar-chaic Electoral College system. When every vote has equal weight against each other, we become a government truly “of the people, by the people,” as Abraham Lincoln so eloquently stated. Combating voter apa-thy and increasing election-day turnout starts with quantitative evidence your vote truly counts.

benjamin welch is a Graduate student of

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My vote doesn’t count. This is a phrase used to justify not voting or to state that one doesn’t sup-

port the Electoral College. The fact of the matter is, not many people take the time to step back to take a look and to gather the facts neces-sary about our political system. The Electoral College plays a major part in our election, so shouldn’t it be worthwhile to delve into the facts?

I support the Electoral Col-lege. Yes, it has its flaws like any other voting system, but in the grand scheme of things it’s the system that works best. The Col-lege was created with the right intentions when the Constitution was written and communication was difficult because of the long distances. It makes sense that the Founding Fathers put a system into place where the will of the people would be reflected by others who had the knowledge and were well-informed. The Founding Fathers didn’t intend the Electoral Col-lege to be democratic, but it does preserve principles of federalism, which the American political sys-tem was founded on.

These thoughts still resonate today. According to The American Presidency Project, only a little more than 50 percent of the vot-ing population actually votes in the presidential election. If you tack on the idea that some of these people may be low-information voters, this becomes a problem. So shouldn’t we trust those people selected who know the issues and know the policies?

I’ll admit there are advantages and drawbacks to the Electoral College. The Electoral College pro-motes a healthy and stable two-party system. Even though this may make it difficult for third-par-ty candidates to be successful, it al-lows the larger two political parties to adopt some of the third-party movements to cater to a wider ma-jority. This leads to two large, prag-matic political parties that tend to the center of public opinion rather than several, or even dozens, of smaller political parties that only cater to divergent and even some-times extremist views. This allows political coalitions to occur within parties instead of government.

Another advantage of the Elec-toral College is that it also institu-tionalizes a check on the majority. While candidates might be able to attract voters, they are not guaran-teed office unless they win states.

This prevents candidates from winning an election based on sup-port from a few highly populated regions. The Electoral College also enhances the status of minority groups because the smaller minori-ties in a state can make the differ-ence between winning all or none of a state’s electoral votes.

A disadvantage is that the Electoral College violates political equality and can possibly violate majority rule. But, this system of the Electoral College has worked in the past and there have only been a few instances where a candidate who received the majority of the popular vote did not become presi-dent.

There have been a total of four presidential elections where presi-dents won an election with fewer popular votes than their opponent, but more electoral votes. These oc-curred in 1824, 1876, 1888 and of course, the one we all remember, 2000. However, in the 1824 election neither candidate won the major-ity of the electoral votes and it was taken to the House of Representa-tives in conjunction with the 12th Amendment. Looking at these ex-amples, the Electoral College may have its flaws, but is it really that terrible of a system when only four out of the 56 presidential elections have had a disparity between pop-ular and electoral votes?

Even though direct popular vote might seem like the best op-tion and the most democratic way to elect the president and other government officials, there are flaws with that system as well. There would be the incentive for many minor parties to form in an attempt to prevent the majority that would be necessary to elect a president, whatever that majority may be. The candidates would then be forced to take on the regionalist or extremist views represented by those minor parties in an attempt to win the run-off election.

The Electoral College also con-

tributes to the political stability of our nation. If the election was cho-sen strictly by direct popular vote, candidates would focus mainly on highly populated areas like the East Coast, California, Texas and Florida. This would leave a lot of central states ignored because, es-sentially, the candidates could re-ceive a majority of votes without them.

There could be the potential for reforming the system, but now is not the time because no better al-ternative has been proposed. The alternatives and reforms that have been put forward in Congress have failed because those alternatives seem to be more problematic than the College itself.

There are two potential reform plans. The first, being the propor-tional plan, maintains that electors would be selected in proportion to the votes cast for their candidate or party. The second, being the con-gressional district plan, maintains that the electoral votes are distrib-uted based on the popular vote winner within each of the state’s congressional districts. Also, the statewide popular vote winner receives two additional electoral votes.

These seem like good ideas for reform, but the proportional plan would just add more complica-tion to the voting process. Imagine a state with four electoral votes trying to split the vote with a 65 to 35 percent split. Who gets the fourth vote? There is also room for the chance that electors could be “faithless” more so with states be-ing divided in votes.

The district plan would just be another version of the Electoral College, but instead there would be many swing districts instead of swing states. Someone’s blue vote in a traditionally red district would still be nullified.

I do support the Electoral Col-lege, but reforms need to be made. However, we should wait for the right kind of reform and not one that would be inadequate. It may take some time, but there will eventually be a reform that will make the Electoral College more democratic and it will gain more support.

However, when you vote in the election on Tuesday, know that you do have a voice and that every vote matters, no matter where you are casting it.

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Current presidential election system may not be perfect, but Electoral College offers advantages over proposed alternatives

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Penn state deserves respect from students and fans alikeIn the past four editions of the Daily Nebraskan there has been an adver-tisement, the latest being on the sports page, promoting students to buy an “edgy T-shirt” for the Penn State vs. Nebraska football game. Upon visit-ing the site “mean2u.com,” the shirt being advertised showcases the words “Pedophile State University” printed across the front in navy blue font on a white shirt.

This shirt is not only extremely of-fensive to students, athletes and any fan of Penn State athletics, but it’s also discouraging that any media source representing the University of Nebras-ka-Lincoln should promote students to visit a website in which they were sell-ing such shirts.

It’s apparent that the students of

Penn State have felt the effects of the tragedy and have done everything in their power to pick up the pieces, moving forward past this unfortunate situation that took place. The students changed the name of “Paternoville,” the location outside Beaver Stadium where students camped to guarantee rail-side seats at games, to “Nittannyville.” The students have done their part to move on from the scandal.

These shirts not only display a lack of sportsmanship and class that Ne-braska fans are renown for, but are also in direct violation of the Big 10 Sports-manship and Spirit Conference that stu-dents of UNL, along with other Big 10 schools, help create. This includes:

1. Treating our university and op-ponents with the utmost respect both on and off the field of play.

2. Promoting a welcoming environ-ment by avoiding any hostility toward our opponents and their fans.

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cheering and without degrading our opponents.

4. Avoiding the use of vulgarity and profanity at all athletic events.

5. Encouraging healthy competi-tion and rivalry by eliminating physical and verbal harassment toward any fan, student-athlete, coach or official.

The full list can be found displayed on a bulletin board in the city campus Union. The Iron N strongly discour-ages any students from purchasing or wearing any shirt disrespecting another team. This shirt might be seen as harm-less, or even funny to some, but it will also be seen as extremely disrespectful. Such objects of profanity have no place in collegiate athletics. As a university, it needs to be our focus to show respect to all of the victims of the terrible tragedy that took place on the Penn State cam-pus, not ostracize it.

We have contacted Dr. Heckler, Dean of Students as well as the Ath-letic Department about these shirts. Dr. Heckler has assured us that the event

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Allison Hess | DnGraduate student talea bloch performs during a dress rehearsal of, “o Pioneers!” tuesday night at kimball recital Hall. bloch is in her second year working on her doctor in musical arts.

Spirit of Cather classic ‘O Pioneers!’ lives on in opera

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What started as a chance encounter between two University of Nebras-ka-Lincoln professors 18 years ago has resulted in something much big-ger.

Bill Shomos, voice professor and director of opera at UNL, and Tyler White, an associate professor at the school of music, began planning their first opera in 1994 when both profes-sors were hired at UNL.

While “O Pioneers!” first opened in 1999 in a performance Shomos re-fers to as “undisciplined,” White and Shomos have spent the past 13 years reworking the music, lyrics and stage work to create an entirely new pro-duction.

“It’s been a tremendous joy to go back to this music that I feel … writ-ing it, was a real gift,” White said. “I’d say it’s the same piece, but at the same time different in almost every measure.”

Shomos, stage director for the show, said he has changed so much in his approach that almost every-thing is different, perhaps the most prominent alterations were with pac-ing.

“I’ve made my choices less busy and I’ve gone more for a series of

tableau, which is actually in keep-ing with what the opera is about,” he said.

The opera, based on Cather’s novel of the same name, centers around Alexandra and her younger brother Emil in their love lives on the prairie. Alexandra, who has devoted her life to the care of her family farm, is in love with Carl, who can’t set aside his pride to marry a successful woman.

But it is the love story between Emil and his married neighbor Marie that makes this novel so perfect for an opera, White said.

“The human heart is un-chain-able,” he said. “It really does often hor-ribly inconvenient things that tear peo-ple apart.”

This is the kind of raw, dramatic emotion White said seems to cry out for music.

“It’s a beloved novel and I take that very seriously in presenting it to this community,” he said.

Given his previous affection for Cather’s writing, it was a welcome task to create an interesting story from her novel.

“The first thing you need as a composer is a story that attracts you and a take on that story, an emotional and dramatic take on the story,” White said. “Since I’ve always been a huge fan of Willa Cather’s writ-ing, and here we are in Nebraska, it

seemed perfect.”While unusual for composers,

White decided to write the lyrics to the opera himself. This allowed him to work the two elements together to create a musical style that was much more balanced in terms of the lyrics and music fitting together.

As someone who has spent a great deal of his life living on the Great Plains, White finds the land-scape particularly inspiring for both the music and lyrics.

“The feeling of space and the light and the way things seem to be

flat, but actually have all these interesting, subtle roles and dips and turns – I got a lot of inspiration from that,” he said. “I’m very glad to say that some of the singers in the show have no-ticed that about the music.”

When the cast went on a field trip to the prairie, many of the actors spontane-

ously broke into song, which White said spoke to the success of the music in communicating the feeling people have about the land.

White said one of the most im-portant considerations for him when writing the music was to create a sound that would almost imitate the role of the Great Plains in Cather’s story.

“In Cather’s writing the land – the Nebraska landscape – is like an-other character in which all the other

characters live,” White said. “There’s something sort of similar that the or-chestra … represents Cather’s voice as a narrator and also the sort of spa-

ciousness and that distinctive mar-velous quality of the Great Plains.”

To bring the landscape element into the performance, the decision

was made to make the set revolve around more than 20 projected im-

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on the level of popular culture, Univer-sity of Nebraska-Lincoln Ph.D candi-date and political communication and political psychology student Michael Gruszczynski, can only describe the at-tention Barack Obama received in 2008

one way: “People were excited.”After four years of a conservative president who,

at the time, was statistically unpopular, many people were excited for an election that showcased diversity – including via popular media.

Artists, musicians, movies and TV shows shot their hands up at the opportunity to publicize, poke fun at and satirize the 2008 election.

“People were excited for a new president,” Gruszc-zynski said. “So you had that, along with Sarah Palin, who was providing endless comedy for popular media and popular culture.”

Remembering back to the now iconic Saturday Night Live spoofs and popular culture references of the past election, the 2012 may not be measuring up to the showdown four years ago, according to some experts.

“(While) there isn’t as much popular cul-ture as the election four years ago, people now are making satire on their own,” Gruszczynski

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joy to go back to this music that i feel … writing it, was a real gift.”

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said. “You have the bad lip-readings (on YouTube) or the pictures of politicians paired with funny words.”

Gruszczynski said he thinks people are joking about candidates less this year because, “As politics go on, it gets more cynical.”

He said he has noticed that in his class-rooms, students perceive this election more negatively when juxtaposed with some of the lighthearted pop culture mockery of 2008.

And while the presidential race in 2012 has shown moments of great intensity, negativity has long been a staple of Ameri-can political culture.

“In 1964, there was the famous ‘Daisy’ ad that Lyndon Johnson released,” Gruszc-zynski said. “There’s a little girl pulling petals off of a daisy and then when she gets to the end of it, a nuclear bomb goes off. He’s basically saying that if the other candidate gets elected, it will result in an apocalyptic nuclear explosion. It doesn’t get much more negative than that.”

Founding fathers dueled at the beginning of the re-public. Today, politicians still joust – not with swords

or pistols, but via social media and public antics.

Leading up to the general election on Tues-day, Romney and Obama and their supporters spar 24/7 online and there are many platforms for gauging the two candidates’ online reach. Elections.twitter.com is one example of a tool fo-

cused on analyzing social media for the election.

“Social media is no longer a young adult’s playground and a place to be social with their friends,” said Zach Revense, a senior broad-casting and news editorial major, “It’s a place for news organizations and regular people, whose tweets are considered valuable data. It’s very different than what you would expect four years ago.”

With Twitter’s member-ship booming throughout the past two years, it’s easy to find political jargon in the Twitterverse. Both the Rom-ney and Obama campaigns have been utilizing Twitter and

Facebook as a means to solicit voters.“The Obama campaign has been using social

media as a way to connect with a younger demo-

graph-ic of people,” Revense said.

And according to Revense, Barack Obama is doing a great job. As social media anchor for Star City News, Revense is focused on comparing the candidates and giving them a social me-dia score that evaluates their presence online.

“I’ve been breaking it down by amount of tweets, followers (and) who they follow – it’s really an activ-ity average,” Revense said. “A week ago, Obama was 93 percent higher in all of those volumes than Romney was, which is a significant number.”

Revense used the term “flawless” to describe how Obama runs his social media campaign.

(While) there isn’t

as much popular culture as the election four years ago, people now are making satire on their own.”

mike gruszczynskigraduate student

social media is no longer

a young adult’s playground and a place to be social with their friends.”

zach revensesenior journalism major

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gallery nine to host sci-fi First Friday exhibition

Reading series to feature trio of “fresh” poets

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first friDAytHe burkHolDer project opening receptionwhen: 7 p.m. where: the burkholder Project, 719 P st.what: meet and mingle with artists from the burk-holder Project while looking at new exhibitions in the galleries. the main Gallery will feature a series of mixed media paintings and collages by linda benton (“in my life”). the outback Gallery will feature paintings by sandra acosta (“rouge”) and sculptures by albert rhea (“Possibilities Within our Universe”). the skylight Gallery will feature “a multiple exposure experiment by Josh fielder and luis Peon casanova (“duality”). a special exhibit room will feature paintings by katrina swanson (“shadows and reflections”). the exhibits will run through nov. 30.

“pitcH blAck” opening receptionwhen: 6:30 p.m. where: Gallery nine, 124 s. ninth st. what: artists Willie sapp and sandra steen will exhibit new ceramic work and paintings. the ex-hibition will focus on the simplicity of forms and textures. the exhibition will run through dec. 2.

“breAD AnD butter” opening receptionwhen: 5 p.m. where: lux center for the arts, 2601 n. 48th st.what: lUX artist-in-residence nora rolf has sculpted an interactive arrangement of land-marks made of plaster and bread. art lovers can gently handle the smaller pieces in the exhibi-tion. the exhibition runs through dec. 1.

“WrAppAble: Art for giving (& getting)” reception when: 5 p.m. where: lux center for the arts, 2601 n. 48th st.what: looking for holiday gifts? you can choose from artist-made gifts like handmade jewelry, ceramic dishes and hand-blown glass bowls or ornaments. the exhibition runs through dec. 24.

tHe public first friDAy novemberwhen: 6 p.m. where: the Public, 1033 o st.what: stop by the Public to check out photo-graphic art from Hilary stohs-krause. Guilty is the bear will be performing.

“cAn HAz cAt Art” opening exHibitionwhen: 7 p.m. where: screen ink!, 416 s. 11th st.what: screen ink will be raising funds for the cat House, a no-kill cat shelter, with a collection of cat-themed art. donations will be welcomed. light food and beverages will be provided, but come quick before all of the food is eaten.

sHelDon museum of Art november first friDAy receptionwhen: 5 p.m. where: sheldon museum of art, 12th and r streets. what: the sheldon museum of art will close its dia de los muertos silent auction during its novem-ber first friday reception. art lovers can view works in the exhibitions “five decades of collect-ing,” “the Geometric Unconscious: a century of abstraction” and “Women call for Peace: Global vistas”

“seconDAry nAture” reception when: 6 p.m. where: Workspace Gallery, sawmill building, 440 n. eighth st.what: martina shenal will exhibit photographs focusing on human intervention on landscapes. there will be a gallery talk with shenal at 7 p.m. the exhibition will run through Jan. 3.

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Ask any artist on Lincoln’s First Friday Artwalk what inspires them and 1990s Vin Diesel alien movies usually goes unsaid. But things will go “Pitch Black” at Gallery Nine on Friday evening.

Gallery Nine has been par-ticipating in the monthly art walk for the past 18 years. This Friday, it will feature with new pottery from Willie Sapp and new paintings from Sandra Steen.

The two have shown work to-gether for more than five years now, so Novem-ber’s First Fri-day reception won’t be a new experience for them. Steen said their work, even in different artis-tic mediums, fit together nicely.

“My paint-ings are very earthy,” Sandra Steen said. “I would consider them minimalist landscapes that lean towards the abstract. Willie’s ceramics are very earthy with a streamline per-fection about them.”

The title “Pitch Black” comes from Sapp and Steen’s love of sci-ence fiction. They wanted a title involving that genre, as well as a theme that could run – in one way or another – throughout the pieces. They settled on lift-ing the name from the 2000 film

“The Chronicles of Riddick: Pitch Black.”

“Willie’s pottery will pre-dominately have a new black finish that he has been working on,” Steen said, describing what viewers can expect from the new pieces.

All of Steen’s work on Friday will feature names from works of science fiction, including one that shares the name of the exhibition.

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er course to the land- scapes in this show, one that feel more “old-fashioned,” in an attempt to invoke deja vu or a sense of child-hood nostalgia.

“The comparison between the two styles is the equivalent be-tween the past and the future,” Steen said.

Steen said she is excited for the new exhibit and there is one piece in particular she is looking for-ward to displaying. It consists of

16 paintings grouped together, four works tall and four works wide. The individual paintings are abstract and resemble turbulent weather.

“It’s a very power-ful piece that evokes en-

ergy,” Steen said. “I hope it gives the observer 16

different ways to view once piece of artwork.”

The “Pitch Black” exhibi-tion at Gallery Nine falls in line with the goals of First Fri-day as a whole, Stefanie Warner said, marketing manager for

the Downtown Lincoln As-sociation, to promote lo-

cal art to the people in the community.

“It’s kind of an any-body and everybody event, not just for the artsy crowd,” Warner

said. “It’s good for fam-ily night, date night and

just for anyone who wants to experience the art scene.”

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‘Tis the season for good ol’ fashioned pumpkin pies, fallen leaves and may-be some not-so-old-fashioned poetry.

Since 2005, Lincoln’s Clean Part Reading Series has featured poetry readings from who its website calls “the cleanest young poets in Ameri-ca.”

The series is curated by Trey Moody and Jeff Alessandrelli, both Ph.D. poetry students in the Univer-sity of Nebraska-Lincoln English De-partment. For it’s final fall installment this Saturday, Clean Part will feature readings from John Chávez.

Chávez, an assistant professor at Dixie State College of Utah, received his Ph.D. from UNL in creative writ-ing in poetry, said he’s thrilled to re-turn this weekend and to share his passion with the Lincoln community.

“Poetry speaks to a part of me,” he said. “It helps me understand about myself a little bit more.”

Chávez said he began seriously writing poetry in about 1994, when he decided to write for a living and switched his studies from psychology to a creative writing. Since then, his work has appeared in journals, such as Copper Nickel, Notre Dame Re-view, Anti-, Zone 3 and the Portland Review. He has also published a book, as well as several chapbooks.

Chávez said his love of poetry just “made sense.”

“I’ve always loved literature, that’s just always been a part of me,” he said. “Before I wrote poetry, I was a musician writing lyrics.”

Chávez said he draws inspiration for his poems from anything.

“I tell my students that we have to be observers of the world in order to write about it,” he said. “When I write, I have a basic sense of what I’m interested in exploring, but then it will just come out on paper … however it does.”

On Saturday, Chávez will be read-

ing mostly poems from his first book, “The City of Slow Dissolve,” as well as some of his new work.

“My first book was more lyri-cal and experimental,” Chávez said. “I wanted to explore how important styles spoke to all poetics.”

“The City of Slow Dissolve” examines a journey from Colo-rado Springs to Las Cruces, N.M.. The narrative running throughout is a search for ethnic self-identity and acceptance.

Chávez’s newer poetry will be a part of a collab-orative work called, “What History No S o o n e r Yield.”

“ I t focuses a lot on h i s -tor-

ical aspects — it’s a very different style,” Chávez said. “You can expect more lyrical poems.”

Also reading Saturday night are contemporary poets Mathias Sva-lina, author of “The Explosions,” and Alexis Orgera, author of “How Like Foreign Objects,” “Dust Jacket” and a forthcoming book of prose focusing on “snafus of the brain,” such as hal-lucinations, migraines, and Alzheim-er’s disease.

To those who stop by the Clean Part reading this Saturday, Chávez said he hopes the words “find a home in

them.”“I tell my

audience that I hope they find themselves in the poem

and the poem in them,” he said.Arts@

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“If I were running a cam-paign, that’s the exact way I would run it,” he said.

However, while Obama may boast a stronger online presence, both Revense and Gruszczynski said polls still show Romney is slightly ahead in the eyes of vot-ers, putting the importance of social media into question as a means for predicting election re-sults.

“If social media matters as much as people hypothesize that it does, Romney wouldn’t be leading in the polls right now,” Revense said.

As far as voter interaction on-line, it’s not uncommon to find hostility and “de-friending” be-tween opposing party support-ers.

“Increasingly, students are getting political information from social media,” Gruszczynski said. “I know a lot of people are block-ing people for just talking about politics.”

Gruszczynski said that when people cater only to those they

agree with on social media, they are going to discount contrasting opinions.

“It’s been a tough campaign, anytime people encounter dif-ferent political views, I think it’s good,” Gruszc-zynski said.

While social media may lead to hostility among voters, Revense believes it’s im-perative.

“When vot-ers are interacting with each other, it’s a little bit more volatile,” Revense said. “But as far as candidates are concerned, it’s an ideal and incredibly important thing that they use.”

Gruszczynski said the array of people he has been able to contact politically through Twitter has been productive for his own expo-sure to public opinions.

“I’ve had a lot of discussions

with people that I never would have had the opportunity,” Gruszczynski said.

Even with the Twitter explo-sion of the last couple of years, experts are seeing a decline in en-

gagement with the 2012 election on the level of popu-lar art.

Gruszczynski said he thinks the decline of artistic attention to this election is derived from a lack of ex-citement and dis-enchantment with politics.

“Enthus iasm for a new political actor (generates

pop culture,)” Gruszczynski said. “We’ve had four years of Presi-dent Obama and politics is messy and when people see that they don’t always like it … and shut off from it.”

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political actor (generates pop culture).”

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ages of watercolors painted by Richard Schilling.

“It’s kind of like entering into this artistic, painterly vision of the Nebraska landscape,” White said.

He added that he believes this musical will be one people enjoy.

“The greatest musical per-formances you find in any genre of music are the ones where you feel in the audience … that you’re participating with the music and participating with everybody else,” he said. “There’s that in-credible sort of communal chem-istry that starts happening and I think we’ve really had that in preparing this show.”

Shomos added much of the audience appeal will come from White’s revised work.

“The way that Tyler has paced the last act and a half is overwhelming,” he said. “It’s like you get on a train and it doesn’t stop. “It just really hits you in the gut in all the right ways.”

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Three days have passed since Dis-ney’s bombshell announcement they are buying LucasFilms and releasing a new “Star Wars” tril-ogy starting in 2015. The Internet has almost recovered.

Mickey Mouse ears have been superimposed on every character and space station, lyrics to “When You Wish Upon a Death Star” have been written, “These are not the dwarves you are looking for” memes have been exhausted and Leia has been almost fully wel-comed into the Disney princess canon.

For as little as we know so far, “Star Wars VII” could be a mas-terpiece as easily as it could be a disaster, but it’s the most exciting news for the series’ future in de-cades.

Most importantly, the $4 bil-lion acquisition rightfully con-firms the “Star Wars” universe extends much further than George Lucas’ mind.

“For the past 35 years, one of my greatest pleasures has been to see ‘Star Wars’ passed from one generation to the next,” Lu-cas said in Disney’s press release. “It’s now time for me to pass Star

Wars on to a new generation of filmmakers. I’ve always believed that ‘Star Wars’ could live beyond me and I thought it was important to set up the transition during my lifetime.”

The possibilities are fright-eningly diverse. The most likely move is recruiting a director like Brad Bird, who worked previously with Disney and brought creative direction to an established action franchise in “Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol.”

A more worrying possibility is to follow the Marvel (also owned by Disney) format, creating films for individual characters leading to an “Avengers”-style ensemble flick.

At the most unlikely, but hopeful end are directors like Christopher Nolan, who just like with Batman could stay true to the “Star Wars” universe while delving deeper and darker. Don’t expect to see a Pixar take anytime soon, but the depth of “The Clone Wars” animated series shows this isn’t as sacrilegious as it first sounds.

Though the upcoming trilogy will set the tone for the near fu-ture, the possibility is now there for creative reboots when one in-carnation flops.

While the prequels were right-ly critiqued, they also satisfied

a story arc that was practically Shakespearean in scope.

The safest bet Disney has to expand the story in a way that is at once creative, logical and simi-larly massive is to follow Timothy Zahn’s bestselling and acclaimed “Thrawn Trilogy” series of novels. These novels take place roughly five years after “Return of the Jedi” and bring back Han, Luke, Leia and Chewbacca, as well as a host of new characters like Dark Jedi and Grand Admirals. The tril-ogy is smart, action-packed and much more than a retread of old ground.

Recasting beloved characters is a risky move, but the chances of recruiting the now aged Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Mark Hamill and Billy Dee Williams to reprise their roles is near impossible. Still, if the alternative is to ignore the characters fans have been clam-oring to see more of for three de-cades, a new cast of old characters, a few new ones and a cameo or two for good measure is Disney’s best option.

All that is known so far about “Star Wars VII” is that it takes place sometime after “Return of the Jedi,” which by itself is excit-

ing. The prequels featured the shiny height of the republic, with clean CGI that was often critiqued as artificial. This is in contrast to the original trilogy, which took place during the grimy rule of the Empire and required more physi-cal sets. Since the new films will take place as the world recovers from Empire rule, fans can expect a more aesthetically interesting mix of technology and physical sets.

The “Star Wars” fanbase is solid enough that Disney’s first try could be a misfire and the series would still be in good standing.

The original film is the second highest-grossing film of all time adjusted for inflation and has since spawned hit television shows, vid-eo games and sustained popularity with new generations.

Jedi, lightsabers and “the Force” are as near to our culture as virtually anything in classic folklore. As a company synony-mous with Grimm tales like “Snow White” and “The Little Mermaid,” Disney is the perfect company to carry the “Star Wars” folk tale into the future.

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If you were walking by the Mabel Lee Hall Fields on a Friday night in late September, you may have seen a strange sight: 14 men on a soccer field – two running back and forth, two tiny stumps, an-other man running up and down with a tiny white ball and a group of people huddled on the sidelines cheering, clapping and blowing whistles and horns.

That’s not something a UNL student sees every day; cricket matches are hard to come by on campus.

In the last weeks in September, the University of Nebraska-Lin-coln Cricket Club rang out their inaugural season with a three-week tournament for cricketers from all over Lincoln and Omaha. Twelve teams of seven gathered at the Mabel Lee Hall Fields each Fri-day night to compete in the knock-out tournament.

Cricket isn’t new to Nebraska. The Omaha Cricket Club began more than 20 years ago, and clubs in Lincoln have been around for more than 10 years. However, cricket is new for UNL. Attempts to start a team or club began in 2001, but none of them stuck un-til last year, when Naren Parimi, a computer science graduate stu-dent, decided to give the applica-tion process one more try.

After working with Campus Recreation and a sponsorship from Lincoln Technologies, the UNL Cricket Club became a real-ity in late spring last year. With their brand new gear and uni-forms, they won the first summer tournament they entered.

“We’ve got a couple good

players from UNL,” Parimi said while on the sidelines during one of the tournament’s semifinals.

In fact, they now have eight more than they did in the summer. The official club squad roster is very fluid.

“If they are available for the clear day, they are on the team,” Parimi said. “It’s open. Any-body who is new, we give them a chance.”

There weren’t any beginners in this tournament, but there were some new faces.

“Each team has brought in two new players and has tried to give everyone a chance,” said Apoorva Pandya, a UNL alumnus and a member of the UNL club and tour-nament team. “It’s for fun, basical-

ly. But then we play cricket, when it’s more about aggression.”

The final matches on the first Friday of October weren’t too ag-gressive, but some of that was par-tially due to the smaller format of play.

“This is a more controlled form,” Pandya said. “You don’t want to go and hit every ball.”

A typical cricket field is one-and-a-half football fields in diam-eter, but were shrunk by half for these nighttime matches. They reduced the usual 11-man squad to seven, and they limited the number of overs, or innings, to 10. Each over had six bowls, or pitches so after the fielding team completed their 60th bowl, they would take their turn to bat. The team with the most points gained from runs would win the match.

The final match that night turned out to be a showdown be-tween the UNL club team and the OCA Red Devils, a team from the University of Nerbaska at Omaha. The UNL Reds, up to bat first,

grabbed 49 runs, a score the Devils easily met with their top batsman scoring 25 runs and no outs.

It was a loss for the Reds, but three of their members earned individual awards for the tour-nament. Parimi was the tourna-ment’s best bowler, Pandya was the tournament’s best fielder and Vijay Durvasula, a graduate stu-dent in management, was the tournament’s MVP with 115 total runs and six wickets.

Parimi was pleased with the turnout and the team’s perfor-mance, and looks forward to hav-ing more people join the club.

“The whole reason for hav-ing this tournament is to get new players into this and to see if we

can get some overseas players like West Indians and Australians,” he said.

Rama Prasad Cheruku, the president of the Lincoln Cricket Club, started working with the UNCC this year, and he hopes to see more participate as well. He said most members of the UNL squad are from Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka.

“Hopefully next year we will see more people interested,” Cheruku said. “We would like to spread the game to the outside communities. We want to make it more fun. Even though you are a beginner, you can come here and start learning.”

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2012-2013 WOMEN’S BASKETBALL SCHEDULE

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Big Ten/ACC Challenge

Big Ten Tournament

NCAA Tournament

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Maryland

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also hoping to put up stellar num-bers on defense, too.

“It’s really important for me to play well on defense so I’m bal-anced on both sides of the court,” Hooper said. “Offense is almost second nature to me; defense is something I focus more on to be better all-around.”

Last season, the team defeated

Kearney 85-55, with Hooper con-tributing 28 points. Hooper also tallied six rebounds while going 3-for-6 behind the three-point line.

Hooper, who also led the team with her double-digit perfor-mance Monday, said she and the team are looking forward to its opponent Sunday.

“(Monday’s win) definitely gave us some confidence, but coach says we can’t just look at that game,” she said. “We’re

getting geared up for Kearney. They’re not the same team as Pittsburg State. It’s a new game plan and we’re on to them.”

After they wrap up their sec-ond and final exhibition game, the women’s basketball team will host North Carolina A&T next

Friday to open up the regular sea-son.

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file photo by matt masiN | DNNebraska senior point guard lindsey moore takes the ball up the court against iowa last year. moore said the Huskers still have much to improve on this year.

file photo by morgaN spiehs | DNNebraska’s robert kokesh grapples with iowa wrestler mike evans last season at the NU coliseum. kokesh and the Huskers kick off the 2012-2013 season with their intrasquad meet friday.

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figure out some of the things you still need to work on before actual competition starts coming around,” Kokesh said. “It just gives you a feel of that dual-meet atmosphere.”

NU coach Mark Manning is more excited for competi-tion against other schools, but said the intrasquad is an im-portant and neces-sary transition to the regular season.

“It’s good prac-tice to get out in front of fans, get out of the wrestling room and get out and wrestle under-neath the lights,” he said. “(The) more times you do it, the better you get at it.”

In that sense, the intrasquad meet will be more valuable to the team’s newcomers than to its vet-

erans. Kokesh has advice for this year’s freshmen based on his first experience in the dual.

“I would just tell them to have a positive attitude,” Kokesh said.

“Just go out there and use this as an experience to get to the norm of the college level.”

Among the newcomers this season are ju-nior Caleb Kolb (197), sophomore Spencer Johnson (197) and red-shirt freshman Donny Longen-dyke (285), who will fill the voids left by graduat-

ing seniors. Kolb will wrestle in the 197-pound weight class until Johnson recovers from a knee in-jury.

“(It’ll be) good practice for

them to get out there and show what they’re all about under the lights,” Manning said of the squad’s new starting wrestlers.

At the other eight weights, the Huskers return all of last year’s starters, including six who are na-tionally ranked heading into the 2012-2013 campaign. Senior Josh Ihnen, an All-American last sea-son at 184 pounds, leads the pack, with fellow seniors Ridge Kiley (141) and Tyler Koehn (174) also

in the top 25. The sophomore trio of Kokesh, James Green (157) and Jake Sueflohn (149), who moved up a weight division, enter the season ranked in the top 15 after making the NCAA Champion-ships last year.

Manning will not be surprised to see them repeat that effort this season, and it starts Friday night.

“They’re better technicians,” Manning said. “Nothing’s really going to shock me. We expect a lot

out of them because they’ve got a lot in them.”

Manning said his main job dur-ing the intrasquad will be to ob-serve, not coach, the matches. He will be watching how his wrestlers handle nerves and the expectation of performing at a high level.

“Can the guy do it no matter who they’re wrestling?” Manning said. “Not that they’re just wres-tling their buddy or their team-mate. They’re wrestling to show

their skill level and their competi-tiveness.”

And while the intrasquad does not carry the same intensity as a regular season dual, the meet may as well be for Kokesh.

“Coach always tells us we need to focus on one match at a time,” he said, “and this is a match. It means something to us.”

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2012-2013 WRESTLING SCHEDULE

DATE OPPONENT LOCATION TIME

Grapple at the Garden

Nov 02Nov 04Nov 10Nov 11Nov 16Nov 18Nov 18

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michigan state spartans

east lansing, mich.stadium: spartan stadium (75,005 capacity)rivals: michigan, Notre dame, indianaall-time record: 641-431-44claimed national titles: 6 (last in 1966)conference titles: 7last season: 11-3 (outback bowl champions)notable current players: rb le’veon bell, de Wil-liam Gholston, cb Johnny adamsnotable former players: andre rison, mark ingram sr., Plaxico burress, der-rick mason, muhsin mu-hammad, flozell adams, James caan (actor)connection to nebraska: The Huskers hold an

all-time 6-0 series lead over the spartans, with the most notable game coming in 1995, when the Huskers pummeled the spartans 50-10 en route to a second straight na-tional title.

coach: mark dantonio (6th year)overall head coaching re-cord: 67-43playing career: defensive back – south carolina (1976-78)head coaching career: cin-cinnati (2004-06), michi-gan state (2007-Present)notable assistant coaching stops: butler cc (dc – 1982), akron (db – 1985), youngstown state (dc – 1986-90), kansas (db – 1991-94), michigan state (db – 1995-2000), ohio state (dc – 2001-03)

michigan state University

established: 1855public Universitystudents: 47,954motto: advancing knowl-edge. Transforming lives.specializations: of the more than 200 academic pro-grams at msU, agriculture and education have gar-nered the most accolades and attention.what makes it unique: michi-gan state pioneered the study of music therapy, horticulture and packag-ing. also, msU has the larg-est study abroad program of any single-campus school in the U.s., with more than 200 programs taking place in more than 60 countries and on all continents, including ant-arctica.

key matchupsmsU rb le’veon bell vs. NU linebackersNebraska’s linebackers had a breakthrough perfor-mance this week against michigan, and the unit goes up against michigan state’s bottom-of-the-conference rushing attack. However, the spartans are still led by le’veon bell, a back who has shown he can shoulder the load and fight for extra yards. This battle will determine if michigan state can get any points on the board.

msU passing game vs. NU secondaryNebraska will likely play a 4-3 most of the game, leaving option for michi-gan state passing the ball. The spartans will need a

big game from quarterback an-drew maxwell to break down the Husker sec-ondary, allowing the spartans a chance in this game.

NU wr kenny bell vs. msU cb Johnny adamsmichigan state has one of the best defenses in the country talent-wise, and the Huskers have one of the best offenses in the coun-try stats-wise. something has to give in this match-up. kenny bell is the Husk-ers’ best receiving threat and cornerback Johnny adams may be msU’s best

defender. This matchup will go a long way for de-termining whether Nebras-ka can establish the pass early, setting themselves up for a win.

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After coming off of arguably the best Husker win of the season against No. 1 Penn State, Nebraska hopes to stay strong in the Big Ten race with a weekend trip to take on Michigan and Michigan State.

The victory has the Huskers’ confidence soaring after com-ing back from being down 2-1 in sets. But after a fifth-set victory, Nebraska didn’t move up in the rankings because of a loss to Ohio

State on Friday. The team still holds the No. 4 spot.

But the Huskers won’t have much time to celebrate.

“Any Big Ten road game is a tough one,” NU coach John Cook said at a press conference Mon-day.

Michigan and Michigan State sit tied for sixth in the Big Ten standings, both with a 5-7 confer-ence record.

Nebraska leads the all-time series with Michigan 6-1, beating them 3-1 the last time they faced

each other in late September, but that doesn’t mean the match will be a cakewalk.

“Michigan went five games with Penn State, too,” Cook said. “Teams can get hot and beat any-body.”

Michigan State (17-7) has yet to beat Nebraska in 13 meetings and will try to avenge their 3-0 loss to the Huskers earlier this year.

Gina Mancuso has been in the spotlight lately, posting 16 kills against Penn State. She is one of the leaders in the fan balloting for

the NCAA Senior CLASS award. The fan votes account for one-third of the total, with the other two-thirds determined by NCAA coaches and media members. Nebraska is hoping to ride Man-cuso’s hot streak into Ann Arbor on Friday and East Lansing on Saturday during this trip.

The Michigan game is at 6 p.m. Friday. The Huskers will have to turn around quickly and play Michigan State at 7 p.m. Sat-urday.

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The final fall tournament of the Nebraska men’s tennis season is the Gopher Invitational Nov. 1-4 in Minneapolis. No Husker players competed on the first day of the tournament. After the Gopher Invite, Nebraska will have time to rest until Jan. 13 when they take on Louisville on the road. NU coach Kerry McDermott admits his squad hasn’t been the best team out there, but said they should still try to play like they are.

“I think at this point (our players need to) compete as hard as you can no matter what the score is,” he said. “You can still win matches even when you’re not playing well. You can still win match-es because you’re competing well.”

Because this is the last out-ing of the fall, McDermott wants his players to keep fight-ing in their matches, no matter what the score.

“We want to make sure that the guys finish the fall season … so they’re always fighting until the end, and anything can hap-pen. Just kind of put it out there and let your actions speak for yourself,” he said.

McDermott saw players like freshmen Dusty Boyer and Marc Herrmann impress him this sea-son, but has also seen players struggle, like seniors Brandon Videtich, Andre Stenger and Eric Sock.

“Dusty (Boyer) did a really good job I thought last tourna-ment (USTA-ITA Regionals). And I actually think Marc (Her-rmann) did a really good job of competing well,” he said. “I

think for us, some of our guys … Brandon (Videtich) has been struggling a little bit mentally, maybe Andre (Stenger) and Eric (Sock), a couple of our seasoned guys. I don’t think they’re playing bad, but I don’t think they’ve had their best draw and I think mentally they’ve been down on themselves.“

McDermott knows his team can make improvements, mak-ing them a goal so his team can be ready come next semester.

“I want to see that we start next semester, that our guys realize that we have a good nuclear group of guys,” he said. “I don’t feel like were a great team, but I think we’re a good

team, and I think we can get really good. But it’s a matter of guys really believing in themselves and their teammates, and not think we’re aver-age or OK … hopeful-ly it’ll carry over next semester.”

Videtich wants his team to start improv-ing. That doesn’t just start with him, but with everyone.

“As a team we want to compete at a high lev-el,” he said. “Winning is great, but we’re all hoping to make improvements in our games so that we’re ready come January. We all need to step up; we’re trying to see where guys fit in the lineup and what combina-tions work in doubles. So we need to have a good showing to see what works and where we need to make adjustments.”

Videtich echoed McDer-mott’s statement. He said he wants his team to finish strong and achieve good results at the Gopher Invite and beyond.

“We want to end the last tournament of the year with a strong showing, solid play and some good results to build off for the season. And then next semester we hope it all comes together and we can prove to ourselves that all this hard work this fall paid off.”

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file photo by bethaNy schmiDt | DNNebraska senior outside hitter Gina mancuso goes down for a dig against Penn state on sunday. mancuso, a leading candidate for the Ncaa senior class award, will try to maintain her high level of play against michigan and michigan state this weekend.

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“Our focus will be taking him out of the game and making (quarterback Andrew) Maxwell be (the guy),” senior linebacker Alonzo Whaley said.

Whaley said he was confi-dent the Huskers could limit Bell’s production because they have done so in the past, includ-ing successfully holding bulky Wisconsin running back Montee Ball under 100 yards rushing in a Husker win.

The biggest advantage for the Huskers against Bell and the Spar-tans, Whaley said, is personnel matchups.

“Their style of offense falls into our strengths as a defense,” Whaley said. “When teams pack it in and run it, they never really have success to-ward our defense. It goes to where our strengths are. Most teams try and attack us by spreading it out; there’s not too many teams that try to attack us by packing it in and trying to power you.”

As a result, many expect Michigan State to try to spread the field a bit more to expose Ne-braska’s weaknesses. NU defen-

sive coordinator John Papuchis said he expects Maxwell to try to open up the passing game by hit-ting a multitude of receivers.

“The thing that jumps out to me more than anything (besides Bell), is their balance in terms of the distribution of catches across the board,” Papuchis said. “They have five different guys with be-tween 22 and 32 catches. A year ago, (B.J.) Cunningham was their guy, and we knew we had to stop him going into the game. This

year, they are more evenly distributed across the board and that makes it a little more difficult to defend.”

While the Spar-tans do a good job spreading the wealth around in the passing game, the team’s pass of-fense still ranks in the bottom half of the country at 229.1 yards per game. Nebraska’s pass offense ranks even lower, with 225 yards per game, and the pair are ex-

pected to do battle in a low-scor-ing, defensive game.

“I think it’ll be another de-fensive game – which offense can score on which defense,” Whaley said.

For Nebraska, which boasts the seventh-ranked rushing at-tack in the country, coaches will

be aiming to focus on the ground game to wear on a top-10 Michi-gan State scoring defense, whose

strength is pass defense.“They play aggressive, they

play hard and they are physi-

cal up front,” Pelini said. “They challenge receivers on the outside in the secondary. They are well-coached. It’s a good group.”

Getting a win this week against the Spartans would say a lot about a Husker team which has had trouble establishing con-sistency this season. Early in the year, the team hit a high before dropping a game to UCLA, then responded with a powerful come-back against Wisconsin, only to fall to Ohio State the following week.

Now, the Huskers are winners of two consecutive conference games, hoping to establish some solid momentum late in the sea-son.

“That’s the difference in this team right now as a whole,” Whaley said. “We really focus on the next week and not what lies after that. The good thing we’ve learned from is the losing end. Be-ing so high and then you end up losing the next big game, I think we really did a good job focusing on what’s in front of us and what can happen if we don’t focus on that. That’s all you can do. You can’t sit around and worry about Michigan. I’ve honestly forgotten about Michigan already.”

No. 21 Nebraska takes on Michigan State at 2:30 p.m. on Saturday. TV coverage is set for ABC regionally and ESPN2 else-where.

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file photo by aNNa reeD | DNNebraska senior linebacker alonzo Whaley (45) talks with defensive teammates. Whaley and the blackshirts will have to try to slow down big michigan state running back le’veon bell on saturday.

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in this team right now as a whole. We really focus on the next week and not what lies after that.”

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tanding 6 feet 2 inches and weighing 244 pounds, Le’Veon Bell is a tough man to tackle.

Nebraska is faced with the task of taking down the

Michigan State running back, who has racked up 1,061 yards and eight touchdowns this season, when the Huskers head to East Lansing, Mich., on Saturday.

“You have to get on him quick-ly,” coach Bo Pelini said. “You have to be good up front and physical. He’s a big physical back, and you don’t want to get him rolling.”

The Huskers (6-2, 3-1 Big Ten) hit the road this weekend to take on Michigan State (5-4, 2-3) in a game that could turn out to be a pivotal moment for Nebraska making its push for a Big Ten championship. A win Saturday would likely require the Huskers to shut down Bell.

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intrasquad meet marks crucial competition for wrestlers

Husker women begin to gel in exhibition contests

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In Robert Kokesh’s first dual as a Husker, he had to wrestle Jordan Burroughs.

As teammates in the same

weight class on the Nebraska wrestling team, they grappled with each other in practice often. But their 2011 match in the season-opening intrasquad meet (which Burroughs won) was Kokesh’s first experience in a competitive format.

It’s not just another practice.“This is a live competition,”

Kokesh said. “We’re not in the practice room. You’re out there to compete. You’re out there to win the match.”

Two years later, Burroughs

is an Olympic gold medalist and Kokesh has become a strong wres-tler in his own right. The redshirt sophomore enters the season ranked sixth in the country at 165 pounds.

The Huskers will take to the mat in the NU Coliseum for the first time this season at the NU In-trasquad on Friday at 7 p.m.

“You’re wrestling against your teammate – you see him in prac-tice every day – but this helps

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Jordan Hooper threw a three-pointer 15 seconds into the game against Pittsburg State’s defense. The attempt was good.

The junior forward’s shot would be the first of her 17 points and propelled Nebraska to a 78-34 victory on Monday, its first exhibition game of the season.

After being away from com-petition since March, it didn’t take the No. 18 Huskers long to get back in the groove of things, according to Hooper.

“I thought we did really well,” she said. “It was a lot of fun and I think we did a lot of good things.”

One key factor in the team’s first win in exhibition play was its fast start.

After the 2011 All-Ameri-can’s first shot, the Huskers went onto hold to a 22-0 lead through the first seven minutes, when the Gorillas made their first basket.

Senior Lindsey Moore, who finished the game with five as-sists, said the offensive burst boosted the team’s confidence for its next game.

“It was good seeing us be so aggressive offensively and knock down a shot,” she said. “It was definitely surprising to have them scoreless as long as we did. We didn’t expect that.”

The Huskers hope to match that success on Sunday when they host Nebraska Kearney at 2:05 p.m. at the Bob Devaney Sports Center.

Though Nebraska won the game 78-34, the team’s overall play was far from superb, Moore said.

The Huskers recorded four

blocks against Pittsburg State. However, the Gorillas out-blocked them by four. The Husk-ers also coughed up 15 turn-overs and allowed 12 offensive rebounds to their opponents.

Moore said there’s not just one thing the team needs to im-prove on.

“We still got a long way to go – rebounding, executing on offense – just the game in gener-

al,” Moore, a senior point guard said. “I think improving in all as-pects is something we’re looking forward to do.”

Hooper agreed with her teammate and said she’s hoping to make an impact not just on of-fense for her team. She finished with nine rebounds in NU’s first exhibition match and said she’s

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michigan state running back le’veon bell carries the ball against Nebraska last year in lincoln. bell has been the focal point of the spartans’ offense this season, rushing for more than 1,000 yards through eight games and scoring eight touchdowns.

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file photo mary-elleN keNNeDy | DNNebraska wrestler Josh ihnen tries to fend off iowa’s vinnie Wagner in last year’s matchup of two of the big Ten’s best wrestling teams. The senior is ranked sixth in the country at 184 pounds.

file photo by matt masiN | DNNebraska forward Jordan Hooper, left, helped the Huskers jump out to an early 22-0 lead against Pittsburg state. The junior said she wants to try to make a bigger impact on defense this year.

Annual meet pits teammates against one another, gives chance to compete

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and attack us by spreading it out; there’s not too many teams that try to attack us by packing it in and trying to power you.”

aloNzo whaleynu senior linebacker

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