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DAILY NEBRASKAN WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 19, 2011 VOLUME 111, ISSUE 040 DAILYNEBRASKAN.COM You’re still on top, America AN OPEN LETTER TO A NATION GRIPPED BY FEAR OF DECLINE MUSIC FESTIVAL SHOWS OFF LOCAL TALENT OVER LONG WEEKEND ROME, D-LINEMEN PREPARED TO FILL IN FOR INJURED CRICK Lincoln call and response Opportunity knocks FOOTBALL PAGE 10 WEATHER | WINDY MUSIC ONLINE SIDDIQUI PAGE 4 @dailyneb | facebook.com/dailynebraskan 48° 27° HUSKERS NOT LOOKING PAST 1-5 MINNESOTA REMEMBERING ENGLISH PROFESSOR GERRY SHAPIRO Pelini discusses the upcoming road game and the keys for the team. VIDEO ONLINE Teacher, writer leaves legacy of commitment to great writing, mentorship in Andrews Hall. PAGE 5 DAN HOLTMEYER DAILY NEBRASKAN A month ago, thousands of New Yorkers launched Oc- cupy Wall Street, an amor- phous protest against histor- ic income inequality and the perceived power of wealth over politics that is now en- tering its fifth week. Saturday afternoon, Lin- coln joined New York, London, Tokyo, Rome, Los Angeles, Chicago and re- portedly hundreds of other cities across the country and around the world by host- ing its own offshoot of the movement. Occupy Lincoln drew hundreds of participants, some with drums, others with signs, American flags with corporate logos as the stars and voices calling out slogans like “We are the 99 percent” – a jab at the top 1 percent of the country that controls a huge share of its wealth and income. Students from the Univer- sity of Nebraska-Lincoln and other local colleges made a strong showing, including Forrest Teske, a freshman broadcasting major who started a Facebook page to involve members of UNL’s campus in the movement. But the protesters, with a variety of connected com- plaints, came from all ages, from toddlers in strollers to elderly in wheelchairs. Many of them charged that corporations use their profits to buy the support of politicians. Some protested simultaneous budget cuts and stagnant unemploy- ment. Others called for the end of the government’s central bank, the Federal Reserve. The common theme: frus- tration. “I feel that politics is no longer about people,” said Ilonka Zlatar, who recently began working on a Ph.D. in biology at UNL. “It’s about how deep in a politi- cian’s pockets do you need to get.” Sarah Shaw, another protester who brought her young son along, said the top income bracket and pol- iticians friendly to them are disconnected from everyone else in the recession’s after- math. “People like us have to make decisions like, ‘Do I pay this bill or feed my fam- ily?’” she said. A UNL alumna, Shaw said such necessities have left her two months behind on her student loan payments. “To me, this is a matter of life or death.” Shaw said she has a job locally but asked for her DAN HOLTMEYER DAILY NEBRASKAN Three men, all in their early 20s and in coats and hats, stooped and crawled in the large, crowded brown tent, organizing piles, boxes and bags of produce and cans onto several small shelves. “We’ve got lots of food,” said Matthew White with a laugh. He and his friends Dylan Bacon and Mikey Prewett are part of Occupy Lincoln’s food committee and, at this moment, faced the onslaught of food dona- tions from supportive city residents. Gifts have includ- ed a fresh-baked cherry pie, more bread than they know what to do with, and “bags and bags and bags of gro- ceries,” White said. The trio is just one part of a cooperative system that is the heartbeat of this group of more than 40 tents, all camped on the Centennial Mall in front of the Capitol Building. Lincoln residents of all ages, including many students of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, are in Lincoln’s version of Occupy Wall Street for the long haul. “I just want to support the movement as far as it can go,” said Jordan Dud- ley, a senior Spanish and Latin American studies ma- jor. “The opportunity for it to happen in the place that I grew up is something spe- cial.” Occupy Lincoln began Oct. 15 with a march around downtown and the Capitol, and coincided with similar Occupy Wall Street-inspired marches in dozens, if not hundreds, of cities around the world. The movement, sparked in Manhattan more than a month ago and buoyed by people of every age and most backgrounds, is to fight a variety of issues, from income inequality to the power corporations ex- ercise over politics. Here, general assembly meetings are at 6 p.m. each day, after participants return from jobs or school, to up- date on problems, ideas and The Occupy Wall Street movement inspired worldwide protests this weekend and made its way onto the streets of Lincoln, bringing residents together for a common cause Occupy Lincoln creates committees to organize protests and to support followers in the fight against the 1 percent OCCUPY: SEE PAGE 3 LINCOLN: SEE PAGE 3 AS IT RILEY JOHNSON DAILY NEBRASKAN Gerald Shapiro, a University of Nebraska-Lincoln English professor and acclaimed au- thor, died unexpectedly in Lincoln on Oct. 15. Gerald “Gerry” Shapiro, 61, taught fiction writing, 20th century fiction and Jewish-American fiction af- ter coming to UNL in 1987. Shapiro’s unexpected death shocked many of his colleagues and former stu- dents, who remember his generosity, intellect and co- medic sense of humor. “No one is irreplaceable, but Gerry is just about as close as it gets,” said Susan Belasco, chair of the UNL English department. Belasco said she heard the news of Shapiro’s death while at meetings in New York City and cut her trip short to be with Judith Slat- er, Shapiro’s wife. Slater, also a UNL profes- sor of English, took Shapiro to the hospital Oct. 14 after he had trouble breathing, Belasco said. News of Shapiro’s death from cardiac arrest brought back Belasco’s first memo- ries of the Kansas City na- tive. Shapiro helped recruit Belasco to come to UNL in 2000. Shapiro loved the uni- versity and pushed hard to bring the best and brightest to the English department, Belasco said. Shapiro’s own work shined brightly across the country. In his career, Shapiro re- ceived many awards for his work including the Ohio State University Prize in Short Fiction for “Little Men,” the Edward Lewis Wallant Award for “From Hunger” and was a final- ist for the National Jew- ish Book Award for Fiction “Bad Jews.” His stories also ap- peared on the big screen and through the airwaves. In 2004, he co-wrote the screenplay for “King of the Corner,” adapted from a collection of his short sto- ries, focusing on the place of secular Jews in contem- porary American Society, according to a press release. In 2008, Shapiro wrote a story about Hanukkah for National Public Radio, air- ing on the network’s “Ha- nukkah Lights” program. Even with all of his fame and notoriety, Shapiro treat- ed everyone he met with kindness, Belasco said. From the chancellor to the office staff, everyone re- ceived his generosity, she said. Leann Messing, the Eng- lish department office man- ager, said she had to de- lete her lunch appointment Tuesday. Shapiro and Slater planned to treat the entire office to lunch, which Mess- ing said they did multiple times each year. The couple would bring in their two dogs and plenty of food, she said. Messing said she and her coworkers always looked forward to the lunches. “It took you out of the workplace and into a family environment,” Messing said. On Oct. 14, Shapiro called Elaine Dvorak, an English department secretary, to schedule the lunch, Mess- ing said. Messing remembered hearing nothing but laugh- ter coming from Dvorak during the call. The group did not sched- ule any luncheon or get-to- gether for Tuesday, Messing said. Lunch with Shapiro couldn’t be replaced, she said. Dvorak said even when the group didn’t meet for lunch, Shapiro would drop off his cooking for the staff – be it pesto, meats, cheeses or matzo balls. Shapiro was a “sweetheart,” she said. “He would say, ‘Oh I had some leftovers and I thought of you guys,’” Dvorak said. Grace Bauer, a profes- sor of English and long- time friend of Shapiro, said he always brought a smile to her face with his quirky sense of humor. While attending gradu- ate school at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst with Shapiro and Slater, Bauer noticed Shapiro’s strange baseball cap. In- stead of a sports team’s logo, the cap bore the name SHAPIRO: SEE PAGE 2 KYLE BRUGGEMAN | DAILY NEBRASKAN Luther Owens (with megaphone) leads a parade of protestors down 13th Street during Occupy Lincoln on Oct. 14. Owens told a crowd of more than 500 he was a welder looking for a job. DAN HOLTMEYER | DAILY NEBRASKAN From left, Matthew White, Mikey Prewett and Dylan Bacon sort and organize Occupy Lincoln’s food tent, housing pro- duce, bread and other food donated by supportive Lincoln residents. The camp, numbering about 40 tents Tuesday, gets three free meals a day as it keeps the protest going through the week. “It’s been flowing really well,” White said. 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OccuPy: see page 3 LINcOLN: see page 3 shAPIrO: see page 2 occupy lincoln creates committees to organize protests and to support followers in the fight against the 1 percent pelini discusses the upcoming road game and the keys for the team. VIDEO ONLINE teacher, writer leaves legacy of commitment to great writing, mentorship in andrews hall. PAGE 5 music festival shows off local talent over long weekend Dan Holtmeyer Dan Holtmeyer an open letter to a nation gripped by fear of decline

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DAILY NEBRASKANwednesday, october 19, 2011 volume 111, issue 040

dailynebraskan.com

You’re still on top, Americaan open letter to a nation gripped by fear of decline

music festival shows off local talent over long weekend

rome, d-linemen prepared to fill in for injured crick

Lincoln call and response

Opportunity knocks

football page 10 Weather | Windymusic onlinesiddiqui page 4

@dailyneb | facebook.com/dailynebraskan

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Huskers nOt LOOking pAst 1-5 minnesOtA

rememBering engLisH prOFessOr gerrY sHApirO

pelini discusses the upcoming road game and the keys for the team. VIDEO ONLINE

teacher, writer leaves legacy of commitment to great writ ing, mentorship in andrews hall. PAGE 5

Dan HoltmeyerDaily nebraskan

A month ago, thousands of New Yorkers launched Oc-cupy Wall Street, an amor-phous protest against histor-ic income inequality and the perceived power of wealth over politics that is now en-tering its fifth week.

Saturday afternoon, Lin-coln joined New York, London, Tokyo, Rome, Los Angeles, Chicago and re-portedly hundreds of other cities across the country and around the world by host-ing its own offshoot of the movement.

Occupy Lincoln drew hundreds of participants,

some with drums, others with signs, American flags with corporate logos as the stars and voices calling out slogans like “We are the 99 percent” – a jab at the top 1 percent of the country that controls a huge share of its wealth and income.

Students from the Univer-sity of Nebraska-Lincoln and other local colleges made a strong showing, including Forrest Teske, a freshman broadcasting major who started a Facebook page to involve members of UNL’s campus in the movement. But the protesters, with a variety of connected com-plaints, came from all ages, from toddlers in strollers to

elderly in wheelchairs. Many of them charged

that corporations use their profits to buy the support of politicians. Some protested simultaneous budget cuts and stagnant unemploy-ment. Others called for the end of the government’s central bank, the Federal Reserve.

The common theme: frus-tration.

“I feel that politics is no longer about people,” said Ilonka Zlatar, who recently began working on a Ph.D. in biology at UNL. “It’s about how deep in a politi-cian’s pockets do you need to get.”

Sarah Shaw, another

protester who brought her young son along, said the top income bracket and pol-iticians friendly to them are disconnected from everyone else in the recession’s after-math.

“People like us have to make decisions like, ‘Do I pay this bill or feed my fam-ily?’” she said.

A UNL alumna, Shaw said such necessities have left her two months behind on her student loan payments. “To me, this is a matter of life or death.”

Shaw said she has a job locally but asked for her

Dan HoltmeyerDaily nebraskan

Three men, all in their early 20s and in coats and hats, stooped and crawled in the large, crowded brown tent, organizing piles, boxes and bags of produce and cans onto several small shelves.

“We’ve got lots of food,” said Matthew White with a laugh. He and his friends Dylan Bacon and Mikey Prewett are part of Occupy Lincoln’s food committee and, at this moment, faced the onslaught of food dona-tions from supportive city residents. Gifts have includ-ed a fresh-baked cherry pie, more bread than they know what to do with, and “bags and bags and bags of gro-ceries,” White said.

The trio is just one part of a cooperative system that is the heartbeat of this group of more than 40 tents, all camped on the Centennial Mall in front of the Capitol Building. Lincoln residents of all ages, including many students of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, are in

Lincoln’s version of Occupy Wall Street for the long haul.

“I just want to support the movement as far as it can go,” said Jordan Dud-ley, a senior Spanish and Latin American studies ma-jor. “The opportunity for it to happen in the place that I grew up is something spe-cial.”

Occupy Lincoln began Oct. 15 with a march around downtown and the Capitol, and coincided with similar Occupy Wall Street-inspired marches in dozens, if not hundreds, of cities around the world. The movement, sparked in Manhattan more than a month ago and buoyed by people of every age and most backgrounds, is to fight a variety of issues, from income inequality to the power corporations ex-ercise over politics.

Here, general assembly meetings are at 6 p.m. each day, after participants return from jobs or school, to up-date on problems, ideas and

the occupy Wall street movement inspired worldwide protests this weekend and made its way onto the streets of lincoln, bringing residents together for a common cause

occupy lincoln creates committees to organize protests and to support followers in the fight against the 1 percent

OccuPy: see page 3

LINcOLN: see page 3

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riley JoHnsonDaily nebraskan

Gerald Shapiro, a University of Nebraska-Lincoln English professor and acclaimed au-thor, died unexpectedly in Lincoln on Oct. 15.

Gerald “Gerry” Shapiro, 61, taught fiction writing, 20th century fiction and Jewish-American fiction af-ter coming to UNL in 1987.

Shapiro’s unexpected death shocked many of his colleagues and former stu-dents, who remember his generosity, intellect and co-medic sense of humor.

“No one is irreplaceable, but Gerry is just about as close as it gets,” said Susan Belasco, chair of the UNL English department.

Belasco said she heard

the news of Shapiro’s death while at meetings in New York City and cut her trip short to be with Judith Slat-er, Shapiro’s wife.

Slater, also a UNL profes-sor of English, took Shapiro to the hospital Oct. 14 after he had trouble breathing, Belasco said.

News of Shapiro’s death from cardiac arrest brought back Belasco’s first memo-ries of the Kansas City na-tive.

Shapiro helped recruit Belasco to come to UNL in 2000. Shapiro loved the uni-versity and pushed hard to bring the best and brightest to the English department, Belasco said.

Shapiro’s own work shined brightly across the

country.In his career, Shapiro re-

ceived many awards for his work including the Ohio State University Prize in Short Fiction for “Little Men,” the Edward Lewis Wallant Award for “From Hunger” and was a final-ist for the National Jew-ish Book Award for Fiction “Bad Jews.”

His stories also ap-peared on the big screen and through the airwaves. In 2004, he co-wrote the screenplay for “King of the Corner,” adapted from a collection of his short sto-ries, focusing on the place of secular Jews in contem-porary American Society, according to a press release.

In 2008, Shapiro wrote a

story about Hanukkah for National Public Radio, air-ing on the network’s “Ha-nukkah Lights” program.

Even with all of his fame and notoriety, Shapiro treat-ed everyone he met with kindness, Belasco said. From the chancellor to the office staff, everyone re-ceived his generosity, she said.

Leann Messing, the Eng-lish department office man-ager, said she had to de-lete her lunch appointment Tuesday. Shapiro and Slater planned to treat the entire office to lunch, which Mess-ing said they did multiple times each year.

The couple would bring in their two dogs and plenty of food, she said. Messing

said she and her coworkers always looked forward to the lunches.

“It took you out of the workplace and into a family environment,” Messing said.

On Oct. 14, Shapiro called Elaine Dvorak, an English department secretary, to schedule the lunch, Mess-ing said.

Messing remembered hearing nothing but laugh-ter coming from Dvorak during the call.

The group did not sched-ule any luncheon or get-to-gether for Tuesday, Messing said. Lunch with Shapiro couldn’t be replaced, she said.

Dvorak said even when the group didn’t meet for lunch, Shapiro would drop

off his cooking for the staff – be it pesto, meats, cheeses or matzo balls. Shapiro was a “sweetheart,” she said.

“He would say, ‘Oh I had some leftovers and I thought of you guys,’” Dvorak said.

Grace Bauer, a profes-sor of English and long-time friend of Shapiro, said he always brought a smile to her face with his quirky sense of humor.

While attending gradu-ate school at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst with Shapiro and Slater, Bauer noticed Shapiro’s strange baseball cap. In-stead of a sports team’s logo, the cap bore the name

shAPIrO: see page 2

kyLE bruGGEmAN | DAILy NEbrAskANluther owens (with megaphone) leads a parade of protestors down 13th street during occupy lincoln on oct. 14. owens told a crowd of more than 500 he was a welder looking for a job.

DAN hOLtmEyEr | DAILy NEbrAskANFrom left, matthew White, mikey Prewett and Dylan Bacon sort and organize occupy lincoln’s food tent, housing pro-duce, bread and other food donated by supportive lincoln residents. the camp, numbering about 40 tents tuesday, gets three free meals a day as it keeps the protest going through the week. “it’s been flowing really well,” White said.

unl english professor dies during weekend

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After weeks of rushing around and frantic planning, the Uni-versity Program Council found a source for reimbursement from the $6,000 it spent to fund the homecoming concert.

Three weeks ago UPC hit a snag in the funding of the Josh Gracin and DJ Miller homecom-ing concert planned for two weeks ago. Confusion arose between the Residence Hall Association and UPC on how much money RHA was going to contribute. The $6,000 UPC originally planned on receiving turned into nothing after RHA took a look at their budget and voted down giving a smaller amount.

After RHA’s decision, UPC went to the Vice Chancellor of Student Affairs Juan Franco. Franco then found $5,000 in the Pepsi Endowment Fund.

“It is a fund that we get from the Pepsi contract,” Franco said. “It helps fund nightlife in

general, and I had a contingen-cy fund for whatever arises.”

The contingency fund is used for new ideas that are brought forward by students or in cases such as UPC’s.

“If you came up with a really good idea that would serve a number of students on campus and if it makes sense, we would fund it,” said Franco. “It’s for emergencies, yes, but also for additional ideas.”

Keith Zaborowski, the associ-ate director of Residence Life, also brought forward $1,000 from Residence Life for the cost of the generator.

Despite tense communica-tion between RHA and UPC on Oct. 11, RHA decided against allocating money to UPC and plans have been set forward to repair the bonds and prevent future issues like this one.

“UPC and RHA have a meet-ing scheduled after fall break to discuss what happened,” said UPC adviser Karen Wills.

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“Kafka.” She said she knew right then he was an inter-esting man.

When Shapiro’s health started to decline in recent years, Bauer asked him if he wanted to take a medi-cal leave of absence. Sha-piro couldn’t. He loved the classroom too much, she said.

As a teacher, Shapiro rare-ly received negative teach-ing evaluations and won the College of Arts and Scienc-es distinguished teaching

award in 1997, Belasco said. And Bauer remembered hearing how much students loved his courses. In one in-stance, the entire class gave him a standing ovation after the final lecture, she said.

One of Shapiro’s former students, Lee Martin — now a professor of English at the Ohio State University — said when he decided to attend UNL for his doctoral writing program, Shapiro wrote him a letter.

“Come to Lincoln, and

we’ll make a party for you,” Martin recalled the letter saying.

As Martin’s dissertation director, Shapiro helped Martin shape his writing and give spirit to his char-acters. Martin said he ad-mired him as an adviser and mentor, but also as a close friend.

“Gerry left behind a great body of work,” Mar-tin said. “For me, he left behind a legacy of how to be a generous teacher.”

On Oct. 12, Shapiro and Bauer sat at a creative writing meeting, planning for next semester and next year. Shapiro expressed his desire to continue working with his colleagues and the students and be a part of the creative writing de-partment, Bauer said.

“He just loved what he did and did it to the end,” she said.

The English department will celebrate Shapiro’s life on Dec. 2 from 3 p.m. to 5

p.m. in the Andrews Hall’s Bailey Library. Services are pending.

Bauer said when she went with Slater to the funeral home to make arrange-ments, she thought about a short story in Shapiro’s “Bad Jews and Other Sto-ries,” that takes place in a funeral home.

Bauer smiled.“If Gerry were here, he’d

be laughing,” she said. rILEyjOhNsON@

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Even with University of Nebraska-Lincoln students setting the books aside for the weekend, families from the community flocked to Morrill Hall Sunday for fun with fossils.

The latest “Sunday with a Scientist” event, an on-going program that gives visitors the opportunity to interact with scientists knowledgeable in specific fields, focused on fossils and coordinated with Na-tional Fossil Day on Oct. 12 and the American Geo-logical Institute’s National Earth Science Week, which ran from Oct. 9 to Oct. 15.

Inside Morrill Hall, the museum contains 1.5 mil-lion different specimens in its research collection, ac-cording to Gregory Brown, a researcher at the muse-um. Brown noted Morrill Hall’s accessible program-ming.

“We do a lot more with the public than a lot of mu-seums do,” Brown said.

Multiple scientists han-dled specific areas of fossil research on Sunday. Brown showed children several things, including how to paint bones by using a plas-ter replica. Though none of the fossils at his table were real, other scientists in the room had displayed recov-ered fossils for visitors to examine. George Corner, another researcher and collections manager at the museum, said this could be the only opportunity some people ever have to touch and hold real fossils and it’s an important opportu-nity because it shows that fossils aren’t only effective on display and that there are real things to learn from them.

Both Brown and Corner believe in the value of edu-cational programs that pro-mote paleontology.

“There’s a lot more to

paleontology than dino-saurs,” Corner said.

Brown pointed out the importance of fossils in a historical context.

“We collect fossils from Nebraska that tell us every-thing we know about the history of (the state) before humans,” he said.

He estimates that be-tween 95 percent and 99 percent of all fossils dis-played in Morrill Hall come from Nebraska. Ellen Stepleton, also a research-er, agrees.

“Nebraska is very impor-tant in paleontological sci-ences,” she said.

Though the event is ad-vertised as being educa-tional for children and fam-ilies, the researchers agree it can serve as a powerful learning opportunity for people of all ages.

“(It’s a) great chance for kids to talk with scientists,” Brown said. “Adults too.”

Part of what makes it such an important opportunity,

Brown said, is the acces-sibility of the scientists present. He addressed the perception many people have of seeing scientists as “untouchable and aloof” and that the program en-ables curious visitors to get past this by speaking di-rectly with a scientist. This ability to interact in direct dialogue also gives curious people a chance to ask any questions they have and get them answered.

The goal of the program is to interest and educate children on a variety of sci-entific subjects.

“If (Sunday with a Scien-tist) turns a kid on when it comes to science,” Corner said, “I think that’s a good thing.”

Upcoming “Sunday with a Scientist” topics include viruses on Nov. 20 and minerals on Dec. 18. The price is included with regu-lar admission.

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Fall interview Day For eDucatorswhen: wednesday, oct. 19, 10 a.m. where: nebraska union ballroomwhat: december and may graduates are encouraged to sit down for job inter-views to work at school districts from lincoln, kansas city metro and omaha metro schools. dress professionally, bring a resume and be prepared for the interview. contact: becky faber at 402-472-3145 or [email protected]

uaaD october General meetinGwhen: wednesday, oct. 19, 11:45 a.m. to 1 p.m. where: east campus unionwhat: meeting to learn about the unl center for civic engagement and the opportunities it offers students. for more informa-tion, visit http://uaad.unl.edu.

‘conFormational chanGes DurinG the liFe cycle oF Flavi anD alpha viruses’ lecturewhen: wednesday, oct. 19, 4 p.m. to 5 p.m. where: beadle center, room e103

what: lecture by michael rossmann from purdue university. reception be-forehand, 3:30 p.m.cost: free and open to the publiccontact: barbara gnirk at 402-472-2635

Faculty artist: karen beckerwhen: wednesday, oct. 19, 7:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. where: kimball recital hallwhat: cello recital by karen beckercost: free and open to the publiccontact: mike edholm at 402-472-6865 or [email protected]

2011 unDerGraDuate women in physics conFerencewhen: thursday, oct. 20 until saturday, oct. 22.where: champions clubwhat: conference for undergraduates to pres-ent research and interact with peers and faculty. visit http://wophy.unl.edu. contact: terese janovec at 402-472-2716

critical black stuDies in a GlobalizeD worlD rounD table Discussionwhen: thursday, oct. 20, 3:30 p.m. to 5 p.m.

where: andrews hall, bailey librarywhat: roundtable discus-sion to help celebrate the african american and african studies 40th year celebration event. cost: free contact: nancy knapp at 402-472-1663 or [email protected]

voices oF hope open house anD canDleliGht viGilwhen: thursday, oct. 20, 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. where: voices of hope building at 2545 n st.what: open house includes facility tours, refreshments, raffle to benefit services for victims of domestic vio-lence and information about voices of hope. candle-light vigil will raise public awareness about domestic violence with a speaker and readings.

black stuDies in the aGe oF ‘post-blackness’when: friday, oct. 21, 3:30 p.m. to 5 p.m. where: andrews hall, bailey librarywhat: lecture by lisa b. thompson from the uni-versity of albany with book signing after the lecture. cost: free and open to the public

contact: nancy knapp at 402-472-1663 or [email protected]

open stuDioswhen: friday, oct. 21, 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. where: richards hallwhat: art display featuring the work of 19 graduate students. chance to meet the artists. raffle tickets cost $1. cost: free and open to the publiccontact: emma nishimura at 402-613-6777 or [email protected]

exoplanets abounDwhen: friday, oct. 21, 7:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. where: nebraska unionwhat: lecture by jason wright of penn state uni-versity. wright will speak about the history of looking for planets orbiting other stars. contact: kevin lee at 402-472-3686 [email protected]

4th annual lollapa lincoln ultimate Disc association breast cancer beneFit, ultimate Frisbee speeD-point hat tournamentwhen: saturday, oct. 22, 9 a.m. where: unl east campus fields

what: tournament to benefit liz’s legacy and the uni-versity of nebraska eppley cancer center. registration is from 8 a.m. to 8:30 a.m., games start at 9 a.m.

martin luther kinG, labor anD the lonG civil riGhts movementwhen: saturday, oct. 22, 1:30 p.m. to 3 p.m. where: nebraska union, heritage roomwhat: lecture by michael honey from the university of washington-tacoma. book signing will follow the lecture. cost: free and open to the publiccontact: nancy knapp at 402-472-1663 or [email protected]

Faculty artist: paul barneswhen: saturday, oct. 22, 7:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. where: kimball recital hallwhat: piano recital by paul barnes. cost: $5 general admission, $3 student/senior, available at the door one hour before the performance. contact: mike edholm at 402-472-6865 or [email protected]

‘on Jews anD Fashion’ symposium when: sunday, oct. 23, 10:30 a.m. to monday, oct. 24, 5 p.m.where: jewish community center of omahawhat: two-day symposium. for more information, visit http://www.unl.edu/judaic/. contact: betty jacobs at 402-472-9561 or [email protected]

choral samplerwhen: sunday, oct. 23, 3 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. where: kimball recital hallwhat: performance by unl choral. cost: $5 general admission, $3 student/senior. available one hour before the perfor-mance.contact: mike edholm at 402-472-6865 or [email protected]

aclu stuDent chapter meetinGwhen: sunday, oct. 23, 7 p.m. where: nebraska unionwhat: meeting to focus on kicking off the aclu voter registration drive and the club’s know your rights training program.

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employer to remain uniden-tified for fear of losing her job, as did several other marchers.

The column, stretching several blocks, marched from the north steps of the Capitol to downtown, then back around to the Gover-nor’s Mansion south of the Capitol. Megaphones, drums and chanting filled the air, with honks from support-ive traffic and cheers in response. Several police watched from the Capitol’s steps without incident.

The march is only the first of many, according to sev-eral participants. The move-ment has the necessary per-mits to hold a similar rally every Saturday for the rest of the year, they said, and Centennial Mall, a stretch of grass and sidewalk that connects the Capitol build-ing and UNL’s campus, will be “occupied” by protesters camping out legally and in-definitely.

Katelin Brennan, 20, helped organize Lincoln’s protest and recently returned from two weeks in Manhat-tan, the original home of the movement. She said she hopes to bring back some lessons from working with the logistics team there.

At its home, she said, the protest has become an “in-credible” enterprise of co-operation, with hundreds of volunteers handling food, donations and all other re-quirements of a month-long sit-in.

Occupy Lincoln has a way to go to match that sophis-tication, Brennan said, in-cluding improving focus and communication. But she’s not too worried, she said.

“I think that this is brand new,” Brennan said. “We just have to teach everybody.”

Back at the Capitol’s north side, the protest took on a more festive air, as the drums kept an energetic ca-dence for several protesters who danced as the crowd chanted in unison. After-ward, many participants at-tended a “general assembly” to create goals, ideas and committees for necessities like food, sanitation and community outreach.

The proposed Keystone XL pipeline, which would pass through Nebraska’s Sandhills, was a common enemy. Many marchers saw developer TransCanada and its relationship with the State Department, which must approve the pipeline, as Exhibit A of corporations’

power over politics. During the past several weeks, ob-servers have charged the de-partment with several con-flicts of interest, which it has repeatedly denied.

Daniela Garvue, a junior history major at UNL who carried a sign reading “Oc-cupy Earth,” took a global perspective.

“A lot of corporations make more money than some countries,” Garvue said. “So I think it goes be-yond just the pipeline or the Fed.”

History points to the pro-test’s success, Garvue added.

“You see these patterns over and over again,” she said. “This is just the begin-ning. Eventually the power shifts.”

Rae Cooper and a wom-an who only gave her first name, Sjaan (pronounced Shawn), said they planned on camping on the Centen-nial Mall to show their frus-tration with being “shoved down for someone else’s profits,” as Sjaan put it. She has a flexible job at a fabric store and plans to continue working. Both said bluntly how long they planned to stay: “As long as it takes.”

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plans. Committees for food, peacekeeping, outreach and sanitation meet on their own. Many with houses or apartments nearby have volunteered to provide showers, laundry and dish-washing facilities.

Signs for recycling, com-post and trash adorn dump-sters and boxes. Another proclaims the site alcohol- and drug-free. Three free meals are served every day at the food tent, nick-named the “Really, Really Free Market,” as volunteers bustle in and out of the front flap. Monday, dinner included chili, soup, salad

and freshly baked chocolate chip cookies.

As Dudley spoke, cars honked in the distance – other occupiers held signs on either side of K Street with frequent honks of sup-port from passing traffic. Many drivers donated blan-kets and sweaters, which are in high demand as the weather begins to chill.

Chad Novacek, who works in town but is search-ing for other prospects, waved an American flag, the stars replaced with cor-porate logos, on the side-walk and remarked on the positive reaction.

“This movement touched a nerve, I think, with a lot of people,” he said.

As occupation life hummed along into the eve-ning, several participants said things at the campsite were going smoothly. And it’s growing, with many pointing out new faces around camp.

“I am just so impressed right now,” said Katelin Brennan, 20, who was in Manhattan’s protest for two weeks before returning to Lincoln. “Look at this din-ner!”

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Sometimes I can’t help but think all of our lives are just a series of check-off points and accom-plishments that you have to rack up in order to save face. You have to get through high

school and graduate, acquire your col-lege degree while trying to do an in-ternship or a bunch of extracurricular activities, find a job, find a house, find a significant other and have a family (or if you don’t want a family, dedicate your life to a career). There are dozens of other checkpoints that you have to strive for or replace with something else. But have you ever found yourself reaching an accomplishment, an event that you thought would bring great emotional ful-fillment and sense of maturity — but you didn’t feel anything?

I’ve had many moments like this throughout my life, especially in rela-tion to school, and wondered where this lack of fulfillment came from. When my senior year of high school ended, I expected a sense of closure tied in a neat little bow, with an acknowledg-ment of “This is it. This is the end.” Instead, we all went to class, we took our tests or just sat around and talked – and then we went home. I waited for the emotional punch, and it never really came. Perhaps other people found their closure one way or another, but I still find myself waiting for my high school self to be finished.

It’s a complicated issue I think every-one deals with, but the best way I can simplify it is that there’s a disconnect between when everyone expects you to grow up and when you actually do (whatever that looks like these days). It’s like looking at those pictures with a mass of colored dots – someone keeps

telling you there’s a boat in the picture, and other people see it too, but no mat-ter how hard you try, you can’t see the boat.

Some of the people who tell you there’s a boat in the picture are the media. As an avid consumer of movies, I know I must have gotten some of my expectations about life from roman-tic comedies, coming-of-age dramas, Disney cartoons, musicals and so on, despite my delusion that I haven’t ac-cepted the messages of anything I’ve seen. Mediums like television and books sneak expectations onto you as well, with family sitcoms (which have expectations for adults AND children) and dime-store romance novels. Even news sources unintentionally tell you to grow up with articles like “Is going to school online worth it?”

Our society’s need to be productive and efficient also contributes to this pressure to grow up fast. Now that our economy is in a slump, you have to make decisions about which school to go to that gives you the best education for your interests, and will prepare you for the highest paying job you can pos-sibly get.

Even if you do get a decent-paying job, chances are you have to try to move up or earn additional skills

because you may not be useful to your employers after a while. You have to think farther and farther ahead in order to keep your head above water in terms of debt, whether you’re a student or start out in the workforce. Unfortunate-ly, life is not kind to those who need more time to consider what they want to do, and what they’re ready for.

I’m not trying to say that we shouldn’t grow up, or at least try. As much fun as it would be to have a bunch of Peter Pans in the world, I’m certain that would create more problems than solutions. Growing up can be an enjoy-able experience because it can give you a path of exploration that you never thought of before. Being able to drive by myself for the first time is probably one of my favorite rites of passage, be-cause it meant I could start to be trusted to make my own decisions. More im-portantly, going to college has helped to me understand everything I love more, and love those subjects more as a result. If I hadn’t decided to make that leap to a more mature way of learning, I wouldn’t be nearly as fulfilled.

What does need to happen, however, is we all need to consider individual growth instead of trying so desperately to make everyone progress at the same pace. So much emotional stress comes from thinking we aren’t good enough, that we haven’t reached enough goals at the right time. Maybe we could be a bit happier if we allowed ourselves at least a little time to think about what we’re ready for instead of making al-most instantaneous choices. If we stop straining to see the boat, we might actu-ally see it on our own.

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Homecoming was nearly two weeks ago. And everything, except the first half of the football game, seemingly went off without a hitch.

The Josh Gracin concert Oct. 6, though, wasn’t originally going as smoothly. The Daily Nebraskan covered the prob-lem on Sept. 28. To recap, the University Program Council (UPC) and the Residence Hall Association (RHA) had an agreement for $6,000 toward the funding of the concert from RHA funds. Due to timing and communication issues, RHA was unable to come up with the funding.

In a series of motions at a Tuesday night RHA meeting on Sept. 27, two successive motions to allocate smaller amounts of money to UPC failed. UPC was forced to look elsewhere for the funding – and Vice Chancellor for Stu-dent Affairs Juan Franco and Residence Life associate direc-tor Keith Zaborowski delivered.

But what about RHA? While the DN has already criticized RHA for its communication problem with UPC, last week’s RHA meeting revealed that out of its $33,234 budget, only $2,500 had been spent.

That means RHA had more than $30,000 left to spend on other priorities. $6,000, to be sure, is a fifth of that, and a considerable sum proportionally. But $1,000, which UPC needed for a generator?

“Today is the halfway mark in the semester and quite a bit of money still remains in our budget,” said RHA treasur-er Ryan King at RHA’s Oct. 11 meeting. He then told RHA members to brainstorm more events.

Here’s a novel idea: Instead of not spending the money in your budget, RHA, spend it on the UPC concert. You were on the hook for $6,000. The least you can spare is $1,000.

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America,

We get it, you’re hurting.

After all, you’re now 3.5 times more likely to believe in

alien kidnappings than you are to approve of your Congress. Scores of the youth and unemployed (among others) are sacrificing proper bathroom etiquette in cities across the country to show their disapproval of – something. All too often, you find yourself hopelessly yearning for the change-seeking Barack Obama of 2008, who was promptly stuffed in a White House linen closet immediately upon inau-guration.

Things aren’t looking up. Leaving aside his anti-immigrant

electric fence, a rogue pizza mogul (Herman Cain) looks to shake things up with a SimCity-inspired tax plan equating revenue with the evil of Darth Vader. And a former U.S. senator from Pennsylvania (Rick Santorum) thinks he can take the highest office on a platform of hatred, bigotry and the notion that “gays have enough rights.”

Oh, and the Bachmann cam-paign, well, still exists.

But America, you’re better than this. Sure, you’ve been bigoted before. And you’re no stranger to giving foreigners and dissenters a hard time. You’ve certainly been unfair, too, committing countless war atrocities across the globe and even on your own soil.

But self-deprecating? That’s not you. That’s a title reserved for Can-ada, the U.K and the countries that wouldn’t stand a chance without

your mere existence. Until now, at least. Lately, it

seems like you’ve fallen into a sort of elementary depression. Now you find yourself in constant fear of an age when mighty China will reign superior, and, aided by a nuclear Iran and a super-Russia, ostensibly wipe you off the map.

But don’t give up hope just yet. Maybe the glory years are behind

us. The roaring `20s … they roared by. The beat generation played on until the Religious Right, who basked in the glory of supply side economics, reduced it to a pulp. The dot-com bubble burst and the Internet enabled millions of Ameri-cans to put their creative minds to work in a fledgling industry that would eventually reward college dropouts with disgusting amounts of wealth.

A few years later, the economy plunged into recession, the national debt soared and two major interna-tional conflicts soured foreign rela-tions and America’s general percep-tion throughout the world.

But a decade of negative growth can’t be all it takes to dismantle 200 years of prominence and rela-tive superiority. You’re a proud nation, America, so why are you so afraid?

We’ve lived in abject fear since the Department of Homeland Se-curity implemented that step-based system telling us just how threat-ened we should feel at any given moment. You know, the color-coded scale where green meant tense up and refrain from taking pleasure in the mundane and red meant “cue the cyanide-assisted

death, die honorably.” But a basic look at the facts

proves that you, America, have little to fear in the immediate future. Even popular humor site Cracked.com knows your demise is anything but imminent. An Oct. 10 article, “6 B.S. Myths You Probably Believe About America’s Enemies” proves we’re far from seeing the day when the United States is anything short of the big-gest superpower.

Let’s first assess defense threat no. 1: Iran, Bachmann and San-torum’s favorite punching bag. It’s no secret Iran is an oppres-sive theocracy keen on seeing an end to Israel. But the idea that Iran poses a defense threat to the United States is about as ludicrous as the idea that “Parks and Recre-ation” star Aziz Ansari poses a de-fense threat to famed street fighter Kimbo Slice.

Iran’s $9 billion defense budget is laughable when compared to the United States’, which chimes in at an almost-sickening 76 times that, $685 billion.

That’s like if Mike Tyson and Evander Holyfield were to square off in a prizefight where 75 exact

clones of Tyson were waiting be-hind the original to see the oppo-nent to his brutal end.

OK, so Iran’s out of the picture. But the economic threat widely predicted to be the next global superpower, China, isn’t messing around.

Obviously, China owns a good percentage of America’s debt. That’s why images of the future are quickly tainted by a percep-tion that our communist friends from the East will eventually come banging on our doors. Picture that “where’s my money” scene from “Family Guy.”

But realistically, China’s portion of the debt is dismissible, at least in the larger picture. Of the $14.3 trillion national debt, about 8 per-cent, or about $1.2 trillion, is owed to China. And if they were to come knocking, a world of economic hurt would await.

It turns out the United States is responsible for a sizeable por-tion, about 7 percent, of China’s GDP. The country depends on the United States to see that its mas-sive pile of sweatshop-made goods is actually exported somewhere.

Sure, China will be an economic superpower in the near future, but that doesn’t mean the United States will spontaneously combust upon seeing it. In April, the International Monetary Fund predicted than China’s economy would surpass America’s (in terms of spending power) by 2016.

But a rapidly aging Chinese pop-ulation will all but halt the coun-try’s economic growth. According to a July USA Today article, the

single-child policy instituted in 1979 will cause the aging popula-tion to skyrocket, potentially spell-ing economic disaster.

And as far as education goes, yes, China is messing around. As the Cracked.com article states: “As for China’s educational superiority, it’s definitely true that China kicks America’s ass in educating its chil-dren, and they even produce more college graduates than America. It’s just that their colleges suck. One Chinese professor said that the average Chinese engineering graduate may not know more than a typical auto mechanic.”

Yes, America, they’re still mortal.And you, America, you’re still

competent. You still boast the world’s largest economy and will for years to come. You’re still the most powerful and destructive military force the world has ever seen. You’re innovative, hosting the likes of Google, Facebook, Apple, you name it.

But you’re also stubborn. You subscribe to a dangerous mantra of superiority in a volatile global eco-nomic climate where few emerge as victors.

We get it, America, you’re a na-tion of “if you’re not first, you’re last.”

Thing is, you’re still first. Act like it. Signed,An enlightened citizen formerly

possessed by a visceral fear of America’s imminent downfall.

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Remembering

“Gerald Shapiro casts an incisive eye over his own contemporaries.”

-The New York Times

“Brimming with keen insight into the psyches

of hilarious, even lovable, losers, the

wacky brilliance of these remarkable stories marks Shapiro as a

writer to watch.”-Publishers Weekly

“Shapiro shows his readers the way home both emotionally and

spiritually with his abiding compassion and tightly wound

humor.”-Booklist

“You will be a prisoner of the musty brown

recliner, the beanbag, the breakfast nook, the backyard swing – gone for hours with Shapiro and his tales, spinning. Swerving. High velocity

mayhem!”-Lincoln Journal-Star

“This exception combination of hard-

headedness and dreaminess marks

Gerald Shapiro as an able writer with a great

faculty for splendid craftsmanship.”-Jewish Journal

“Ample comic gifts ... funny, accomplished ... Shapiro’s own ear is so good, both for dialogue

and for pungent exposition.”

-San Francisco Chronicle

NoAH BALLArdtwo days before professor Gerry Shapiro passed away, he composed an email that changed my life.

Since taking his cap-stone course for my Eng-lish degree, I had com-municated with Gerry asking for a letter of rec-ommendation for gradu-ate school. Presumably, I wanted to pursue an MFA in creative writing. I thought of Gerry for some favorable com-ments he made on some of my class assignments, and I had also been es-pecially amused with his collection of short sto-ries, “Bad Jews,” as I am probably one of the Jews in question.

In class, Gerry had been soft-spoken, of-ten wearing the same fleece vest and perpetu-ally refilling his Lipton iced tea bottle he car-ried with him through-out the day at the water fountain by the door in Andrews Hall. One on one, he was warm and a real mensch when I’d needed his understand-ing and discretion. Yes, he was the perfect can-didate for a quality letter of recommendation.

But perhaps that was all a pretense. As I ana-lyze my actions now, it’s clear that I just liked be-ing around him. For Ger-ry was not only a teacher — nodding along during class discussions, smiling widely when someone made a point he hadn’t considered — but a vir-tuoso of the craft. He was a writer, for any col-lege-aged dilettante, of the most enviable sort. Beard and all, Gerry was living the kind of life I wanted for my fu-ture: a tenured professor who penned the kind of stories I’d thought of writing — about our families, our personal shortcomings, our love — but was too afraid to hand in, for fear they’d come off as slight and unoriginal. Somehow, Gerry managed to forget all that nonsense when he sat down to write.

And even with all this talent, Gerry never subscribed to the inac-cessibility often associ-ated with literary types. More than writing, it was clear that teaching had become that unfinished masterpiece he’d spent years working on. Dur-ing one quiet afternoon earlier this semester, I caught Gerry filling his bottle with water. I asked him how his class-es were going, how the capstone was shaping up. As humble as ever, he said he’d learned a lot from our class, and he was sorry that I didn’t get to participate in this revision of his syllabus. I was shocked. That class had been a near-perfect blend of individual work, class discussion and self-discovery – appropriately, a capstone of the work I’d done in the department.

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Gerald Shapiro Gerry1950-2011“I think we find our humanity most profoundly in our moments of failure. We get to

heaven not by what we achieve but by what we yearn for, I think. I hope my characters are interesting failures, because I think that’s the best that most of us can hope for.”

-Gerald Shapiro

art by Bob Al-Greene

EmiLY dANForTHThe last time I saw Gerry he was standing in our dining room in Lincoln and arguing with me, in a very good-natured sort of way, about whether or not he should take his ramekin with him.

He and Judy (Slater) were in the process of extracting them-selves from our graduation par-ty (mine and Kelly Grey Carl-isle’s), and since I knew they’d be on the road to Oregon prac-tically the next day, and my wife and I were selling our

house and moving east just as fast as we could, I didn’t want to end up having to ship the ramekin back to Lincoln from Providence. That seemed silly. So I told him to go ahead and take it with them. The problem (as we both saw it), was that the ramekin in question still held quite a large quantity of this incredibly delicious cheese spread he’d whipped up be-fore coming over.

(“I just used whatever was in the cheese drawer,” he’d told me, when I’d asked for the

recipe. “There is no recipe – just put it all in a bowl with some Worcestershire and green onion.”)

I should probably mention that he’d made this cheese spread after spending two hours “hooding” me during the graduate commencement exer-cises, or, to be more accurate, after spending two seconds hooding me and one hour and 58 minutes telling me amusing commencement stories from all his years at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln to pass the

time. And I should also mention that he’d been diagnosed with pneumonia not a week before graduation. And there he was, in my dining room, telling me to “Just keep the ramekin. This is not my grandmother’s por-celain, Emily. They’re $2 from Target. Keep it.” So I’d told him OK, and gave him a hug. And then he left. And we ate the cheese dip. All of it.

Gerry was my dissertation

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In the awful hours right after Gerry’s death, when I couldn’t concentrate on anything and was won-dering how I was going to get through the night, much less the rest of my life, it occurred to me that the one thing I could do was reread Gerry’s stories, and they comforted me so much. It was like hearing his voice. Talk about the power of stories... Gerry loved stories, and he loved teaching. Throughout his teaching career, and that included this semester and even last week, he would always reread the stories and novels he was going to teach that week, even if he’d read them a dozen times before. He was al-ways saying, “This is such a great story! I love this story!” I think his enthusi-asm and passion made his students fall in love with literature, too. He was al-ways so modest that I’m not sure he ever knew how great his own stories were. It’s the gift of my life to have been married to Gerry. Our friend and for-mer colleague Marly Swick wrote me to say, “Without Gerry there is less humor, brilliance, and goodness in this world.” She’s right.

JudiTH SLATErAuTHor, uNL ProFESSor

Gerry’s classroom was both a place of magic and of commonsense in a way I had never before experi-enced, and haven’t since. We read I.B. Singer, Calvino and other writers who might be considered fantasists or fabulists; but we also read realists — or minimalists as they were known then in the late 1980s — like Raymond Carver and Mona Simpson. Gerry’s passion for the work swept us up, thrilled us. He was able to communicate to us how every aspect of the story worked — from its emotional cadences to its technical devices. But he didn’t dispel any mysteries; the stories were even richer and more compelling having been filtered through Gerry’s interpretation. Yet, at the same time, his analysis was precise and practical. I’m still invigorated by those classes.

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Gerry just smiled at my amazement, wished me the best and walked back to class to continue teaching.

That was the great thing about the moments I did get to spend with Gerry: He understood that it was all a work in progress, that every-thing was merely potential until words started appear-ing on paper, and even then it was just a draft. I emailed him several days later, after finally working up the cour-age, asking for a recommen-dation. In my mind, I didn’t want a mere letter saying that I was a de-cent student with an emerg-ing voice or whatever good letters are supposed to say. I wanted a recommendation for what I should do with my life, some answer to give my mother when she called and asked what I was planning to do after my expected De-cember graduation. He re-sponded quickly, wanting to see my cover letter and my résumé so he could get an idea of what I wanted to do. “But Gerry,” I wanted to say, “I don’t have a clue.”

He didn’t need anything so blunt.

Gerry was well-attuned to young writers and how they can often peacock their way into a collection of words that appeared, to the un-trained eye, to be good writ-ing. And as I hurried to fin-ish my cover letter to get the ball rolling on pending ap-plications, I phoned in the sentiment, choosing maud-lin truisms instead of actu-ally giving a reason I wanted to continue my education.

I was pleasantly surprised upon reading his response: “I have to tell you that I don’t think your statement of purpose is very good.” I chuckled then as I chuckle now, recalling the moment, like many in my young adult life, as one where maybe I’m more “young” than “adult.” This was a moment to listen, to be a student.

Two days before my men-tor passed away, he bared his soul when it needed to

be bared to a soul caught in transition. He wrote that everything happens at a certain time, as it had for him. After graduating from the University of Kansas, Gerry lived the quintessen-tial writer’s lifestyle: doing what he needed to in order to pay the bills — including

working as a file clerk, a booksell-er and as an ad man in Chicago and San F r a n c i s c o — until he g l e a n e d e n o u g h charac ters and plot-lines and the kind of

voice he’d dreamed of hav-ing when he realized he was a writer.

After 11 years outside the academic world, Gerry de-scribed his time at the Uni-versity of Massachusetts-Amherst as one of the best experiences of his life.

“I was a house afire,” he said of the time at which he couldn’t stop writing.

He also attributed his in-spiration to his wife, fellow UMass writer and University of Nebraska—Lincoln pro-fessor Judy Slater.

“Together,” Gerry said, “we were the best students in the program.”

Two days before my friend passed away, I hadn’t stopped to think that maybe I wasn’t ready quite yet. Per-haps there were things I had to learn to appreciate, sto-ries I had to mess up, heart-aches I had to feel and ex-periences I had to have first. Though I still have no idea where I’ll end up after leav-ing this place, Gerry Shapiro made the challenge seem a bit less terrifying.

Gerry understood the peo-ple he wrote about, and he had the compassion to let them get where they inevi-tably had to go. This is what made him a great writer. But this compassion transcended the words on the page into his life, and that made Gerry Shapiro a marvelous teacher, mentor and friend.

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Gerry was that man, a wonderful bundle of con-tradictions and complexities, who wrote with a wit that put Woody Allen to shame and made the rest of us weep and laugh all at once. I never had a bad meal, no, I never had a bad morsel of food if it came from his kitchen. And he made me a better person and a better cook, too. Gerry and I were often in competi-tion, although I don’t think either of us understood that. It was just in our natures. We even competed for one lin-ers, jokes and I always con-ceded to him. He was truly funny.

And the food… just imagine anything your heart desires and Gerry could create the dish with no visible effort. I often thought of asking him if he was secretly running out to some underground caterer the rest of us didn’t know about. How could one person have such a range of culinary tastes? I tried to take him on for a couple of years when the faculty was holding informal teas with home cooked soups and sandwiches and cookies and so on. Gerry soon rose to the top, of course, preparing not one, not two, but three dishes, each beautiful, each with its own handprinted sign. How fair was that? I didn’t even own a bundt cake form. I tried to compete, I did, but my cakes rose and fell like the Rockies and somehow I never had all the ingredients Martha Stewart demanded for her ap-petizers. The only thing that could redeem those events was the excitement over get-ting to eat his concoctions, which were always good. Very, very good.

Gerry, in fact, was always that good. No matter what, he made us all grow bigger and better than we might have been, students, faculty, staff and friends. And we will miss him terribly. Thank goodness he gave so much of himself to his writing, too, and we have only to read his stories to delight in his famous hu-mor and wisdom on those days to come when we rec-ognize just what has gone missing from the world.

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Gerry Shapiro was pas-sionate and committed to his work, to the English Depart-ment and creative writing program. Students would

often tell me how he took such careful time with their writing. He was genuinely invested in their progress. He will be missed.

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Before I set off from Ohio State to begin my Ph.D at UNL, one of my teachers, Lee Martin — who also did his Ph.D here — told me I had to take a class with Gerry Shapiro. Being engrossed in poetry instead of fiction, I re-gret that I never did. Thank-fully, I got to know Gerry in other ways. When I took up the roll of a department com-mittee chair I went to Gerry for advice, and he sat me down in his office’s talking corner, in the comfy chair next to his comfy chair, and with uncanny honesty and graciousness gave me every little insight he had and put me at ease. I suppose that’s what everyone will say about Gerry — graciousness and ease. He had a calm humility about him that is exceedingly rare. My office door last year was literally one foot from his, in a corner of Andrews Hall, and it was hard not to over-hear his conversations with students. Sometimes I’d pick up his advice though — it was precise, humble, funny, and encouraging. You could tell by the way students walked out down the hall that some-thing good just happened.

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One of my fondest memo-ries — and there are several — of Gerry Shapiro was the writing workshop that con-vened at his house. We all sat at his dining room table, homemade snacks were on the buffet, and his dogs Nick and Rags were always around. It was such a welcoming at-mosphere. But mostly, I re-member the great conversa-tions about stories, those that we wrote and those that were assigned. Gerry would get a look in his eyes and his pas-sion for narratives couldn’t be contained when he pointed out a particular line or pas-sage. His joy and enthusiasm for writing spilled out of him and touched all of us. I feel I’ve become a better writer after working with Gerry, but more importantly, I feel I’m a better person for simply hav-ing known such a generous and thoughtful man.

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Gerald Shapiro, or Gerry, as he insisted we call him, left no small impression on me dur-ing the weeks this semester in his Jewish American Fic-tion class. The class convenes only on Tuesday afternoons, so the amount of time I actu-ally spent with Gerry is limited to fewer than ten instances, which only makes his impact on me, and certainly on the rest of the English 245J class, that much more evident of the man’s quick wit and broad knowledge.

Just recently, Gerry returned our first assignment, a portfolio of in-class writing, including a personal analysis of our per-formance in the class and on the paper. I earned an under-whelming “B-,” not a grade I should be receiving as an Eng-lish major and certainly lower than my personal standards. I had compiled what the as-signment required — five page minimum — but barely, clock-ing in around four and a half pages. On his response to me Gerry followed an outline of positive remarks with the two word sentence: “I’m disap-pointed.”

To anyone that knew Ger-ry, hearing or reading those words coming from him and directed at you carries weight. He went on to say what he’s seen in me and what he de-serves to expect in my work, and that I had failed to live up to my own potential, which he saw so clearly and quickly. In my personal opinion, it was work that would have likely earned “A” marks in many other classes. But, no, Gerry would not allow less than one’s best work to succeed. He had a knack for immedi-ately recognizing a student’s strengths and using these strengths to draw out the best in his students. For me, it came as a bit of a needed ass-kicking in my third year of undergrad studies.

What Gerry wrote to me, “You’re too smart a student to turn in anything that’s less than your best work,” is eas-ily applicable advice to all of us, student or otherwise. To Gerry, time and potential are terrible things to waste and it would be irresponsible to oneself and all others in-volved to even consider per-forming less than one can. I’m not about to argue that and I don’t think anyone else would either. Gerry stands as a con-stant reminder for diligent and unwasteful work, not just in writing, but in all venues of life. There isn’t anyone you’re cheating more than yourself otherwise, and Gerry would never want to see someone cheated.

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Gerry, the last time I spoke to you was Tuesday, Oct. 11., waiting after class in Andrews 144. What began as a question about gradu-ate school and a request for recommendation letters be-came a 20-minute conver-sation about writing, goals, and all the expectations and realities of the academic field. You told me you’d support my writing as you

always had, but said it was good to have a partner in the sciences as well. We laughed at the sense of pragmatism and I agreed. I apologized for all my days of just-two-minutes-late and sorry-I-was-too-sleepy-in-class. In the two years I’ve known you as a professor, it was the sincer-est talk we’d had. Then it was just, “Thank you so much; guess we’ll be in touch again next week,” and I walked out toward the union as you gath-ered up your papers.

Friday, from another state, I saw Noah Ballard’s Facebook post thanking a departed Gerry for all his guidance and support. I didn’t want to be-lieve it was you, but I couldn’t imagine it referring to anyone else. Over the next few hours, I checked university pages and emails constantly for informa-tion, hoping I was jumping to conclusions. I Googled your name and found out so many things I never knew or thought to ask. I found Wikipedia pag-es and book reviews. I never knew you’d been involved in film. I read praise after praise, and it was striking – to see how many strangers you’d reached and connected with. I remem-ber how true it rang when you’d tell your classes you first tried your hand at writing – be-cause you’d been so affected by the stories you read, and you wanted to produce the same in others.

If that was your goal, you achieved it, and I saw the proof this weekend. Still, you deserved so much more recognition. You could, and would, have produced so much more.

Most of us, though, your undergraduates, never knew you as a writer. Most of us barely knew you as a per-son, although it hurts a little now to say that. You were simply our professor two or three days a week, and your engagement to adult discussion, your willingness to communicate without an air of talking-down, was un-paralleled. You were skilled enough to recognize talent where it existed and patient and passionate enough to cul-tivate it where it was only just beginning.

I think about something you said last Tuesday that’s been in my mind since then: that your job, the full-time, tenured professor-writer, bare-ly exists anymore. “Once I’m gone,” you said, “I’m not sure I’ll be replaced.”

If you actually were an aca-demic dinosaur, then that’s a shame. I can’t imagine a world where English programs don’t have those as passionate and dedicated, as satisfied and suc-cessful, as you managed to be. And at least part of what you said is true. It’s clear now that you will never be replaced.

I kept searching until Sat-urday afternoon to find the sparse few sentences I’d been looking for on the Journal Star’s website. I read them three times felt real chills. When I think about it, I still can’t accept that you were just there Tuesday, sitting in your desk and laughing about the truth of starving artists, and this weekend you were gone. You left all your students with so many lessons. We’ll be seeing the returns for years.

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co-chair, he read early selec-tions from my then novel-in-progress and his advice (and support) were crucial to both my finishing and eventu-ally selling that book. It’s not overstating it to say that his warmth and humor during my campus visit were among the reasons I decided to come to UNL to get my doctorate.

I remember wanting to work with this writer, this man, and I’m so privileged that for five years I got the chance to do so. But even though Gerry was instrumen-tal in almost every aspect of my UNL experience (and it was a fantastic experience), I think that it’s particularly fit-ting — it’s telling — that the last time I saw him we were talking about food, and he was being generous, funny and direct.

This is exactly how I’d known him for the past five years. During the fall se-mester of 2006, he’d bring a feast of snacks to his three-hour graduate fiction/non-fiction workshop — bunch-es of green grapes, pretzels, Oreo cookies. His was my first workshop at UNL, and Gerry’s snacks set a danger-ous precedent for me: I as-sumed this was just the way things went in Lincoln. I as-sumed that I would, for the next five years, workshop

only with a napkin of small, free snacks on the top of my desk, next to whom-ever’s manuscript we were discussing. I was mistaken.

More than once, maybe even on the very first class, Gerry told us that bring-ing food was the “Jewish mother” coming out in him. “You need to eat, I’ll feed you,” he’d said. And we had laughed (which we did a lot in that workshop) and were glad to be there, to be with him for three hours each week.

I have other food/Ger-ry memories too, like the many parties and recep-tions he and Judy would host – both of them always so willing to open their home, put out a spread, have folks over. Even the invitations to those parties were a joy to get in your inbox. They’d mention “Adequate Pizza; Tolera-ble Wine” or “Good Food; Drinkable Wine.” And last year, despite his hectic schedule, the students, committees and obliga-tions that demanded his at-tention, Gerry found time to treat me, with regular-ity, to a “falafel-lunch.” We tried soup and sandwiches once, but had eventually, happily, settled on falafel.

We ate it all over town.

We’d eat falafel and I’d complain about the aca-demic job market. We’d eat falafel and he’d tell me about his days in the ad-vertising business – those stories always funny, but always a little bit sad, too. We’d eat falafel. That’s what we did. And he nev-er let me pay, not once. (Even though he promised that he would.)

And then, in the spring, graduation approaching, he suggested that we get sushi, do it up fancy. We emailed back and forth about it sev-eral times. We were both excited, I think. Here’s part of one of those e-mail ex-changes. For me, it’s quint-essential Gerry Shapiro.

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chatter: The following is an email correspondence between Gerry shapiro and emily danforth she felt exemplified shapiro’s wit and voice.

hi em, lunch tomorrow, noon, kinja – sushi, followed by sushi, and then for dessert, sushi. We’re bringing wine next Friday to your party unless you tell us not to. i know kelly can’t drink wine these days. do you want us to bring something else instead? see you tomorrow! kinja! you’ll recognize us, because we’ll be the ones sitting at the sushi bar wearing our judo outfits. G

hi Gerry,okay, but you haven’t made clear what the appetizer will be tomorrow? i’m feeling certain about the soup course, the main course, and dessert — but what to start with? am i correct in guessing sushi? please bring nothing to our party but you. We will have lots (too much, if my mother and kelly’s mom-in-law have anything to do with it) of food and drink. okay, okay: you can bring merriment and mirth, if you must. (and don’t you dare write back and tell me that those are the names of two hookers you know... Well, i guess, you know: even if they are, go ahead and bring them.) em

em, i have to tell you, merriment and mirth are not hookers, they are two hon-est girls who went wrong, and i think it’s a testament to my basic decency that i’ve taken them in and have worked them, year after year, to get their lives back on track. i know you’re probably referencing the weekend at the casino over in council bluffs, but let me tell you, as far as i know nothing unseemly went on, just a few mai Tais and a platter of hot wings, and a few dollars spent playing the slots. and yes, you’re correct, we’ve been planning on a sushi appetizer. This might be sounding like a mono-chromatic lunch, but that’s the way Judy and i like to roll, and no, that’s not a sushi pun, because i hate puns and have been known to walk out a very good sushi restaurant at the mere suggestion of a pun. see you tomorrow!! G

rememberinG Gerry shapiroi remember wanting to

work with this writer, this man, and i’m so priveleged that for five years i got the chance to do so.”

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It wasn’t quite the best of times and the worst of times, but the famous novel opener comes close to describing the varying results of the Nebraska rifle team’s young season.

And those finishes came during the course of one weekend.

Through two events in its 2011-2012 campaign, the Nebraska rifle squad can be more accurately described as a tale of two teams.

The Huskers, who entered the rifle season tabbed as the No. 12 team in the nation, opened their schedule on Fri-day with a match against No. 9 Air Force at the Nebraska Rifle Range.

Nebraska fell to the Falcons by a score of 4,602-4,570.

“Our first match was defi-nitely not our best,” NU se-nior Katelyn Woltersdorf said.

She said nerves played a part in holding back the team’s per for-mance.

In the s m a l l -b o r e portion of the ma t c h , Nebras-ka was p a c e d by a score of 573 from sophomore Sunny Russell. While the Huskers bested Air Force 2,280-2,264 in the smallbore side of the com-petition, they would fall 48 points short of the Falcons’ 2,338 in air rifle shooting. NU’s high score toward the team total in that part of the event was junior Janine Dutton’s 579.

“We are definitely ca-pable of shooting higher scores than that,” NU coach Morgan Hicks said.

Low tallies in air rifle also plagued Nebraska in its sec-ond meet of the season, a 4,667-4,610 loss to No. 3 West Virginia on Sunday.

While three Huskers — Dutton, senior Sheena Mahloch and freshman Kelsey Hansen — scored

more than 580 in the air rifle portion of the West Virginia match, the scores did not measure up to the Mountaineers’.

The big picture between the two meets, though, was that NU improved by 40 points.

“We came in Sunday with a better attitude,” Hicks said. “It was definitely an improvement.”

Woltersdorf, in her sec-ond year on the team, also pointed out that facing a West Virginia program that has won 14 national titles may have had an effect on the better scores.

“We tend to shoot some of our best scores when we shoot against them,” she said.

Although the rifle team has begun its season with two losses, Hicks said wins and losses are not as impor-tant. Since the NCAA disre-gards team records and in-stead bases qualification for the NCAA Rifle Champion-ships on scores, NU is still in good shape.

“It was a good start,” Hicks said. “We’re going to grow from here.”

She also said that in order to get that far, Nebraska will have to improve its air rifle scores.

But in smallbore, Wolters-dorf said the team’s lineup is strong.

“For us to be able to excel in that is definitely a good thing,” she said.

Woltersdorf added that this year’s group is very good at communicating and offering help to each oth-er – something unique for such an individual sport.

“It’s absolutely wonder-ful,” she said of the team’s support.

The end goal for the NU rifle team is to place at the NCAAs, but first they will have to qualify.

Woltersdorf said if the group can get better at not overthinking its perfor-mance, it will go a long way toward achieving that target.

“I think it’s very doable this year,” Hicks said.

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Nedu Izudaily NebraskaN

This past weekend the sports world found itself four champions.

Last Saturday, the Texas Rangers won the American League pennant, while on Sunday the St. Louis Cardi-nals took home the Nation-al League title to advance to the World Series.

But the two professional teams weren’t alone in tak-ing home trophies this past weekend. The Nebraska men’s tennis team took home a doubles champion-ship in the OU Invitational.

Seniors Benedikt Lind-heim and Christopher Au-mueller began the third day of the weekend tour-nament with a win against Oklahoma State Universi-ty’s Vlad Bondarenko and Rifat Biktyakov, 8-3. The victory advanced them into finals, where the two con-tinued their winning ways defeating Arkansas’ Nikolas Zogaj and Manfred Jeske, 8-3, securing the crown.

“We felt they had a good chance to win it,” NU coach Kerry McDermott said.

“Aumueller and Lindheim were both frustrated with their single losses, but both came back strong and won their doubles match. It was great to see as a coach.”

On Friday, Nebraska went 2-3 on the day in its single matches and 0-1 in doubles. The Huskers’ first win came from Lindheim who had a first round bye and defeated Oklahoma’s Lawrence Formentera, 6-3, 4-6, 6-2, in the second round.

The Husker’s second win came from Eric Sock. The junior began the tourna-ment with a first round loss to OSU’s E r i c W e s t , 6 - 2 , 5-7, 6-1. H o w -e v e r , Sock re-bounded in his s e c o n d m a t c h when he defeated the Sooners’ Ryan Proctor, 6-1, 6-0.

The Lincoln native said it

felt good to win his second match.

“After losing the first one you like to come back strong,” Sock said. “You take what you learned from the first loss and upgrade it in your second match.”

McDermott said he’s seen a big improvement in the junior’s play this season.

“He’s competing much better now than he did last year,” he said. “Last year I feel like he played scared against his compe-tition and wasn’t hitting through the ball. Now, he looks confident in his game and isn’t going to back down or play short of his opponent.

We’re seeing that jump from him and we think he’ll make a good run to jump up spots as the sea-son progresses.”

In day two of play, Ne-braska went 3-3 overall including singles wins by sophomore Tom Black-well against Texas Tech’s Tristan Jackson, 6-4, 6-4 and Lindheim, who de-feated OSU’s Bondarenko, 6-1, 6-3.

On Sunday, Nebraska

ended the tournament on a strong note with a doubles victory from Sock and Blackwell. The pair won the consolation bracket when the combo defeated OU’s Proctor and John Warden, 8-5.

Sock said the team did good overall this week-end, but thinks they could’ve played better.

“I think we got some valuable experience and worked on a lot of things,” he said. “It was a good tournament and now we know we can do better.”

The Huskers ended the day on a positive note with Aumueller and Lind-heim winning the doubles championship.

“I was really happy for them,” Sock said. “For them to go down there and win it all was incredible to see. I don’t think they had too much trouble and they play together well as a team. They went down there, took care of busi-ness and earned a nice title. It was good for them and the team.”

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huskers improve scores, but lose

two matches

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Nu wins Ou invite doubles title

Sept. 2 loss at Colorado State. The Huskers moved up to fourth in the AVCA coaches’ poll — its highest rank of the season — and the inaugural RPI index had coach John Cook’s squad at No. 2.

Junior outside hitter Hannah Werth had 32 total kills on the weekend. For her performance, the Big Ten named Werth its Play-er of the Week, the first time a Husker has solely won the award. Werth, who was struggling of-fensively much of the sea-son, notched two double-doubles with a .385 hitting percentage during the weekend.

“Personally I’m just do-ing whatever I can to bet-ter my team,” Werth said. “If I can save the ball to get a point for my team, it’s all I can do. I’m gonna work my butt off.”

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fourth place finishPhIl Schererdaily NebraskaN

The Nebraska women’s golf team’s second trip to Indiana went a lot better than the first.

“Everyone did some great things,” coach Robin Krapfl said. “It was great to see.”

The Huskers finished fourth out of the 13 teams competing at the Hoosier Invitational with a total score of 924. Unfortunate-ly, their score could have been five strokes better if it wasn’t for senior Kayla Knopik’s disqualification after signing an incor-rect scorecard. The mis-take cost the Huskers five strokes and eliminated Knopik from the compe-tition altogether. Knopik would have been in line for a top-25 finish had she not been disqualified.

Fortunately for the Husk-ers, though, senior Made-leine Sheils and freshman Shelby Martinek had great performances throughout the entire invite. Sheils im-proved in every round of the invite, capping off the invite with a final round score of 72. Sheils finished tied for fourth which gives her two top-five finishes on the year. Sheils has also finished in the top 20 of all four invites in which the Huskers have compet-ed.

“It was great to see Mad-die finish strong,” Krap-fl said. “She did a lot of great things.”

Sheils performance wasn’t very surprising, as she’s competed well in ev-ery meet so far. The real surprise was the play of Martinek. Martinek’s top-20 finish was the first of her young career. The Ari-zona native finished with a total score of 230 and a tie for 18th. Her tour-nament even included a career-best score of 71 in Monday’s second round. It was only Martinek’s sec-ond career appearance in the Husker lineup and she took full advantage of it. “She’s made big strides from where she was at the beginning of the season,” Krapfl said.

Martinek felt that her great play had a lot to do with her mindset.

“I just felt a lot more comfortable and confi-dent,” Martinek said. “It’s definitely been my best performance of my col-lege career.”

Along with Knopik, Sheils and Martinek, Ne-braska brought sopho-mores Katelyn Wright and sophomore Steffi Neisen to compete for the team and senior Katie Keiser to compete individually. Neisen finished third for the team, shooting a to-tal score of 234 and a tie

for 26th. Wright ended the tournament in a tie for 55th with a total score of 245. Out of the individu-als competing, Keiser had the eighth-best score with a 243 total score.

Although it was a suc-cessful invite for the most part, Krapfl is still waiting for her team to show some regularity on the course.

“We still need to work on our consistency,” Krap-fl said. “And we just need better play overall from the girls.”

With that said, though, Krapfl was still proud of the way her team per-formed.

“The way they just bat-tled out there was great,” Krapfl said. “On Tues-day, it rained and they just came out strong and made a lot of good shots and stayed focused. They showed a lot of improve-ment.”

With just one meet re-maining, Nebraska will get a couple weeks off before heading to San Antonio, Texas for the Alamo Invi-tational.

Martinek thinks that a break is exactly what the team needs.

“I’m very excited for the break,” Martinek said. “We’ve all been very tired because of all the travel-ing and schoolwork were doing.”

Martinek also feels that if she can improve her putting in the next couple of weeks, she’ll be able to reach her goal for the end of the season.

“I would really like to see myself finish in the top 25 again,” Martinek said. “I just really need to putt better.”

Krapfl feels that the whole team, not just Mar-tinek, can reach its goals by doing just a few things in the next few weeks.

“We just need to build off of what we’ve done and finish strong,” Krapfl said. “Hopefully we’ll be able to put it all together and really finish the fall off on a good note.”

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Huskers halt five-game skid aNdrew warddaily NebraskaN

Nebraska goalkeeper Emma Stevens was up to the chal-lenge.

After allowing five goals in a loss to No. 15 Penn State Friday night, the sophomore stood her ground against an aggressive Ohio State attack on Sunday afternoon.

The Buckeyes took 26 shots, including 14 on goal, to set a season-high for shots by an NU opponent. Only two of those shots made it past Stevens, as she stopped a career-high 11 shots to help the Huskers snap a five-game losing streak.

Having a good game was nice for Stevens, but the win against Ohio State was the most important part of the weekend, according to the goalkeeper.

“It was another win for us,” Stevens said. “We go out there every game and look to win each competitive match and each physical battle, and we did that against Ohio State.”

The win also increased the Huskers’ chances to make it into the eight-team Big Ten Tournament field. The top eight teams make the tourna-ment, with the host team re-ceiving an automatic bid. This year’s host team, Northwest-ern, is currently 12th in the Big Ten standings, meaning if it finishes at that position, only the top seven teams will make the tournament.

Nebraska sits at 10th in the standings, but the win on Sun-day keeps the Huskers’ hopes alive, according to freshman Caroline Gray.

“The win was huge because we did not only end our losing streak, but we kept our post-season hopes alive,” Gray said. “That game was a deal breaker

for us, but we won and the teams we needed to lose did.”

The Huskers will now focus on winning the remainder of their games in order to make Big Ten Tournament field.

“After beating teams like Virginia Tech and playing great against North Carolina, we know we can compete with top-level performers,” Stevens said. “We need to win out the rest of the con-ference in order to have a shot at the Big Ten and NCAA tournament.”

Stevens was not the only bright spot of the weekend for Nebraska. The Huskers scored a total of seven goals on the weekend in a 5-4 loss to Penn State and a 3-2 win against Ohio State. NU had six goals in its previous four games.

Five different Husker

players scored during the weekend including a pair of first-time goal scorers in freshmen Mayme Conroy and Caroline Gray. Both scored in the Penn State game on Fri-day night.

“It was the best feeling I have had all year,” Gray said. “Knowing that I am contribut-ing in a positive way like that is just an awesome feeling.”

Sophomore Maddie Hans-sler produced her best match against the Nittany Lions when she added a goal and an assist for a career high with three points.

A pair of droughts also ended this weekend, the first of which when junior Jordan Jackson put the ball in the back of the net for the first time since conference play be-gan. It had been seven games since Jackson had scored,

dating back to Sept. 9 when she had two goals against Vir-ginia Tech. Jackson now has seven goals on the year.

The second drought ended against the Buckeyes when ju-nior Morgan Marlborough had a multi-goal game for the first time since her hat trick against Purdue on Sept. 23. Marlbor-ough is now at 18 goals on the season, which ties for second nationally, three behind Penn State’s Maya Hayes (21).

The offensive explosion was a result of better focus in practice, according to Gray.

“We definitely upped our intensity in the box,” Gray said.“That was our focus in practice this week, and we realized the importance of scoring this weekend in order to make the tournament.”

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file photo by Nickolai hammer | daily NebraskaNNebraska goal keeper emma Stevens, center, made a career-high 11 total stops against Ohio State on Sunday to lead the struggling huskers to a 3-2 victory.

file photo by matt masiN | daily NebraskaN freshman Shelby Martinek recorded an 18th-place finish over the weekend at the hoosier Invitational.

fixed. As the season goes on you get better and better and you learn to play as a group.”

Rome has seen his playing time rise the last couple of weeks and he garnered a large portion of the snaps af-ter Crick left the Ohio State game. He even recorded the team’s only sack. The red-shirt freshman said his view of everything has changed with more playing time. He can now understand the de-fense as a whole instead of focusing solely on his own assignment.

“I think Chase has really gotten better,” Pelini said. “He’s come a long way, his knowledge and understand-ing of what we’re asking him to do.”

Although he might not be in pads, Crick will be far from invisible. Pelini con-firmed Monday that the se-nior will still be allowed to travel with the team. He said Crick will still be around to help coach younger players.

But while it’s great to have his presence on the sidelines, the Huskers still have to get used to not see-ing No. 94 in the huddle.

“You can feel it in practice already,” Rome said. “It’s like a missing piece to a ma-chine. He’s a good leader. He’s not always the most vocal guy, but he knows

exactly what’s going on and what we need to do. When things need to be said, he says them.”

Some of that leadership role will be passed off to fellow senior Lavonte Da-vid and Austin Cassidy. Cas-sidy said Monday that while Crick is a good presence, his leadership isn’t irreplaceable.

“He’s around practice every day, he goes to meetings and does the normal stuff,” Cas-sidy said. “He’s just not out on the field. That’s going to

be missed, but besides that, he’s still going to be around just as much, so it won’t re-ally that big of a difference to us, I guess, as far as leader-ship is concerned.”

Crick was at practice Tues-day with his arm in a sling. Just his being there served as a reminder that a struggling defense now has to improve without one of its best play-ers.

But the players and coaches aren’t worried. They haven’t had any kind of sit-down

meeting to discuss the loss. While Crick’s unavailability hurts, the unit must move on without him, and Rome is confident it can do that.

“There hasn’t been a big rah-rah speech,” Rome said. “We’ve taken a hard work kind of approach, a hard hat, bring-your-lunch-pail ap-proach, which I think is what we do when we’re faced with adversity and it’s worked out for us.”

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NU not overlooking Hawkeyes

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Chase Rome has been waiting for an opportunity to get more play-ing time. He just

didn’t want it to come this way.

Last Wednesday the Husk-ers announced that Jared Crick would miss the rest of the season with a torn pec-toral muscle. And while the injury means Rome and fel-low backups Terrence Moore and Thad Randle will all see the field more, the trio is far from excited with how the opportunity arose.

“I was devastated, really,” Rome said. “He’s a close friend of mine and he’s

obviously an impact player for us. To hear he was out for the season was a blow to the whole defensive line.”

Crick underwent surgery Monday morning. Coach Bo Pelini said the surgery went without a hiccup and Crick should be fine in the long term.

But in the short term, Crick’s absence leaves a major gap in the middle of a leaky NU defense. The se-nior was named a preseason All-American by several pub-lications.

Now his duties fall to Rome, Moore and Randle, along with starter Baker Steinkuhler, to shore up a run

defense that struggled even when Crick was in uniform. The Huskers are eighth in the Big Ten in rushing yards allowed and have given up 4.5 yards per carry so far.

“That stings to hear, but at the same time, we’re 5-1,” Rome said. “I look at the details on film and it’s a lot of technique things. It’s not

things we can’t do. We’re going to mature as a group and I think especially with a blow like this, everybody is going to step their game up. The attention to detail will get better and it will get

legends title still out there for huskers

Nebraska defensive tackle Jared crick, left, is out for the season with a torn pectoral muscle. redshirt freshman chase rome, right, along with senior terrance Moore and sophomore thaddeus randle are prepared to fill the void.

Jeff packerOn a rare fall Saturday with no Nebraska football game, it seems like the Huskers did exactly what any foot-ball fan in Nebraska did last Saturday: watched another game on TV.

“It’s just that midseason timeout,” NU running back Rex Burkhead said. “Your body takes a pounding so much throughout the year. It’s the perfect time to re-ally get recovered and clear up any bumps or aches that you’ve had so far. And re-ally to just get recovered fully for the second half of the season.”

The team joined the rest of the University of Ne-braska-Lincoln’s student body with a much needed fall break and, in its case, a halfway point in a different kind of season.

This year hasn’t been gar-den variety for a Nebraska squad. The attention has been intense as people swoon about the program that sparked conference re-alignment. These Huskers leapt into the deep end of the historic pool that is the Big Ten. Add that hype to the buzz around any pre-season top-10 team and you’ve got a distracting and time-demanding creation.

The Huskers fought their way through the first six games. Some of the games were more of a fight than promised and one of them was way more than anyone bargained for. In every facet of the game, they’ve shined and been outshined by op-ponents.

It hasn’t been glorious or the stuff of legends as fans of the Big Ten division names might say. They’re here, though.

“We’re 5-1, obviously we’d like to be 6-0 and we’ll see how it plays out,” NU coach Bo Pelini said. “If we just keep working and stay the course of where we are, we’ll be fine.”

The Huskers stayed the course after five poor quar-ters against Wisconsin and Ohio State. Backs against a glaring wall and to their credit, the players came out swinging.

Lots of people were mut-tering about the failure of a 0-2 start to Big Ten play. After winning in the 15th round against the Buck-eyes, they’ve been reward-ed with time, the healer of wounds, and the ingredient needed before an onslaught of teams that have a target on the new guy.

Heading into the sea-son, the Legends division looked to be the more fa-vorable of the two, in terms of getting to the league title game. That’s holding true so far. The head-scratching problem that is Michigan’s Dennard Robinson looks as though he can be solved by the right defensive scheme. Kirk Cousins isn’t the same guy that led Michigan State to a 10-3 record last season. Iowa is sporadic at best and Northwestern is struggling to find its rhythm.

The Huskers’ remaining dip into the Leaders divi-sion resides in Happy Valley with a currently 6-1 Penn State team whose best win was a 13-3 victory against Iowa.

In other words, a 10-2 or 9-3 record is still for the tak-ing. The latter isn’t outland-ish and is probably good enough, for this division, to make the title game in In-dianapolis.

As Pelini always stresses, taking care of one’s self is critical at a time like this. Waiting is a gaggle of teams that can beat themselves as easily as beat anyone else and moving past them means shoring up in-house mistakes.

The offense will need to feed off its second half mo-mentum in its Big Ten home opener. The defense will need to just get better.

Standing at the halfway point and with a tall order of consistency all around, this team can make some noise from its little corner of college football. We’ll see how much noise there really is.

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reach him at [email protected].

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The Nebraska volleyball team was getting its butt kicked.

With home court advan-tage and momentum, the 14th-ranked Minnesota Gold-en Gophers took the first two sets against the Huskers, and, heading into intermis-sion, the prospects for an 8-0 start to conference play seemed low.

Then everything changed.In the final three sets, Ne-

braska had 13 of its 17 team blocks. The back row was comfortable enough to relax.

“We literally had a block party,” Lauren Cook said. “Like ball after ball after ball after ball was blocked. And it was so fun because you didn’t have to play defense, me and Hannah (Werth) were back there eating chips and salsa and having a con-versation because we were just blocking everything.”

NU turned the tables after intermission, winning the next two sets by a combined 50-22 margin, and closing out MU 15-11 in the fifth set for an improbable comeback victory.

The win kept Nebraska undefeated in conference play — the Huskers also swept Wisconsin on Friday — and tied with Illinois atop the conference after four

weekends of play, setting the stage for an epic match be-tween the two Saturday.

The win also heightened Nebraska’s image as a clutch squad: NU has now won five of the six fifth sets it has played in.

“We certainly are battle-tested,” NU coach John Cook said. “I can’t remember ever being in that many five-game matches.”

Now Nebraska looks to

Iowa, and sooner than usual in this case: the Huskers will host the Hawkeyes at the NU Coliseum tonight.

After an eight-game slog against the toughest the Big Ten conference has to offer, the fourth-ranked Nebraska Huskers may finally have a chance to relax.

But they aren’t treating it that way.

“We can’t look past Iowa, which everyone is going to,”

Cook said. “I look at last week, Northwestern is in the fifth game against Penn State, and they have the same re-cord as Iowa.”

The two polls released in wake of NU’s sweep of Wisconsin and thrilling five-set win against Minne-sota marked the progress the team has shown since a

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file photo by kaylee everly | daily NebraskaNrex Burkhead and Nebraska used the bye week to recover and prepare for the decisive second half of the season.

FILE PHOTO BY KYLE BRUGGEMAN | sTORY BY dAN HOPPEN

It’s the perfect time to really

get recovered and clear up any bumps or aches that you’ve had so far.”

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BIG HOLE TO FILL

GAMES 42

TOTAL TACKLES167

SACKS-YARDS20.0-145

TFL-YARDS35-162SOURCE: HUSKERS.COM

Nebraska defensive tackle Jared Crick was ruled out for the rest of the season last week due to a torn pectoral muscle suffered against Ohio State. NU coach Bo Pelini said Crick had a successful surgery Monday morning and the senior will still be able to travel with the team. Here is a look at his career numbers at Nebraska.

file photo by aNNa reed | daily NebraskaNNebraska and setter lauren cook, right, improved to 5-1 in fifth sets this season with a impressive comeback against Minnesota this weekend.

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