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One might catch him in the Selleck courtyards or outside of the Kauffman Residential

Center, practicing his craft on the University of Nebraska-Lin-coln’s campus.

Beau Poehlman, a freshman broadcasting major, is a juggler – and an experienced one at that. Whether he is practicing old patterns or attempting to learn something new, Poehl-man adds his own brand of tal-ent to the UNL student body.

He started juggling about five years ago, when he happened upon some juggling balls in an old trunk. On a whim, he de-cided to give it a try and see where it led.

“I thought it would be a re-ally cool thing to teach myself how to juggle,” Poehlman said,

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It’s the beginning of the semester and illness is plaguing some University of Nebraska-Lincoln students.

Since the semester began, there have been 1,579 total vis-its to the University Health Center. That’s 104 more visits than stu-dents made in September 2010.

“Last year, each doctor saw about 25 patients a day,” said Jennifer Snyder, marketing coordinator at the University Health Center. “Now we’re see-ing around 200 patients a day, which averages out to about 30 patients per doctor.”

Students don’t usually flock to the health center in such high numbers so early, she said.

“It’s strange to see so many patients this early in the semes-ter,” Snyder said. “Most of these students come in with upper respiratory problems.”

From the common cold to se-vere allergic reactions, the rise in sickness concerns students.

Kayla Hass, a freshman pre-inclusive early childhood edu-cation major, has been sick since classes started. She went to the health center and a doc-tor prescribed her sinus infec-tion medicine, giving her hope that her sickness would clear up soon.

“I’ve had a headache, runny nose, congestion, earaches, a nasty cough and a sore throat,” she said.

Taylor Anne Maass, a fresh-man advertising major, has also been struggling with a cold.

“It’s getting everyone; my roommate and I both had colds like two weeks ago, and then my whole floor started get-ting sick,” Maass said. “At first I thought it was allergies or may-be just my throat hurting from screaming too much at the foot-ball game.”

Freshmen like Hass and Maass are among the larg-est percentage of UNL under-graduate students using the health center this year. The clinic routinely conducts a pa-tient satisfaction survey and freshmen were at 18.7 percent

satisfaction. Seniors followed at 17.9, juniors at 11.4 and sopho-mores at 8.8 percent. About 40 percent of graduate students were reported as having used the health center, Snyder said,

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The share of students unable to pay back their loans jumped last year, even as student debt steadily rises, according to data released by the U.S. Depart-ment of Education last week. Students in Nebraska are less likely to default on their loans than the country as a whole, however. And when loan pay-ments are too large for students to handle, default is only one of several possible options to make loan repayment more manageable.

The report showed that 8.8 percent of student borrow-ers defaulted on their debt in

the fiscal year ending Sept. 30, 2010, up from 7 percent the previous year and the highest percentage since 1997.

That rate was lower when limited to public institutions like the University of Nebraska-Lincoln: 7.2 percent of students at state colleges and universities defaulted in that time, up from 6 percent the previous year.

At UNL, only 2 percent de-faulted. The year before, that figure was 1.7 percent, putting UNL comfortably within the norm among its peer institutions

Student loandefaults rise overall, Neb. below average

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Down but not out, Heoya is back on campus and here to stay.

After a brief absence due to an unforeseen limit on its permit, only allowing it to remain in one location for 10 minutes at a time, Heoya has found a new home in the driveway of the Pi Kappa Phi fraternity at 519 N. 16th St.

“They told us about the permit on Friday, after they said it was the right one,” said Minh Nguyen, co-owner of the food truck. “Now they say that the right one does not exist so we offered orga-nizations around campus 10 percent toward the charity of their choice if we could use their lot.”

Happy to accept this of-fer, Pi Kappa Phi mem-bers quickly agreed to host

Heoya in their driveway. In exchange, 10 percent of the truck’s profits will be sent to Push America.

“We had a pretty good rela-tionship with them already,” said Alex Kolbo and senior art education major, Pi Kap-pa Phi president. “They were always so close to us and we even let them use our facilities a few times. All of the guys are really psyched about having them here.”

Heoya and Pi Kappa Phi have launched a viral cam-paign on Twitter and Face-book to drum up support for their petition and to let students know of the truck’s new location.

“I know we have a good product, the students love us, so until we change this ordinance, we are here to stay,” Nguyen said.

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Beau poehlman, a freshman broadcasting major, displays his juggling skills outside of the Sheldon art museum on Sept. 19.

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poehlman said he does not juggle around campus to entertain, but more to practice and improve on his unique talent.

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because of insurance reasons.“The percentage of fresh-

men students using the health center so early is never this high,” Snyder said.

One main reason for col-lege students getting sick so easily is because they live in residence halls.

“Students are living in con-gregated areas, spreading germs rapidly,” said Dr. Dan-iel Garrett, a physician at the University Health Center. “It isn’t any more difficult to get rid of a cold if you live in the dorms as opposed to living back at home as long as you treat yourself correctly.”

For that reason alone, Gar-rett isn’t surprised about the dozens of students coming in to the health center every day.

Even so, the University Health Center doesn’t take cold symptoms lightly. If there is even the slightest hint of a cough, masks must be worn.

“There are over 200 types of viruses that can cause the common cold,” Garrett said.

“Sometimes these viruses can carry over, which could be a possibility for more stu-dents getting sick this early in the semester.”

Garrett said that lack of sleep, stress, alcohol and drugs can diminish the

immune system, making the body more susceptible to catching viruses. He strongly encourages students to ex-ercise routinely and keep themselves hydrated in order to combat common cold sick-ness.

“No one virus sticks out above the rest except for in-fluenza,” Garrett said. “Last year there was quite a bit of the flu going around campus, which is why it is important for students to receive their yearly flu shot.”

Allergies and the chang-ing seasons are also causing a problem for UNL students. Nicole Taege, a freshman pre-social science major, has been having allergy problems since the start of the semester.

“The walk from Love Li-brary to my class in Avery Hall gets me every day, though the flowers and plants are lovely, but I’m definitely al-lergic to something growing over there,” she said.

Erin Pagenkemper, a soph-omore hospitality, restaurant and tourism management major, is also suffering from her allergies.

“I get sick at the beginning of every school year because I get rundown quickly with everything starting back at once,” Pagenkemper said. “And when allergies are

worse like this year, you have to combat the pollen and a cold.”

Garrett said students with allergies are often very diffi-cult to diagnose, especially if the students don’t realize they have an allergy to the envi-ronment surrounding them.

“It’s often difficult to deter-mine whether or not a stu-dent has the common cold or is suffering from an allergic reaction,” he said.

Many students attempt to treat themselves with over-the-counter medicine. How-ever, if within seven to 10 days the symptoms are not resolved or are progressively getting worse, Garrett rec-ommends coming in to the health center immediately. Garrett also suggested that students come to the health center to get their flu shots, which are offered free Sept. 28-29 to students.

Snyder recommended washing hands, making sure coughs are covered and sleeping.

“I know it’s hard for (col-lege students) to go to bed, but it’s important,” Snyder said. “Mom’s not watching anymore, so you guys need to make sure you’re taking care of yourselves.”

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bike stolen at Cather residenCe hallon Sept. 14 at 1:34 a.m., a community service officer ob-served two males ride up on bikes to the bike racks by cather residence Hall. Both males put their bikes on the rack, but did not chain them up. When they came back, the officer observed one of the males grab a bike that was not his. non-student kari morad was cited for theft by unlawful tak-ing, according to Sgt. casey Johnson with university police.

student Cited for MiP at football gaMeon Sept. 17 at 3:28 p.m., university police were notified by the event staff at memorial Stadium of an intoxi-cated female who was repeatedly falling down the stairs at the football game. kayla Wirkus, a junior bio-logical sciences major, had a .325 blood-alcohol level. Wirkus was cited with a minor in possession and transported to detox, according to university police reports.

non-student steals rotC vest to get onto the football fieldnon-student Steven docken stole an rotc event vest so he could get onto the foot-ball field at memorial Stadium at 5:14 p.m. on Sept. 17. docken was cited for theft by unlawful taking and was ejected from the game.

Man atteMPts to gaMble at university PoliCe dePartMent at 6:17 p.m. on Sept. 17 an intoxicated man walked into the unlpd lobby and told staff he wanted to gamble and play blackjack. the non-student was placed into civil protection and no arrest was made.

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and the Big Ten Conference. “It’s a testimony to Nebraska

students that it didn’t go up as dramatically,” said Craig Muni-er, director of UNL Scholarship and Financial Aid.

After a student graduates, he or she has six months before the first payment on a loan is due. If no payment is made in the following nine months, the loan goes into default.

“(But) it doesn’t mean that they’ll never pay,” Munier said. The report’s numbers are sim-ply a snapshot of roughly two years’ time, in which 3.6 mil-lion students started paying off their debt.

Overall in Nebraska, just more than one in 20 student borrowers failed to make pay-ments on their federal loans. North Dakota and Montana had the lowest rates at about half that, and Arizona was the high mark, with 16 percent of student borrowers defaulting. It’s a temporary solution that can reach far beyond any sin-gle year.

“Any sort of default, especial-ly early in someone’s life when they’re establishing their credit rating, will have a substantial impact,” said Eric Thompson, an associate professor of eco-nomics.

For example, the federal government can withhold tax refunds or take other measures to get what students owe. Damaged credit has its own impact, making it more diffi-cult to borrow for a car or a house or even to get a job, as employers increasingly turn to applicants’ credit ratings, ac-cording to a Sept. 13 article in The New York Times.

But Munier pointed out one key fact for students to remem-ber: Defaulting isn’t the only option when a student can’t pay.

“The thing I would want to emphasize … is there are so many alternatives to default-ing,” he said. “There’s really no reason for anyone to default.”

Loans can be extended be-yond the standard 10-year re-payment plan. With graduated repayment, monthly payments can start small and grow as time goes on. Payments can also be calculated as a por-tion of a student’s income; if students have no disposable income, their payment can

even be nothing. All options and their details are available at the Department of Education’s Federal Student Aid website, www.direct.ed.gov.

And while those options are less desirable than the standard plan because they can accrue more interest, they’re all better than defaulting, Munier said.

“I think a lot of it could be a lack of information,” he said when asked why students would default anyway. “Peo-ple who get into difficulty fi-nancially … will even go so far as to not open their mail.”

The bump in default comes as the nation continues to struggle to shake off the ef-fects of the recession and the financial security of Americans continues to falter. The number of Americans in poverty is at record levels, unemployment has remained at roughly 9 per-cent for months, and median household income is at a level not seen since the mid-1990s.

It’s an even grimmer picture for ethnic minorities, whose average wealth fell to just a fraction of that of white fami-lies, according to a study by the Pew Research Center last summer.

These echoes of the re-cession are likely related to the student loan default rate, though they aren’t necessarily the cause, Thompson said

“I think part of the reason the default rate has risen is because it’s more difficult for students to find employment opportunities,” he said.

In May, for instance, more than one-fifth of all 2009 col-lege graduates were unem-ployed, according to The New York Times. When the same employment difficulty is ex-tended throughout families — students’ financial backup — “It might be harder for people to get help right now,” Thomp-son said.

But Nebraska and its resi-dents have largely weathered the recession better than many others, with Nebraska’s unem-ployment rate less than half the national average. Nonetheless, students have had to adapt to a world of more debt and sparser jobs.

Aid has seen “significantly increased requests for help” this year, Munier said.

“A family’s ability to pay

is going down,” he said. “We have people that are less able to pay … Emotions have run quite a bit higher in the finan-cial aid office in the last couple of years.”

Last May, a graduating UNL student’s average debt was al-most $20,000, according to in-formation provided by Munier. For graduate students, it was more than $30,000. Both levels are the highest ever, while the university’s ability to help is di-minished.

“We have $2.5 million less in need-based grant money that this office controls than a year ago,” Munier said. States like Nebraska are less able to fill the gap between what public universities charge and what their education actually costs, and families have to make up the difference even as their in-come is dropping. It’s a situa-tion of competing financial dy-namics “I haven’t seen the likes of,” Munier said.

Daniel Chilcote, a UNL alum who graduated in May, said

he’s going to medical school at Baylor University next sum-mer. He didn’t have any loans as an undergraduate, he said, but that won’t be the case at his new home.

“It’s a little stressful,” he con-ceded, but he added that, with a career goal in pediatric on-cology, “I should be able to pay it back pretty quickly.”

Still, Chilcote said he got a taste of the job market before he knew of his acceptance to Baylor.

“It was really terrifying,” he said. After getting wait-listed everywhere he looked, he said, “It started dawning on me that I might need to re-apply next year” and get a job in the meantime. But Chilcote could find none in his area of ex-pertise. Eventually, he found a position at a non-profit here in Lincoln, and that will do for now.

Other students have had to adjust their plans.

Debt has had “really, quite a tremendous impact,” said

Anne Thomas, a staff member of the educational psychology department, adding that she has more than $50,000 in debt from her master’s degree from the University of Pittsburgh. That debt has changed her life plans, though she saw it com-ing.

“What I didn’t anticipate was getting pregnant my first (graduate) semester,” she said. Her husband had loans, too, and they couldn’t both survive on his salary and pay that debt off. “That really accelerated my need to begin working,” she said.

With no job prospects in Scranton, Pa., where Thomas and her husband lived, they moved to Nebraska. She con-tacted every school district in Omaha and found no jobs, she said, and she’s not alone.

“Because of not only student debt, but the economy as well, everybody’s being more care-ful and thinking long term,” Thomas said.

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“because I didn’t know anyone who could.”

Within a week, Poehlman was able to do basic juggling patterns with three balls. A few Internet searches later, he found new tricks and patterns to try, and started teaching himself how to do them. Thus he be-gan an affair that would later lead him to where he is today – juggling in front of residential centers for all of campus to see.

“There’s a story behind that,” Poehlman said. “My RA sug-gested I practice outside so I wouldn’t hit expensive things in the dorm room, like the sprin-kler system or things like that.”

He went on to say he doesn’t necessarily juggle outside for show, but rather, just to im-prove his ability. He ventures out to work on his juggling about four times a week.

“I mostly juggle just to prac-tice,” he said.

In addition to teaching him-self new tricks, Poehlman has also gotten into contact with the Lincoln City Jugglers, which is a group for Lincoln residents who all share a similar passion for the activity. Poehlman at-tends informal meetings outside of the Sheldon Art Gallery once or twice a week, where they teach each other new things and practice.

“I guess my goal with this is getting to know people,

especially people from the Lincoln City Jugglers,” he said. “There’s always a way to ad-vance your skills no matter where you are with juggling.”

Poehlman isn’t the only one on campus with an affinity for juggling. Steve Dosskey, a fresh-man computer science major, is both a friend of Poehlman’s and a fellow attendee of the Lincoln City Juggler meetings.

“For as long as I’ve known him, juggling has been one of Beau’s passions,” Dosskey said. “He’s definitely got a knack for it.”

Poehlman also has a lot of experience, Dosskey said.

“Being a hobby of his, jug-gling is something that he’s clearly put a lot of time into in order to sharpen his skills,” he said. “Just the other evening, I was on my way to a meeting and saw Beau in one of the Selleck courtyards, just doing his own thing, juggling away with five balls. That was an im-pressive sight.”

Poehlman said anyone inter-ested in juggling should look into Lincoln City Jugglers. He also offered advice.

“Dropping is very natural,” he said. “When I was starting, I dropped many times, but I kept going. And self-motivation is key. That’s it.”

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STUDENT LOAN DEFAULT RATESStudent loan default rates, re�ecting the economic strain of the recession, have been rising for the past several years. Much of the increase comes from for-pro�t institutions; public institutions, including state universities like UNL, have been consistently lower. UNL’s student default rate has been 2 percent or lower for the past six years. The year refers to the �rst �scal year a group of students started making payments on their loans, not when those loans went into default.

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For students considering busi-ness school, a new trend in graduate acceptance may lead to MBA programs be-coming more easily acces-sible.

Kaplan Testing Center re-ported a significant percent-age of top U.S. business schools have begun accept-ing GRE scores in place of the GMAT, allowing for a wider pool of students to enter business school.

According to the Kaplan survey, 52 percent of top business schools are now accepting the GRE exam and 34 percent plan to ac-cept this exam alongside the GMAT for the 2012-2013 aca-demic year.

“At Kaplan, we survey business admissions and graduate programs to see what goes on in the market,” said Andrew Mitchell, director

of pre-business programs at Kaplan Test Prep. “We looked at the over-arching trends and had some interesting findings when we reached out to 200 business schools in the U.S. A majority of them accepted the GRE.”

This change in examina-tion offers not only a wider pool of potential students — in 2010, 675,000 students took the GRE worldwide as opposed to 263,979 who took the GMAT — but also a greater flexibility for those who are unsure of whether or not to pursue a career in business or another graduate discipline.

“I think from the students’ perspective, having the GRE be acceptable for business schools gives them more op-tions in applying for various master’s degree programs and could provide more of a balanced classroom,” said Lindsey Eastwood, a gradu-ate student and MBA Student

Association Executive Board vice president.

However, by accepting both tests, acceptance committees will be left with an “apples-to-oranges” comparison of scores, Eastwood said.

There is no universal stan-dard to transfer the multiple scores of the GRE to a GMAT equivalent. Among the other pitfalls is the matter of tradi-tion.

“It’s a matter of tradition in economics to only take the GRE,” said Matt Cush-ing, an economics professor. “When we see a GMAT score we kind of look askance at them because it means they weren’t in our camp and I imagine it is the same when GRE students apply for busi-ness school.”

Mitchell, however, said reasoning for taking the GRE can be explained in an en-trance essay.

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To the sounds of smooth rhythm and blues music, members of student govern-ment filed into the East Cam-pus Union Tuesday night to plan for the betterment of residence halls across cam-pus.

The University of Nebras-ka-Lincoln’s Residence Hall Association approved its first-semester budget bill for $31,171 with 31 votes for, zero votes against and one abstained vote. Within the budget, $3,888 remains from

last year to be put toward this year’s funds. There is $10,000 budgeted between the six committees, the low-est being residential en-hancement and review and recommendations commit-tees, each receiving $100. The most funding is allotted toward the events commit-tee, with $5,000.

RHA allotted $6,700 to ex-penses like conference fees, office expenses, the execu-tive board, the summer in-tern salary and copy servic-es. The remaining $13,271 went to programming, ini-tiatives, improvements and

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ting forward a bid to host the 2013 National Residence Hall conference.

“I’ve been getting a team together with many execu-tive board members,” said Kimberly Folk, a sophomore hospitality, restaurant and tourism management major and RHA bid chair.

If the conference does come to the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, it would bring around 2,500 students to Lincoln, Folk said.

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Last Friday, Sept. 16, the Uni-versity of Nebraska athletic department sent out a mass email to all students with football tickets. Without get-ting into the minor details,

what the email said was this: Any stu-dents who attempted to enter football games with signs or T-shirts with lewd, inappropriate or vulgar language on them would face consequences that could include removal from Memorial Stadium, confiscation of the offending sign or shirt and even revocation of their season tickets.

The athletic department was right to do this. The issue of displaying vulgar and otherwise inappropri-ate language during college sporting events has become major and contro-versial, and it does more harm than offenders likely realize.

Don’t get me wrong – I’m all about displaying school pride when I’m at a Husker game, and given the op-portunity, I’d probably pick a more creative medium than simply wearing a T-shirt that says “Nebraska” on the front.

For those who disagree with the athletic department’s “no vulgarity” edict, the issues of creativity and freedom of expression no doubt form the basis of their argument. Who are they to tell us how we can and cannot support our school? Who are they to dictate what we can and can-not wear to football games? Students ought to be able to dress however they want, right?

Wrong. Simply put, it makes the school, along with those associated with it, look bad.

Some may argue that point, but it’s true. Consider that most Husker games are viewed by a national tele-vision audience, a portion of which

may be considering sending their children to UNL, donating money to the school or aligning themselves with Nebraska in some other way. Now, imagine the message that we, as students, send to those viewers when we show up on national televi-sion, proudly displaying shirts and signs that say, among other things, “Lincoln Fuckin’ Nebraska.”

The University of Nebraska-Lincoln has an image and reputation to up-hold, as do all similar institutions. It’s the responsibility of the students, as well as the faculty and all others who claim ties to the school, to uphold that image, whether it be to visitors from other parts of Nebraska, visi-tors from other colleges or a national television audience.

Look, I ask you, at similar instances of inappropriate expression that have occurred through the years. We’ve seen colorful slogans such as “Tuck Fexas,” “Muck Fizzou,” “West Fuckin Virginia,” and even sentiments as blunt as “Fuck USC.” These aren’t secondhand reports, mind you – each and every one of the aforementioned examples was caught on camera and presented to a nationwide, live televi-sion audience, all of whom witnessed firsthand poor taste and poor sports-manship.

If you recall seeing any of those

slogans pop up on your TV screen, think about the message it sent to you as an observer. Was it a good one? Did it have a positive effect on your opinion of the school?

Or did it make you say something like, “Wow, those students really don’t have very good taste?”

In their defense, the people who wore those shirts and held up those signs probably didn’t think about the possible consequences. In all likeli-hood, they just wanted to show pride in their school and support their team. They probably weren’t thinking about getting caught by cameras or about how badly it could reflect on their schools’ reputation.

I’m not supporting a strict set of rules for how we, as students, can and can’t support the Huskers – they are our team, we’re their fans, and we ought to be able to show our love for them in myriad ways.

What I am supporting is the exer-cise of a little restraint, of some com-mon sense. There is nothing wrong with wanting to support your team and your school, but the way you choose to do so can affect the way people see you, the team and the school itself. Beyond that, it extends to the staff, the administration, the teaching faculty and each and every alumni who has ever been privileged enough to call themselves a Corn-husker.

Your image and reputation is theirs, and theirs is yours. So do everyone a favor, and put away the “Lincoln Fuckin’ Nebraska” shirt.

The ones with the skull and cross-bones on them are cooler looking anyway.

david smith is a sophomore news-edito-rial major. reach him at davidsmith@

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‘Best Colleges’ rankings bolster UNL’s reputation

We know our university rocks, but it helps to get some national recognition every now and then. U.S. News and World Report ranks the University of Nebraska-Lincoln 101st in its “Best Colleges 2012” rankings. Notably, UNL is also among the 28 best university programs for under-graduate research and creative projects, a “Least Debt” school and an “A+ School for B+ Students.”

We applaud UNL for these rankings. The Undergradu-ate Creative Activities and Research Experiences (UCARE) program is a great way for students to jump start their careers and bolster their research profiles.

UNL is also a fairly cheap school. Yes, tuition and fees have gone up, but it could be a lot worse. In-state tuition and fees at the University of Wisconsin-Madison are just under $9,000 a year, and out-of-state costs are more than $23,000. Resident tuition and fees at the University of Michigan is more than $12,000 a year for freshmen and sophomores, and rises to more than $14,000 a year for juniors and seniors.

By comparison, resident tuition and fees at UNL is under $8,000, and non-resident just under $20,000. While these costs are still a burden on students entering the workforce, UNL has been able to keep its tuition lower than its public-school counterparts in the Big Ten.

U.S. News and World Report is often criticized for its rankings, which some deem arbitrary. But colleges and universities still tout these rankings when they reflect posi-tively on their campus. This time is no exception. UNL should be particularly proud of its undergraduate research program, which finally receives some national recogni-tion. The Daily Nebraskan congratulates the university for its national level of achievement in these areas.

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Political debates are al-ways amusing to watch. However, last week’s Republican debate end-ed on a bit of a zinger. Presidential candidate

Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) ended the evening with the an-nouncement that the human papil-lomavirus (HPV) vaccine posed seri-ous health risks to its recipients.

This claim was then followed by absolutely no citation.

CBS reports that Bachmann, who has neither medical training nor an M.D. after her name, received her information from an unidentified woman who approached her fol-lowing the debate that evening.

Man, I wish that type of source would fly in English class.

Given the current political races, it seems wise to take a look at where we get our information and whether or not it is credible. And just so we’re clear, the nondescript woman you met behind the what-ever at that political thing isn’t a credible source.

Think about where you get your news. Technology means that there are multiple ways of getting infor-mation all the time. Major news

organizations and syndicates are all online. Wikipedia has successfully garnered an entire history of the world. Twitter mainlines news snip-pets right to you.

News has become so common-place, we dismiss the chance that it might be incorrect. Because if two billion people are on Twitter, it certainly can’t be wrong, can it?

And yet, the fact that I can claim Twitter has 2 billion users, with no factual information to prove it, is a problem.

Comedians Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart are known for their late-night news-ish programs. Viewers turn to these shows for a more entertaining spin on the day’s news. While both make jokes about both parties, the laughs are usually directed more one way than the other. On these shows, much like other news programs, the news you are receiving is not objective.

Their ratings are great, however. In 2007, the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press, which studied Jon Stewart’s “The Daily Show” for a year, reported that the show’s viewership was comparable to major news organizations. The popularity has only grown since,

with current viewing numbers from the networks reporting “The Daily Show” beating Fox News’ “The O’Reilly Factor.”

While satirical news shows are not the worst way to get your news, they can be a confusing one. Keep a few things in mind: Stephen Colbert is not actually a Republi-can; he just pretends to be. John Stewart is a liberal, but he is joking most of the time. And Jimmy Fallon was Colbert’s best friend, but isn’t anymore, and his show isn’t politi-cal. It just got mixed in somehow. If you can get through the web of performances, there is still a bit of actual news left.

When researching, just think about your sources. Go ahead and use Wikipedia. There are linked-in citations that can make it very

helpful. Just don’t lose sight of what the website is, which is an encyclopedia that anyone can edit. Not everyone realizes your history grade may be riding on this paper. So if you turn in an essay stating that the War of 1812 happened in 1930 because the Internet told you so, you are really just getting what you paid for.

As for politicians and their claims, take everything with a grain of salt – and an expert opinion. CBS also reports that, following Bachmann’s statement, medical professions across the country scrambled to refute the claim. They also asked her to provide evidence, which she couldn’t do.

Essentially, all Bachmann man-aged to do was the political equiva-lent of yelling “Fire!” in a crowded theater. Her anonymous source created an unwarranted panic. The media then had to spend more time disproving the claim, leaving less time to talk about the ever-dwin-dling issues.

Television has been around for nearly a century. It should no longer be considered credible just to be on it. The same goes for the Internet. There is no screening

process for starting a website and poetic license (not to mention the First Amendment) grants the right to write just about anything.

There is not enough time in a day to run down all the sources for all the information we receive. It is more important to just keep in mind where your news is coming from and know there is room for error.

Because, much like in the case of Sen. Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.), who incor-rectly gave information on the Senate floor and then retracted it, some things just aren’t meant to be factual. kaley cook is a sophomore inter-

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Nate RuleauxThe girlfriend and I sat and watched “Futurama” on Netflix for the rest of the day. Eventu-ally we started counting my drinks on a “Working Girl’s Notepad,” a gag-gift I’d gotten as a present. We started argu-ing about whether or not drink number 32 was a shot or an-other beer.

The stuff I remember: “Shit,” I said as we pulled up

to a dark empty Tam O’ Shan-ter.

“What now?” Kate asked. “Idaho Nachos,” I said, and

we tore off. With not much time left before Facebook said I’d be at Zen’s, we hurried down O Street toward Granite City, while I called Matt’s car behind us and told them the change in plans.

At Granite City, Matt and Peter both bought pitchers. I bought Idaho Nachos to split and a steak.

The food and beer was hard to get down. I’d eaten cuisine from all around the world ear-lier that day at the casino, about two helpings per stand at the buffet.

For some reason our waitress was taking her sweet-ass time with the check, so we just sat while Peter complained about there being too many flies in-side. He’d start yelling at the flies and then started yelling at me, “Stop sipping that beer, boy! What have we been train-ing for?”

He was talking about my birthday training week. I’d been so busy with work, sum-mer school and community theater, that I hadn’t raged since … I couldn’t remember. So ev-eryday before the big day, he or Matt would go out for a 30 rack or so and we’d spend the night playing round after round of beer die, followed by a chug-ging race or two.

The week went by in a blurry `80s movie montage of drink-ing tasks and vomiting every night. I felt like a beat up old boxer working his way toward the title. Finally on Friday night I held my alcohol. The next morning, sensei Peter said, “You are ready” with a nod my way.

I finished my pint and went into the bathroom. All that food sat stacked in my stomach, and I knew it’d be out some end of me sooner or later. I looked in the mirror and thought, “Idaho Nachos … stupid idea.”

We got the check five min-utes after my bar crawl was sup-posed to start. Once everyone was settled, our party of five sprinted out to the cars, drag raced downtown and stepped into Zen’s.

There were only two people there.

Zen’s used to be known as a theater-kid bar … to theater kids. Now its most-frequent thespians had long since gradu-ated and are now starving off in Chicago or Los Angles. Peter, however, was one of the last dinosaurs around and knew

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The Jackie Gaughan Mul-ticultural Center recently welcomed a timeless and nostalgic piece of art.

Composed of individu-ally painted square pieces, 24 icons came together to form a multicolored mural of George Flippin. Many would call him a talented athlete. Others would call him an accomplished doc-tor. While both are accurate, a more fitting description of George Flippin would note him as a prominent leader of his time and a trailblazer in many disciplines.

As the first African-Amer-ican athlete at the Univer-sity of Nebraska-Lincoln, George Flippin played an integral part in shaping history. Flippin joined the University of Nebraska-Lincoln football team in 1891 and remained on the team for four seasons. De-spite the unfavorable cir-cumstances Flippin faced, he did not allow criticism to deter him from continu-ing to make a difference. Upon obtaining a medi-cal degree, Flippin gave back to the community by establishing a hospital in Stromsburg, Neb., to offer his services to others.

Anthony Blue Jr., a senior art major who helped paint the mural, spoke about how Flippin triumphed despite challenges he en-countered.

“His times were a lot more rough than ours, but

he went through a lot of adversity and overcame it,” Blue said.

Among many traits, the resiliency and charac-ter of Flippin made him a remarkable subject to be displayed in the Jack-ie Gaughan Multicultural Center. For this reason, plans for the project were initiated in the spring of 2011.

Jon Humiston, creative director at UNL’s office of university communica-tions, talked with Aaron Holz, associate professor of art and art history, about getting students involved in the project. A total of 12 students from Holz’s ad-vanced painting class were given the opportunity to paint individual parts of the mural. Each student was provided with materials to paint each piece, as well as black and white photos of Flippin for reference. Aside from the requirement to use paint, additional guidelines were not specified. This al-lowed students to exercise creativity and originality. As a result, the project, which cost close to $1,000, includes an eclectic mix of hues and textures.

Andre Fortune, director of The Jackie Gaughan Mul-ticultural Center, said the meaning of the mural can be understood in a variety of ways.

“It’s a great physical rep-resentation, just like the Gaughan, because Flippin was a trailblazer for that time,” he said. “Someone

from all backgrounds and cultures can look at it and say, ‘Wow, you can see how important education is and was.’”

Additionally, the mural holds strong importance be-yond the doors of the Jackie Gaughan Multicultural Cen-ter.

“It is an interdisciplinary effort that links a lot of parts of the university that’s not always linked,” Holz said. “Athletics linked with paint-ing to the multicultural cen-ter.”

The large mural was un-veiled Friday, Sept. 16 in the Jackie Gaughan Mul-ticultural Center. Fortune, along with other contribu-tors to the project, spoke at the event. In addition, 3,500 posters resembling the mural were distributed, as a result of a donation from Lincoln, Neb., printing company, Ja-cob North. The project now holds a permanent spot on the UNL campus.

The mural is a repre-sentation of how Flippin’s courage led him to surpass racial barriers and create a legacy that will continue to inspire others for years to come.

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Local post-grads enjoy the downtown jazz scene for more than the money s t o r y b y J a c y M a r m a d u k e | p h o t o s b y M a t t M a s i n

Brian Morrow re-members The J a z z o c r a c y ’ s first tip jar. After hours of playing music at the Zoo

Bar on 14th Street for free, the band managed to col-lect a single granola bar. There was nowhere to go but up.

Nowadays, the band plays from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. on Tuesdays at the Zoo, and the tip jar pulls about $50 to $75 – divvied be-tween the usual lineup of five musicians, that’s about enough for a few beers or a sandwich apiece. Other-wise, there’s no cover.

“If we weren’t doing it for fun, there’d be no in-centive to do it,” said Mor-row, the band’s saxophone player. “There’s no money. There’s (no) crowd.”

But when Morrow

organized the group in 2007, money wasn’t the point. He and Tommy van den Berg, who plays trombone for the band and graduated from UNL in 2009 with a degree in chemistry, comprise the Jazzocracy’s backbone. The rest of the lineup changes frequently, but both van den Berg and Morrow have made it to almost every show, some-times performing as a duo.

“To get musicians to come down and play with us for little or no money on a weekly basis – some-times me and Brian are the only ones that are willing to do it,” van den Berg said. “We’re in it for the long haul.”

It’s hard to draw people to a bar on Tuesday after work, but they show up nearly every week anyway,

usually accompanied by a drummer, a guitarist and a bassist. They said they’ve been performing together for so long that they don’t

need to practice anymore. They huddle on the stage in the back of the Zoo, put-ting on a show for an audi-ence that often numbers in

the single digits.

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LeFt: eric reimritz, left, and Brian Morow, saxophone, of the Jazzocracy perform a song during their weekly tuesday night set at the Zoo Bar.

BeLow: tommy van den Burg pumps out a solo in the middle of a song at the Zoo Bar tuesday night.

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When most people eat chips and salsa, they’re just doing it for the sheer enjoyment of Tex-Mex crunching. But Al-pha Chi Omega eats chips for a bigger cause.

For the eighth consecu-tive year, Alpha Chi Omega will be hosting their annual “Chips and Dip” philanthro-py on Friday from 10 p.m. to 2:30 a.m. in order to raise money to help combat do-mestic violence.

Boasting gift cards, raf-fle sales and a live DJ, as well as relatively low-cost tickets, it’s no wonder the sorority expects to draw 1,000 people throughout the night. Girls from Alpha Chi Omega have been to various fraternity houses to sell tickets, as well as other places around campus and the sidewalk outside of the Nebraska Union is covered with chalk-writings adver-tising the event.

According to senior psy-chology major and house president Michelle Haikalis, the sorority hopes the turn-out (as well as the amount

of money the fundraiser generates) will be larger than last year, continuing the trend of the last four years.

“We have a really interest-ing and fun environment, plenty of food and it’s for a really great cause,” Haikalis said.

The sorority gets all the chips and salsas donated lo-cally from various Mexican restaurants, and with a tick-et, each student is allowed two rounds of refills.

“It’s good. It’s a good fun-draiser,” junior construction management major, Carter Graham said. He and his friend agreed: The spinach-artichoke dip was their fa-vorite last year. Graham has gone the last two years and recently bought a ticket from a friend so he could go again Friday night.

“I know some of the girls in A-Chi-O. I like it,” Gra-ham said.

Haikalis said a successful night for her would include “a lot of people coming – more than last year, raising more money than ever be-fore.” She’s also hoping for good weather, because the

event will be held in their parking lot off of 16th and Vine streets.

The fundraiser is a benefit for the Friendship Home, Lincoln’s local shelter for domestic violence. Located just west of Memorial Sta-dium, the Friendship Home exists to support, shelter and advocate for women and children who are vic-tims of domestic violence. In 1997, a $1.9 million cam-paign gave the organization the means to start a second shelter, as well as make improvements to the first. Currently, these two facili-ties shelter 50 women and children every day.

Alpha Chi Omega’s na-tional mission is to help vic-tims of domestic violence, which is why the sorority chose the Friendship Home as for their philanthropy.

“We’ve had a partnership with them for several years, and it’s the closest thing to our house,” Haikalis said. “Also, it’s a great place for us to volunteer, as well as give money. They help be-tween 900 and 1,000 people a year, which is phenom-enal.”

Tracy Hoffman, develop-ment coordinator for the Friendship Home, said, “One in four women in Lan-caster County experiences domestic violence at some point in their lives and we are here to provide help and support to them. Do-mestic violence is a really big problem in Lincoln and in the country.”

“Every single year we are amazed (Alpha Chi Omega) raises so much from just chips and salsa,” Hoffman said. “The money they gen-erate goes straight toward women and children … It means more and more to us every day.”

The Chips and Dip phi-lanthropy is consistently a successful fundraiser. Last year the sorority raised more than $5,500 for the shelter at this event alone. Alpha Chi Omega expects to beat this number again Friday night.

“There are a lot of nega-tive myths out there about sorority girls, and these women really work to dispel those,” said Kay Mathews, director of the Friendship Home. “They’re

incredibly philanthropic; they really work hard and are extremely committed to their mission.

“These girls of Alpha Chi Omega prove again and again that they are women you can count on, and it never fails to move me.”

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Victoria’s Secret doesn’t merely provide sexy unmentionables to women, they also provide peace of mind.

“Pump it Up with PINK” is an event promoting the new Victoria’s Secret PINK yoga clothing series. Victoria’s Se-cret PINK collection has 50 college campuses they target to promote their clothing line’s new styles. The student repre-sentatives at the University of Nebraska—Lincoln campus are Danielle Tucker, a senior textiles, clothing and design and marketing major, and Tay-lor Daniels, a senior advertis-ing and public relations and marketing major.

“During the year, we are given certain event initiatives to accomplish,” Tucker said. “One of those is to introduce girls to the new yoga collec-tion.”

For the first year, Tucker and Daniels teamed up with the City Campus Rec Center to host an event providing a free Zumba class to anyone who wants to attend, meaning they don’t need a FitCard pass to participate. The event will be held Thursday, Sept. 22, from 8:30 p.m. to 10 p.m. on one of the Rec’s basketball courts. Al-though this is the first Zumba class they have coordinated, Tucker and Daniels have also had other promotional PINK

opportunities, such as their fashion show viewing party and tabling events.

“We are so excited to host events like this on campus,” Daniels said. “Follow us on Facebook and Twitter because we have a ton more events we plan to do that are awesome.”

Throughout the evening, there will be raffles for PINK gear. Girls who show up wear-ing PINK clothing will be given the opportunity to enter a sec-ond drawing where they can win a complete yoga outfit. As well as Zumba and assorted prizes, there will be heathy snacks, freebies and mingling.

Tucker and Daniels hope to get 60 or more girls to at-tend with a maximum of 200 girls.

“Seriously, the more the merrier,” Daniels said. “We moved the event to a basket-ball court to allot for num-bers like this.”

As a follow-up to “Pump it Up with PINK,” the PINK Airstream bus will be parked on the Union Plaza this Fri-day, Sept. 23, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. selling the newest Husker products and other PINK merchandise.

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every Zen’s bartender inti-mately.

The two waiting for me were old theater pals, and I hadn’t even gotten a chance to say, “Hi, guys,” when Peter shoved a gin and tonic in one of my hands and a whiskey shot in the other.

“Now this is expensive gin, so sip,” he said. I’d soon real-ize that along with everyone buying you birthday drinks, they take a moment before to explain the drink and why it is superior to all others.

Eventually friends started to slip in. I’d get a happy birthday pat on the back, and they’d ask me what I want.

“Listen guys,” I found myself repeating, “We’re planning on hitting a lot of bars and I really

just want to take it easy here, get me a drink later.”

But eventually once our par-ty hit 12 people or so, the peer pressure started to rise. They had me sitting in Zen’s comfy couches, cornered. And then the shots started to come.

Jordan ran up with two shots of tequila, my editor ran up with a “Broner,” which was a self-made cake-like shot (one part well gin, one part Kahlua, one part Bailey’s), followed by two more whiskey shots and the rest of my gin and tonic.

A few of my really close friends showed up, and I started getting really pumped and warm about the night. But I already could feel the fear of it ending with a 1 million-pound ralph any time soon.

They bought me a whiskey shot each, made me take them, then told me they were too baked and too poor to keep going. Which was fine, and woke me up to the idea that a 21st bar crawl is never made up of all your best pals. I mean, one of my best friends was off studying in Spain, and hell, I’d never been to a 21st bar crawl and still haven’t and really don’t want to. You just spend all your money in 10 minutes on somebody who really doesn’t need another drink, while at the same time avoiding the people who your friend likes but you hate.

After they left I went into the bathroom for a piss. I looked down into the urinal and thought about how clean it was for a bar bathroom. I had a sudden flashback to all the urinals I’d cleaned as a custo-dian all summer. About how much time I’d spent making money, making videos for the journalism school, performing in 1 million-degree summer heat.

I wasn’t going to get sick to-night.

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row said. “And that can be a problem. If people know it’s going on every week, it becomes ‘I’ll go next week.’ And then next week be-comes ‘I’ll go next week.’ You hear it all the time: ‘I’ll have to come check you guys out.’ Whenever some-body says that, you can pretty much count on them not coming.”

Morrow said there’s a cer-tain appeal to performing for a small audience in a familiar place, though. He gives bass guitar lessons part time and is a member of four other bands, most of which perform covers, and van den Berg works at a sandwich shop. For three hours every Tuesday, they get their chance to experi-ment with music and em-brace the creativity of jazz.

“I was peeking in that

front window when I was in college thinking, ‘Maybe I’ll get to play here someday,’” said Morrow, who gradu-ated from Nebraska Wesley-an University in 1996 with a degree in music perfor-mance. “I’m very comfort-able in this room, because I know that anyone that’s in this room is here to hear music. You don’t have to re-ally sell it.”

According to Morrow, the problem with jazz in Lin-coln is its lack of accessi-bility – there are more jazz musicians and listeners than jazz venues. That problem is exaggerated on week-ends, when bar owners tend to seek out music that is easy to dance and sing along with. But Pete Wat-ters, co-owner of the Zoo, said his outlook on attract-ing customers is different.

“It is a business, and you

can’t lose sight of that, but if you took that to the end you’d just be serving buf-falo wings and watching sports on TV,” Watters said. “I think they should play the music they want to play.”

And play they will, every Tuesday on a black stage surrounded by yellowing posters and audio equip-ment. Even if the tips are small. Even if the crowd is smaller. They’ll keep play-ing.

“We really could do this in someone’s basement,” Morrow said. “But there’s always the chance that someone’s going to appre-ciate what you’re doing. The worst thing that could happen is they don’t want to come back again. They’re not gonna ask for their money back.”

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At first glance, “Seven Chances,” doesn’t seem like a stretch from most comedy movies of today.

A man inherits a fortune in the morning but only gets the money if he can get married by 7 p.m. that evening.

A seemingly perfect concoc-tion for laughter until one real-izes that “Seven Chances” is a silent film.

However, instead of utilizing cheesy jokes, “Seven Chances,” like many other silent films, uses a little help from the organ to bring the film to life.

Brian Pfoltner, director of mu-sic and arts for the fifth annual “Arts for the Soul,” said “Seven Chances” may be just as suc-cessful in humoring audiences today as it was in the `20s.

The showing of “Seven Chances” will be the first event in a series of events hosted by “Arts for the Soul.” A live jazz concert featuring 1920s jazz and local musicians will precede the film.

This is the second year the

silent film portion of the festival has been implemented.

The film will be shown Oct. 2 at 7:30 p.m. at the First Pres-byterian Church in Lincoln, 840 S. 17th St.

With the help of musical ac-companiment and witty plots, the roaring `20s were roaring with laughter from humor-ous silent films such as “Seven Chances,” even without jokes delivered by serial comedy ac-tors like Will Ferrell or John Heder.

“Silent films are a great chance for people to see some-thing that most people don’t get to see anymore,” Pfoltner said.

What makes silent films even more extraterrestrial to the modern movie experience is how they were often accom-panied by musical instruments like the organ.

Clark Wilson, a professional film scorer and concert organ-ist from East Liverpool, Ohio, will accompany “Seven Chanc-es” on the organ. Wilson has accompanied silent films all across the United States, Can-ada and England. He has also

played in venues like the Dis-neyland Concert Hall in Los An-geles, the Academy of Motion Arts and Films and for Turner Classic Films.

Wilson began playing the organ when he was around 9 years old.

“Playing (the organ) was something that I really wanted to do,” Wilson said. “Getting to step on the pedals and making the building shake made me feel powerful and it was a pret-ty awesome feeling for a kid.”

Wilson was inspired to begin playing the organ for silent films when he saw the original 1920s Chicago organist John Muri.

Currently Wilson is working on 45 scores for longer films he will accompany. The 45 doesn’t include the scores he’s working on for smaller scale films.

In the 1920s many films came with musical scores. However, reading the score, watching the film and playing the music proved to be nearly impossible for many organists. To solve this problem, many organists created their own scores.

Wilson has created his own

score for “Seven Chances.” “I usually have to watch a

film like ‘Seven Chances’ five or six times to create a score,” Wilson said. “The entire pro-cess usually runs about two weeks.”

Wilson said that for comedy films like “Seven Chances,” it is important for the score to match the energy and comedy in the film.

Wilson enjoys all aspects of what he does and said the organ accompaniment helps complete the film.

“It’s almost like adding a third dimension to the film,” Wilson said.

For Pfoltner, being able to bring high quality perform-ers like Wilson to Lincoln is what sets “Arts for the Soul” apart from other entertainment events.

“’Arts for the Soul’ hosts va-riety of dance, film and music performers, all of which are high quality performers and we offer these events for rea-sonable ticket prices,” Pfoltner said.

For Wilson, accompanying

silent films is a way to intro-duce something new to audi-ences but it is a unique experi-ence for him as well.

“In a way I get to work with stars who were at the top of what they did in the 1920s,” Wilson said. “Silent films are only partially complete without a score.”

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For the first time in his colle-giate career, Nebraska’s Bene-dikt Lindheim enters the 2011 season in the NCAA preseason rankings.

The senior begins the season at No. 92 and NU coach Kerry McDermott said he’s happy for the Regensburg, Germany na-tive.

“He’s worked hard the four years he’s been here,” McDer-mott said. “In my opinion he deserves to be higher, but I know he has the ability to move up.”

Lindheim said it’s nice to be ranked, but is more worried about how he plays than any-thing else.

“It’s a nice reward for the hard work I’ve shown,” he said. “But for me it’s not that a big of a deal. The most important thing is how I play. My goal is to have fun and give everything I have out on the court. If I lose, that’s fine. What’s important to me is that I gave it my all, and if I did that’s all that matters.”

Lindheim went 15-10 last spring for Nebraska while play-ing at the No. 2, No. 3 and No. 4 singles spots for the Huskers. It was his third consecutive win-ning season.

McDermott said he believes Lindheim’s hard work since the end of last season has to do with his placement.

“His biggest improvement, I think, came last year in the fall

in a tournament in Virginia,” McDermott said. “He lost to a kid in Wake Forest and came off the court and told me, ‘That’s it coach, I’m never going to play like that again.’ The rest of the fall and spring he was a much better player. I had coaches come up to me saying he’s im-proved a lot. He’s been more focused in practice and knows he can do something this year. He’s much stronger, more men-tally focused and mature.”

Lindheim finished the 2011 spring season winning eight of his last 10 matches.

Lindheim attributes his im-provements last season and this season to increasing workouts.

“I’ve been back in Lincoln since July,” Lindheim said. “I’ve been working out and running every day. It’s helped me a whole lot to stay in shape.”

The singles poll isn’t the only preseason ranking in which Lindheim is included.

The Husker is also ranked No. 13 in doubles alongside teammate and fellow German Christopher Aumueller, who also starts the season in the singles preseason rankings at No. 31.

”I’m glad those guys have rankings,” McDermott said. “It’s good to see both of them repre-sent Nebraska and they’re very deserving.”

The pair of seniors went 14-6 last spring and Lindheim said chemistry is what’s helped the two gain success together.

“I’ve known him for a long time,” he said. “The first time we played was when were 10 years old. We started playing our freshman year here and have been playing together since then. It works out re-ally well and it’s awesome. We communicate really well on the court and it’s great to be ranked together.”

McDermott said that Lind-heim’s actions are characteris-tics his teammates look up to.

“He’s very passionate and plays with a lot of emotion,” he said. “He’s the type of guy, as a coach, you want to have on your team. You know he’s ready when you see him getting excited on plays and getting his team riled up and focused. He’s really fun to watch.”

Lindheim added that he’s not sure how Nebraska’s first year in the Big Ten will go, but has a few goals for his last season at Nebraska.

“My goal is to have fun, go out and compete,” he said. “Give everything I have and let what happens happen. Un-til we compete against an op-ponent, you don’t really know how good you are, so I’m re-ally excited to play against new players. I’ve worked hard every day and am in the best shape I’ve ever been in.

“I’m looking forward to play-ing again and I think this will be my best season.”

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Nebraska saw one defen-sive standout return to prac-tice this week in Alfonzo Dennard. Dennard’s return, however, marked a trade-off for the Husker defense.

Defensive tackle Jared Crick didn’t practice Mon-day and left the practice field without pads on Tues-day.

NU defensive coordina-tor Carl Pelini called the senior’s status questionable and said his return is being judged on a day-to-day ba-sis.

Pelini said the coaches are not worried about wear and tear for the lineman from Cozad, Neb.

JeaN-baptiste moves to DefeNse

Stanley Jean-Baptiste is returning to his old side of the ball.

The former wideout from Miami, Fla., has moved

to the NU defense to play cornerback. He found out about the move from the NU coaches after the Husk-ers’ game against Washing-ton.

“ T h e y said that t h e y ’ r e trying to get me on the field and t h e y ’ r e trying to get me s o m e p l a y i n g time so coach Bo spoke to me about it, and I said that I’m all right with it,” Jean-Baptiste said.

The coaches said the 6-foot-3, 220-pound athlete can help with specific as-signments. The Miami na-tive played safety in high school.

“I thought they (second-ary) played good against

Washington, but I guess they need help at nickel or something like that,” Jean-Baptiste said. “They’re try-ing to rotate everybody in. The coaches know what they’re doing, so I guess it’s on them.”

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Pelini said cornerback Alfonzo Dennard is doing well this week after return-ing to practice on Monday.

“He’s at 99 percent and that 1 percent is the men-tal part,” Pelini said. “Just feeling like you can let yourself go and go play football. And I think every day he’s out here on the practice field builds confi-dence and that’s what he needs right now is confi-dence that that leg’s ready to go.”

Pelini said that how Den-nard feels later in the week will determine how limited his playing time may be.

CriCk NameD to gooD works team

Senior Jared Crick has been announced as a mem-ber of the 2011 Allstate AFCA Good Works Team.

The honor is awarded each fall to 22 c o l l e g e a t h l e t e s for their c o n t r i -b u t i o n s to the commu-nity off the field. From the 22 play-ers, com-prised of half BCS schools and half FCS schools, a cap-tain will be selected by a fan vote.

Crick is the 11th player in Husker history to be nomi-nated for the award and the first since Dane Todd in 2006.— comPIled by Jeff Packer

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Entering the third and fi-nal round of the Kansas Invitational, the Nebraska men’s golf team was situ-ated in last place out of the 12 teams competing.

The Huskers looked to improve upon a two-round total of 611 strokes — 30 shots off the pace set by Louisiana-Lafayette, but only 10 strokes away from sixth place.

Monday night, as the players were preparing to go to sleep, NU junior Neil Dufford sent a text to try to motivate his teammates.

“Top five is easily within reach if we have s o m e g o o d rounds,” Duf ford said in the mes-sage.

B u t N U w o u l d s t rugg le on the last day also. The Huskers finished the tournament in 12th place with a total score of 919, seven strokes behind 11th-place Drake.

In the final round at Al-vamar Golf Club in Law-rence, Kan., the Huskers were led by No. 3 player Scott Willman, who fin-ished with a 2-over-par 74. That score gave Willman a three-round sum of 222, which tied for 15th place.

Following Willman in the NU effort were Manuel Lavin and Dufford, the No. 1 and No. 2 players, who tied for 44th place with a score of 231 for the three rounds. Each of them card-ed 6-over-par 78s on the last day.

After his text message

the previous night, Duf-ford hoped the team would play well and make a run at a strong finish.

“It just didn’t happen,” he said.

NU’s Kevin Gillick, who had his score go uncount-ed toward the team total because he participated as an individual, fired a third round 76 to improve upon an opening round 81 and tie for 52nd. Tying for 56th place was Ross Dickson. He joined Lavin and Dufford with a final round 78 but tallied 235 strokes for the event. Austin Zimmerman, the No. 5 player for the Huskers, shot 80 in the first round and declined from there to finish 69th.

Dufford said part of the reason they played well in their first event (a first-place finish in the Fairway Club Invitational in Nebraska City) was that when some-one had a bad round, other players had good rounds to complement it.

In Lawrence, this was not

the case. The team’s top rounds in the Kansas Invita-tional were 73, 73 and 74. In the first event, NU players carded rounds of 72, 67 and 72 to outweigh the poorer rounds.

“We know everyone has good days and bad days,” Dufford said. “It’s over with. There is nothing you can do to change it.”

Following the disappoint-ing result in Kansas, the team will work on its mis-takes in practice to prepare for the next event, the D.A. Weibring Intercollegiate in Normal, Ill. Dufford said that while they will not dwell on their poor play Monday and Tuesday, they will use it as motivation.

“How are we going to show that we are better than what we just showed?” he asked, challenging his team-mates.

“We have potential to play well as a team.”— comPIled by zacH tegler

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The streak is finished. For the first time since

Nov. 28, 2004, Ohio State finds itself devoid of an Associated Press rank-ing, snapping a 103-week stronghold on poll quali-fication. Three weeks into the 2011 season, the effects of a scandal-marred offsea-son are evident for head coach Luck Fickell and his offensively deficient squad of underclassmen.

“We know we need to get better,” he said. “We had a hard time throwing the football. We had some younger guys out there. That’s no excuse.”

The Buckeyes completed just four passes on Satur-day. Committing half as many turnovers as com-pleted passes, the scarlet and grey were no match for an agile Miami Hurri-canes team buried in simi-lar allegations of foul play. The Hurricanes ran away with a 24-6 victory on the strength of a stout pass-ing defense against two inexperienced Buckeye quarterbacks in senior Joe Bauserman and freshman Braxton Miller. Combined, the two quarterbacks com-pleted 4 of 18 passes for a grand total of 35 yards through the air. And poor play wasn’t the only con-cern with Bauserman. Television cameras appar-ently caught the quarter-back smiling and laughing in the final minutes of the losing effort. Fickell quick-ly came to his defense.

“I know Joe hurts every bit as bad as I do,” he said. “Just like me up here, I smile and I show that I’m happy and everything’s go-ing great when my stom-ach down inside is some-times in a knot.”

The Buckeyes archri-val, Michigan, was on the other side of a blowout vic-tory Saturday. Coach Brady Hoke’s Wolverines domi-nated Eastern Michigan on both sides of the ball in front of 110,000 fans at The Big House.

Hoke faces off against his former team when the Wol-verines welcome San Diego St. to Ann Arbor next Satur-day. Faced with the pros-pect of competing against his own recruits, Hoke was forced to downplay the pregame media hoopla.

“You know, I think peo-ple may make a big deal about it,” he said. “They’re a travel team; 70 guys are coming. And our guys ... you know, San Diego State

playing Michigan, that’s re-ally all it is. It was the right opportunity at the right time.”

Also making Big Ten headlines this week was Iowa. The Hawkeyes put up 21 points in a fourth-quarter rally to defeat vis-iting Pittsburgh in what Iowa sports information confirmed was the great-est comeback in the team’s history. After falling behind 24-3 by the three-minute mark of the third quarter, the hopes of a comeback appeared grim for Iowa. But for coach Kirk Ferentz, it was just a matter of for-getting the past.

“Last week certainly was a real good win for us,” he said. “It was almost like two different games, the first 40 minutes and then the last 20.”

It was smooth sailing once quarterback James Vandenberg found his groove. Pittsburgh coach Todd Graham knew his team was in for some trou-ble once Iowa managed a defensive stop, cutting the lead to 10.

“All of a sudden we

started backing up, loos-ening up,” Graham said. “We stopped being able to get pressure on the quar-terback and they got us back on our heels. I’d say right around the first score in the first quarter, when they cut it to (a 10-point deficit) was when I felt like we were struggling and guys were fatigued a little bit.”

The Hawkeyes cruised to a 31-27 victory.

In spite of the Buckeyes’ AP poll exit and Iowa’s ab-sence, the Big Ten remains tied for the conference lead with five top-25 squads, and is one of only three confer-ences nationally with two or more teams ranked in the top 10 of both polls.

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Nebraska football because I was so deeply imbedded with CU football,” Bell said. “But once I got here, the philosophy is, ‘We need to pound the rock.’ I adapted quick. I’ve got no problem with running the football.”

But Bell didn’t get a chance to show off that willingness to block, or any of his other skills, last year. He was red-shirted and put on the scout team without having a sit-down discussion about it with any of the coaches. He was disappointed, but is ad-amant that he didn’t second-guess any decisions made by the coaching staff.

Turns out, the coaches had it right. Bell spent all last year practicing against NU’s cornerbacks, three of which are in the NFL now. The other, Alfonzo Dennard, was considered by many as a preseason All-American this year.

“I got a chance to play with some of the best DBs in the country,” Bell said. “They made me so much better. If I could talk to those guys, I couldn’t explain to them how thankful I am that I got to play with them.”

With the emergence of Bell, Jamal Turner and the always dangerous Kyler

Reed, Taylor Martinez has a deep group of receivers to stretch the field. While some teams are loading up to stop Rex Burkhead in the running game, there have been opportunities to burn the opposition over the top. Thanks to the big-play potential of the young guns, the Huskers can now take advantage in a way that would amaze fans from the Temptations era.

“Our receivers haven’t had much of a presence in the past,” Bell said. “We’re trying to change that.”

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courtesy PHotoLuke Fickell’s Ohio State Buckeyes were only able to complete a total of four passes Saturday against Miami. OSu fell to 2-1 on the season after the 24-6 loss.

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We had a hard time throwing

the football. We had some younger guys out there. That’s no excuse”

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also seen an increased role in the offense this season with two catches for 16 through three games.

Kinnie, heralded unani-mously by his fellow receiv-ers for his l e a d e r s h i p , seemed any-thing but bit-ter in analyz-ing the play of his young cohorts.

“I’m just glad they’re playing well,” Kinnie said. “They’re pushing me and keeping my head up as well. That’s a good thing.”

Though he’s remained positive, less playing time is never too encouraging.

“It’s tough at times,” Kin-nie said of not starting last week against Washington. “I worked my butt off this summer and things are playing out the way they are right now.”

“But we’re winning,” he added. “And that’s the most important part.”

Kinnie, who has had several drops this season,

insists that his decreased production cannot be attrib-uted to mechanics.

“I’m not going to stress myself about catching the

ball, because I know how to do that,” Kinnie said. “It’s all men-tal. It’s just a little hump and adver-sity that I know I’m going to get over so we’ll be all right. I just have to keep push-ing and keep

my attitude right.”Keeping his attitude

“right” hasn’t seemed to have been a problem for the senior who is currently in the top 10 on Nebraska’s career receptions list. While it remains to be seen if Kin-nie will put up the num-bers he did last year, Kinnie himself doesn’t see getting more touches as priority No. 1.

“Really, all that matters is that we’re 3-0,” Kinnie said.

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BRANDON KINNIEnu senior receiver

It’s tough at times. I worked my butt off this summer and things are playing out the way they are r ight now.

fIle PHoto by PatrIck breen | daIly nebraskanSenior receiver Brandon Kinnie’s production is down this season, but he said Nu’s 3-0 start is more important than stats.

will create new challenges.“You think through some

of the teams that we’re go-ing to be playing and I think each team is going to be a huge challenge for us,” middle blocker Jordan Wil-berger said. “They’re all go-ing to be really tough.”

For Cook, the new con-ference is creating welcome new challenges.

“It’s going to be new and exciting,” he said. “Because it’s going to be all-new teams ... it’s going to be a great challenge but I think it’s going to be fun, as well.”

The significant context has players excited, but they are still trying to stay grounded and ready to play.

“All of us are really ex-cited and really amped up to play,” middle blocker Brooke Delano said. “We also have to remember on Wednesday that it’s just

another team.”Nebraska has taken that

attitude to heart. Even though PSU should win the game based on rankings, team captain Wilberger is reminding her team to keep a level head on its shoul-ders.

“Every team is beatable,” she said. “We just have to keep that in mind. We have strengths. They have strengths, but then they also have weaknesses that we’ll have to attack and the coaches are going to do a good job getting us ready for those.”

The importance of the game is an appropriate jux-taposition to the importance of the move Nebraska has made to switch conferences this season, Cook said.

“The fact that we’ve had so much history with Penn State,” he said, “and the

fact that we’ve had so many great matches with them and the fact of how much success they’ve had. I think it’s an honor. But it’s also fitting of the magnitude of us going to the Big Ten.”

Despite the hype, NU knows they can’t blow this game out of proportion. There will still be 19 regular season matches remaining against Big Ten opponents after Wednesday’s match.

“Yeah, we’re playing Penn State as the first game in the conference,” Wilberger said. “But it’s still the first game in the conference. We still have the rest of all those games to continue getting better. It’s not who wins this game. It’s who wins the tournament games. It’s who wins the national champi-onship.”

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fIle PHoto by betHany scHmIdt | daIly nebraskanNebraska will open its Big Ten Conference schedule Wednesday night against Penn State at the Nu Coliseum. The Nittany Lions are 1-3 this season against top 15 teams.

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Much of the time when Nebraska re-ceiver Kenny Bell speaks to the me-dia, he has a big pair of headphones draped around his neck, waiting to be slid back on top of his afro when the interview session concludes.

Finally, a curious reporter asked what Bell is always listening to. The answer came as a surprise.

“Usually what I’m listening to is old-school stuff,” Bell said. “Tempta-tions. Earth, Wind and Fire. I listen to disco funk a lot. I listen to a lot of stuff. Rap music isn’t one of my favor-ites. I listen to country and oldies.”

His teammates know what comes through those headphones, but Bell said they don’t give him a hard time

about it. Even if they did tease him, he wouldn’t care. The redshirt fresh-man said he wishes he could have been a teenager when the Tempta-tions were popular.

“Obviously I listen to stuff way be-yond my years,” Bell said. “I always say I wish I was born in 1955. That would have been the time to live.”

If Bell had been born back in 1955, the atmosphere he would find at Ne-braska would be very different. The Huskers finished with a 5-5 record and scored just 12.7 points per game that year, getting shut out three times.

It’s safe to say Bell’s style fits to-day’s up-tempo Huskers much better.

This NU team is offensively explo-sive. Big plays have become routine, and it’s only getting better. The Husk-ers have progressively scored more

points every game.Bell is a big reason for that. After

barely getting on the field during NU’s season-opening win, Bell has showcased his blazing speed in the past two contests. He has three catch-es for 101 yards the past two games, and his 33.7 yards per catch is second in the Big Ten only to Michigan’s Ju-nior Hemingway.

Bell’s production has increased each week, but fellow receiver Quin-cy Enunwa doesn’t think that’s a re-sult of Bell improving. He’s just get-ting the opportunities now.

“He’s always had it in him,” Enun-wa said. “He just hasn’t had a chance to display it. Obviously you’ve seen it the last two games.”

When Bell first got on campus, he wondered when those opportunities

were going to come. He arrived from Boulder in 2010, a diehard Colorado fan in Husker territory. He said Ne-braska’s storied football program made the decision to bypass his be-loved Buffaloes an easy one.

“It doesn’t get much better than here,” Bell said. “The coaching staff, the gameday atmosphere, the dedica-tion to academics ... it’s really second to none.”

And though the speedy Bell is 6-foot-1 and 180 pounds with great size and quickness for a passing of-fense, he doesn’t mind getting his hands dirty with blocking.

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Big ten opener features two of nation’s bestROBBy KORTHDaily NebraskaN

Penn State isn’t an ordinary opponent.

The Nittany Lions are ranked fifth in the nation and are coming into Lincoln hav-ing won the last four volley-ball national championships.

That isn’t what Nebraska

fans are excited about, though. This is the start of Big Ten Conference play. Coach John Cook said that when he looked at the schedule and saw PSU as the opening match, he recognized the his-toric implications this match might have.

“I think it’s great,” he said. “It’ll be the showcase of

college volleyball Wednesday night. There will probably be a lot of attention on it.”

This game has been marked on the Huskers’ calendars since day one. Preparing for Big Ten play was the goal of the non-conference schedule.

“This is what they’ve been waiting for all year, to get into the Big Ten,” Cook said. “This

is where all the hype has been about.”

Nebraska comes into the match ranked 10th in the nation and hopes to put to-gether an impressive match against the first opponent that has outranked them all sea-son.

The last time Penn State and Nebraska met was in the 2008

NCAA semifinals. PSU was able to hold off a late Husker rally inside the Qwest Center to go on to win its second of four national titles against Stanford the next night.

However, the Nittany Lions have fallen on hard times this year against quality oppo-nents. PSU is 1-3 against top-15 schools, with losses to No.

2 Stanford, No. 8 Texas and No. 15 Oregon.

Despite the roadblocks, though, there is still a historic feeling to the game.

Nebraska is getting ready to start Big Ten play and it feels like the depth of the league

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fIle PHoto by kyle bruggeman | daIly nebraskanRedshirt freshman Kenny Bell is an explosive receiver, as he showed on this 50-yard grab, but he is also willing to help downfield in Nu’s run game too.

Nebraska’s most experienced receiver lacking in production department

Kinnie remains positive through

struggles

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Brandon Kinnie had 44 catches last season. This season, he has two.

Though the Husker of-fense has only taken the field for three games this season, through the first three games last season Kinnie hauled in 14 for 181 yards.

Perhaps more telling than those numbers are the de-creasing number of snaps the Fort Scott (Kansas) product has seen through the last game and a half. There were instances dur-ing last week’s game with Washington in which the Huskers lined up in four re-ceiver sets without Kinnie on the field. But despite the smaller role on the field, Kinnie’s role on the team remains unaffected.

“He’s still as much of a leader as he was before,” sophomore receiver Quincy Enunwa said. “BK won’t ever change. He’s really an outspoken guy that will al-ways pick us up when we need him.”

Enunwa is one of the handful of freshmen and sophomores who have seen dramatically increased time and attention on Saturdays, causing a bit of a cognitive dissonance for onlookers.

Coaches, players, fans and media alike have been raving about the young tal-ented receivers throughout the spring and early fall. In order for these players to make an impact, they must first see the field. And this means they must take play-ing time from someone else.

“There’s just a lot of talent coming up,” Enunwa said. “I know BK has a lot of tal-ent and he’s trying to get back in there and get back in the groove.”

Freshman receivers Ken-ny Bell and Jamal Turner were not on the field last season when Kinnie ac-crued 500 yards. This sea-son they both have more catches and receiving yards than Kinnie.

Turner leads the team in receiving yards with 116 on six catches, while Boulder, Colo. native, Bell, recently showed off his big play ability by catching a 50-yard pass from Taylor Mar-tinez on the first play of the Washington game.

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