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FRONT PAGE PHOTO BY JAMES WOOLDRIDGE | DNA University of Nebraska - Lincoln student wins a musical chairs competition at the Relay for Life event in the UNL City Campus Rec Center. Relay for Life went from 6 p.m. Saturday to 6 a.m. Sunday and raises money for the American Cancer Society.

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Campus drag show raises record donations, draws 500+AIDAN CONNOLLY

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“Ladies and gentlemen and you beautiful non-binary people…” began the welcoming state-ment at Friday’s Kings and Queens Drag Show, co-sponsored by The Change, Spectrum UNL and the LGBTQA+ Resource Center.

The drag show served as a fundraiser for the LGBTQA+ Resource Center and Spectrum UNL, and money collected will go toward send-ing students to a conference on LGBTQA issues.

Several people lined up to get seats when the doors to the Centennial Room in the Nebras-ka Union opened a half-hour before the event began.

More than 500 people attended, many there to support performing friends or to learn about drag.

One of the performers, Tanner Reckling, said he enjoys seeing new people at drag events.

“Exposing people to something they are so unfamiliar with is fantastic,” Reckling said. “Ev-eryone’s like, ‘Oh, god. Drag. This is what my mother warned me about.’”

Marcus Woodman works for the LGBTQA+ Resource Center and volunteered for the event.

“One of my old friends from fi rst grade is performing tonight, so I’m looking forward to that,” Woodman said.

Woodman said he began working at the LGBTQA+ Resource Center because he knew it would be a welcoming environment for him as a gay, trans person.

As the beginning of the event drew closer, attendees listened to crowd favorites such as “YMCA,” “Cupid Shuffl e” and “What Does the Fox Say?,” while staff and volunteers struggled to place enough chairs for the growing crowd.

After Spectrum advisor Robert Lipscomb welcomed everyone, the lights dimmed save for the stage lights, and the performers began their dancing and lip-syncing performances.

Michael Johnson kicked things off with her performance as “Travis Tea.” Johnson dressed in a safari outfi t while dancing to “The Bad Touch” by The Bloodhound Gang, which included the lyrics, “You and me, baby, ain’t nothing but mammals, so let’s do it like they do on the Dis-covery Channel.”

Later, Vicki Klafter performed as “Earl ‘Fif-ty Shades of’ Grey” with her best friend Gina Keplinger as “Chad.”

“I’ve been looking forward to this day since the last drag show in October,” Klafter said.

PHOTO BY ALLISON HESS | DNTanner Reckling puts on makeup to transform into Vanilla Wonderbread at the Kings and Queens Drag Show in the Nebraska Union.


“Drag in college is a really cool opportunity for those who loved theater in high school who aren’t doing theater to still perform and get in front of our friends. It’s also playing with gen-der, which is a lot of fun.”

Klafter and Keplinger chose to perform to the song, “Beautiful Soul” by Jesse McCartney.

“That was our kitchen dancing song for years,” Klafter said. “We would sing that song to each other and dance to it, so I suggested that we do drag and we were like, ‘Let’s do ‘Beau-tiful Soul’ by Jesse McCartney’, because what could be more perfect?”

Klafter said she chose her name change be-cause she wanted it to reflect her personality.

“I wanted to do really strong, sexual, dark things, but then I realized that I’m a fun person,” Klafter said. “I love tea, and I’m a hipster but I also wanted to do something kind of sexual.”

As performers danced and lip-synced, dol-lar bills were illuminated by the stage lights as attendees offered them as tips.

Emma Top was working at the Neihardt Residence Hall front desk before the event.

“People kept coming up to me and asking for change,” Top said. “A lot of people asked for 20 one-dollar bills so that they could tip the performers.”

After the first half, tips totaled $307.Klafter performed a solo piece in the second

half to “Classic” by MKTO. After her perfor-mance, she said it was a lot different performing alone.

“If you mess up or get awkward, it’s just

you, but I love attention so that’s okay,” Klafter said.

Klafter said she really enjoyed the crowd’s reaction.

“They were amazing,” Klafter said. “In the fall drag show, I thought they were very respon-sive, and this is like twice that. It’s incredible.”

Reckling also praised the crowd’s reaction.“This is the best crowd we’ve ever had,”

Reckling said. “They were cheering loudly. They were donating a lot of money to the fundraiser.”

Trent Battershaw also performed as Anasta-cia Storm and finished out the event with a performance to Cascada’s “Evacuate the Dance-floor.” Audience members stood and clapped along.

After the event was over, volunteers count-ed the proceeds and attendance clickers. The event brought in more than $1,000 and more than 500 attendees.

Derrick Gulley, volunteer coordinator for the LGBTQA+ Resource Center, said the rev-enue will cover one quarter of the conference costs.

“This was one of our best drag shows,” Gul-ley said. “I think students now look forward and know about our shows and expect it to hap-pen.”

Reckling agreed. “This is a student drag show and it’s always impressive what our stu-dents can do,” he said. “It’s amazing.”

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PHOTO BY ALLISON HESS | DNTrent Battershaw performs as Anastacia Storm at the Kings and Queens Drag Show in the Nebraska Union.

Perlman reflects, says goodbye in his final ‘Perl’EMILY MCMINN

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Chancellor Harvey Perlman dreamed of playing the five-stringed banjo on the Lied Center for Per-forming Arts stage before his time as University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s chancellor was complete.

UNL broadcasting professor Rick Alloway told the crowd of hundreds at the Lied Center Friday afternoon this was his goal from the time he took the position.

Perlman’s YouTube series called “Perls of Knowledge” entertained students, faculty and staff in 2013. Friday, Perlman used one final “Perl” to say goodbye after 15 years as chancellor of the Univer-sity of Nebraska-Lincoln.

Leaving the campus changed from when he started as interim chancellor in 2000, Perlman is stepping down from his position on June 1.

The audience erupted in laughter when Jim O’Hanlon, former interim dean of many colleges at UNL and an ongoing joke of the speech, came on stage.

“For some reason, hu-man resources selected me to present this very special certificate of appreciation to you,” O’Hanlon said as he handed Perlman a certificate of appreciation signed by Perlman himself.

Alloway introduced Perlman with a brief his-tory of the university’s accomplishments during his tenure as chancellor and called Perlman the “uni-versity’s happiest chancellor.”

Just before the time Perlman took over as full-time chancellor in 2001, the Omaha World-Herald ran a series of stories criticizing UNL, called “Con-

fronting Mediocrity.” In the ensuing 15 years, Perl-man worked to restore the university’s reputation, Alloway said.

Rock drummer Tommy Lee visited, and UNL was the 12th university to join the Big Ten confer-ence. After enrollment increased 12 percent over those 15 years, Perlman is leaving UNL to welcome new ideas from a new chancellor.

There are currently three candidates for the po-sition, and University of Nebraska President Hank Bounds is projected to make a decision by June 1, when Perlman leaves office.

Alloway said Perlman’s work at UNL defines his era as productivity changing the university into a Big Ten academic powerhouse.

Perlman took a few shots at former football coach Bo Pelini.

“If my success as chancellor is to be measured by the football season, it would be regarded as a failure,” he said.

Students from the Glenn Korff School of Music recapped all of Perlman’s ac-complishments in a song.

“He’ll always be a husk-er, our Nebraska chancellor, Harvey was the answer,” The Big Red Singers sang in a video to the tune of Billy Joel’s “We Didn’t Start the Fire.”

Perlman was also intro-duced by the men’s acapella group Rocktavo. Professor

Paul Barnes also performed on the piano.Perlman said he is proud of the university and

state’s increasing diversity, which he emphasized as important for the continued success of the uni-versity.

“Increasingly diverse by religion, by nation-ality, by gender, by sexual orientation,” he said.

“However impactful our research, however stimu-lating our teaching, however effective our engage-ment with our community, the excellence of this university will increasingly be measured by its success in embracing diverse communities by both respecting their differences and recognizing our commonalities.”

Perlman left the stage as his final “Perl” video played on the big screen. In the video, Perlman held a banjo as the camera panned behind him and the twangy notes filled the air.

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PHOTO BY JULIAN TIRTADJAJA | DNUniversity of Nebraska - Lincoln Chancellor Harvey Perlman gives his final speech as chan-cellor at the Lied Center for the Performing Arts.

If my success as chancellor is to be measured by the

football season, it would be regarded as a failure.”

HARVEY PERLMANunl chancellor


Relay for Life benefits cancer patients, survivors

EMMA OLSON DN

Nine people in purple shirts stood tall un-der a balloon arch as they prepared to take the first lap around a track. Little paper bags symbolizing loved ones who fought cancer led the way alongside the crowd that would cheer them on their walk. The song “Eye of the Tiger” rang out over the speaker as the nine cancer survivors grabbed a banner and began the Relay for Life on Saturday, April 2.

The survivors took the first lap by them-selves. Then 12 caregivers joined the survi-vors for the second lap. The third lap includ-ed all participants. Teams then had to keep a member of their team on the track at all times for the next 12 hours.

More than 450 people attended the annual Re-lay for Life event at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s Campus Recre-ation Center. The Relay for Life community has more than 4 million mem-bers nationwide.

The opening ceremony began with a video from Kristen Kuhn, a sophomore bio-logical sciences major. Kuhn was diagnosed a form of bone cancer in January. She had an

MRI and the doctors found a bulging disc in her back. Kuhn suspected her migraines and blurred vision were more than just the culmination of stress from the end of the se-mester and finals. After bone scans, CT scans and MRIs, the doctors found two egg-sized tumors in her esophagus and pelvis.

“I begged God to please be anything but cancer,” Kuhn said.

Kuhn is currently living at home in Oma-ha as she undergoes chemotherapy.

Kuhn said she is doing her best to not let the adversity bring her down and that she has never felt so truly loved.

Kelsey Pflieger, a sophomore and a mem-ber of Kappa Alpha Theta, has participated in Relay for Life eight times.

“(Cancer patients and survivors) need to know they have our support and awareness,” Pflieger said. “They can feel less helpless.”

The executive committee aimed to raise more than $30,000 by the end of the fund-raising period. By 6 a.m. the event raised $19,763.70. Donations can still be made at the event’s site.

“Fundraising helps effect research and is a way to help those who are battling the disease,” said Sarah Schalm, the president of the club and a senior at UNL.

“We can help show the patients they can finish the fight while we find a cure so that someday no one has to hear the words ‘you have cancer,’” Schalm

said. The executive committee was excited and

hoped this year would be the best year yet.

Emma Davis, a senior at Northeast High School who plans to attend UNL in the fall, was one of the survivors or “heroes of hope” for the event.

“I knew I was really sick but (my parents and doctors) didn’t make it a big deal,” Davis said. “They didn’t want me to know how sick I was.”

She was diagnosed with Leukemia when

she was 5 years old and fought for two years until she went into remission.

“This is a great experience that raises awareness and money for research,” Davis said. “It is such a great opportunity to raise money for a cause that I believe in.”

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PHOTO BY ALLISON HESS | DNAndi Edmister and Dani Lamer collect donations in downtown Lincoln for the Relay for Life event. The donations benefit the American Cancer Society.

More than 450 people attended Saturday’s 12-hour event, raising nearly $20,000 by early Sunday morning.

I begged God to please be anything

but cancer.”

KRISTEN KUHNsophomore biological sciences major

Students build toy shed for domestic violence shelterMARCELLA MERCER

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As part of a service project on Saturday, April 9, the University of Nebraska-Lincoln chap-ter of the Associated General Contractors of America will construct a new shed for a Lin-coln domestic violence shelter.

The AGC is a construction industry trade association that also provides networking and service opportunities for university stu-dents seeking to enter the field.

In the past, the AGC chapter has painted a lounge and built lockers for the People’s City Mission. Its work with the Friendship Home brought to light the shelter ’s need for a new shed to store children’s outdoor toys.

The UNL AGC chapter president Nick Fowler said the idea for the shed came after he learned he could receive funds from the AGC building chapter for a service project. He contacted Matt Ramm, a previous UNL AGC president, for ideas and heard about the Friendship Home, a shelter and advocacy center for victims of domestic violence and their children.

“It was a wide enough net of anything I could get my hands on I’d throw my time and effort at,” he said.

Ramm said that about half of the shed’s cost will be paid through funds from the AGC building chapter, but the rest comes from the chapter’s fundraising efforts. On Husker football game days, members of the chapter help manage the parking in the lots

near University Suites and receive a portion of the profits. These money allows them to fund their projects, he said.

The shed project will involve the demoli-tion of the old shed and construction of the new one, which will resemble a little barn. Jon Mueller, a senior construction manage-ment major and the UNL AGC chapter’s recruitment chair, said that the current shed

was in disrepair. “Right now it’s plywood that was paint-

ed green at some point in the last 50 years and its falling in on itself,” he said. “You can barely open the door.”

The organization plans to have about 20 members come to the shelter to construct the

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Students spend spring break in Uganda

LINDSAY ESPARRAGODN

For 13 engineering and business students at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, spring break was not a getaway of relaxation by the beach or a Colo-rado ski trip.

For these students, spring break brought a trip to Uganda and an opportunity to help improve a women-run business there. The students prepared for the week-long trip since the end of last semes-ter.

The business students worked to develop a business plan to carry out in the U.S. while the en-gineering students designed and built a machine to speed up the process of making the products.

The project offered an opportunity to apply knowledge while making an impact in a different country, according to the business administration professor, John Kalu Osiri, who assisted the stu-dents.

“Often times, I tell students, ‘If you can find a way to connect what you’re doing to help other people, it can go a long way in helping you have a sense of fulfillment,’” Osiri said.

Kinawataka Women Initiatives works with underprivileged women in Uganda. The women’s work has made a positive environmental impact in Uganda – products such as bags and doormats are made from recycled plastic straws collected around the country.

The straws are collected, washed, sterilized and dried in the sun. But the process of flattening the straws with a knife-edge and then weaving them is what keeps the women from expanding the number of products.

Flattening just one straw may take a woman one or two minutes.

The machine completely eliminates the flat-tening step for the women. Flattening the straws will go from one straw per minute to 100 straws per minute.

But the machine wasn’t installed without a little struggle along the way.

“Navigating everything between the United States and another country was a challenge,” said senior mechanical engineering major Maggie Clay. “There were unseeable issues with shipping and power supply. We had to come up with solu-tions on the fly.”

Madame Benedicta had to make a couple of calls to contacts in local industries and govern-ment to clear customs and allow the students to pick up the machine. Students are still working on increasing the local power supply.

Still, the students experienced the rewarding feeling of seeing the machine actually work its magic.

“We had this sense of completion with it be-cause we did our job,” Clay said. “While we were there we weren’t quite sure whether or not we would even have the machine in time to install it and work with it. So it was really rewarding to get it up and running and see the results of it.”

The Ugandan women were just as ecstatic, Clay said. They expressed their appreciation not only with words, but with a special dance the women do to show gratitude.

And because of what is done with the money, the students can’t blame them for their excitement.

Sales help to provide income for the members to purchase schoolbooks, pay school fees and cov-er food and healthcare costs. Profits are also used to support 15 orphans from across Uganda taken in by Madame Benedicta, the executive director.

Benedicta is in her ‘60s, but age hasn’t changed her selflessness.

“Madame Benedicta is very passionate,” Osiri said. “There’s a spark and fire in her eyes. You can tell she’s doing this to empower women and young girls. Walking into her home and seeing the

15 bunk beds for the adopted girls really touched me.”

The project hopes to create a ripple effect start-ing with the one machine and one business plan and then assisting Benedicta help the environ-ment, women and children simultaneously.

The trip wasn’t all work. The students went on a safari and stopped by a couple of local markets, nightclubs and bars during their time there. But the entrepreneurship conference at Kyambogo University, where they networked and presented the business plan, was one of the most enjoyable parts for some.

“Working with students from other cultures is so beneficial,” senior business administration major Sarah Huebner said. “I think sometimes in America we get the idea that the way we view business and progress and success is universal –

it’s not.” The work isn’t done for the group. The engi-

neering students are staying in contact with the Uganda engineering students to assist them with any concerns or questions.

They’re also working toward creating a Rec-ognized Student Organization to help sell the women’s products in the states. Huebner has already started by placing some products in Gi-anna’s Java and Gelato to see if they will sell.

Osiri called the students some of the most pas-sionate students he’s ever worked with.

“They’re leaving behind a legacy here at UNL,” Osiri said.

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University of Nebraska-Lincoln students bring machine, business plan to Ugandan women’s business.

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Minor arrested in connection with sexual assaultsEMMA OLSON

DNOn Wednesday, March 30 about 12:45 a.m., officers responded to a distur-bance around 16th and R streets. The female University of Nebraska-Lincoln student who reported the disturbance said a non-UNL affiliated male grabbed her buttocks while she was walking. She provided a description that helped officers search the area and find the male described.Another incident late in the week was reported as an assault. The two cases were found to be related. Sgt. Doug Petersen said police arrested a minor in connection with the assaults.Also on March 30 about 3 a.m., of-

ficers responded to a fight in the park-ing lot north of Harper Hall. Non-UNL student Shawn Cronland and a female UNL student were determined to have been fighting. The pair had been in a relationship for three to four years, police said. The victim was found with several visible injuries on her body. Four interviewed witnesses said they suspected Cronland had caused the injuries. Cronland was cited and jailed for third-degree domestic assault. Police are still investigating. On Saturday, April 2 about 12:15 a.m., officers responded to an assault tak-ing place on 17th Street. UNL student William Scharf was contacted and he admitted to having consumed alcohol

at a party. He was found to have a fake ID. Police said Scharf opened a vehicle door while it was moving, causing a passenger to fall onto the road. Scharf attempted to exit the vehicle while the passenger tried to keep him in the ve-hicle. Scharf then reportedly punched the passenger in the face. He reported pain and discomfort as well as pur-sued charges against Scharf. Scharf was cited and released for minor in possession of alcohol, possession of false ID and cited and jailed for third-degree simple assault.

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Study: Students now earn better grades for similar work

BAILEY SCHULZDN

College students today are getting better grades while producing the same level of work, according to a study.

The website uses research found by Stu-art Rojstaczer, a former professor at Duke University, and Christopher Healy, a profes-sor at Furman University. The website was last updated on March 29 and uses data from the last 70 years from more than 400 schools in the U.S., with a combined enrollment of more than 4 million undergraduates.

Students are in what Rojstaczer calls the “Consumer Era,” according to his website. With students paying so much for college and its subsequential debt, professors are un-der more pressure to give higher grades.

Rojstaczer said on his website “when you treat a student as a customer, the customer is, of course, always right.”

According to Rojstaczer’s website, grade inflation began during the Vietnam War. Be-fore the war, “C”s were the most awarded grades on college campuses. But once the war started, professors felt pressure to give male students better grades to prevent them from failing school and becoming eligible for the draft.

When the war ended, the rise in grades leveled out again, only to rise once again during the Consumer Era, which began in the early 1980s and continues to this day.

Rojstaczer’s research shows GPAs have been rising on average 0.1 points per decade since the 1980s, with the average college student GPA in 2013 at 3.15.

Additionally, the number of “A”s given out has increased 5 to 6 percent per decade. Today, it’s the most common grade at an av-erage four-year college, and has been since the 1990s.

Stephen Behrendt, an English professor at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, wrote in an email he believes there is a lot of sen-

timent on campus about grade inflation and that professors feel more pressure to give students better grades.

While the change may be small and slow, “most professors believe that they are now assigning much less work in most courses than they used to do even as recently as ten years ago,” Behrendt wrote.

Behrendt said many professors are frus-trated because they feel students are not putting the time or effort into their studies, whether it be because their time is spent working or just from lack of interest.

“And yet everyone – students and faculty both – feel more and more pressure about grades,” he wrote.

But not every faculty member is con-cerned about grade inflation. Beth Doll, the associate dean and professor for the College of Education and Human Sciences, said in her 15 years of working at UNL, she hasn’t seen grade inflation.

“I don’t think there have been detect-able changes in the last five years,” she said. “Now, if you want to go back decades, I would guess there probably have been.”

Doll said some programs within her col-lege, such as the teacher education program, tend to avoid grade inflation because of its high standards.

Doll said the program has changed with-in the past five years, and now places higher standards for students who want a teaching certificate. Some of these changes within the college include raising the standards for tests and the GPA students need at graduation.

Although it’s possible to get into a teach-er education program with less than a 3.0

GPA, Doll said it’s dif-ficult because the col-lege is looking to ad-mit students who will qualify for the Nebraska Department of Educa-tion credentials when they leave and finish the program.

“To some extent,” she said, “anything we have about rising grades

and the junior and senior education courses is going to be confounded by the fact that you have to have a higher grade point aver-age now to get into those courses.”

John Bailey, a professor at the Glenn Korff School of Music who teaches private lessons, said the music school is another that tends to avoid grade inflation because of its high standards.

Students audition before they are accept-ed into the program, something that sepa-

rates it from other majors. “The Glenn Korff School of Music is insu-

lated from grade inflation in that sense, that we’ve always had students who perform bet-ter than average, than the university’s aver-age, in terms of grades because they’re pre-selected,” Bailey said.

Rojstaczer’s website shows both the hu-manities and sciences have seen rising GPAs since the 1960s, and there has been a grad-ing difference between the two for more than five decades. Students studying subjects in the humanities tend to get higher GPAs, with a difference of approximately 0.1 point than those studying social sciences in 2006.

Doll said as an educational psychologist, she hopes to see a change in the grading sys-tem in the future, one that bases achievement on criteria or mastery as opposed to a com-petitive approach.

In this mastery approach, students would

come to a class and be informed on the re-quirements and expectations for the semes-ter, and the grades would be based on how well they accomplished those expectations and requirements.

“If all the students in the course do that really well, they should all be getting a really good grade,” she said. “And those students that don’t get good grades, it should be be-cause they didn’t do those things well that they were told on the first day of class.”

While she has seen some courses imple-ment this mastery approach, she said it de-pends on the instructor.

“It’s not something that’s mandated across any kind of university policy,” she said.

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UNL professors react to a study saying students have benefitted from grade infla-tion since the Vietnam War.

And yet everyone – students and faculty

both – feel more and more pressure about grades.”

STEPHEN BEHRENDTunl english professor

shed. Having that many people who want to help could be both a benefit and a disadvan-tage, Mueller said.

“I’d say if it’s you and a friend, it’s an easy two-day job.” He said. “If it’s you and 20 other people it becomes a bit of a monster, because you want to keep people busy, you don’t want to be wasting their time. There’s a

lot more coordination.”Since the Friendship Home works with

survivors of domestic violence, the UNL AGC chapter also has to be careful with how they conduct the project. The location of the shelter is not known to the public, Fowler said.

“It’ll be interesting to see how everything

plays out and everyone showing up and un-derstanding… the meaning behind all this secrecy,” he said.

But Fowler said he was pleased to have so many students interested in the service project. In the past few years, membership at the UNL AGC chapter has been lower than he would’ve liked, he said.

“I really wanted to figure something out to get construction management students swinging a hammer and doing something re-lated to their major,” he said.

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UNL officials take precautions with students abroad

BAILEY SCHULZDN

Last year, more than 800 University of Ne-braska-Lincoln students participated in study abroad programs, and this year is ex-pected to have even higher numbers. With so many students to watch across a world threatened by terrorist organizations, the Education Abroad Program has laid out de-tailed plans on how to keep students safe while away from home.

To keep students safe, the university takes a number of precautions before they even leave the country. Tom Farrell, the se-nior adviser to the chancellor for Interna-tional Affairs, said when preparing students to study abroad, the program makes sure they have contact numbers and set them up with the embassy alert system, which notifies them about safety conditions in the country they’re traveling.

“We also monitor various places around the world constantly on a daily basis to make sure that our students are in places that are not susceptible at that moment to terrorist attacks or other issues,” Farrell said. “So we belong to various kinds of networks, most of them associated with the federal gov-ernment. They alert us to ongoing security threats and other things.”

Rebecca Baskerville, the director of Edu-cation Abroad, said via email the office is constantly improving its pre-departure train-ings for students and faculty leaders. These “make sure (students and faculty leaders) are vigilant about safety and prepared for the worst case scenarios,” she wrote.

Once abroad, students and faculty are re-quired to report to the office how they plan to travel. The office’s travel agency is then able to keep a list of students and their where-abouts, down to when they plan on traveling through a particular airport.

As another step to ensure safety, the Uni-versity of Nebraska system has a policy pro-hibiting education abroad to countries with travel warnings listed by the U.S. Depart-ment of State.

Following 9/11, the university began prohibiting students from visiting countries where there’s a threat of civil disturbance, a conflict within or threats based on high levels of terrorist activity or kidnappings, accord-ing to Farrell.

Current countries on the travel warning list include Turkey, Iraq, Libya, Colombia and more.

“If there’s not a travel warning, then fac-ulty and students would be able to go under UNL sponsorship,” Farrell said. “... at the

moment, I cannot think of any place in Eu-rope that’s currently covered by the travel warning.”

For countries that aren’t on either warn-ing list, it’s up to students and parents to as-sess the level of risk before traveling.

“If there’s an increased level of concern, as you can imagine, then people can decide not to go,” Farrell said. “(In Europe), at the moment that’s the only barrier, it would be a personally imposed restriction.”

Additionally, the university system pro-hibits travel to countries that have reached a level three health warning by the American Center for Disease Control. This is the high-est warning level, and suggests people avoid nonessential travel to the listed regions.

“There are a whole range of particularly vulnerable countries where the risk is very high in terms of effects on students’ health and safety, where student travel is not al-lowed,” Farrell said. “This travel warning keeps us relatively safe in terms of assuming too much risk.”

If an incident were to happen abroad, the office has a series of steps planned to try to ensure the safety of students and faculty.

All UNL students traveling abroad are required to take out an insurance plan from the office of business and finance, which pro-vides emergency evacuation in the event of civil unrest, political unrest or a natural di-saster, according to Farrell.

With this plan, Farrell said the office could then find and arrange transportation to evacuate students from dangerous situations in case of such an event.

“We have not had to respond in (the) re-cent past with any kind of serious evacuation plan in terms of a terrorist attack,” Farrell said.

Baskerville said if UNL students were in the area of an overseas terrorist attack, the office would first search its web-based da-tabase for students who are in the area of the attack. Then it would check if other students could be in that area traveling for personal reasons un-related to the official academic program.

“Many students do a lot of personal travel while they are abroad, during school breaks or on long weekends, particu-larly in Europe, where there is easy access to neighboring countries,” she wrote.

The university used this method of assur-ance last March during the Brussels attacks, according to Baskerville.

“Given that some students were on spring break, we decided to contact all UNL students currently abroad in spring 2016, just in case they’d been traveling to Brussels,” she wrote. “We emailed the students directly and asked them to confirm their safety.”

They also contacted two faculty leaders in Berlin and London at the time, who “ac-

counted for all of their students, some of whom were on spring break in other cities,”

Baskerville wrote.The office also receives

emails during such an event from affiliated study abroad programs that con-firm whether students are accounted for. This method was also carried out dur-ing the Brussels attacks, when one UNL student traveling abroad on an af-filiated program in Milan visited Brussels on the day of the attack.

“The student notified UNL directly, and the affil-

iated organization also notified us,” Basker-ville wrote. “Her resident director in Milan offered her guidance as she made her way back to Milan, and the organization notified UNL when she had arrived in Milan.”

If a UNL student studying abroad through the office were in a city at the time of a ter-rorist attack, Baskerville said faculty leaders would first account for each student, then notify UNL as soon as the students were in a safe place. If members of the group needed to be evacuated, the office would work with

its insurance providers and security firm to arrange those services.

“Thankfully, we have not had a UNL pro-gram running in a city at the time of an attack since I have been at UNL,” Baskerville wrote. She has been working for UNL since 2011.

Even with a number of countries on the travel warning list – including Turkey, a country that had hosted between 20 and 35 UNL students years prior for an archeologi-cal excavation every year – the number of UNL students studying abroad each year has been rapidly increasing, according to Basker-ville.

Farrell said he expects to see as many as 1,000 UNL students participating in educa-tion abroad in the 2016-2017 school year.

“While these attacks are absolutely heart-breaking and heighten everyone’s awareness of security risks around the world, it ap-pears that many university students are not deterred from traveling and engaging with the rest of the world,” Baskerville wrote. “...Some researchers have argued recently that fatality rates are actually higher on U.S. col-lege campuses than they are during study abroad.”

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Following terrorist attacks abroad, UNL officials detail procedures for protecting students studying overseas.

We have not had to respond in (the)

recent past with any kind of serious evacuation plan in terms of a terrorist attack.”

TOM FARRELLsenior advisor international affairs

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Weber emerges as rising star after long wait

MICHAEL DIXONDN

Sometimes, it takes time to make a name for yourself.

And sometimes, it might take a few inju-ries to guys higher up the depth chart.

For Nebraska linebacker Chris Weber, it took a little of both, and heading into 2016 af-ter emerging as a playmaker in 2015, Weber’s spotlight continues to grow.

“I feel like I know what I’m doing more,” said the 6-foot-3-inch junior from Omaha of this spring compared to last. “But as far as

my mindset, I feel like every day, I don’t view it as if I’ve made it or arrived or anything like that, I’m just here trying to work.”

Weber arrived as a walk-on in 2013 after a decorated, state championship-winning ca-reer at Elkhorn High School. He redshirted his freshman year, but played in all 13 games

and made six tackles—primarily on special teams—as a sophomore.

In 2015, Weber got the opportunity he’d been waiting for. Slotted behind Josh Ban-deras on the depth chart, he wasn’t likely to

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Husker bats explode for 26 runs in Revelle’s 900th win

BECCA MANNDN

Nebraska softball coach Rhonda Revelle picked up her 900th win for Nebraska in style, as the Huskers scored 26 runs in Sun-day’s series finale against Maryland.

Nebraska (22-12, 3-3 Big Ten) won the game in blowout fashion, 26-4 and took two out of three games in the weekend road trip against the Terrapins (8-25, 1-5).

The Huskers lost the series opener 7-4, but bounced back on Saturday with a 14-2 win, foreshadowing Sunday’s outburst at the plate.

Offensively, the Huskers set school re-cords for runs (26), RBIs (23) and combined runs (30) while also picking up 10 walks. Nebraska scored in every inning on Sunday, including 11 runs in the second.

Sophomore Kaylan Jablonski took to the

circle, allowing four runs on five hits in five innings. The game was called after five in-nings because of an NCAA run rule.

Junior Cassie McClure dominated offen-sively, hitting two home runs while picking up five RBIs and going 3-6.

Seven Huskers produced multiple hits, and six of those picked up three hits each. Se-nior Kiki Stokes set a school record with five runs. She finished Sunday 3-4 with a double, triple, two walks and four RBIs. Junior MJ Knighten went 3-5 while tying a career-high five RBIs that included a double.

On Saturday, McClure pitched all six in-nings for the Huskers, giving up just two runs on three hits. She did not allow a hit af-ter the third inning and retired 11 of her 12 final batters.

Offensively, 10 Huskers grabbed runs while eight picked up RBIs. Nebraska scored in all innings except for the second, but tied a season-high eight-run sixth inning.

Stokes and Knighten also performed for the Huskers with a combined four hits, two homers and six RBIs.

Stokes was 2-3 and made the game-win-ning and 200th hit of her career. Knighten was 2-for-5 on Saturday, scoring her 16th homerun so far this season.

On Friday, Nebraska grabbed an early lead with a solo home run by Alyvia Sim-

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UNL students find new opportunity with rugbyDAVID STOVER

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Many high school athletes begin their col-lege experiences in a conflicted state of mind. While college represents the start of a new chapter in their life, it also represents the de-mise of another.

Not many former high school athletes go on to play a collegiate sport. That’s just the reality.

According to the NCAA’s website, there are nearly eight million high school athletes in the United States, of which roughly 460,000 athletes go on to compete in the NCAA.

Senior business management student Adam Young thought his competitive sport-ing days were over after high school. Young, a talented athlete in high school, played foot-ball but did not earn a scholarship.

Until one day, a new opportunity pre-sented itself.

“I was in the weight room one day, and this guy comes up to me and is like, ‘Hey, you ever play rugby?’” he said.

Former UNL club rugby team member Zack Courtney, who is no longer on the team because of an injury, begged Young to come to a practice. He has since developed a pas-sion for the game.

A year later, Young has become the strength and conditioning captain for the team and continues to be a leader on the 20-man roster.

Coach Matt Ramirez and his sister, Ca-terina, who holds three world titles for Olympic weightlifting, design the workouts

for the team.She sends the workouts to the team, and

Young oversees the development of his team-mates at the different incremented time slots throughout a three-day period.

Three individual groups meet at 6 a.m., 3 p.m., and 7 p.m. on Monday, Wednesday and Friday, while on Tuesdays and Thursdays the team practices in the Cook Pavilion at 6 p.m.

To join, prospective members need to show up, and depending on their level of commitment, pay up to $100 for club dues. $50 is spent for membership in U.S.A. Rugby, while the other funds cover traveling ex-penses.

During the summer, the team raised $6,000 selling fireworks at a stand in Omaha to raise money for their travel expenses, such as hotel stays and renting passenger vans to drive to game sites.

The team has seven matches this season, and will travel to Arkansas, Missouri and Kansas.

That was not a reality three years ago, as the UNL Rugby team lost its traveling privi-leges and its program as a whole after re-ceiving citations for possessing open alcohol containers in a vehicle. However, no current members were on the team at the time of the incident, and the university-sanctioned club team was reinstated a year ago.

“We definitely are a well-behaved rugby team,” Young said. “It’s our job to rebuild the image, rebuild the brand.”

A lot of UNL’s recruiting is done through word of mouth, and it doesn’t primarily fo-cus on athletes who have previously played the sport or sports similar to rugby.

“We just look for people that are competi-tive. If you have that competitive desire and

PHOTO BY ALYSSA MAE | DNClub rugby players battle in the air for the loose ball. The physically demanding sport has provided new opportunities to students still desiring to compete in athletics.

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Nebraska softball coach Rhonda Revelle picked up her 900th win in blowout fashion, as NU dropped 26 in Sunday’s series finale at Maryland.


Revelle nominated for Women’s Week

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Every March, the University of Nebraska-Lincoln holds an event called Women’s Week put on by the university’s Women’s Center. In this two week-long event, people can nominate others for recog-nition of their courage, commitment and character. One of the nominated was Nebraska softball coach Rhonda Revelle.

Three years ago, Women’s Week was intro-duced on UNL’s campus. The main focus of the Women of Courage, Commitment and Character is to highlight women on campus and in the Lincoln community who are great leaders and mentors for their peers.

Ashley Stone, a life skills coordinator for the athletic department, was the woman who saw how well Revelle showed these qualities and nominated her for the award.

“I had known coach Revelle a little bit prior, through different female leadership groups on campus,” Stone said, “In working with her here and getting to see a little bit more of her leadership and her ability to influence and impact others, I thought she would be great for the award.”

Although Revelle said she was happy to re-ceive the award, she is just as honored others see her as a mentor.

“It made me feel the responsibility to do things that are worthy of being a role model,” Revelle said.

Revelle truly is a leader and role model for many young women on campus today, but that is not something she was born with.

When she isn’t leading the Huskers into the na-tional polls and wins over top ten teams, she enjoys reading books on developing character and leader-ship.

She also looks up to many leaders, especially a woman she regularly faces on the diamond - Carol Hutchins, the face of the Michigan softball dynasty

and the most winning college softball coach ever.“I think she is a tremendous leader of young

women, and I also call her a good friend,” Revelle said. “I have seen a lot of expertise from her over the years.”

Revelle said she learned a great deal from Hutchens about what being a leader and guiding the way for players is all about.

“A leader is a person who always tells the truth. Somebody who thinks of others and what the best is for the greater good. Someone that is consistent in their behavior, and their behavior models their words,” Revelle said.

Those are traits she tries to carry out every day for her team, and in life.

Stone sees this in Revelle also.Revelle always talks about signing autographs

with pride, because the fingerprints you leave are unique to you, and they touch everything that you do.

This really stuck with Stone, so much that she

felt Revelle deserved to be nominated for this event during Women’s Week.

Although Revelle is a leader in life, she said she believes sports are one of the best ways to reveal people’s real character.

“There is always challenges and adversity,” Revelle said. “You can’t get through being on a team or being an athlete yourself, without really struggling. If you’re going to play a long amount of time, you will be involved with the sport and ad-versity for a long time. You get the opportunity to reveal your real character.”

It is safe to say that Revelle is a woman of high character, and is making a difference not just on the field, but in people’s lives as a whole.

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mons. The freshman outfielder holds a .306 record and has six RBIs so far this season.

McClure started the game for the Huskers inside the circle and took the loss, allowing two runs in 2.1 innings. Senior Emily Lock-man, who pitched 1.1 innings and allowed fi ve runs on two outs, replaced McClure in the fourth.

Jablonski took over for Lockman, throwing 2.1 innings and allowing just one single while picking up three strikeouts.

Eight of Maryland’s nine batters picked up a hit in Friday’s game, but the team looked primarily to junior Sarah Calta and sophomore Skylynne Ella-zar to push the Terrapins ahead offensively.

Calta went 3-4 with two runs and one RBI,

while Ellazar grabbed two RBIs going 2-4. Terrapin junior Madison Martin earned her

second win in the circle this season pitching fi ve innings, allowing three runs and picking up four strikeouts.

Friday’s loss for the Huskers allowed the Ter-rapins to snap an eight-game losing streak and pick up their fi rst conference game of the season.

The Huskers return to Bowlin Stadium on Wednesday, April 6 to host Iowa for a two-game series followed by Michigan for a three-game series next weekend.

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start a game all season and missed a chunk of fall camp due to injuries.

However, when Banderas went down with an early season groin injury, a healthy Weber made the first four starts of his career—a significant moment for a home-grown walk-on.

“Last year, we had guys in and out of in-juries,” Weber said. “Everybody’s gotta be ready, and I think that’s how everyone ap-proaches it. At some point, down the line, your number’s going to be called, so you bet-ter be ready to show what you can do.”

That experience, along with the lineback-er unit’s progression as a whole, should do wonders for a team coming off only its third losing season since 1962.

“(This spring) has been good,” Weber

said. “We’re way ahead of where we were last year.”

And the players aren’t the only ones who can see it.

“I think (the linebackers’) fluidity, move-ment and aggressiveness, and seeing where they need to be and going out and getting it without hesitation has been good,” said de-fensive coordinator Mark Banker.

Weber’s 2015 included six tackles and a fumble recovery against South Alabama. Af-ter that, he had 12 tackles against Southern Miss and 17 against Illinois. After seven more against Wisconsin, Weber looked back on what had been a pleasantly surprising year.

Now solidified near the top of the depth chart, even Weber knows playing at Nebras-ka requires constant work and competition,

which isn’t something he’s afraid of. “I feel like we’ve got a lot of guys that

want to compete and want to take positions,” Weber said. “It’s been good. We’ve got a lot of guys that know what they’re doing and got a little bit of experience last year.”

Heading into the final few weeks of spring, ironically, Weber’s biggest obstacle remains his health. Even during his break-out in 2015, Weber missed three games in the middle of the year with a neck injury, and throughout the offseason, Weber tried to nurse a nagging hamstring injury hoping not to lose much time in preparation for the fall.

“I wanted to stay healthy, and I wanted to see as many reps as possible,” Weber said. “I feel like I’m doing that.”

And for Weber, recovery is as much men-

tal as it is anything else.“You’ve just got to be smart with it,” We-

ber said. “You’ve got to be honest with the trainers. I think a lot of guys say they’re feel-ing good and try to be a hero, but you’ve just got to take it easy and get it back right.”

Mainly that means focusing on the right places in order to fully return to form.

“You want to get back into it, but you want to be as detail-oriented and 100 percent on your assignments as possible,” he said. “You’ve got to knock the rust off a little bit, but a lot of it is just getting back into it, and seeing how well you can do what we’re try-ing to (implement).”

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Schreiber’s career day powers Huskers to series win

MICHAEL DIXONDN

After the game, a young fan approached Scott Schreiber and asked for a baseball.

Schreiber struggled to find one; perhaps it’s because he deposits seemingly every ball he comes into contact with far off into the distance.

Sunday afternoon, Schreiber continued his tear throughout 2016 with a career-high four hits and a home run, and Nebraska (19-9, 5-1) won its sixth consecutive series with a 9-7 win against Illinois (11-14, 3-3) in the series finale at Hawks Field.

“It’s awesome,” Schreiber said. “The vibes in the dugout and the locker room are just fun to see. It definitely helps when you’re winning, but just being with these guys is awesome.”

Schreiber, one of five NU starters with multiple hits, added four RBIs to his career afternoon, including the game-tying, two-run home run — his seventh — in the fifth inning and another run-scoring single in the sixth.

“Hitting is contagious, for sure,” said Schreiber, whose av-erage is up to .333 a year after finishing at .271. “We’ve just got to stick to our approach. If we get out of that, anything can happen. Baseball is a hard game, so we just have to stay humble and stay hungry.”

Along with Schreiber, Ben Miller and Jake Meyers rounded out a dominant nine-hit af-ternoon for Nebraska’s 3-4-5 hitters, accu-mulating six of NU’s nine RBIs and all three extra-base hits.

“We want to have a lineup where we don’t have to rely on one or two guys at any given time,” Nebraska coach Darin Erstad said. “The offense can come from different parts, and you have to have that over the course of a season. And if everyone’s going,

then it can be really fun.”Nebraska — now 16-2 over its last 18

games — scored nine runs for the 10th time this year, and quickly answered the Illini with four runs in the second and third in-nings, just a day after the Huskers evened the series after scoring seven runs in the final two innings for a 9-8, come-from-behind win.

The Huskers had nine nine-run games throughout all of 2015.

“Offensively, I thought we faced some pretty good starters and found a way to keep grinding,” Erstad said. “But at the end, I still feel very strongly that we have better base-ball ahead of us.”

Nebraska starter Matt Waldron gave up two unearned runs in the first and four in the fourth, but powered through 5.1 innings while the NU offense kept up. In relief, Jeff Chesnut allowed only a hit and struck out three over 2.1 innings, while Chad Luen-smann eventually earned his fifth save of the year after allowing three ninth-inning baser-unners.

“I was proud of the pitchers today,” Er-stad said. “The demons are real. They’re go-ing to have to continue to fight through it every single day, and just continue to lean on each other.”

The Huskers’ only walk of the day came in the ninth inning after they issued 20 combined in the first two games of the series.

“You can’t think (about walks), because, if you do, you’re going to walk somebody,” re-liever Jeff Chesnut said. “I wasn’t going to let it happen today.”

The series loss, Illi-nois’ first in the confer-ence since dropping two of three in Lincoln in May 2014, puts the Illini 3-3 in

the Big Ten, only a year after Illinois finished 21-1 in conference en route to a 50-win sea-son and a run to the Super Regional.

“They’ve got a lot of guys with expe-rience over there,” Erstad said. “I know they’ve lost a lot, but they’ve got some guys with big-time postseason playing experience. They’ve got a lot of pride — they’re not go-ing to quit.”

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Scott Schreiber blasts one of his four hits during Sunday’s win at Hawks Field. He had a home run and 4 RBIs to lead the Huskers at the plate.

Hitting is contagious, for sure.

We’ve just got to stick to our approach.”

SCOTT SCHREIBERDesignateD Hitter

Designated hitter Scott Sch-reiber hit a home run and tallied four hits in NU’s 9-7 rubber match win against Illinois on Sunday.

want to play a Division I sport, you can,” Young said.

Young said it’s the fastest-growing sport in America, particularly in the Midwest.

Rugby’s global presence has even ex-panded, as it will be offered as a 2016 Olym-pic event in Rio de Janeiro, in which a United States team will be competing.

“Our homework from our coaches is to watch rugby,” Young said. “It’s not on TV a lot, but it’s on the Internet.”

The UNL team watches a lot of interna-tional teams, including the Super League in Australia.

This included watching the mannerisms of the athletes. Many teams have routines be-fore they play their opponents, but no team is known better for its routine than New Zea-land. It performs its “Haka” chant, which is a traditional Maori war dance.

Fellow captain John Curran came up with an original Husker chant that may not have

the same traditional meaning as the “Haka” chant, but is entertaining nonetheless.

Members of the team will form a tight-knit circle to “Crank that diesel.” The team huddles then ‘stirs the pot,’ as the energy re-verberates from the center of the circle like pistons vigorously working in a car.

While only 15 members take the field, the game is fast-paced and constantly evolving.

Young said he still learns, but uses the team’s Hudl account to re-watch the film

from UNL’s games.“I talk to a lot of people about rugby, and

they didn’t even know we had a team,” he said. “They don’t know that we play Division I rugby.”

The UNL club rugby team’s next game is against Kansas on Saturday at 1 p.m. in the Cook Pavilion.

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Thanks to a second place finish at the Iowa City Regional on Saturday, April 2, the Ne-braska women’s gymnastics team earned a spot at the NCAA National Championship, which now marks the team’s 24th appear-ance in the event.

The Huskers scored a 196.550 courtesy of senior Hollie Blanske, who tied for the floor exercise title, and sophomore Grace Wil-liams, who tied for first on the balance beam. Williams earned a near perfect score of 9.90.

Their efforts were more than enough to catapult Nebraska to a spot in the NCAA championship, but it wasn’t enough to de-feat Oklahoma, who won the regional with a score of 197.575.

Not only did Blanske do well on the floor, but she also turned in an impressive perfor-

mance on uneven bars, earning a season-high and tying a career-high with a score of 9.90.

As a team, the Huskers pooled together for a 49.225 on uneven bars.

Freshman Megan Schweihofer also im-pressed by scoring a 9.85 on vault to help the Huskers advance.

The Huskers are one of 12 teams com-peting at the NCAA Nationals. The top two teams from each of the six regionals ad-vanced and will compete in prelims on April 15 in Fort Worth, Texas.

Divided into two sections, each prelimi-nary session will take the top three teams from each to advance to Saturday’s Super Six for a chance at a national championship.

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