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Junior finance major Chris spanel reads his poems, titled “Incorporeal Movement,” which were published in the Berry spooner at the launch party for the publication Monday afternoon in neihardt residence Hall. spanel is also the printer for the Berry spooner.

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Abel Hall residents were evacu-ated for about two hours late Saturday night because of a small fire started inside the trash com-pactor in the basement, accord-ing to university police.

Sgt. Jeffrey Hohlen said the fire, which broke out about 11:30 p.m., didn’t cause any damage to the compactor or building. He

said police have not identified the source of the blaze, nor what floor it might have come from. Residents were evacuated be-

cause the fire was active, Hohlen said, but he added the fire did not pose a threat to the building or its residents. Firefighters put

out the blaze within 30 minutes, he said.

“At first everyone thought it was a joke,” said Noah Schwen-deman, a freshman biological sci-ences major and resident of Abel Hall. “After about 15 minutes of standing outside, we all heard that there was a fire.”

Schwendeman, who lives on the seventh floor, said Abel residents couldn’t return to their rooms until 1:30 a.m. on Sunday.

As police and Lincoln Fire & Rescue doused the fire, students were allowed to return to the Welcome Center between Abel and Sandoz residence halls.

“I’ve been told that the stu-dents handled the situation well,” said Sue Gildersleeve, director of University Housing. “We very much appreciate their cooperation.”

at first everyone thought it was a joke. after about 15 minutes of standing

outside, we all heard that there was a fire.”NOAH SCHWENDEMAN

freshman biological sciences major

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sarah Bishop, a junior advertising and psychology major, draws out a number to win a raffle during the launch party of the Berry spooner. The winning numbers received a free issue of the Berry spooner.

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The University Health Center Re-quest For Proposal (RFP) Evalua-tion Committee has recommended the University of Nebraska-Lincoln go forward with plans for Bryan Health to construct and operate a new health center.

Seven of the eight evaluation committee members made their recommendation after meeting four times since Bryan Health sub-mitted the sole bid for the health center’s proposed privatization on Oct. 8.

One unnamed committee member recommended ending the RFP process and maintaining the health center’s current operations. The dissenting member also said if UHC privatization is pursued, a more detailed RFP should be used.

“The next step would be for the university to go into negotiations with Bryan Health and iron out the details to see if a contract could be resolved of the negotiations,” said UHC director Dr. James Guest, who was one of the committee members.

If a contract comes of the nego-tiations, UNL’s senior administra-tive team will review the contract before submitting it to the Univer-sity of Nebraska Board of Regents for approval in January, Guest said.

Although the evaluation com-mittee said Bryan Health met the RFP requirements, it suggested the university give more attention to certain aspects of the proposed privatization.

The committee recommended that three of its members serve as advisers to the university through-out the negotiation process to en-sure that the knowledge gained during its meetings and the needs of students, staff and faculty are addressed during the process. The selected members were Guest; LJ McElravy, UHC Governing Board member, electoral commission di-rector for the Association of Stu-dents of the University of Nebras-ka and a human sciences graduate student; and Gary Kraft, director of Procurement Services.

The committee was also con-cerned with the university’s plans for a private provider to build a new health center at 21st and Vine streets. Bryan Health proposed to spend $14.4 million to build a 40,635-square-foot health center at that location.

The committee members said

7 of 8 UHC evaluation committee members recommend pursuing privatization

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a fter a semester of writing and revision, 395H Editing and Publishing students enjoyed the fruits of their labor at the launch of Berry Spooner, a creative liter-ary journal.

Audrey Lutz, editor-in-chief of Berry Spooner and a se-nior English major, said the name is a spin-off of the Prairie Schooner, the literary journal at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

“It’s kind of a fun, whimsical way of playing off them, using some of their notoriety to help us, and also a way to be playful,” Lutz said.

For their final project, the 11 students in the class devel-oped the idea of producing their own journal that features poetry and short stories. Each student submitted three piec-es. Submissions were narrowed to one per student for the first issue.

About 30 students and faculty gathered Monday from 11:30 a.m. to 12:20 p.m. for Berry Spooner’s launch party in Neihardt Hall’s Blue TV Lounge.

Lutz said the theme of the issue is time.“Our first piece is about brushing your teeth and how

that reminds you of childhood, and how you can rise up from depression with the simple act of brushing your teeth,” she said. “Our last piece is about an old stone angel at a church and her experiences being on this earth for so long. So it’s kind of a progression from young to old – early in the

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The University of Nebraska-Lin-coln will add eight new learning communities in the fall semester of 2013 – and one of these ad-ditions will be a new direction. Twenty-four students will have the option to live in Knoll Resi-dence Hall as a part of a new learning community specifical-ly for transfer students.

“The reason behind this is looking at transfer students as a population that has a unique experience and looking at how we can support them more,” said Tamy Burnett, academic coordi-nator of learning and scholar communities.

According to Burnett, the learning community would be open to students both on and off campus.

“Transfer students are at a variety of stages, maybe they’re married, maybe they have kids.

Whatever it is, it’ll be open to them too,” Burnett said.

While programs already ex-ist for larger groups on campus like engineering or internation-al students, Burnett said not as many resources are available for transfer students.

“We usually have around 300 (transfer students) in the spring and 1,000 (transfer stu-dents) in the fall,” said Marilyn Liebsch, transfer credit evalua-tion specialist for UNL.

Because a larger number of students transfer during fall se-mester, the learning community will be open to students who ar-rive in both semesters, Burnett said.

The community will have two components, Burnett said. The first will be the rooms re-served in Knoll and the second will be a core-component course for the students to take.

“We’re looking at a zero-credit or one-credit class in order to not overload them,” Burnett said. “It’ll be a course to introduce the university, help students get oriented and con-nected through academic re-sources.”

The class will likely not fulfill an ACE requirement and will last

for the first six weeks, Burnett said.

“Because they come in with varying background experi-ence and needs, it’s so hard to pick one (general-requirement class),” she said.

In addition to the learning community, the university is

introducing a transfer student peer-mentoring program in the spring of 2013, said Amy Good-burn, associate vice chancellor for academic affairs. The men-tors will consist of eight to 10 past transfer students selected through an application process.

“We have lots of peer men-tors for other programs,” Good-burn said. “The residential pro-grams all have peer mentors, so we were trying to figure out what was the best way to serve this university., And (past trans-fer students) are the best ones to help support them and get them into the community.”

On Jan. 9, a transfer student kick-off celebration will be held and will mark the first event the peer-mentoring group will hold. Each peer mentor will have a small group they’ll meet with throughout the semester.

According to Goodburn, ad-ministrators decided to imple-ment the plan just a few weeks ago. Currently, the number of students who will participate is up in the air. Organizers will have a better idea after students reply to electronic invitations sent out Dec. 3.

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Drivers on P Street in downtown Lincoln may soon face a new test of their driving skills – reversing into angled parking spots – as part of a renovation plan for the street’s future.

Consultants from Design Workshop, a Colorado-based company, presented the idea at workshops downtown last week. The overall goal of the P Street renovations is to transform the area into a thriving retail envi-ronment that will provide eco-nomic growth for downtown Lincoln, according to the website for the project. Design Workshop consultants said back-in parking is a safer alternative to cars pull-ing forward into parking spots.

“We feel that back-in angled parking is a solution that should at the very least be considered in the redevelopment of P Street,” said Paul Squadrito, a Design Workshop consultant for the project. “Whether it is appropri-ate or not will need to be vetted further, possibly even through physical testing of it in a location somewhere in the downtown

area.”Squadrito said reverse park-

ing provides better visibility to cyclists and drivers on the road and calms traffic because ve-hicles must slow down and back into parking spots. He said it is also safer for pedestrians because they can access their trunk from the sidewalk instead of having to walk into the street.

Back-in parking has been im-plemented in several locations in Omaha to mixed reviews, accord-ing to a Nov. 20 Omaha World-herald article.

Several community members and P Street business owners voiced concerns about the plan, though.

“I’m sur-prised they would propose the idea of back-in parking,” said Ashlie Hadden, owner of Embel-lish, a boutique on the corner of 13th and P streets, and a member of the D o w n t o w n Lincoln Association. “I think it would be a safety issue, person-ally, with traffic going by. I don’t think people are as good at back-ing up.”

Hadden said she has heard about most of the concept ideas from the Design Workshop con-sultants because she is a mem-

ber of the DLA board. She said she hopes to see the consultants focus on pedestrian safety and traffic issues in their renovation plan.

“I think the main thing to fo-cus on is the pedestrian experi-ence,” Hadden said. “We need to make P Street a better area for pe-destrians, and that will increase retail activity. Traffic flow is also a big issue to look at.”

Squadrito said there are some con-cerns that come with reverse parking.

“It is atypical as people are used to pulling into angled parking spaces,” he said. “People must plan ahead, pull past the parking space, stop in the traffic lane and back

into the parking space, potential-ly causing minor congestion or confusion in the street.”

Marlene Olsen, a Lincoln resi-dent, said she sees both sides of the back-in parking issue.

“It would definitely be easier to pull back into traffic because you could actually see what

you’re doing,” Olsen said. “It’s always nerve-wracking to have to back up when you can’t see around the cars parked next to you.”

But Olsen added that she thinks it would be hard for some drivers to maneuver into back-in parking spots.

Design Workshop consul-tants will return to Lincoln next month to present more finalized versions of their concept ideas. Construction is scheduled to be-gin in spring 2013, according to the DLA website.

Past concept ideas have in-cluded making P Street two lanes, but Squadrito said consultants won’t be bringing any more two-lane plans next month. He said three lanes are necessary to allow for truck loading and delivery areas and in case P Street ever be-comes a two-way street. He also said three lanes are needed to provide enough space for a pos-sible streetcar or shuttle service that would take pedestrians to the Pinnacle Bank Arena, which is scheduled to be completed in September 2013.

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2 schooner editors to Promote journal with driving tour Two Prairie schooner editors will embark on a driving tour this month to promote the literary journal in nebraska libraries. The tour will hit more than a dozen cities, including Fremont, Beatrice and omaha, according to a schooner press release. editor-in-chief kwame dawes will give poetry read-ings during the library visits and managing editor Marianne kunkel will assist in promoting the jour-nal. The tour will begin saturday in Fremont and end in mid-december.

quilt museum exhibition to oPen friday The International Quilt study Center and Mu-seum will feature a new exhibition focusing on colonial revival starting Friday. The exhibition will include quilts as well as domestic artifacts from the 1880-1940 movement, according to a university press release. “The Colonial revival reflected americans’ unsettled feelings about changing social, economic and cultural conditions,” said Jonathan gregory, as-sistant curator of exhibitions, in the press release. “one way americans dealt with the changes was looking to the past. They developed nostalgia for the time before industrialization and the Civil War and borrowed from its architecture, interiors and hand-crafts.” The museum will be open free to the public at the First Friday artwalk from 4:30 to 7:30 p.m. otherwise, the museum is open Tuesday through saturday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and sunday from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. for $6.

money management center nets national award The association for Financial Counseling and Planning education named the University of nebraska-lincoln’s student Money Management Center the 2012 outstanding Financial Counsel-ing and Planning education Center, according to a university press release. Unl’s center earned the award based on its program quality, innovation and ability to respond to students’ needs, the release said. The 2-year-old center provides one-on-one money management advising sessions, financial education and workshops free of charge for stu-dents, according to its website.

economic survey shows slow growth for midwest Because of setbacks in ethanol and food pro-duction, nine states across the Midwest and the great Plains are unlikely to see economic pickup in the near future, according to a report released by Creighton University economists Monday. The survey uses scores on a scale of zero to 100 to indicate growth in a myriad of areas, with a score greater than 50 meaning economic growth. november’s outlook showed a score of 48 for the region, meaning that business lead-ers expressed a lack of confidence in economic growth. october’s score was 46.5. This month was the fourth of the last five in which the index was less than 50.

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jon auGustine | dna vehicle backs out of a parking spot on P street between 13th and 14th streets Monday morning. Part of the Urban development department of lincoln’s upcoming renovation of P street might include reverse-angle parking spots.

design Workshop says back-in angle parking could create safer P street traffic

The recent fire is the third in a series of fires in the dorms. On Oct. 17, a phone charger started a small fire in Robert E. Knoll Resi-dential Center. The fire damaged an electrical outlet and drywall, according to the police report. Also, a corkboard was lit on fire in Smith Hall on Nov. 15. Hous-ing is offering a reward of $1,500 for information about the fire in Smith.

Gildersleeve said Housing hasn’t decided whether to offer a reward for Saturday’s case. Un-like the fire in Smith, this one is not being investigated as arson, UNLPD said. Gildersleeve asked students to contact UNLPD with any information.

“We were thankful that no one

was injured, but a lot of students were inconvenienced by the fire,” Gildersleeve said.

Elizabeth Moran, a freshman journalism major and third-floor resident of Abel, said Housing’s response to the fire made her an-gry. As students were held in the Welcome Center, Abel resident assistants provided entertain-ment. Moran said they brought in speakers and played music until the students were allowed to re-turn to their rooms.

“I was really angry when the RAs began dancing to the Wob-ble,” Moran said. “We knew that we were going to be there for a while.”

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I think it would be

a safety issue, personally, with traffic going by.”

ASHLIE HADDENembellish owner

24 transfer students will have option to live in Knoll, starting fall 2013

It would definitely be easier to pull back into traffic because you could actually

see what you’re doing,”MArLENE OLSEN

lincoln resident

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On a recent Tuesday afternoon, University of Nebraska-Lincoln students stood outside the Ne-braska Union, preaching about the evils of tomatoes.

Tomatoes are injected with pig genes to prevent frost, mak-ing them less kosher to those whose religious practices prohibit pork, they said. And with labor abuses, some workers in the to-mato industry are treated similar to slaves.

And although Damien Smith Pfister, an assistant professor of communication studies, said these statements are factual, the pseudo street preachers weren’t trying to convert people to anti-tomato practices.

The demonstration was a proj-ect for Pfister ’s freshman honors class, “In Search of the Common.” The class researched how the American people are becom-ing more polarized and taking on ex-tremist views. The research, including the demonstra-tion, was compiled into a documen-tary, which will be shown in the Ne-braska Union Auditorium Tues-day at 7 p.m.

The work for the documenta-ry and on the class blog began the second day of class, said Brendon Henning, a freshman marketing major. The class looked at both past and present philosophies of polarization, but it ultimately chose to not provide a “fix” to the move toward extreme views. It’s still debatable whether that shift is a bad thing, Henning said.

The Internet age has increased polarization, said Matt Sis, a freshman chemical engineering major. The Internet has changed how people gather news and pro-vides more news sources catered to specific opinions, Sis said.

“The Internet funnels people together based on what they al-ready think,” Sis said.

The class also studied radical social movements from the 1960s and ’70s, Pfister said.

“That’s where our current leaders learned their rhetoric,” he said.

Pfister said a student came up with the idea to take the research and make an extremist demon-stration out of it. Pfister, having a dislike of tomatoes, jokingly of-fered to protest the fruit, and the idea took off.

The class creat-ed pamphlets with their points about pig genes and the labor abuses in the tomato industry. While each point has factual back-ing, Pfister said, the views shouldn’t be taken seriously, and they don’t take into account excep-tions like locally or home-grown toma-

toes. Such extreme statements, he said, pick up on one mostly true thing and make polarizing state-ments from there.

At the demonstration, a stu-dent volunteered to have toma-toes thrown at him to extinguish the hatred of tomatoes, and soon a large crowd had gathered.

The point of the demonstra-tion was to see how many people would think the demonstration was a legitimate protest, Henning said,

A class of fourth-grade stu-dents happened to be on campus. With the teacher’s permission, Pfister ’s demonstrators told the grade-school students about how eating tomatoes promotes slav-ery, and many of the youngsters vowed they too would swear off tomatoes.

“‘Do you think what he said was true?’” Pfister said he asked the students.

The grade-schoolers said yes.“It just shows how a simpler

mind is susceptible to that influ-ence,” Henning said.

Pfister ’s class came after years of his own interest in the increase of polarization, something that’s intrigued him since the 1990s. He said he noticed a “decline of regu-lar civilians’ ability to see differ-ent views as just different, instead of evil.”

And election seasons, he said, always bring out extremist views.

“The first thing I said was, ‘The project is to make a docu-mentary,’” Pfister said of the class.

Pfister said his students’ eyes grew wide as they realized the ex-tent of the class.

“They really jumped into it,” Pfister said. The class completed eight or nine interviews with ex-perts, including phone and Skype interviews with the dean of the College of Communications at the University of Texas at Austin and experts from Arizona State Uni-versity, the University of Mary-land and others.

Sis, who signed up for the class after required classes filled up, said the course was a change of pace from the bustle of his usu-al math and science courses.

Henning said the students left with a life lesson.

“Each piece of knowledge you learn, we’re taught to see empiri-cally,” he said, explaining that empirical thought indicates a lack of bias.

“We’ll watch the news for the rest of our lives, and we’ll never watch it the same.”

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morning to late at night.”The launch party featured

intermittent raffle drawings for copies of Berry Spooner and readings from contributors to the creative literary journal. It also included berry-themed des-serts and coffee provided by The Coffee House.

Marianne Kunkel, managing editor of the Prairie Schooner, is the faculty adviser to Berry Spooner. Kunkel said she gave up teaching as a poetry gradu-ate student when she began working full-time at the Prairie Schooner.

“This came along, and I kind of couldn’t refuse teaching this special topics honors course,” Kunkel said. “I hope (these stu-dents) go on to do many things. I hope they use this experience with any position – it’s taught them a lot about professionalism and management of time.”

Kunkel said the class provided students with first-hand experience both as authors and as editors. She said they considered accept-ing submissions from under-graduate students outside of the course but decided against it.

“It was important to me that they all got to submit their work for review,” Kunkel said. “I think it was valuable for them to keep it close to the cuff so they could experience both roles.”

Lutz said there are no plans to keep the journal going after

the class ends, but as other ed-iting and publishing seminars come along, they will have the choice to use the Berry Spooner logo and image and brand the class created and continue the Berry Spooner – or they can start their own journal.

“We’re really proud of what we’ve created in just a few short months,” Lutz said.

Joseph Kozal, managing edi-tor of Berry Spooner, said the

journal became more than just a class project.

“Even though it was just a class … It’s something we all re-ally care about,” said Kozal, a senior English major.

Those interested in a copy of Berry Spooner should con-tact the group via their Face-book page: facebook.com/ber-ryspooner.

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Honors students protest tomatoes for class

Great Plains journal hires editor

courtesy photogary Willson, who will take over as editor of the great Plains research journal in January, for-merly worked with the national Park service’s great Plains Cooperative ecosystem studies Unit.

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morGan spiehs | dn(From left) Junior inclusive early childhood education major victoria Fuhs, junior dietitics major sunny arnold and junior hospitality, restaurant and tourism management major Jacquelyn stiles visit during the launch party for the Berry spooner in niehardt residence Hall. arnold is the ad coor-dinator for the publication.

morGan spiehs | dnBerry spooner issues were on display during the launch party for the publication. The students who assembled the journal were all apart of the 395H editing and Publishing class.

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they believe the proposed site presents difficulties for student access and convenience. They recommended that the “rationale for the site selected be more fully articulated to UHC constituents to address this concern.”

Architects for the new health center are planning to speak with university administration, as well as health center users and stu-dents, about designing a more de-finitive building plan rather than “one that is built on assumptions and bubble diagrams,” Guest said.

The committee also recom-mended the concerns of the UHC staff receive “serious attention” during the negotiation period. Bry-an Health has said it plans to retain all UHC employees for at least one year if selected as the new provider.

“We are particularly sensitive to the concerns of the UHC staff,” the committee wrote. “They are most directly and most immediate-ly affected by this proposal.”

The university’s proposed contract submission date – which would be before the submission deadline for the Board of Regents agenda items for its Jan. 3 meeting – also presented issues to the com-mittee. The date doesn’t give the university enough time to pursue a contract that is responsive of UHC constituents’ needs, the rec-ommendation said.

The Daily Nebraskan contact-ed evaluation committee member Kraft, who said communication with committee members must be facilitated through UNL News Director Kelly Bartling. Bartling couldn’t be reached on Monday. Bryan Health also declined to comment.

Since the next stage of the RFP process was announced Friday, current health center employees remain anxious about their jobs,

Guest said. Long-time employees want

to protect their benefits, Guest said, so they’ve been searching for other on-campus positions. Oth-ers are looking to outside medical providers for work, and the rest plan to ride out the process and see what happens.

If the Board of Regents ap-

proves a contract between the university and the new provider, Bryan Health is expected to as-sume operations of the health center on May 1.

“The committee made the rec-ommendation, but the adminis-tration does not have to follow it,” Guest said.

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UHC rfp EvALUATION COMMITTEE MEMBErS

The names of the eight evaluation committee members were revealed in the committee’s recommendation letter, which was released nov. 29.

The committee members are:• dr. James guest, University Health Center director• lJ Mcelravy, UHC governing Board member and human sciences graduate student• eric kamler, association of students of the University of nebraska president and senior agricultural economics major• stan Campbell, associate vice chancellor for student affairs• Cheryl Thompson, assistant vice chancellor for academic/student affairs at University of nebraska Medical Center• robert Works, law professor• lance Perez, associate vice chancellor for academic affairs• Marc Chauche, assistant vice chancellor for Financial services and evaluation committee chair• gary kraft, director of Procurement services, wrote the recommendation letter and was noted as one of the committee members to continue advising the negotiation process. However, his name was not included on the list of eight committee members.

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With the start of a new year, Great Plains Research will also have a new editor.

Gary Willson, former research coordinator with the National Park Service’s Great Plains Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit, will as-sume the position of editor for the journal starting Jan. 1. He’ll replace Robert Diffendal Jr., who has led the journal since 2004.

“It’s a new year and a new fo-cus,” said Willson, an adjunct fac-ulty member in the School of Natu-ral Resources at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

The journal publishes research and reports on natural and social science advancements, with a par-ticular focus on environmental, eco-nomic and social issues in the Great Plains, according to its website.

Willson’s experience in natu-ral sciences pertaining to the Great Plains makes him a great addition to the journal, said Richard Ed-wards, director of the Center for Great Plains Studies.

“I’m delighted that he has agreed to this new position,” Ed-wards said. “He brings the right combination of academic expertise and editing for this position.”

Willson’s work with the Great Plains Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit, which is a resource for the Great Plains Research journal, as well as previous editing experi-ences will help him in his new role, Willson said.

“I think being editor is a re-sponsible position,” Willson said. “The editor is in charge of revising, reviewing and OKing manuscripts. It gives you freedom to shape the journal, with some restraints, and makes it possible to focus on certain issues in the journal.”

Great Plains Research will work toward broadening the horizons of the journal, according to Edwards and Willson.

“One of the ideas we have for expanding the range of the journal is to focus even more than we do now of the ecological and environ-mental issues of the Great Plains,” Edwards said. “Willson’s back-ground in National Park Services makes him ideally equipped to do just that.”

The journal will also be focus-ing on creating an online edition for readers.

“It’ll make it more accessible and easier for readers to be aware of the journal,” Willson said. “People who might want to read the journal will have it available online.”

Willson went through a series of interviews on his way to becom-

ing the new editor.“The staff at the center was

deeply involved in interviewing him and engaging in hopes for the future of the journal,” Edwards said.

Willson, who will work part time, will move from East Campus to City Campus. Because of the new editor’s familiarity with the staff of University of Nebraska-Lincoln and his knowledge of the natural sciences of the Great Plains, both

Edwards and Willson are confident that the transition will be an easy one.

“It’s always the case that when someone comes aboard here that they bring new perspective, new energy, and they offer critical per-spectives on the way we already do things,” Edwards said. “So I think all of those concepts are going to be healthy for us.”

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Freshmen test polarization, extremist theories through fake protest

Chatting on Facebook rarely yields much in the way of interesting cultural insights. However, on the day after the 2012 election, a friend wrote, “Obama re-elected. Akin/Mourdock defeated. First openly

gay senator elected. Colorado and Washington legalize marijuana. Warren in M[assachusetts]. Nate Silver. Progress.”

Naturally, I trolled his thread. “Expanded drone wars. Fewer civil liberties. Enhanced ‘free trade agreements.’ New arctic drilling, fracking, and pipelines galore. Progress.” Another poster quickly replied to me that he’d never heard of a Republican with environmental concerns.

Such is the state of American political dis-course. Anything further to the left than the centrist Obama or outside the normal Repub-lican-Democrat dichotomy is unimaginable. The Democrats abandoned the left and force voters to choose between two factions of the same pro-big-business party every four years. Obama will likely continue on the same path he walked in his first term, offering token reforms while withholding any real, progressive change. His conservative actions on the environment, foreign policy, the economy, civil liberties and healthcare actually will disappoint his supporters in the long run.

The second presidential debate on Oct. 16 showcased just how ridiculous Obama’s environ-mental policy is. The two candidates fought over who’s friendlier to oil and natural gas companies. Obama argued that “[I’ve] built enough pipeline to wrap around the entire Earth once. So I’m all for pipelines; I’m all for oil production.” While he plays up his modest “efforts” in cleaning up American energy, he also quietly works against the EPA’s recommendations.

The American Petroleum Institute applauded his delaying of new air emission standards for natural gas companies. Many of these companies have been criticized for their use of hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) which has links to respira-tory and neurological damage, as well as cancer. Even as worst-case scenario models underesti-mate accelerating climate change, Obama hopes to go forward with “energy independence” made possible by arctic oil drilling. Obama fan-boys cite his 2025 mandate for 54.5 mpg cars (a number nearly reached by the modestly-priced Chevrolet Sprint ER in 1986) as evidence for his devotion to greening America.

Of course, he must do something to set him-self apart from the Republicans. Both parties generally agree that we should be running for

the edge of the cliff; they just disagree on how fast.

Perhaps the most bipartisan of agreements reached in Washington are those related to war. Obama did end the war in Iraq, but simultane-ously created drone wars, supplemented by U.S. troops, in Yemen, Somalia and, with in-creasing probability, Iran. He has either main-tained or expanded President George W. Bush-era operations in the Sahara, the Philippines, Pakistan and Afghanistan, which have killed tens of thousands of American soldiers, inno-cent civilians and “militants.” Obama adminis-tration officials loosely define “militant” as “any military-age male in a strike zone” unless later proven innocent.

Like Bush, Obama uses the pretext of nation-al security to rob citizens of their civil liberties. For example, with his NDAA (National Defense Authorization Act), he allows for indefinite de-tention without due process of law for anyone. This could even be applied to American citizens if they have committed a “belligerent act or has directly supported such hostilities in aid of … enemy forces.”

Not only is Obama’s foreign policy ethically unacceptable, especially considering the lack of promising “results” (most reports cite a vast in-crease in anti-American sentiment in countries with an American military presence). Such high spending drains the economy at a time when increased productive government spending is needed. Debates center on deciding just who is tougher on “terrorism,” not whether the actions are justified in the first place.

Even the supposed crowning achievement of the Obama administration, “Obamacare,” re-jects the population’s decades of overwhelming support for single-payer health care in favor of

a grossly inefficient system where private, for-profit insurance companies will remain an in-tegral part. Obamacare will undoubtedly raise the U.S.’s already outrageously high spending on health care.

Obama’s expansion of Medicaid to a greater proportion of the population deserves some applause, though such obvious catering to the insurance industry at the expense of the quality health care system America desperately needs calls for reproach. Both parties have maintained for years that major health care overhaul would be “politically infeasible.” Single-payer only had massive popular support, which, unfortu-nately, has little effect on “political feasibility” in Washington.

His record on the economy, especially jobs, isn’t much better. Like Bill Clinton before him, Obama has pushed for international NAFTA-style “free trade agreements” in South America with Colombia, Peru and Panama, and for the new Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) with 10 Pa-cific-rim countries. The TPP includes provisions similar to the infamous SOPA and ACTA legisla-tion from this summer. NAFTA itself caused the export of one in four American manufacturing jobs, with more than 5 million total jobs lost and 42,000 factories closed, along with a number of other problems,including increased ability for multinational corporations to evade all national laws.

While Obama vowed to renegotiate NAFTA in his 2008 campaign, he has since softened his populist rhetoric. Now he warns against pro-tectionism, bowing before the clerics of bipar-tisan free market fundamentalism.

The differences between the two parties exist, according to consumer advocate Ralph Nader, only in the “velocities with which their knees hit the floor when corporations knock on their door.” Republicans unabashedly bend to the every order of corporations, but what’s re-ally frightening is that the supposedly liberal alternative – the Democrats and their bastion of “change” Obama – agree fundamentally with them on most important issues.

Obama and the Democrats haven’t rep-resented the American left for a long time, so please quit the Obama love-affair and recognize he’s nothing like what public perception makes him out to be.

shariq khan is a freshman biol-oGy major. follow him on twitter at @shariq_mansoor and reach him at

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This holiday season, temptation comes in the form of food.

There’s still plenty of food to eat after the Thanksgiving turkey is gone. Sweet holiday treats invite people to pig out.

During the holiday season, it’s easy to gain weight.

If you gain weight during the next month, it’s understandable. People want to hang out with their families. They want to pick up a cup of hot choc-olate instead of exercising.

Many people make New Year ’s reso-lutions to lose weight. To accomplish their goals, some people use diet pills or risky diet plans. Be wary of dieting fads. Most of the time, they don’t work.

Don’t feel bad about those few ex-tra pounds gained during the holidays. You’re not alone. More than half of the people in the United States say they are trying to lose weight, according to a sur-vey by the International Food Informa-tion Council Foundation.

There are lots of weight loss trends that promise miraculous results. These fads promise things like losing 20 pounds in five weeks. Losing lots of weight in a short amount of time harms the body; doctors say losing one pound a

week is healthy.There are tons of fad diets out there.

The best way to make sure that a diet is healthy is by talking to a dietician or a nutritionist.

A few years ago, many Americans tried the Atkins Diet. Other sketchy diets include the Three-Day Diet and the Zone Diet. These diets have increased in popu-larity in the past few years. They offer weight loss, but at a cost: your health.

A lot of these fad diets allow people to lose weight, but sacrifice nutrition that the body needs. For instance, the Atkins diet emphasizes protein to replace carbo-hydrates. This diet keeps the body from getting carbs, which regulate protein and fat.

Some of these fad diets are just plain dangerous. Take the Alcorexia/Drunk-orexia Diet, for example. Followers of the diet take in a limited number of calories so they can binge on alcohol later in the week. The diet can lead to alcohol poi-soning and death. While alcohol can be a part of holiday festivities, don’t mix it with weight loss.

These kinds of fad diets get endorsed by celebrities make these kinds of losing weight appealing.

Many times the weight comes back af-

terward. Fad diets don’t make a difference in the long run. Why waste time on some-thing that doesn’t work?

The American Heart Association rec-ommends eating between three to five servings of fruits and vegetables daily. The association also recommends limiting the intake of consumed calories to a reasonable amount.

Another way people choose to lose weight is through diet pills. Some of these pills are marketed as “miracle pills” by promising quick weight loss.

The most popular kind of weight loss

pills were those containing green coffee bean extract or raspberry ketones, ac-cording to pills-for-weight-loss.com. Pop-ular talk show host Dr. Oz has helped boost the popularity of these diet pills by endors-ing both of them.

Dieters may think that they only need to take those pills regularly without putting in any more time or effort. These pills aren’t a quick-fix solution. For instance, people need to exercise if they want raspberry ketones to be effective.

People taking these pills should read the fine print. There may be unwanted side ef-fects. They also need to make sure the diet pills they get are approved by the FDA. Some of these diet pills are meant for people who are significantly overweight. People wanting to combat weight gain during the holidays should find other ways to lose that fat.

Be responsible for your health. Re-search says that a combination of exercise and eating a balanced diet is the most ef-fective way to lose weight and keep it off.

The American Heart Association rec-ommends exercising for at least 20 min-utes each day. Many college students are too busy focusing on school, work or a social life to get active.

There are lots of cheap, simple and quick ways for students to get active and

to eat healthier. An easy tip is to brush your teeth ear-

lier. The taste of toothpaste can make food taste unappetizing, so there won’t be as much temptation to eat late at night. Bonus: Your dentist will be impressed!

College students can lose a few pounds by walking around a campus building after class. Have a business class? Walk around outside CBA three times after economics. It’s also a great way to keep warm against the chilly weather. If there’s snow outside (as this is Nebraska and weather is unpre-dictable), walk around the inside of the building to get some exercise in.

People don’t have to subscribe to di-eting fads to get rid of some excess fat. Be smart about it. Lose weight the healthy way instead. Exercise and a healthy diet may take longer to shed the pounds, but it’s worth it in the end.

While having fun with family this holiday season, remember it’s OK to eat an extra Christmas cookie. Just make sure to work out a little afterward. Los-ing weight the healthy way can be just as sweet.

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Hazy details in Bryan proposal hinder progressIt’s no secret that Bryan Health is bidding to take over the

University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s health care system, so why are they keeping so many details under wraps?

At the beginning of the semester, UNL administration quickly announced they wanted to privatize the University Health Center, then opened the floor up to potential bidders. Bryan Health, a local non-profit, was the only one.

Initially, the university wanted to keep the bid private, citing UNL policy. Administration didn’t release the bid until the Daily Nebraskan went to the attorney general’s office and received a favorable opinion on the issue.

Since then, Bryan has held a series of meetings with students and University Health Center employees to address concerns. The meetings were intended to answer questions but, unfortunately for the nearly 100 employees at the health center and thousands of stu-dents at the university, the questions were never answered. Daily Nebraskan photographers were also given only restricted access to Bryan’s meetings. When seeking comment on updates to the issue of privatization from Bryan, the non-profit has always referred the Daily Nebraskan back to the university for comment. The only time Bryan has been vocal was during their public presentations, which didn’t answer many questions. If Bryan’s bid is chosen, nearly 100 university employees could face unemployment and the entire UNL student body could face higher student fees, as well as additional private charges to support new system.

In an effort to further investigate privatization, the university created the University Health Center Request for Proposal Evalu-ation Committee. This committee is another example of a lack of transparency on the university’s part - no committee members’ names were released until Nov. 29. On Friday, the committee released its recommendation in favor of privatization. Although seven of the eight members of the committee affirmed Bryan Health’s future on our campus, three of their seven observations about the contract brought unanswered questions into light, including the amount of time both parties are allotting to mak-ing this decision.

We asked in a previous editorial that regents wait until their February meeting to take a vote on the contract. The Proposal Evaluation Committee has mirrored that recommendation, acknowledging that the Jan. 3 deadline for submission is far too soon to make the best decision possible.

And this is where we, at the Daily Nebraskan, ask you as students to critically question this contract. Even though it has received approval, the Proposal Evaluation Committee is still questioning it – and you should too.

Before you agree with this or decide to shrug it off, you need to know why you like, dislike, care or don’t care about it and you can’t do that without facts. We are calling for UNL and Bryan Health administrators to stop hiding and smoothing over the details of their plans. If passed, this would be a huge change for the health center. If the administration is going to ask students to change with it, they need to end the secrets.

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Artists’ personalities drive hip-hop Opposition characterizes music

Kekeli Dawes and Joe Wade explain the somewhat unexpected journeys they travelled through music this semester

m y apologies to all crate-diggers.

This really hasn’t been an accurately

named blog. Check the archives: I can’t recall one instance of me talk-ing about getting dusty fingers. So my apologies to the two of you who were looking forward to a nice in-troduction to choice cuts, dope sam-ples, knocking drums and extensive music history. Sounds like a nice col-umn. Wish I wrote it.

Once cracked into, there is so much value in learning origins of music. In one way, you find a time capsule of objective and subjective assessment and reflections of the then present and past. At the same time, it provides fantastic extrapola-tions for the future. Looking into the origins of music also deepens your understanding and respect for the craft. You experience music as a stu-dent of the craft.

But above all, doing this exposes you to such a wide range of music. The links to other artists, sounds, re-gions and times grow exponentially. It’s exciting. Especially when the music is dope.

Unfortunately, this semester I’ve been more of a disgruntled specta-tor than a passionate student. And I truly do mean disgruntled. As much as I love getting lost in sweet sound, there’s nothing that moves me more than being irked.

There’s nothing worse than a stale joint on an otherwise excellent album. There’s nothing worse than shelling out good money on a dud vinyl. There’s nothing worse than being instantly grounded from a musical high after listening to 10 minutes of the same song on the ra-dio.

So rather than basking in my good vibes from the sweet sounds found this semester, I spent my time focused on those generating the sounds promptly killing it. Like the primary aim of the column, the fo-

cus was on those behind-the-boards. Rather than unearth new mate-rial and connections, the discussion shifted to why these new mate-rial connections came to be and why they are still around.

Hip-hop itself is a style of mu-sic, but it is also a discussion. It is political in the simplest of terms. Its rhymes are often direct and personal statements of a person or a people. The beats are statements of style and individuality. This is not to sound phony; the idea that there is one real hip-hop was and still is core to the genre culture. Whether it’s a unify-ing, all-encompassing definition or one that divides, you best believe that whatever hip-hop this particu-lar emcee is representing is real.

There is an ownership of the cul-ture, of the music, of the craft. There is debate of the classic and transient, the real and fake, the bullshit and the authentic. This is not to suggest that polarity dominates hip-hop culture, but throughout the history of the genre, there has always been a struggle against and rifts within the culture and music. Even today’s challenges to the notion of ab-solutes in hip-hop are still made because of that very personal own-ership of the cul-ture and notion of the singularity of hip-hop.

F u r t h e r -more, this gives me even more reason to shower Lamar with blessings and to complain and whine about artists who are slip-ping, falling flat or don’t deliver.

Yes, this

was less about the music and more about the people behind them. The discussion of the culture, nature and politics of hip-hop raises several ex-cellent questions that many haven’t

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They say it’s pretty hard to de-scribe a band like Halz and Oate.

A generally shirtless front man clad in hot pants (and the occa-sional rollerblades), classic rock covers, self-mockery and sexual gyrations are all a part of the band’s shtick.

Halz and Oate isn’t exactly looking to be labeled like a can of soup, though. They’ll tell you it’s a great compliment when people can’t describe them. They can’t re-ally describe themselves to other people; the only option is to come to the show.

The band formed when Allan “Oate” Weber saw Darin “Halz” Schlake belting out some karaoke at a biker bar.

“I thought he was so ridicu-lous that I should start a band with him, so I did,” Weber said.

Schlake took on lead vocals

while Weber became the Oate to his Halz on guitar. The two were joined by Daniel “Quaker Oate” Vajgrt on bass and Brock “Rock Towelman” Beckman on the drums.

The group wasn’t new to the scene. Weber, Vajgrt and Beckman had all previously played in bands such as The Self Righteous Broth-ers, The Victims and Strawberry Burns, while Schlake was a “clas-sically trained karaoke-ist.”

Weber said in their humble be-ginnings, “before the expense ac-counts and tight pants,” the band was known as In-verted Square Root of Hall and Oats.

“(It was) an equation showing people’s disgust of us based on their like of the origi-nal imposters,” he said. “Due to lazy tongues, minds and lawsuits, we’ve since shortened it to Halz and Oate.”

The group likes to take every-thing in stride. They aren’t really trying to impress anyone.

“Every show is our best and

worst performance,” Weber said. “Honestly. You’d have to see it to believe it.”

Pete Watters, owner of the Zoo Bar, described watching Halz and Oate as “a little uncomfortable, but still enjoyable – kind of like a massage.”

“Our shows are sweaty, foggy and bubbly,” Weber said.

“Quaker Oate” Vajgrt adds to the band’s personality with self-deprecating humor in between

songs.This ex-

plains why they’ll tell you their biggest crowd-pleaser is usually their last song, but “they’re not re-ally sure why.”

“ ( W e ’ l l perform) local-ly until we hit the big time,

then we’ll be playing locally be-cause we’ll never hit the big time,” Weber said. “We have a show ev-ery couple of months and perform all the time.”

The band plays a variety of classic rock at every show and will also cover a song of any local

band they perform with. Favorites include “Butthole” by the local Sputnik Kaputnik and the Cherry Mashers, “Sugar Daddy” from the rock musical “Hedwig and the An-gry Inch” and the Beatles’ “I Am the Walrus.”

All in all, Halz and Oate are in it for a good time. Being in the band is all about the memories.

For example, “when D. Halz had a self induced g-string Snuggy at Bob’s Tavern,” Beckman said.

Weber added to the list of em-barrassing moments with the time when Schalke attempted roller-blading onstage, but only succeed-ed in taking down a mic stand.

Vajgrt said his favorite mem-

Halz & Oate flaunts eccentricities

in love drops quirky holiday

album, ‘reJOice!’

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The time for celebrating is nearly here as finals are rap-idly approaching and last-minute papers are hast-ily being writ-ten. Easing busy minds into the holiday spirit, however, is a new Christmas album from one of the Nebraska mu-sic scene’s own bands.

The holiday-themed album, “REJOICE!”, is the new re-lease by Omaha band In Love. It was released online Dec. 1. The band is comprised of Zach Short, Chris Atkins, Bradley Tyler Moore, Erik Trent, Ryan McKeever, and Cole Evans.

The stylistically varied al-bum, which was recorded in Short’s basement, is a compi-lation of contributions from members of the band. This relaxed creative process, ac-cording to the band, was more sporadic than working in the studio for their previous album “With You.” It allowed them to freely explore ideas as a group but still be independently cre-

ative. “It’s been very easy to ask each other for ideas or for ap-proval,” Atkins said.

“The idea came from our drummer, Ryan,” Atkins said. “He made a Christmas al-bum last year for

his family and friends that Zach and I contributed to.”

Not among the band’s line-up, but featured on the album, is Ally Rhodes, the vocalist on the song “We’re On Our Way

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Night Moves is ready to take their electric sound to the heartland.

The band, originally from Min-neapolis, Minn., is currently tour-ing the Midwest and will be mak-ing their way to the Slowdown in Omaha on Dec. 5.

The members include guitarist and lead singer John Pelant, gui-tarist and keyboardist Mark Rit-sema and bassist Mick Alfano.

“We started the band in 2009 just as a two-piece, but we had no name,” Pelant said. “Basically, we formed from previous high school bands, which morphed into Night Moves.”

The past few years for the band have focused on putting together an album.

Night Moves finally released their record, “Colored Emotions,” in October with Domino Records, the first album the band has put out as a group.

Following the release of the

Night Moves plans Omaha debut

if yOu gO:Halz & Oate

when: saturday, 9 p.m.where: Zoo bar, 136 n. 14th st.how much: tickets at door

Rollerblading Lincoln-based band boasts ‘sweaty, foggy and bubbly’ shows

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a little uncomfortable,

but still enjoyable – kind of like a massage.”

pete wAtterszoo bar owner

cOurtesy pHOtOnight moves, of minneapolis, minn., will stop in the slowdown in omaha during their national tour. local radio station krnu and slow burn Productions are hosting the show.

“it’s really, really stupid,

but so is our sense of humor.”

ryAn mcKeeverin love member

Omaha friends collaborate on 14 original basement-recorded songs

cOurtesy pHOtOomaha band in love decided to ring in the holidays with their own 14-track album. all songs, with the exception of “silent night” and “Jingle bells,” are original compositions.

THE CRATE DIGGER’S GUIDE

columns by kekeli dawes & Joe Wade art by rebecca rickertsen

I WANT MY MTV...BACK

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DaWes: see pAge 7

JustDuett his semester I’ve been com-

paring current music releas-es with the music releases of 1992. The purpose was not

only to inform today’s music lovers about what the music scene was do-ing 20 years ago but also, to discover something – anything – about the music today, in relation to how that music came about. Also, I wanted to definitively answer the question of which is better: today’s music or ’90s music? Occasionally when discuss-ing music with younger music fans, their consensus is that ’90s music wasn’t as great as those individuals who grew up in the ’90s proclaim it to be. Older music fans, however, argue today’s music is

a lot of pop and sizzle without the steak. These two eras of music come from different places, thus it is hard to pick a clear winner.

Bands like Nirvana, PJ Harvey, Blind Melon, R.E.M. and even Ra-diohead all possessed an element which is staggeringly hard to find among the music of 2012. That ele-ment was the presence of the dirty, pissed-off rock star. The songs were the right songs for that time because they expressed what everyone was feeling. It wasn’t supposed to be pretty, and it almost didn’t matter if the song was played on MTV.

In the early ’90s there was a sense of profound reluctance, like the disconnect from progressive real-ity a traumatized individual experi-ences. The individuals of that culture were the noble slackers unwilling to feed the corporate, political and so-cioeconomic machine. There was a fear of being screwed over, a feeling of being oppressed, amplified by the reluctance to conform. The desire to free oneself and do something about

it was obvious. Al-though, what

if doing

something meant becoming part of the machine? It was an ugly, dirty re-alization; it was angst you could cut with a knife. And it came through in the music.

The grunge style, symbolized by greasy hair and flannel shirts, was in direct opposition to mainstream, commercialized music. What made the ’90s scene great was the feeling underground music fans felt when the alternative and grunge styles of music broke through. For the few years that this style of artistic ex-pression was on top, it felt as if the students had taken over the school. Following this metaphor, if you were a student it didn’t matter what your test scores were because you had won.

Comparatively, 2012’s music scene is far more tame. The sound is experimental, but the place it comes from seems compulsive. It lacks the edge of frustration inherent in an underground scene. For example, listen to the change in sound from No Doubt’s early material compared to this year’s album. The music provides groovy, danceable club-beats and forsakes the high energy, sweaty mosh-pit violence. Moody bands like Mumford & Sons or Griz-zly Bear are fun, however, they lack the visceral honesty needed to go against the grain, which produces a sense of purpose for their listeners. It’s all just so nice and radio-friendly.

As a ’90s music fan, what I miss is the rawness and anger as the moti-

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In the ’90s, local band The Millions were nearing a big breakthrough.

After recording two albums and touring packed venues, the band broke up just as they were garner-ing major success. Many were left to wonder what might have happened had the group stayed together. Could that major break actually have come through?

Despite being apart for nearly two decades, the band recently re-united and played their first show at The Bouborn.

Along with their reunion, the band has also released “Poison Fish,” an album composed of 21 unreleased tracks recorded in 1990 before their debut album, “M is for Million.”

The instant the album begins, it’s evident that the early ’90s is tightly woven into “Poison Fish.” From the shaky but strong vocals to the heavy use of cymbals, the band immediately lets you know what decade this album was re-corded in.

This clarity does not change as the album goes on. Though at first The Millions’ distinct sound is a fresh change from modern-day music, by the time you reach track 14, you begin to fear there isn’t much variety on this album. Many of the songs blend into one another and sometimes lyrics are even indistinguishable.

The first part of the album does have its standouts, howev-er. The title track, “Poison Fish,” showcases the talent of both the band and vocalist Lori Allison. It’s hard to imagine this song not be-coming popular among alternative music fans 20 years ago. The acous-

tic song, “The River,” also delivers both lyrically and vocally.

Once the later part of the album arrives, however, there is a welcome change. From the strange, but beau-tiful “Agnus Dei,” to the slightly dark “No. 5,” “Poison Fish,” be-comes much more pleasing when The Millions change things up.

Allison’s fierce voice leads the way on most songs. Her voice seems as though it was destined to be known alongside those of Nata-lie Merchant and Belinda Carlisle.

Though “Poison Fish” is filled with solid ’90s tracks, the range for the audience is minimal. Fans of ’90s alternative music will like-ly find the album enjoyable, but modern Top-40 aficionados might find themselves alienated.

The true interest of “Poison Fish” lies within the band itself, as one is left to wonder what The Mil-lions might have become had they stayed together.

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this weeK in music

live shOws:

Of montreal w/ French Horn

rebellionwhen: Friday, 9 p.m., doors at 8 p.m.where: the slowdown, 729 n. 14 st., omahahow much: $20

public enemy w/ X-clan,

monie love, schoolly D and

otherswhen: Friday, 9 p.m.. doors at 8 p.m.where: the bourbon, 1415 o st.how much: $25 (in advance), $30 (day of show)

the envy corps w/ Field club

when: saturday, 9 p.m.where: the Waiting room, 6212 maple st., omahahow much: $7

new in recOrds:

“Warrior”artist: ke$haproducer: rcagenre: dance-Pop

“O.n.i.F.c.”artist: Wiz khalifa producer: atlanticgenre: Hip-hop

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could have beenthis is my jam

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Sunset Rubdown’s 2007 album, “Random Spirit Lover,” can be a hard sell. It’s a very unorga-nized album, each track a com-pletely different entity from its neighbors. In many ways, its attention span is like that of a child’s, constantly shifting to new, interesting sounds.

It’s this discombobula-tion that sets “Random Spirit Lover” apart. As songs change keys and new instruments are added, everything seems to work perfectly to form a larger picture. The screaming guitars that pop in every once in a while to wail along in the background seem appropriate. Spencer Krug’s voice, which walks the fence of being beau-tiful and being horrible, adds character to every song.

Weirdly enough, the album almost has a Christmas feel to it. Organs and violins help to create this effect, certainly, but lyrically, the album tells tales about mythical creatures and far-away adventures. The at-mosphere and texture of the album is rich, with each song containing moments that can only be described as enchant-ing.

Sunset Rubdown has con-tinually improved with new releases, but there’s still a sense of honesty and magic in “Ran-

dom Spirit Lover” that makes it my jam.

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sunset rubdown: ‘random spirit lover’

(To Christmas Day),” written by Zach Short. Jesse Short, Zach Short’s brother, also makes an appear-ance with guitar on “Hey, Mr. Winter-time (Signs of Cabin Fever),” which is also written by Zach Short. According to McKeever, the song is reference to the mov-ie “Castaway.”

“It’s really, really stupid, but so is our sense of humor,” he said. “I died when I heard it.”

“This year, I did three songs,” he added. “The first one I did is an electronic version

of ‘Jingle Bells,’ hence it is called ‘Intergalactic Jingle Bells.’ I also

did a cover of ‘Silent Night’ and then wrote one called ‘Get That Mistletoe Away From Me!’, which is a song played on the banjo about being single on Christmas.”

A c c o rd i n g to the band, when McK-eever asked for Christmas con-tributions this

year, they instead decided to cre-ate a full-length album. The re-

sult is 14 original songs, save for “Jingle Bells” and “Silent Night,” in order to show off the band’s musicianship and characteristic sense of humor.

“My favorite memory from working on the album was during the recording of ‘Intergalactic Jingle Bells,’” Atkins said. “Ryan was us-ing his vocoder in his microKORG to sing ‘Jingle Bells.’ He sounded very, very much like a dingus, and I came into the recording room and made it more difficult for him to record. He ended up laughing a lot into the vocoder which we lis-tened to later and it sounded like a robot laughing.”

The album is available at www.inlove.bandcamp.com.

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cOurtesy pHOtOafter a decade-long breakup, the millions are back together. the recently released an album of some of their oldest work.

cOurtesy pHOtO

“WU-BLOCK”Wu-Block

B-“POISON FISH”The Millions

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it allowed them to

freely explore ideas as a group, but still be independently creative.”

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Do you hear

what i hear?

tyler KeOWn

Five terrible traDitiOnal cHristmas sOngs1. “it’s beginning to look a lot like cHristmas”

Is it? Can you tell with your eyes? What a ridiculous, obvi-ous song title. Furthermore, the song was apparently written in Nova Scotia, which, according to a quick image search, never stops looking like Christmas.

2. “god rest ye merry, gentlemen”

Easily the most sinister-sounding song still sung around this time of year, “God Rest Ye” practically comes with a mental image of marching soldiers ran-sacking a Godless country. I’d prefer my holidays free of ter-ror, thanks.

3. “carol oF tHe bells”Too much going on. Too

much going on. Too much going on. TOO MUCH GOING ON! DING! DONG! DING! DONG! SWEET SILVER BELLS! BATS OUT OF HELL! THIS IS TOO MUCH CHEER! ONE SEEMS TO HEAR! WORDS EVERY-WHERE! DEATH MUST BE NEAR! DING! DONG!

4. “Jingle bells”Does anyone post-1905 like

this song? Nothing in it is relat-able to how we currently live, the exception being anyone that actually owns/knows how to operate a one-horse open sleigh. And that guy is not someone I’ll be celebrating Christmas with this year.

5. “aWay in a manger”If you’re going to sing a

song, sing a song. If you’re go-ing to tell a story, tell a story. Don’t just throw some violins or whatever in the background and then sing-talk about the day Jesus was born. You could get your point moving a lot faster if you just said what you’re trying to say.

Five great traDitiOnal cHristmas sOngs1. “deck tHe Halls”

This song is my joint. The entire song is naming ways to celebrate for Christmas and getting so excited about it that English goes right out the win-dow. “Deck the halls with blah o lolly! Fa la la la, la la la!” When a song makes you so excited that all you can do it make noises, it’s doing its job right.

2. “let it snoW”I like this song because it’s

all about putting your prob-lems off. The weather outside is frightful and I must ignore responsibility accordingly. Ev-erything, including snow, can gather outside my door, but I

will sit here and watch terrible television without guilt.

3. “baby, it’s cold outside”

This might not be considered “traditional” by some circles, but if you listen to the lyrics, this song fits better 200 years ago. “You should leave here, beautiful young woman, before the night approaches, and I am forced to attend confession this week but, lo, it is snowing. You will stay. Praise this patriarchal society into which I was born!” It’s terribly sleazy, but that’s part of the charm. Be on the lookout for people that get too into this song, though.

4. “tHe tWelve days oF cHristmas”

This song is all about giving the finger to authority. Only one day of Christmas? I don’t think so, The Man! Christmas gifts that would actually be practi-cal? Ten leaping lords for every-one! A song of normal length? Enjoy the concert, punks!

5. “WHat cHild is tHis?”I like this song because the

person who wrote it is doing the right thing. Good neighbor-hoods are built around caring neighbors, and anyone who’s willing to try to help a child find its parents by writing a song must truly understand the meaning of Christmas. Plus, it’s played to the melody of “Greensleeves,” arguably the most calming song you’ll ever hear.

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keown klaus tackles traditional seasonal tunes

A&E Grinch critiques contemporary holiday music

cHance sOlem-pFeiFer

Five WOrst cOntempOrary cHristmas sOngs1. “WonderFul cHristmastime” – Paul mccartney

From the desk of Paul McCart-ney; reminder to self, circa 1979: “Write a song that sounds like a jin-gle squealing out of your kid’s new Christmas morning wind-up toy, af-ter you’ve put your foot through it.”

2. “all i Want For cHristmas is you” – mariaH carey

Christmas songs, maybe more than any other kind, should say something. Have you ever tried saying this refrain to someone you’re into? If you’re together, they’ll be all: “Thanks for that, but seriously what do you want?” And if you’re not together, you’ll never be together.

3. “grandma got run over by a reindeer” – elmo and Patsy trigg

At least she didn’t have to hear this shitty song every year for the

rest of her miserable life.

4. any neil diamond cHristmas song/cover – neil diamond

If you’ve ever heard Neil Dia-mond just talking the words to a holiday tune over a two hundred-person chorus, you know the real War on Christmas is being waged by a single 70-year-old Jewish guy, spit-balling about Parson Brown in jeans and a sports coat, like your drunk uncle trying slam poetry.

5. “cHerry, cHerry cHristmas” – neil diamond

I won’t stop if he won’t.“You guys, what if I took one of

my pre-existing gems and just made it a Christmas song? Yes, I am better than Christmas. Diamond is forever. Yes, has anybody coined that yet? Let’s get this tragedy on wax.”

Five best cOntempOrary cHristmas sOngs1. “listening to otis redding at Home during cHristmas” – okkervil river

“I’ve got dreams to remember/and not even home will be with you forever.” It only makes sense that the band so adept at capturing the invigorated, self-effacing dis-enfranchisement of the 20-some-thing would produce a song about how going home at Christmas time is a sad, nostalgic thing.

2. “celebrate me Home” – kenny loggins

In his first Christmas apart from

Messina, Loggins does not a nice job of taking that sad nostalgia Okkervil River was trying to capture and tell-ing us to just get over it! It’s Christ-mas for goodness sake. Plus, for a secular song, he looks a hell of a lot like Jesus.

3. “7 o’clock neWs/silent nigHt” – simon & garFunkel

This is the classic folk rock duo’s reminder to us that things were pret-ty real in 1966, but mostly: Just be thankful for families and beautiful voices and be glad we’re not Lenny Bruce, Richard Nixon or fighting in Vietnam.

4. “anotHer cHristmas song” – stePHen colbert

At the height of his cultural influence in 2008, Stephen Colbert released his Christmas special: “A Colbert Christmas: The Great-est Gift of All!” The flagship track from that show was everything the masses loved about Colbert’s knack for fiddling with something as familiar as the TV Christmas special in equally familiar satire, but with an all-original gregariousness.

5. “tHat Was tHe Worst cHristmas ever!” - suFJan stevens

It’s a safe pick, but Stevens’ Christmas songs are a great achieve-ment for his specific brand of mel-ancholy. Perhaps what people like most about Stevens’ holiday work is, in addition to the roomy banjo and quiet nods to abusive fathers, they actually sound like something you could put on for Christmas.

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ories come from the shows or parties thrown by their friends at Modern Monks, adding “any show that ends up in a strip twist-er match with Pete Watters” is also acceptable.

And Schalke recalled all of the good times before they started the band.

They all described being in the band as “awkwardly comfort-able.”

“The Beatles have nothing on us,” said Vajgrt. “We have many hits, most were stolen. We have also played on roof-tops and the ugliest guy in our band is also the drummer. We are a rebel force to be reckoned with — like diarrhea after a six-pack of Tastee sand-wiches.”

Collectively, when they’re not performing, the band enjoys roll-erblading. And given the chance, Weber said they’d love to take up the gauntlet with their rival band.

“We want to meet Hall & Oates by the bike rack after school and battle for man-eater suprem-acy.”

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album, the band received a no-table amount of press in their hometown, and people around the country are starting to take inter-est.

“The Minneapolis music scene is booming, so the fact that they’re singled out as one of the best in the area really speaks volumes,” Joe Teplitsky, a senior broadcast major and music director at KRNU, said.

The band also recently finished a national tour with L.A. band Lord Huron to promote “Colored Emotions.”

The band plans on going local this time around, keeping it small and touring cities in close prox-imity to each other. KRNU and Omaha’s Slow Burn Productions are hosting the Dec. 5 show.

“This is the first Omaha show that KRNU has been involved with,” Teplitsky said. “I’m really looking forward to meeting some of our Omaha fans.”

This event is different than others KRNU has held in the past.

“Normally we put together local showcases featuring several bands from Omaha/Lincoln,” Teplitsky said. “Night Moves is an up-and-coming act from Minne-apolis that I really enjoy, so getting them to play in the area was some-thing I was really interested in.”

Night Moves is currently on KRNU’s Top 30, and the station has received positive feedback from fans.

“They have a pretty unique sound that is really great,” Teplitsky said. “It’s a combination of glam-electro rock along with

some Americana and folk influ-ences, and it comes together really well.”

Fans can expect to hear Night Moves play songs from their re-cent album, as well as some new material.

“People can expect us to be friendly, yet wasted,” Pelant said.

The event will also include bands The Renfields and Adult Films, both from Omaha.

“The Renfields are one of the opening acts, so I think that will draw some people from Lincoln who might not normally make the trip for a concert,” Teplitsky said. “Adult Films is a new band that will compliment Night Moves re-ally well.”

“It’s perfect for fans of the band, as well as people who are unfamiliar but just want to hear some good live music,” Teplitsky said. “It’s definitely a lineup I wouldn’t miss.”

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‘Wu-block’ delivers predictably

KeKeli dAwesDn

You know how you can open any Kanye West record and you sometimes aren’t sure of what you find there?

Of course you do. We all do.Whenever you crack into any

given Wu joint (not some of the RZA’s side endeavors), it’s not like that at all – you know exactly what you are in for. Wu-Block has plenty of the soulful samples, punching drums, and extensive cyphers with flows you know and love. It’s hard to point out a dud on the album, because it’s all solid all around. All the emcees featured hold their own well, as they should: They’re heavy-weights.

The only drawback of the al-bum is that it’s everything it needs to be, but nothing more. The cuts are far from mediocre, but they aren’t anything you haven’t heard before. The joke is it’s hard to get tired of hearing emcees that are good at what they do.

Wu-Block is a collaborative rap project formed by Wu Tang Clan’s Ghostface Killah and D-Block’s Sheek Louch. Both are excellent emcees with years of classic albums and songs of their own, and each has a distinct flow. Louch is direct, concise and he cleanly rides on the beat. Ghost-face’s flow sways and weaves through gapless streams of vivid and humorous storytelling.

Ghost has the ability to rhyme on a range of styles. He has craft-ed excellent personas throughout the years, but shoots straight on this album. Louch, Ghost and company all spit with finesse on each track (like they always do), but that’s it.

It doesn’t feel fair to say that this album doesn’t deliver, because it does. Chill cuts like “Driving Round” with Erykah Badu, Masta Killa and GZA showcase silky flows. Other

tracks ride easy like the opening “Crack Spot Stories.” The single “Stick Up Kids” is massive and pounding. Louch and Ghost have all their bases covered.

But you won’t find anything new here, and if you truly hated Ghostface’s latest work on “Wu Massacre,” you probably don’t like his work from ’96. “Wu-Block” isn’t anything out of the ordinary. It’s just great.

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cOurtesy pHOtOnew rap project Wu-block is made up of the Wu tang clan’s ghostface killah and d-block’s sheek louch. their self-titled album, “Wu-block” is the first they’ve released.

Collaboration gives listeners promised great perfomance, nothing more

cOurtesy pHOtOHalz & oate members are united by common interests, such as rollerblading and karaoke. the group will perfom at the Zoo bar saturday at 9 p.m.

“WU-BLOCK”Wu-Block

B-“POISON FISH”The Millions

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if yOu gO:night moves, the

renfields and adult Films

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asked themselves, or asked enough. But here, let’s just remember to

keep it about the music and the craft, to take heed of the lessons, the state-ments, and the perspectives, but to also remember the glorious medium. So we should still rag on Lil Wayne’s upcoming retirement, just as long as we can discuss the musicality of his scrappy timbre.

And we should still declare that Drake is, in fact, a thumb with eye-brows, as long as we then discuss why we are longingly waiting for the day his FL Studio trial expires, so he won’t tinker with Aaliyah acapellas anymore.

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vating forces pushing the music out. What I like about the music of 2012 is the openness and freedom to express ideas without the fear of being re-jected by totalitarian commercialism. Music can come from anyone who desires to create it, no matter what the reason.

Today it sounds like the music came first with the goal of being new and interesting. Only then, after the music was created, was the element of dark emotions or heaviness added to spice things up. There is no evil social-machine the musicians are actively fighting against. In a way, even though the ’90s alternative scene flipped what was authorita-tively mainstream, all that rage and distrust became part of the machine and opened it up. Now, with the ease of recording and ability to share original matter on the internet, mu-

sic today enjoys the widest range of creative possibility that it has ever experienced.

Despite those nostalgic ‘90s mu-sic fans insisting their music is better, despite the new generation of music lovers who are tired of hearing over and over again how great the ‘90s were, there is still the common goal of creating great art. 2012 obviously prefers their rock stars to be a bit more fashion-sensible – excluding Lady Gaga fans – and enjoys musical complexity over the catchy repeti-tion of power-chords.

In conclusion, based off months of listening to countless albums, the winner between 1992 and 2012 is neither. Both suck equally compared with the music of the ‘60s and early ‘70s. Thanks for reading.

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Nebraska swimming and diving continued its successful season at the Hawkeye Invitational this weekend. The team took second in Iowa City with a score of 670 at the end of finals. The meet be-gan on Friday and continued un-til mid-Sunday. Among the teams competing at the University of Iowa’s Campus Recreation and Wellness Center, Nebraska was a force to be reckoned with in the waters and had record-breaking performances.

The 200-yard freestyle was NU’s jaw-dropping performance of the weekend. Hardly a second slower than the school’s record, Ariel Weech, Hayley Martin, Shannon Guy and Taryn Collura competed for Nebraska’s only win of the meet and contributed 40 points to the total score.

Weech also had an astounding performance during the 100-yard freestyle, finishing with a time of 49.75 and making school’s his-tory with the third fastest time by a Husker. She finished second in the finals with Martin and Col-lura trailing close behind for third

and fourth place.

A l -though her time was set in the pre-lims, Martin broke NU’s previous re-cord in the 1 0 0 - y a r d backstroke with a 54.25, beating the time of 54.77 which was set by Therese Alsham-mar in 1998. She also beat former teammate Ellan Dufour’s second place record of 55.08 set last year.

In the 400-yard freestyle med-ley, the Huskers also reached re-cord-setting status by racing for the school’s fourth best time to date.

The second-place finish this weekend at the Hawkeye Invita-tional marked the end of the 2012 competitions. Practices will start again in January to prepare for the Jan. 19 competition against San Diego State at the Devaney Nata-torium.

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file pHoto by betHaNy scHmiDt | DNnebraska defensive coordinator John papuchis is looking to forget about his squad’s 70-31 loss and move on to nu’s capital one bowl matchup with georgia.

worst defensive performances ever.Defensive line coach Rick Kac-

zenski took a more forward-looking stance in his post-game interviews. He said the coming month is a crucial period for Nebraska football.

“It’s a good thing that we have a month,” he said. “We have to live

with this as a staff and as players, and that’s a driving force. We got flat out embarrassed, and if that doesn’t moti-vate you, you’re in the wrong game.”

Nebraska has responded well to stinging losses under Pelini in the past. The Huskers are 13-4 following a loss in the coach’s five years at the

school. Kaczenski thinks the coach knows how to get his guys up after a deflating loss like Saturday’s.

“We have a resilient group,” Kaczenski said. “We’ve been saying it all year. I mean, these guys, I don’t think there is much quit in them.”

While the players take a bit of time off to study and recuperate from the loss, Nebraska’s coaches will hit the road. Papuchis said the staff will use the month before the Capital One Bowl to get in a few high school player’s living rooms and make a recruiting push.

As for the game itself, Papuchis said he and the rest of the Nebraska staff will take it seriously.

“There’s only one way to go,” he said. “We have to get ready for (Georgia) and do our best to get pre-pared.”

Kaczenski said the game repre-sents an opportunity for the Huskers to get back on track. The team is at a low point now, but with a win in the bowl game, things might not look so bad.

“You have to take a step back and evaluate where you are, and the good thing is, we have a month to get better,” he said. “There isn’t a choice there, so that’s non-negotiable.”

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1. micHigaN state: (7-0 overall)michigan state is still undefeated after three weeks of play, beginning their 2012-2013 campaign 7-0. though they haven’t played a formidable oppo-

nent, msu has had a variety of solid wins against virginia tech and north carolina state. msu has four starters averaging in double digits, including klarissa bell, who tops the chart with 15.2 points per game. their average margin of victory is 28 points per game, and are looking like a true con-tender for a big ten title, after a 20-12 season one year ago.

2. purDue: (7-1) no. 15 purdue started out hot with a 5-0 record before getting stomped

by connecticut 91-57 on nov. 24. other than that blemish, purdue has been consistent this season, with a 7-1 record. purdue’s even distribution of the ball has kept them at a distance to most teams, av-eraging 16.3 assists per game. they should be able to win-out their non-conference schedule with no real challenges, excluding a matchup with no. 5 notre dame on dec. 29.

3. peNN state: (6-1)other than a four-point loss to mi-ami, Fla., in late november, penn state has started out well this sea-

son, sporting a 6-1 record. their high-point thus far was a five point win over no. 16 texas a&m on nov. 14. the lady lions’ remaining non-conference schedule will be tough, especially a dec. 6 game at no. 2 uconn, and a dec. 16 match-up with a south dakota state team that knocked of nebraska ear-lier this year.

4. Nebraska: (6-2) nebraska’s year has started off promising, with two all-american candidates in junior Jordan hooper and senior guard lindsey

moore leading the team to a 6-2 record. the husk-ers climbed as far as no. 15 in the ap polls before losing to an unranked south dakota state 60-55. nebraska also got blown out at home by no. 11 maryland by 19 points. the huskers currently stand at no. 25 in the polls, and according to husk-er coach connie yori, are looking for a consistent fifth starter.

5. NortHwesterN: (6-1) northwestern’s 6-1 record looks impressive on paper, but the team hasn’t played any real competition thus far. with wins over howard, yale and boston college, the wildcats were un-defeated before getting man-handled by depaul 89-61. the

team has no trouble scoring, with four players who average more than 12 points per game, but have trouble defending teams, allowing an average of 66 points per game.

6. oHio state: (5-2) change eight points around and ohio state might be a top-five team in the country, but due to a six-point loss to no. 7 notre dame and a three-point loss

to no. 22 north carolina, ohio state stands at 5-2. though still a threat to contend for the big ten title, no. 20 ohio state has some shaping up to do be-fore big ten play, and should be able to with no tough games until mid-January against purdue.

7. iNDiaNa: (6-2)indiana is a wildcard this season. they beat a solid iupui by 11 points, then turned around and lost to cleveland state by 11. though inconsistent, in-diana stands at 6-2. with a turnover margin of -.6

and only a +4 scoring margin, indiana is right on the line of mediocre, but continues to find ways to wins, including two under three points. the hoosiers next contest is a dec. 4 match-up against belmont.

8. micHigaN: (6-2)michigan held its own against no. 4 duke for a good portion of the

game in late november but ended up losing by 17 points, which is a gage of michigan this year; good, but inconsistent. the wolverines’ biggest blemish on the season is a 19-point loss to utah. the rest of the non-conference schedule looks promising, with no tough teams, but you never know with this team.

9. iowa: (6-3)though two of io-wa’s three losses are to major confer-ence teams (unc and Florida state),

iowa looks like they’ll be near the bottom of the big ten this year, despite their strong 6-3 start. iowa will be leaning on morgan John-son all year. the forward is averaging 18.4 points per game as well as 7.7 rebounds. if iowa wants any chance to be a successful team this season, Johnson should touch the ball every possession.

10. miNNesota: (6-3) minnesota’s only solid win this year is against mis-souri in a five-point

victory. the gophers’ other six wins were less than impressive, but you can’t blame them. they’ve played some good competi-tion in no. 20 kansas and virginia, both of the games resulted in blow-out losses. the gophers are hoping to have a good non-conference record going into big ten play, because the match-ups against top big ten teams don’t look good.

11. illiNois: (4-3) though, illinois has a win-ning record, 4-3, this season is slowly coming undone. af-ter dropping two of its last three games, illinois needs to pick up its game before the illini take on texas tech, memphis, oregon and no. 6

georgia in the coming weeks. if illinois wants any chance, they will need karisma penn, av-eraging 19.0 points per game thus far, to up her production by a few points, because it doesn’t look like she’ll get much help from anywhere else.

12. wiscoNsiN: (4-3) rounding out the big ten is wisconsin, a 4-3 team looking for consistency like other lower-level big ten teams. the badgers

beat alabama by 19 and a good washington state team by eight, but lost to gonzaga 62-53. they struggle to take care of the ball, averaging 19.7 turnovers per game, and con-tinue to play poorly in the second half, even with strong first halves. wisconsin will get a good gage of where they are on dec. 5, in their next game against marquette.

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1. iNDiaNa (overall 8-0):the hoosiers are the clear no. 1 team in the big ten. in fact, they are the clear no. 1 team in the country. indiana put a beat down on then-no. 14 north carolina, in a statement game. the

hoosiers take on central connecticut state on saturday before a showdown with an emerging butler squad in the near future. look out for the hoosiers to make a Final Four run this season.

2. micHigaN (7-0): a win over a talent-ed north carolina state squad defines the early part of the season for the

wolverines. other than that though, michigan hasn’t played anyone yet. trey burke and tim hardaway Jr. are leading the way for the wol-verines with some freshmen playing very well early on. the frontcourt has to get better if it wants to compete with indiana, though.

3. oHio state (5-1):the only thing be-tween the buckeyes and an unblemished record is a five-point loss to undefeated duke at cameron in-door. ohio state may

have the best guard-forward combo in the con-ference with aaron craft and deshaun thomas. the youngster, lenzell smith Jr. has played well in the early going as well. the buckeyes take on long beach state this week.

4. miNNesota (8-1):the gophers have looked good in the early going of the season. much like

ohio state, a loss to duke is the only dent in minnesota’s armor. minnesota has knocked off memphis and Florida state so far this season. the gophers will be tested when a talented south dakota state comes to the twin cities.

5. illiNois (8-0):the ilini are probably the big-gest surprise this year in the big ten. expected to struggle this season because of youth, and a new coach in John groce, illinois knocked off an emerging butler squad and remains undefeated. brandon

paul is making his case for the big ten player of the year, while he continues to lead this young team.

6. micHigaN state (6-2):the spartans looked to be rebounding from an early season loss to con-necticut. however, miami, Fla., shocked msu in the acc/big ten challenge with a 12-point victory.

the spartans now have some cupcakes coming up to get better. weak competition comes at a perfect time for msu coach tom izzo’s squad because they have a lot of holes to fill.

7. wiscoNsiN (5-3): it has been a rough year for wisconsin so far, with losses to no. 6 Florida, then no. 14 creighton and vir-ginia. the virginia loss

in particular has to sting for the badgers as it was at home – a place where wisconsin rarely loses. you have got to think uw coach bo ryan’s squad will rebound though, and eventually climb back toward the top of the big ten.

8. NortHwesterN (6-2): the wildcats started out the season 6-0, but have dropped the last two games, includ-ing maryland in the acc/big ten challenge. it doesn’t get any easier for northwestern either, as the team travels to baylor and hosts butler this

week. both teams have wins against top-10 competition.

9. Nebraska (6-1):nine might be a stretch for the husk-ers, but it’s hard to ignore their win over wake Forest last week. nebraska

hasn’t been pretty, but it has squeaked out a couple wins early to give tim miles some early wins. this will be judgment week for nebraska, and it started off on the right foot with a 63-51 win against usc on monday. the huskers will take on in-state rival creighton on thursday.

10. iowa (6-2): all of iowa’s wins have been against mediocre compe-tition. when the hawkeyes have

played more talented squads, they lost — by a lot. iowa is talented, but it still may be a year away before it can compete in the country’s toughest conference. iowa takes on south dakota and iowa state this week.

11. purDue (3-4):the boilermak-ers are another one of those ex-tremely young

teams. purdue has yet to lose a game by more than 10 points, showing how it plays hard in the early going. things get easier this week for the boilermakers as a couple of cupcakes come to town.

12. peNN state (4-3):the nittany li-ons lost all of their offense when tim Fra-zier went down with a season-

ending injury. now, penn state has to move on without its leading scorer and senior leader. looks like a long year for nittany lion fans.

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John Cook hasn’t seen his team go this far in an NCAA Tourna-ment in two years.

Flash back to Dec. 10, 2010. The Nebraska volleyball team

went up north to face Washing-

ton in Seattle, only to lose to the Huskies 3-1 (25-16, 25-20, 25-21, 29-27).

The following year, the Husk-ers would see their season halted even sooner when Kansas State stormed into Lincoln Dec. 2 and defeated the home team in the second round, 3-2 (22-25, 25-22, 31-29, 25-22, 11-15).

But so far this season, NU (24-6) has done more than prove its thirst for finishing business. The Huskers are looking to reverse the two-year trend and should be riding high after victories in six of the Huskers’ last seven games.

Sure, they had a couple of blunders against Michigan and Michigan State that turned into their fourth and fifth losses of the season. And a five-set drop at Minnesota three matches didn’t make matters any better. Yet, the month of November couldn’t have gone any better for the Huskers.

Their successful finish in the regular season’s final month overshadowed all the team’s ear-ly problems.

The Huskers closed out the month on cloud nine, capturing four of its five final matches – ev-ery victory was a sweep.

There’s no question home court advantage has played an es-sential role in the success of Nebras-ka’s team this sea-son.

However, there is a question that hangs above the heads of Cook and his 2012 squad: Can they keep hold of their tri-umphant run now that they’ll be away from the Coliseum for the rest of the season?

Seeing how five of the team’s

six losses this season have come on the road, its future matches aren’t looking too promising.

A 7-5 record as guest to their opponents isn’t enough to assure the team will win its next match away from home.

Only time will tell how the team will fair in its next match(es), but the way the Huskers have played so far this postseason, it doesn’t look like they will end the 2012 season any time soon.

Nebraska’s of-fense has exploded for a combined .413 hitting per-

centages in its first and second round matches against Maryland East Shore and Northern Iowa.

Senior Hannah Werth swung a team-high .667 and totaled 11

kills in a 3-0 sweep against UMES to begin the tournament off on the right note. Mancuso showed off her leadership as well blast-ing 12 kills en route to a .435 hit-ting percentage.

The two outside hitters’ stel-lar performances aided to a .455 team hitting percentage. Though Gina Mancuso and Werth lead the Huskers with 398 and 341 kills, respectively, their two above .300 swings were nowhere to be found the next day.

The combined 739 kill hitters collected nine hits each last Fri-day against the Panthers to hit a measly .227. However, juniors Jordan Broekhuis and Hayley Thramer did come up clutch and did so immensely.

In its second round three-set win, Morgan Broekhuis swung for a team-high .625 hitting per-centage (10 kills), while Hayley Thramer slammed for .538 (eight kills) to advance to their first re-

gional action in two years. Fast forward to Friday, Dec.

7 against No. 13 Washington (25-6) at the CenturyLink Center in Omaha.

If Nebraska hopes to advance past the first round of regional play for the first time since they were in Omaha in 2011 (Dec. 11 vs. Iowa State), it’s going to take a team effort.

Although some may look at the fact that the Huskers don’t have that one go-to offensive threat for Lauren Cook to set up every play as discouraging, I’m not so sure it’s not a blessing.

But Omaha is close enough to home to keep a friendly crowd. Nebraska shouldn’t have a prob-lem moving on past the Centu-ryLink Center and toward a na-tional title.

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Nebraska recorded 10 of its season-high 15 turnovers in the first half. At one point, the Huskers had seven turnovers in nine possessions before halftime.

During that stretch, USC gained its only lead of the game at 16-12 after back-to-back turnovers by Talley and Andre Almeida. Tal-ley struggled to hold onto the ball the whole night with a game-high five turnovers.

“When we finally passed the ball to our guys, good things start-ed to happen for us,” Miles said.

Nebraska now looks ahead to a matchup with in-state rival and No. 16 Creighton on Thurs-day night at the Devaney Center.

“We are going out and trying to win every game, and the next one is Creighton,” Miles said. “They have a great team, a team of a lifetime. Tonight I’ll go to

work and try to beat Creighton. “We aren’t going to raise any

eyebrows until we win Thursday night.”

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Orlando will be a temperate place to spend New Year’s Day.

That being said, it isn’t where Ne-braska football coach Bo Pelini or any of his players want to spend their holi-day vacation.

The Huskers had aspirations of heading west for the winter. They had their eyes on a return trip to sunny Pasadena and the Rose Bowl before those dreams came crashing down in a 70-31 loss to Wisconsin on Saturday.

With the loss in the Big Ten Cham-pionship Game, Nebraska was rel-egated to the Capital One Bowl, but somehow ended up with a higher-ranked opponent in their bowl match-up.

The Huskers (10-3) are set to play Georgia (11-2) – a team that was one play away from beating Alabama on Saturday and earning a berth in the Bowl Championship Series national ti-tle game. The Bulldogs are ranked No. 6 in the latest AP Top 25 Poll. That’s two spots higher than Nebraska’s op-ponent had they won the Big Ten Title on Saturday. Stanford – the Pac-12 champion – is ranked No. 8.

The Huskers are taking a break this week before they begin their Capital One Bowl preparations. NU defensive coordinator John Papuchis said after Saturday’s game that the team needs to take care of some school work before it moves on to its next op-ponent.

“They’ll have a little bit of time off here with finals and everything that is coming up,” the coach said. “We have to regroup and find a way to get better because we still have one more game.”

The Husker coaching staff was at a loss for words following Saturday’s beat down at the hands of Wisconsin. Pelini apologized to the program for his team’s performance and took the blame for what was one of Nebraska’s

nebraska forward andre almeida scored eight points in his squad’s win against usc on monday. almeida was named the big ten’s player of the week monday for his performance against wake Forest last week.

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ray Gallegos caught a pass behind the arc, rose into his shot and watched as the ball went through the net.

That happened many times Monday night, as the Ne-braska men’s basketball guard hit a career-high six 3-point baskets to lead Nebraska to 65 percent shooting from behind the arc, en route to a 63-51 win over USC in front of a crowd of 8,491 at the Bob Devaney Sports Center.

Nebraska made 11 3-point buck-ets on the night.

“Hopefully the fans liked what they saw tonight,” Nebraska coach Tim Miles said. “You can see that we are playing with a little more defen-sive force. We are attacking the glass better – on offense, our cuts are more aggressive. Certainly, aggressive teams are more confident teams.”

Gallegos scored 11 of his game-high 20 points in the final two min-utes of the second half, including three field goals from behind the arc. He fueled what would end up being a 16-2 run from the 1:51 mark in the first half to the 14:45 mark of the sec-ond.

During that stretch, Nebraska (6-1) held USC (3-4) without a field goal, building its lead to as many as 14 points. USC finally made a layup with 12:14 left in the game, but by then the Huskers were rolling.

Nebraska built the lead to 20 points at 52-32 on a Gallegos 3-point-er with 10:08 to go. However, USC responded with a 10-2 run of its own

to cut the lead to 12. That was as close as they got.

“We are still coming along, still tweaking some things,” senior for-ward Brandon Ubel said. “But we just have an energy about us now, and it is building as we go along. And even when it’s gone bad, we have been able to come back.”

When the game was still in doubt midway through the second half, Nebraska’s shot clock ticked down. Dylan Talley gained possession with three seconds left on the shot clock.

He backed the ball out as the fans counted down the seconds. He threw up a fade away 3-pointer with a hand in his face as the shot clock expired. The shot swished through the basket and gave Nebraska an 18-point lead and the energy it need-ed to seal the win.

“That was just lucky,” Talley said. “Everyone was counting down and I just threw it up.”

Talley finished with 14 points on the night.

USC hit a couple 3-pointers to cut the lead back to 12 but couldn’t put forth any last-minute run to make the comeback.

“I thought our defense was sol-id,” Miles said. “There was a point in the second half that we kind of let up. We started scoreboard-watching a little bit and I was disappointed we got off the attack.”

Both teams struggled to keep control of the ball in the first half.

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Benny Parker threw the ball out to Nebraska guard Ray Gallegos. The junior caught the pass at the top of the key and stroked his third 3-pointer of the night.

Gallegos was on a roll. He’d come into Nebraska’s 63-51 win against USC as Nebraska’s top man behind the arc with 17 3-point baskets on the season, and his performance on Monday only extended his lead in that depart-ment.

“His shooting is as good as I’ve seen it,” said NU coach Tim Miles. “Nobody has more lift on a jump shot than Ray Gallegos. When you get him going a little bit, he can do some really great things.”

The Husker offense relied on a bevy of jump shots against the Trojans to make its mark on the scoreboard. A trio of seven-footers manned the paint for USC, and they forced Nebraska to go out-side much of the night.

“I think their length really bothered us and the ball pressure was tough,” Miles said. “They were so quick, it was hard to get it in there. I thought we turned it over a lot trying to get it inside, so we just kind of went to plan ‘B’ a little bit, and plan ‘B’ worked al-right.”

Plan “B” was to get the ball to Gallegos, and the junior was al-right with that. He told reporters after the game that he isn’t going to be shy about cranking up a shot from just about anywhere on the court. He said his confidence is as high as it’s been since he came to Nebraska.

Gallegos ended up shooting 6-of-10 from 3-point land and 7-of-14 from the field. His 20 points tied his previous career high: a 20-point performance against Wake Forest earlier in the season.

“I started off slow, but Bran-don (Ubel) just told me to keep being aggressive, and that’s what I tried to do,” Gallegos said.

There was a point just before halftime when Gallegos took off,

nailing back-to-back 3-pointers and pulling down a rebound in between. His momentum carried the Huskers to a strong open in the second half as well.

“He had the hot hand, so ev-eryone was looking for him,” Ubel said. “I know that was my mental-ity. Ride the hot hand as long as it is going, and it went for quite some time.”

Miles said early in the year that Gallegos would have to be one of Nebraska’s top scorers, and

he has been just that. After Mon-day’s game, Gallegos is tied with Ubel for second on the team in scoring with 14 points per game.

“In that offseason, he got

stronger,” Ubel said. “Guys aren’t bumping him off cuts. He’s com-ing off cleanly to shoot, and I think that’s the biggest difference. He’s ready. He’s knows it going in, and

he’s hitting them.”Gallegos was all smiles fol-

lowing Monday’s win. As he left the court, it was evident that the guard was having fun with his first season under Miles. Ubel said the postgame Gallegos smile is a rare occurrence.

“He’s a pretty shy guy,” Ubel said. “You don’t see him smiling like that very often, so yeah, it’s pretty fun to see.”

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kat bucHaNaN | DNnebraska guard ray gallegos (left) discusses his play during his squad’s 63-51 victory against southern cal on monday with fellow guard dylan talley. gallegos tied his career-high point total with 20 against the trojans after setting the record last week during his squad’s victory in the acc/big ten win against wake Forest.

Hot Shots huskers top trojans 63-51 in a match where nu hit 11 3-pointers, including 6 from guard ray gallegosstory by andrew ward | photo by kat buchanan

Nebraska’s gallegos scores 20 in his squad’s victory against usc

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Gallegos hit six 3-point baskets in Nebraska’s 63-51 win over Trojans

usc: See page 9

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