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ELIAS YOUNGQUIST DN Tucked away in the back cor- ner of the Beta Theta Pi’s house, lives a 6-foot-5-inch gentle giant. When he stands up in his two- room wing of the house, the fan just barely misses the top of his head. And when he watches his favorite show, “Storage Wars,” fraternity members say they can hear his attempts to be an auc- tioneer out into the living room and throughout the first floor. Since 2003, Ervin Williams has been “house dad” for more than 60 Beta Theta Pi members a year. In total, he estimates that he has been house dad for about 300 fraternity members. “Each of them has their own personality, their own charac- teristic,” Williams said. “Just for them to ask me, ‘Hello Erv, how’s it going?’ brightens my day.” From 1997 to 2002, Williams was director of operations for the women’s basketball team, until he had to leave due to shifts in coaching staff. “The players would come over to my house all the time,” Williams said. “When I left wom- en’s basketball, I missed all the kids coming over. I think I want- ed to be involved with young people because it keeps you feel- ing young – even though I’m not young. It gives you something to laugh at.” Williams said he was lucky to be able to stay within the Athletic Department and shift to his cur- rent position as event manage- ment specialist. In that position, Williams is in charge of parking staff during gamedays and mov- ing people in and out of the sta- dium safely and quickly. At the same time he switched jobs, Wil- liams heard a position as house dad had opened up at Beta. “I was tickled to death and very surprised by it when they chose me instead of a female,” Williams said. Williams explained that the majority of Greek houses on cam- pus have house moms instead of Bryan Health will host eight presenta- tions at the Univer- sity of Nebraska- Lincoln next week, outlining its plans to build and run a new University Health Center. The presentations will be held Nov. 13 and 14 and each will cater to the interests of certain audiences, though anyone may attend. Tuesday, Nov. 13 - Nebraska Union Colonial Room •  1 p.m., Faculty and staff •  2:15 p.m., Stu- dents •  3:30 p.m., Faculty and staff •  4:45 p.m., Stu- dents •  7 p.m., Students Wednesday, Nov. 14 - Kauffman Academic Residential Center Great Hall •  8 a.m., UHC em- ployees •  9:15 a.m., UHC employees •  10:30 a.m., Stu- dents Highlights of Bryan’s proposal include a freeze on student fees to the health center until May 2015, the con- tinuation of current services and opera- tion hours, the con- struction of a new facility and extend- ing the employment guarantee for health center employees from 90 days to 12 months. After campus presentations have been held, the com- mittee reviewing Bryan’s proposal will decide whether to enter into con- tract negotiations. If an agreement is reached, it will need approval from UNL’s senior administra- tion and the Uni- versity of Nebraska Board of Regents. BRYAN HEALTH ANNOUNCES HEALTH CENTER PRESENTATION TIMES INSIDE COVERAGE Back to business My week as a vegan Penn State football has endured in wake of tragedy A&E writer finds appreciation for vegan lifestyle 10 5 DN THE FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 2012 VOLUME 112, ISSUE 057 DAILYNEBRASKAN.COM MORE INSIDE COVERAGE: @DAILYNEB | FACEBOOK.COM/DAILYNEBRASKAN The End of Days? Not really, expert says Volleyball team tries to get back on track Maya archaeologist refutes apocalypse myths Coach Cook hopes Huskers have learned from losses 2 9 Students bond with ‘Magic’ ‘House dad’ gives support to fraternity members Dominic Biondo, who graduated in May from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln with a degree in geography, was in the Air Force for four years prior to his college career. CL SILL DN For Kaitlin Hildreth and her friends, it’s all in the cards. The senior English major has been sitting down at a table in the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s Nebraska Union almost every day for the last three years to play a card game called “Magic: the Gathering” with a loyal group of friends. “It’s kind of a ritual for me,” Hildreth said. A strategy-based card game, “Magic” has been around since the 1980s and helped usher in a new wave of games that include Pokemon and Yu-Gi-Oh!, accord- ing to Hildreth. While the group began with only three or four members, it has grown in the last few years. Now any student walking through the union around lunchtime shouldn’t be surprised to see al- most a dozen people gathered around several tables enjoying a game of Magic. “It’s one of those games you can just play casually,” Hildreth said. “That’s what turned me on to the game.” However casual it might be played, Hildreth said it involves a number of very intricate rules and can take some time to learn. “The rule book is like a thou- sand pages long,” she said. “But I love the complexity of the game.” In layman’s terms, the game involves a deck of 60 cards, each of which represents a differ- ent spell or enchantment. Play- ers take turns using their cards to cast spells on another’s deck, with a goal of reducing their op- ponents’ health to zero. Card game brings students together daily in Nebraska Union Beta Theta Pi’s ‘house dad’ has been pillar of support, discipline for nearly 10 years ‘No one knows we exist’ Student Veterans Organization struggles to gain recognition Story by Mara Klecker | Photos by Brianna Soukup F or six years after returning home, Dom- inic Biondo didn’t sleep at night. Mem- ories of cold stares from long days in an interrogation room in Afghanistan haunted him. During the day, while he sat in entry-level classes at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, the complaints of younger students angered him. They had no understanding of his expe- riences, of the months he had spent watching confiscated home videos of violent beheadings as a source analyst for the U.S. Army. “When you are in the military, you are go- ing 100 miles an hour,” said Biondo, a veteran and 2012 UNL graduate, who works for the university as a geographer. “When you come back to civilian life, it all just stops. Slam on the breaks. That’s when things started to catch up on me.” Lately, the army veteran has been trying to coordinate a Veterans Day dinner for members of UNL’s Student Veterans Organization, or SVO. Biondo, a former president of the group, said he credits his recovery after re-entering civilian life in 2008 to SVO, but he added that a lack of visibility has hampered the group’s ef- forts to reach out to other veterans on campus. “No one knows we exist,” Biondo said. Biondo and other members say their lack of visibility is confounded by the lack of re- porting by the university on the actual number of veterans enrolled. UNL has no formal way of tracking or When you come back to civilian life, it all just stops. Slam on the breaks. That’s when things started to catch up on me.” DOMINIC BIONDO FORMER SVO PRESIDENT, CURRENT UNL GEOGRAPHER MAGIC: SEE PAGE 3 HOUSE DAD: SEE PAGE 3 VETERANS: SEE PAGE 3 STACIE HECKER | DN Amanda Ryan (right) a sophomore criminal justice major, watches David Mayers and his friends play a rousing game of “Magic: The Gathering” in the Nebraska Union on Monday. The original trading card game can be played with collectible cards or online. JON AUGUSTINE | DN Ervin Williams poses for a portrait at the entrance of the Beta Theta Pi house on Wednesday evening. Williams has been the house dad for the fraternity since 2003 and says the bonds he develops with students keeps him coming back.

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Tucked away in the back cor-ner of the Beta Theta Pi’s house, lives a 6-foot-5-inch gentle giant. When he stands up in his two-room wing of the house, the fan just barely misses the top of his head. And when he watches his favorite show, “Storage Wars,” fraternity members say they can hear his attempts to be an auc-tioneer out into the living room and throughout the first floor.

Since 2003, Ervin Williams

has been “house dad” for more than 60 Beta Theta Pi members a year. In total, he estimates that he has been house dad for about 300 fraternity members.

“Each of them has their own personality, their own charac-teristic,” Williams said. “Just for them to ask me, ‘Hello Erv, how’s it going?’ brightens my day.”

From 1997 to 2002, Williams was director of operations for the women’s basketball team, until he had to leave due to shifts in coaching staff.

“The players would come over to my house all the time,” Williams said. “When I left wom-en’s basketball, I missed all the kids coming over. I think I want-ed to be involved with young people because it keeps you feel-ing young – even though I’m not

young. It gives you something to laugh at.”

Williams said he was lucky to be able to stay within the Athletic Department and shift to his cur-rent position as event manage-ment specialist. In that position, Williams is in charge of parking staff during gamedays and mov-ing people in and out of the sta-dium safely and quickly. At the same time he switched jobs, Wil-liams heard a position as house dad had opened up at Beta.

“I was tickled to death and very surprised by it when they chose me instead of a female,” Williams said.

Williams explained that the majority of Greek houses on cam-pus have house moms instead of

Bryan Health will host eight presenta-tions at the Univer-sity of Nebraska-Lincoln next week, outlining its plans to build and run a new University Health Center. The presentations will be held Nov. 13 and 14 and each will cater to the interests of certain audiences, though anyone may attend.

Tuesday, Nov. 13 - Nebraska Union Colonial Room

• 1 p.m., Faculty and staff• 2:15 p.m., Stu-dents• 3:30 p.m., Faculty and staff• 4:45 p.m., Stu-dents• 7 p.m., Students

Wednesday, Nov. 14 - Kauffman Academic Residential Center Great Hall

• 8 a.m., UHC em-ployees• 9:15 a.m., UHC employees• 10:30 a.m., Stu-dents

Highlights of Bryan’s proposal include a freeze on student fees to the health center until May 2015, the con-tinuation of current services and opera-tion hours, the con-struction of a new facility and extend-ing the employment guarantee for health center employees from 90 days to 12 months.

After campus presentations have been held, the com-mittee reviewing Bryan’s proposal will decide whether to enter into con-tract negotiations. If an agreement is reached, it will need approval from UNL’s senior administra-tion and the Uni-versity of Nebraska Board of Regents.

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The End of Days?Not really, expert says

Volleyball team tries to get back on track

Maya archaeologist refutes apocalypse myths

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students bond with ‘Magic’ ‘House dad’ gives support

to fraternity members

dominic Biondo, who graduated in May from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln with a degree in geography, was in the Air Force for four years prior to his college career.

Cl sillDN

For Kaitlin Hildreth and her friends, it’s all in the cards.

The senior English major has been sitting down at a table in the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s Nebraska Union almost every day for the last three years to play a card game called “Magic: the Gathering” with a loyal group of friends.

“It’s kind of a ritual for me,” Hildreth said.

A strategy-based card game, “Magic” has been around since the 1980s and helped usher in a new wave of games that include Pokemon and Yu-Gi-Oh!, accord-ing to Hildreth.

While the group began with

only three or four members, it has grown in the last few years. Now any student walking through the union around lunchtime shouldn’t be surprised to see al-most a dozen people gathered around several tables enjoying a game of Magic.

“It’s one of those games you can just play casually,” Hildreth said. “That’s what turned me on to the game.”

However casual it might be played, Hildreth said it involves a number of very intricate rules and can take some time to learn.

“The rule book is like a thou-sand pages long,” she said. “But I love the complexity of the game.”

In layman’s terms, the game involves a deck of 60 cards, each of which represents a differ-ent spell or enchantment. Play-ers take turns using their cards to cast spells on another’s deck, with a goal of reducing their op-ponents’ health to zero.

Card game brings students together daily in Nebraska Union

Beta Theta Pi’s ‘house dad’ has been pillar of support, discipline for nearly 10 years

‘No one knowswe exist’

Student Veterans Organization struggles to gain recognitionStory by Mara Klecker | Photos by Brianna Soukup

For six years after returning home, Dom-inic Biondo didn’t sleep at night. Mem-ories of cold stares from long days in an interrogation room in Afghanistan

haunted him.During the day, while he sat in entry-level

classes at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, the complaints of younger students angered him. They had no understanding of his expe-riences, of the months he had spent watching confiscated home videos of violent beheadings

as a source analyst for the U.S. Army. “When you are in the military, you are go-

ing 100 miles an hour,” said Biondo, a veteran and 2012 UNL graduate, who works for the university as a geographer. “When you come back to civilian life, it all just stops. Slam on the breaks. That’s when things started to catch up on me.”

Lately, the army veteran has been trying to coordinate a Veterans Day dinner for members of UNL’s Student Veterans Organization, or SVO.

Biondo, a former president of the group, said he credits his recovery after re-entering civilian life in 2008 to SVO, but he added that a lack of visibility has hampered the group’s ef-forts to reach out to other veterans on campus.

“No one knows we exist,” Biondo said. Biondo and other members say their lack

of visibility is confounded by the lack of re-porting by the university on the actual number of veterans enrolled.

UNL has no formal way of tracking or

When you come back

to civilian life, it all just stops. Slam on the breaks. That’s when things started to catch up on me.”

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sTACie HeCKeR | DNAmanda Ryan (right) a sophomore criminal justice major, watches david Mayers and his friends play a rousing game of “Magic: The gathering” in the Nebraska Union on Monday. The original trading card game can be played with collectible cards or online.

joN AUGUsTiNe | DNervin Williams poses for a portrait at the entrance of the Beta Theta Pi house on Wednesday evening. Williams has been the house dad for the fraternity since 2003 and says the bonds he develops with students keeps him coming back.

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The Western World mistakenly predicted the world will end with the end of the Maya calen-dar on Dec. 21, 2012, according to a Maya archaeologist.

Edwin Barnhart, director of the Maya Exploration Center working in Palenque, Mexico, gave his speech, “2012 and the End of Days: Misunder-standing the Maya Calen-dar,” as part of a Universi-ty Program Council event Thursday night.

If the Maya were here, they wouldn’t tell people to hide under the table fearing an apocalypse or to stand around waiting for en-lightenment, Barnhart said.

“They would tell us that this is the time to take some agency in our life and change what’s already broken before it breaks us.”

He told a crowd of about 150 in the Nebraska Union’s Centen-nial Room he used to only speak to crowds of 10 about his work with Maya archaeology. But ev-eryone loves apocalypses, he said.

UPC even took an apocalyp-tic poll on Election Day.

While voting booths for fed-eral and local officials were set up in the Nebraska Union Square on Tuesday, 64 people voted in a UPC poll on how they thought the world would end. The choic-es were a Maya apocalypse, zom-

bies or mass insanity.Chandler Sanders, a junior

interior design major, helped with the booth Tuesday.

Sanders said she would vote for mass insanity. If there were zombies, mass insan-ity would happen, too, she said.

Mass i n -

s a n -ity won with 30 votes.

Matt Salerno, a junior finance major and UPC member, suggested last year that Barnhart come to the univer-sity, but the timing wasn’t right until now.

“At the University Program Council, we believe that educat-ing our students is just as im-portant as entertaining them,”

Salerno wrote in an email.“As a Mayan scholar, he

knows exactly what the ending of the Mayan calendar means,

and I feel it’s important to teach that.”

Barnhart, who has more than 20 years of

experience s t u d y -

i n g

Meso-a m e r i c a ,

debunked sev-eral theories of

apocalypses speculated to occur on Dec. 21, when

the Maya calendar is said to end. Those theories include solar flares, magnetic polar shifts and planetary alignments that could change the poles, he said.

The solar flares would harm satellites briefly, more than hu-mans, he said. The magnetic

poles are shifting, but will take 10,000 years to do so, and astron-omy projections for Dec. 21 don’t show any planets in alignment, he said.

The theories formed after 1966 when Michael Coe pub-lished his book, “The Maya.” Others from America followed and formed 2012 apocalypse the-ories from Chinese and Egyptian writings.

The Maya calendar only mentions 2012 in two tablets

found so far, he said.Barnhart said neither tab-

let indicates the world would end in 2012. Instead, the Maya say Dec. 21 could be a time of change, he said.

The Maya think with circles, and like an odom-eter, the calendar would keep clicking after Dec. 21, he said. An apoca-lypse would be man-made, like someone hit-ting the reset button on an

odometer, he said.LuAnn Wandsnider, the

University of Nebraska-Lincoln anthropology de-

partment chair, said scholars know more about the Maya than 30 years ago when she did

archaeology work.Over the years, more hiero-

glyphs have been translated and archeological technology has advanced, she said. She has seen more students interested in Maya archaeology.

“A lot of the popular interest in the Mayan area is partly be-cause it’s kind of exotic and kind of cool,” she said “It’s a totally different situation with these towering monuments and hiero-glyphs.”

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‘End of Days’ wrongly predicted

Flu shot numbers rising steadily

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The University of Nebraska-Lin-coln University Health Center ad-ministered 784 influenza vaccines to students in September and Oc-tober, according to health center officials – and thanks to the health center’s flu shot clinics, that num-ber is fast approaching the 1,430 vaccines given out during last year’s flu season.

About 200 university students and staff rolled up their sleeves for the vaccine at the University Health Center’s clinics held from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. Monday and Tuesday. These clinics offer free influenza vaccines – which pro-tect against H1N1, or the swine flu, strain – for any full-time stu-dent and do not require an ap-pointment.

Annette Hraban, a health cen-ter administrative assistant, was pleased with the number of stu-dents that came to the clinics.

“It’s a really good turnout,” Hraban said. “It used to be that maybe a quarter of patients would be students and the rest would be faculty, staff and community, and now its come to closer to 50/50.”

About 42 percent of Ameri-cans received the flu shot during the 2011-2012 flu season, accord-ing to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Campuses across the nation have increased their campaign-ing for students to get vaccinated after the University of Buffalo, The State University of New York released findings in early Octo-ber about why college students didn’t get the 2009 H1N1 vaccine. The study surveyed college stu-dents in 2010 after the H1N1 vi-rus caused the swine flu pandem-ic and revealed many students overestimated their knowledge of the virus and the vaccine’s risks and their conceptions about the vaccine were often inaccurate. The study suggests a connection between the misconceptions, the low vaccination rate for the stu-dent age group and the fact that almost 80 percent of diagnosed H1N1 flu cases occurred in those younger than 30.

UHC Director of Nursing Nancy Orsborn recognizes the prevalence of myths surrounding the vaccine.

“People think you can get the flu from the shot, but that’s just not true,” she said. “The vaccine is a dead virus, so it can’t make you sick.”

Sophomore interior design major Allie Laurenzo knew she couldn’t get ill from receiving the shot. She said she doesn’t remem-ber ever having influenza and

attributes her immunity to the vaccine, which she said she has re-ceived three or four times – twice through the health center.

Laurenzo understood that it would hard for her to catch up on missed schoolwork if she were to contract the virus.

“I am very busy with studio classes and so it’s hard to miss class if I end up getting sick with the flu,” she said.

For Rachel Larson, assistant director of Career Services at the College of Business Administra-tion, the reason for getting the vaccine was more about her fam-ily.

“I have a young daughter at home, and it would be really, re-ally nice if our household didn’t get sick anymore,” Larson said.

Orsborn also stressed the importance of thinking about the vaccine as a way to prevent spreading influenza to others such as friends, family, elderly and at-risk individuals.

The virus can spread easily and quickly in a college setting, said Orsborn.

“Everybody lives in close quarters and there are many peo-ple living together. The odds are you will get exposed to somebody (with the flu), so protect yourself.”

Influenza vaccine clinics will be available Monday and Tuesday from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. at the health center.

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KAT bUCHANAN | DNedwin Barnhart, an archaeologist, explorer and expert on Maya culture, spoke at the University Program Council’s “An end of days?” event in the Nebraska Union on Thursday. Barnhart’s lecture aimed to debunk the myths surrounding the end of the Maya calendar and the rumored apocalypse next month.

early Childhood Institute to gain new director MElissa allEn

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With about 40 years of experience in the field, Samuel Meisels is ready for a new role in the study of early childhood development.

He’ll be named the founding executive director of the Univer-sity of Nebraska’s Buffett Early Childhood Institute in June. Meisels will make the move to Nebraska from Chicago, where he has served as president of the Erikson Institute, a graduate school in child development, for more than 10 years.

The Buffett Early Childhood Institute aims to advance teach-ing and research across the Uni-versity of Nebraska’s four cam-puses in an effort to improve the lives of children from birth to age eight, according to the institute’s website.

“(Meisels) guided the growth of the institute in many ways, including dramatic increases in enrollment and new academic programs, new community and business partnerships, deeper re-

lationships with funders and the philanthropic community, (and) expanded research activities and commitment (as the president of Erikson Institute),” said Chip Donohue, the Erikson Institute’s dean of Distance Learning and Continuing Education.

Meisels studied philosophy at the University of Roch-ester, which jump-started his interest in epistemology, the study of knowl-edge. While earn-ing his master’s and doctorate de-grees from Harvard Graduate School of Education, Meisels read works from Swiss psychologist Jean Piaget, who studied children’s intellect, emotions and morality percep-tions.

“It did not conform to my more traditionally philosophi-cal understanding of epistemol-ogy,” Meisels said. “I decided to spend some time with children in a preschool to try to make sense

of this and became hooked on children almost immediately. I haven’t left this line of thinking since then.”

In 1972, Meisels began his long-standing professional ca-reer at Tufts University as di-rector of the Eliot-Pearson Chil-

dren’s School. In 1980, Meisels joined the faculty of the University of Michigan, with a 21-year run that included posi-tions such as re-search scientist of the Center of Hu-man Growth and a professor at the School of Educa-tion.

His research focused on stan-dardized test assessment for pre-school and elementary school children. His findings have led to practices that are now used by thousands of elementary school teachers across the nation.

“Erikson will miss him, but he leaves the institute trans-formed from what it was when

he arrived and is well-positioned for continued leadership.” Dono-hue said.

Joan Lombardi, senior ad-viser for the Buffett Early Child-hood Fund and a former official for the Administration for Chil-dren and Families under the U.S. Department of Health and Hu-man Services, said she is eager for Meisels’ move to Nebraska.

“He will help develop a vi-sion, a direction that will be very much focused on improving the quality of child human services for the state and beyond.” Lom-bardi said.

Meisels said he’s up for the challenge.

“(There is) tremendous po-tential of what we can do when we have so many forces working together on behalf of children and families: a committed bene-factor, a visionary president, tal-ented faculty, staff, and admin-istrators,” Meisels wrote in an email. “My goal is to make Ne-braska the best state in the nation to be a baby.”

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GAbRiel sANCHez | DN

Maya archaeologist debunks apocalypse myths at UPC event Thursday night

My goal is to make

Nebraska the best state in the nation to be a baby.”

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“You have your good days, and you have your bad days,” said Hildreth, noting that after years of playing she still strug-gles with the rules on occasion.

But no matter how bad the day, Hildreth always returns and said the best part about the game is the group of friends it has in-troduced her to.

“I was a prodigy child, and I didn’t have any close friends,” Hildreth said. “I went through high school with my head down.”

Since coming to UNL in 2008, Hildreth has become nearly in-separable with each of her card-wielding comrades.

“It’s all about hanging out with these friends and the accep-tance I felt,” she said.

Sophomore geology major Jack Schueth said he feels the same way. Schueth came across the Magic table randomly one day on his way through the union and

said for some reason he just “thought the game looked inter-esting.”

Two years later, he still sits down at the table almost every day, and he said his initial deci-sion to introduce himself to the game couldn’t have worked out better.

“I became instant friends with everyone,” he said. “The day wouldn’t be the same with-out it.”

The group also includes sev-eral members who don’t take part in the game, but are sim-ply there to unwind over lunch break and hang out.

Amanda Ryan is a sopho-more criminal justice and pre-law student who has never played Magic before in her life, but she joins the group on a reg-ular basis to watch.

“It’s just nice to relax,” she said.

The other members have been trying to persuade her to play, but as Hildreth summed it up, “She’s not full-blown nerd yet.”

Hildreth’s brother Ryan, a sophomore general studies stu-dent has also gotten in on the ac-tion. He’s been playing since he started at UNL in 2011.

“I couldn’t help myself,” he said of why he began playing the game. “It’s a game of strategy and that’s how my brain works.”

The game has evolved into a passion for many of the players at the table, and most of them said it takes up a great deal of

their time – and their money.“It’s very expensive,” Hil-

dreth said. She said individual cards in her deck that cost more than $20 a piece.

“If you’re going to play, you’ll probably want to have a job,” she said. “I’ve spent thou-sands.”

Even with the cost, Hildreth plans to keep playing the game as long as she has a group of friends to face off against. She said the cards are just a bridge between her and a great crowd of people.

“Magic is the glue that holds it all together,” she said.

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identifying student veterans, but officials estimate that number at about 600 student veterans. The GI Bill and the Yellow Ribbon Pro-gram help cover the costs of col-lege, but they are solely financial benefits. Without other support systems to ease the transition, some 88 percent of returning vet-erans on the GI Bill will drop out by the end of their first year, ac-cording to the Huffington Post. A recent study of veterans in college revealed one-third had suffered severe anxiety, one-fourth had suffered from severe depression and about 45 percent had suffered from post-traumatic stress disor-der, or PTSD.

SVO, housed in room 310 of the Jackie Gaughan Multicultural Center, works to bridge the gap in veterans resources through men-toring and educational resources. It’s also a place for student veter-ans to simply connect with each other and establish camaraderie, Biondo said.

Both Biondo, former SVO president, and Mike Lewis, cur-rent president, recognize, how-ever that student veterans can only utilize these services if they know about them. Without accu-rate numbers or a way to identify student veterans, the group is struggling to make progress and gain publicity.

“We’ve been around for five years, became a recognized stu-dent organization just two years ago and this is our first year with an office and money,” said Lewis, a junior water science major.

This year has been like start-ing from scratch, Biondo said. He created a website and a Facebook page last year but still struggles to find a way to direct student veter-ans to these sites. He hopes he can speak at New Student Enrollment and is pushing for the addition of a check box to the university’s ap-plication – that way, he could de-termine which incoming students need to know about the organiza-tion.

Biondo’s commitment to the group comes from his own ex-perience, he said. He remembers

feeling lost when he came to the university after serving in the Air Force for four years.

“I didn’t know all the ins and outs of academia,” he said. “I’d never been here before.”

At 26, Biondo joined the mili-tary out of “sheer despair.”

The job market was poor. Bi-ondo couldn’t imagine continuing to work at minimum-wage jobs.

Life after his return from de-ployment was rough. When he came to UNL to get his bachelor’s degree in geography, he found it hard to adjust to student life.

After all, Biondo had been an all-source analyst for interrogations. He prepared questions and com-pleted intelligence work for in-vestigations

He also had to sit in on the in-terrogations. He can still remem-ber the way the subjects stared at him.

“You could look in their eyes and know that they wanted to reach across the table, cut your head off and put you on YouTube. You could see it,” he said as his own unblinking eyes remained fixed on something in the dis-

tance. “And there’s no remorse. That doesn’t settle right with you.”

Only when friends suggested Biondo might have a problem did he seek help. He went to his three free sessions as the university’s Counseling and Psychological Services. The diagnosis was post-traumatic stress disorder. He was referred to a veterans affairs of-fice, where he was told he instead suffered from anxiety and depres-sion.

Nowadays, Biondo can sleep soundly at night. SVO has given

him an outlet for coping with his experiences, he said.

But SVO isn’t just for veter-ans, though – it’s also there to serve students who will soon be-gin service.

SVO office volunteer and sophomore environmental stud-ies major Kaylee Wheeler will de-ploy to Afghanistan with the U.S. Navy in December.

“I’m excited, nervous, unsure – all of the above,” she said.

Wheeler knows the challeng-es of being a student and going through military training, but she

doesn’t yet know what problems she will face when she returns as a veteran. Currently, she’s strug-gling to obtain military education benefits because she won’t be con-sidered a Nebraska resident for another six months. And she said it’s difficult to switch between a military mindset and an academic one.

“When you are in the military, your training is very straight-forward,” Wheeler said. “You are told what you need to know. You don’t have to go out and find it, you don’t have to go out and guess it. When you come (to school), you aren’t told what you need to know. It’s expected with-out actual training.”

Wheeler is looking forward to adopting the title of veteran but doesn’t think she deserves the honorable distinction until she finishes her deployment. As for her goals for SVO, she hopes the group will become more estab-lished.

“When I joined, I spent two years and I didn’t know this place existed,” she said. “I think the university should be more willing to help veterans and guide them over to us, and I think we as a group should be able to reach out and step in when we know there is a new veteran coming in.”

Veteran Women’s After Ac-tion Group, a new support group sponsored by SVO and the UNL Women’s Center, had its first meeting Thursday and will be a place where Iraq and Afghani-stan student veterans can meet to share their experiences as a kind of therapeutic release. Biondo said such groups demonstrate that the university is willing to help veterans.

“There is a lot of push for more resources,” he said. “If a veteran went to anyone on university staff and was like ‘I’m a veteran I need some help,’ they would bend over backwards. I think that student veterans just need to know that and I think the SVO is the way to do it.”

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bRiANNA soUKUp | DNdominic Biondo, kaylee Wheeler and Michael Lewis pose for a portrait in the office of the UNL Student veterans organization in the Jackie gaughan Multicultural Center. Biondo, a UNL alumnus, Wheeler and Lewis, both UNL undergraduates, are all student veterans.

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house dads.On paper, his job includes

making sure the house is safe and healthy to live in, but residents of the house know he goes beyond that.

“I don’t really get along with my dad, so ever since I joined Beta, he’s been there,” said Abe Karimi, a junior biochemistry major. “When you first look at him you’re intimidated, but he’s a big teddy bear.”

This doesn’t keep Williams from being authoritative when he needs to, though, Karimi said.

“He runs this place like a mil-itary boot camp when it needs to be,” Karimi said. “When things get out of hand, he tells us to get our shit together.”

While Williams loves his job, he said working with the frater-nity members’ late nights is prob-ably the worst part of the job.

“I would say the worst part is knowing I get up at two or three on a football morning and they come in at 2 o’clock still be-ing loud,” Williams said after a groan at the thought of the early mornings.

Karimi remembered one night in particular where frater-nity members had returned from off-campus late and were making noise and throwing things.

“The next morning at six we had a practice fire alarm,” Karimi said. “It was a great teaching ex-perience. We all walked out dur-ing the winter with snow on the ground and had to stand there.”

Williams also takes the time to teach the fraternity members

tips on life, including being a gentleman and chivalrous at ev-ery opportunity.

“He has a little book he has us read from, ‘How To Be a Gen-tleman’ at each meeting,” Ben Joekel said, a sophomore biosys-tems engineering major.

The little tips range from al-ways washing your hands to dressing to the occasion. Other times, like when alumni or moms and dads come over to the house, Williams has the fraternity mem-bers clean every nook and cranny of the house.

As if playing mom, dad, baby-sitter and personal adviser wasn’t enough for Williams, he involves himself with Big Brothers, Big Sis-ters in his spare time. Currently, he has a little brother named Ri-ley, Karimi said, who ends up hanging out with the fraternity members on gamedays.

“There is a pattern there,” Williams said. “If I was Warren Buffet, I’d probably build a facil-ity for runaway youth.”

Williams grew up in a trou-bled home with a father who had a drinking problem. He thinks his childhood has led him to be so in-volved in helping others.

“I always wanted others to have a paternal figure in their life,” Williams said. “I look at

this fraternity house and at least I get to play dad with their parents away. I feel like there’s this void there and I’m making sure that void isn’t in those people’s lives.”

In the past, Williams has also been a fireman, Karimi said, which is why he has the cartoon charac-ter Taz wearing a fireman’s hat tat-tooed on his leg.

“We found his old fireman’s suit once,” Karimi said. “It’s huge.”

Williams also, on occasion, cooks for the fraternity members.

“He’s a great cook,” Karimi said. “He makes the best chicken in Nebraska.”

Williams will spend the en-tire night making jalapeno, blue cheese and bacon burgers by hand to grill for the fraternity the next day. Karimi said Williams has told fraternity member he would like to open a Southern food and sea-food restaurant one day. But in the meantime, Williams is happy with where he is.

“(The job) can wear on you sometimes,” Williams said. “I keep thinking, ‘this might be my last year,’ but each class kept tell-ing me ‘no, don’t leave.’ I feel very comfortable staying as long as I can. I don’t see no deadline yet.”

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This month marks an exciting time for gamers worldwide. Two of the largest, first-person shooter games, “Halo 4” and “Call of Duty: Black Ops II,” will be released just a week apart. As everyone indulges in their

homicidal cravings this weekend, I can’t help but wander what implications these games have for our society.

Today’s video games heavily contribute to the prominent military culture of the United States. In addition, the video games trivialize the realities of war. They convolute the mean-ing of death and fail to recognize the actual objectives of real-time war missions. Video games glorify the mindless slaughter done under the guise of heroism, while simultane-ously desensitizing civilians to one of the most destructive forces of mankind.

War is not a game – war is a curse. Unfortunately, the United States has been

at war for nearly 80 percent of its existence. Upon leaving office, President Dwight Eisen-hower warned America of the growing pres-ence of the military industrial complex in our lives. In his “Chance for Peace” speech, Eisen-hower shed light on the imbalance between military and domestic affairs in this coun-try. American had, and still has, its priorities wrong. Eisenhower vouched for the equilib-rium between guns and butter. He warned us about the grave ramifications of continual war on our society. Sadly, America stubbornly re-sisted Eisenhower’s justified caveats.

In the United States, military and defense spending sits at more than $700 billion, a value that is half of the world’s entire budget. Since 1999, our allocation toward defense spending has been on a steady rise. The military, just as Eisenhower warned, has seeped into every crack of America. It has a large and rooted presence in our economic system. With an enormous armaments industry, any cuts in de-fense spending conjure up the claim that job loss would soon follow.

The military has guided our foreign policy as well. Foreign policy is becoming increas-ingly dependent on military solutions as evi-dent by Kuwait, Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya. Finally, the military has taken its place in our culture. In fact, the American citizen is more militarized than ever before. Every single day, Americans are subject to a daily diet of stories that glorify and sugarcoat the military. From the hackneyed phrase “Support Our Troops,” to video games like “Call of Duty,” America is fed the watered down version of war.

One of the most impactful sources of me-dia on the youth today is the video game. Due to the widespread popularity of video games,

they have the greatest impact on the mentality of America’s youth.

In May 2011, Navy SEALs carried out a mission that ended the search for the most wanted man in the world, Osama bin Laden. According to Barack Obama, bin Laden’s death “marks the most significant achieve-ment in our nation’s effort to defeat Al Qae-da.” Just days after this major event, civilians were given the chance to relive the entire expe-rience through a computer game.

Kuma Games released “Kuma\War: Epi-sode 107: Osama 2011.” This first-person shooter game gave the average civilian the ability to personally pull the trigger on bin Laden. The game, however, begs the ques-tion of whether bin Laden’s death and the war were trivialized with its production.

The words ‘game’ and ‘war’ should never be next to each other. War is not a game and these virtualizations only serve to severely distort the reality. First off, these convolute the ways and types of deaths that occur in war. In “Call of Duty,” one can sustain multiple bullet wounds and grenades before being “killed,” only to be spawned in seconds. Unfortunately, life does not work on an accelerated reincarna-tion cycle. Our soldiers don’t have a health bar that recovers over time like in “Call of Duty.” Once a solider is shot by a single bullet, he is rendered unfit for battle.

Since 2003, about 4,500 American soldiers have died in Iraq. That being said, about 4,500 families have been disrupted by the war. Un-fortunately, “Call of Duty” and similar games can’t convey the feelings of grief surrounding death. In these games, the solider is dehuman-ized as a robot. He spawns within seconds and is easily replaceable. There is very little emphasis placed on the value of life in these games and they fail to address the heavy emo-tions that often accompany death.

In addition to distorting the concept of death, these games also fail to convey the re-

ality of those who die. In 2008, Bungie, Inc. boasted about the 8 billion deaths that have occurred in its “Halo 3” game. That’s more dead people than the world’s population. Ac-cording to IraqBodyCount.org , at least 109,000 civilians have been killed as collateral from the Iraq War.

In many first-person shooter games, these aspects are not included. The game only exists between the “enemy” and you. Keith Halper, the CEO of Kuma\War, was asked how he would deal with certain idiosyncrasies of the environment bin Laden was shot in. When questioned about including the 27 children who were present during the operation to kill B\bin Laden, Halper said they would ap-pear “not as children, maybe … as unarmed adults.” At the expense of the meaning of death, the virtualizations only distort the re-ality while hiding the tragedies accompanied with war.

Finally, the first-person shooter games dis-tort what war really is. During the campaign of most of these games, the player serves to protect the homeland from waves of enemies, to plant explosives in heavily guarded areas or single-handedly save the world. This is not how war operates today. The missions today are not aimed at obliterating the other side as quick as possible. Instead, they are more or less concerned with restoration, peace build-ing and resource extraction missions.

Upon the initial invasion of Iraq, our sol-diers were not blindly running into the battle-field, shooting every moving thing the saw. A majority of our time in Iraq has been spent working on establishing a compliant demo-cratic state, capable of defending itself from non-coalition forces. War is not just about kill-ing as many enemies as you can. Today, more peaceful and humane approaches are attempt-ed and the video games fail to respect that.

War isn’t a subject to laugh about. It’s not a game. As Eisenhower once said, “This is not a way of life at all, in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it’s humanity hang-ing from a cross of iron.” Video games today often distort the gruesome reality of war. They give the gamer a sheltered, crude version and further propagate the stereotypes of war.

In the real world, “respawn” doesn’t exist. Video gamers can easily walk away from the battle with a click of a button – our brave sol-diers cannot. It’s important gamers don’t lose sight of reality when they jump into their vir-tual world.

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penn state gamePenn State has been through a lot. The last thing Nittany Lion supporters need is more grief

from Nebraska fans. For the game this weekend, Husker fans need to remember to be respectful of what PSU players, coaches and fans have been through.

Instead of using any off-color language or insulting fans dressed in dark blue, students need to represent the state of Nebraska in a kind, courteous manner. Memorial Stadium isn’t a place for blind hatred toward people who don’t deserve it.

It’s important to keep in mind that these fans were just as shocked at the crimes committed by Jerry Sandusky. What made it even worse was that it happened at their own univer-sity.

Treating Penn State supporters unkindly won’t do anything for our state’s reputation except damage it. We need to keep in mind that students represent something more than just the Huskers in Lincoln. We are representing our entire state.

Last season, Nebraska football went to State College, Pa., during a tough time for the Nittany Lions. The Huskers, behind running backs coach Ron Brown, were able to provide healing for a community that felt the aftershock of a crime that shook college football and the nation.

Nebraska fans, coaches and players gave the Nittany Lion faithful their first distraction from the vile actions of Sandusky.

University of Nebraska-Lincoln students need to use last year’s game as an example of how to be compassionate during a football game. Before, and after, this violent sporting game takes place, fans from Nebraska and Penn State can unite in another day of healing.

The Nebraska-Penn State game will happen every season for a long time. Rather than creating hostilities toward another Big Ten school, the student body of UNL should embrace our opponent. And we expect that you will.

If there really is no place like Nebraska, the students need to exemplify the Nebraskan spirit of being accepting toward everyone this weekend.

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So, Disney bought Lucasfilm. Who gives? The memes about the Death Star appearing throughout Disney films are as popular as hotcakes, and the arguments between nerds are

ongoing and strenuous. Did Disney just ruin film history? Does Disney actually have a shot at turning out quality Lucas-film movies and doing it well?

Let’s get down to the bare necessities. For those of you who live under a rock, Disney announced on Oct. 30 it would buy Lucasfilm for $4 billion and create “Star Wars VII.” Cue the nerd excitement and the groans of disappointment from the non-believers.

This deal has been met with extreme excitement, but I was among the non-believers. As a poor, unfortunate soul, I didn’t believe there was any possible way Disney could bring justice to the Star Wars series. And who could disagree? Of course, with any significant event such as this, fear and uncertainty about how Mickey Mouse could churn out a new Star Wars film abound. Embarrassing as it is, I doubted the magic of that mysti-cal mouse. But something happened, and my perception of Disney went from zero to hero.

I finally comprehended this great company’s accomplishments. Disney can do anything. The variety of films and the ideas it has encompassed, clearly show

how Disney’s creative team can paint with all the colors of the wind. Also, Walt Disney created one of the single great-est American companies to revive men, women and children’s hearts and laugh-ter, especially in difficult times. Disney has been creating movies since the Great Depression and has turned simple ideas into masterpieces. The subtle reality of this sudden thought came to this: If Dis-ney can’t use Lucasfilm to its fullest po-tential, no one can.

Certainly, it won’t ruin the work Lu-casfilm has started. Disney knows what it’s doing and will advance with extreme confidence and precision when creating the new Star Wars film, along with the other movies that will be coming out of the Lucasfilm sector. I firmly believe Dis-ney will bring Lucasfilm unquestionable justice. Here’s how:

1. Disney is creative. Lucasfilm is a whole new world and Disney plans to show you it in all its shining, shimmering splendor. Disney has built itself on cre-ativity with the minds of individuals who think out of the box. It’s becoming typi-cal to see film companies cycle through predictable sequels including “Taken 2,” “Paranormal Activity 4” (with a fifth next year), a new Bourne series, etc. Though Disney is going to be releasing “Star Wars VII,” don’t expect it to fall into that trap. I’m confident new ideas, new plot lines and creative films will be pushed out in

the next few years. We are talking about a company that

has released gems to the American people for generations upon generations. Do you really think it’s going to be recycling old ideas for Lucasfilm? Disney clearly saw how much potential Lucasfilm could sup-ply its creative department and jumped on the chance. Bottom line: Don’t expect to see only sequels come out of Lucas-film. New ideas, storylines and effects will be redefining what a good movie is, and pure Disney magic will be behind it 100 percent.

2. Disney is bringing back Star Wars. Your wishes have been fulfilled. When you wish upon a star, “Star Wars VII” magically appears on the horizon. I

mean, who isn’t excited for this? We are talking about “Star Wars VII,” people. This is something that middle-aged men with action figures tucked away in the closet and young children have only fan-tasized of. It’s a dream in the making for many, and it’s just around the riverbend. Also, did someone mention a Star Wars theme park?

Disney will go the distance. It knows how to give the people what they want, and does it on a regular basis. Even though not much has been said about what the new movie will be based on, or what events will be happening, we know one thing for sure: it will blow every-one’s socks off. Mickey Mouse is putting his signature on this bad boy and you can know without a doubt that Disney isn’t going to mess this one up. Whether the plot takes place on Dagobah, or under the sea, it’ll be legendary.

3. Everyone and their mom loves Dis-ney. Not only does the company bring classics to a market where spin-offs and sequels run the business, but Disney is something our entire generation, our parents’ generation and our grandpar-ents’ generation can relate to. It’s a small world after all, and Disney ties universal themes into timeless classics for everyone to enjoy. Every family can feel comfort-able going to the theater, knowing a Dis-ney movie is going to leave them feeling great when they walk out. Basically, ev-

eryone’s mom and Disney are the best of friends.

4. Disney makes great movies. Plain and simple, Disney has and will always make great movies. No question about it.

5. Disney is becoming adventurous. It has been slowly taking on more dar-ing, non-cartoon-oriented projects. “The Avengers,” “Pirates of the Caribbean” and “Prince of Persia” were all taken on by the Disney crew and the films didn’t disappoint. Not only were the movies blockbusters, they were instant favor-ites for many. Though the stereotypical view of a Disney movie is to imagine the cheesy songs from “Snow White,” “Jungle Book” or “The Little Mermaid,” think twice before casting those retro Disney films in the same light as the new blockbusters. Bottom Line: Disney has no strings to hold them down.

You’ve got a friend in me, Disney. Viewers better believe Disney will bring justice to any Lucasfilm masterpiece they see in theaters. Not only is Disney bring-ing an absurd amount of creativity to every film, but the amount of dedication and time it puts into films is outstanding. Disney is a company worth fighting for.

However, if I may ask one thing: please, no songs.

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Omaha troupe strives to break comedy norms

madeline christensen spent a week attempting to live a vegan lifestyle – without consuming any animal products or by-products – and chronicling her progress. after seven days without prime rib (but with a few accidental non-vegan snacks), christensen gained a “major respect” for vegans’ willpower.

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A&E writer goes vegan for a week, achieves renewed perspective, stomach grumblings

In a state where beef is, and has long been, what’s for dinner, most people who hear the words “Nebraska” and “vegan” in the same sentence would wait for the coming punchline.

However, Katie Kellogg hasn’t touched meat, dairy or anything containing animal by-product for more than five years. Kellogg is a freshman elementary special education major at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

“Honestly, the biggest challenge isn’t the diet, it’s dealing with the people who don’t get it,” Kellogg said. “They want to make fun of being vegan, but I’ve heard it all – they’re pretty un-original.”

“Going vegan” is not only a diet concerning animal and animal by-product consumption, but a lifestyle choice.

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A former radio DJ and two for-mer musicians now take the stage without their sound booth or instruments. Their new trade is laughter.

OK Party Comedy is a group of three comedians from Omaha formed about two years ago. Ian Terry, Zach Peterson and Mike Perry created OK Party after no-ticing a lacking comedy scene.

“We want to present comedy with the same reverence that we have for it, in terms of looking at it as something that can be enjoyed by everyone,” Peter-son said.

Terry and Peter-son both started out in punk rock bands and transitioned into comedy later in life.

“Not a lot of comedians came up with the background of be-ing in bands,” Terry said. “It’s a mindset where you’re part of a community for other people, not just yourself. Plus, we’re way cooler.”

After taking a break from their original form of performance art, they wanted to return to the stage and take on their longtime pas-sion for comedy.

“It’s sort of one of those things that you got together with your friends and you sort of joked around and that was probably the most fun I have,” Peterson said. “Now I just sort of do it in a different way, a more institution-alized way where everything is pre-

set. It’s just a fun thing to do. It looks fun and it is fun.”

A lot of comedy acts are one-man shows, but OK Party Com-edy often has all three members

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FIlE phOtO by bEthany SChMIdt | dn“Paragon springs,” the second Unl mainstage production of the fall semester, opened thursday night at the studio theatre of the temple building. the play will run through the weekend and the last performance will be nov. 18 at 2 p.m.

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Despite its casual use of words like “swoony” and a jovial jazz accompaniment, “Paragon Springs” presents a controversial situation and denies a justifiable conclusion and sometimes gives itself to lethargy.

In the second University of Nebraska-Lincoln Mainstage pro-duction of the semester, Paragon Springs is a Midwestern town, population 213, in early April of 1926, the Age of Dreamers. The “healing waters” responsible for Paragon Springs’ name have be-come a “cauldron of disease” and townspeople must decide wheth-

er the misfortune be publicized as a warning, a plague or a hoax. Although the town could replace the water pipes for $100,000, the chore would take three years; long enough to render Paragon Springs another moping ghost town. But is a town founded on deception worthy of prosperity? Where does the real contamina-

tion lie?Insightful quips, which

might come off abrasive to sluggish minds, examine integ-rity throughout the production, though this, of course, is inher-ent to the script by Steven Di-etz, adapted from “An Enemy

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Bond mystique survives through series reinvention

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It isn’t easy to keep a cultural icon ticking for 50 years. “Pirates of the Caribbean,” “Indiana Jones” and “Rocky” are three of countless examples of initial hits that fizzled into caricatures of themselves. Somehow, James Bond has cooly avoided that trap. “Skyfall,” released today, has garnered high praise from critics as a mature in-stallment on par with 007’s best.

What gives this franchise such a long-running license to kill? How do generations of directors shake the series up without stir-ring it? Now with 5 billion dollars and 50 years of successes, failures and puns under its belt, Bond offers more insight than any other se-ries on how to keep a franchise afloat.

Most importantly, a series needs consistency but room for growth.

Supervillains, gadgets, style, bravado and beautiful women have been at the core of all 23 entries, yet each new Bond has brought something new. Sean Connery set the tone in 1962 with an effortless and totally dispassionate suaveness. Still the quintessential Bond, the im-mortal “Bond, James Bond” in-troduction seemed to hint at a simple timelessness.

A decade later, Roger Moore started his seven-movie run, which took the Bond tropes to the extreme. Less athletic and infinitely more ridiculous than Connery, Moore more often than not turned the series into a par-ody. At the same time, he repre-sented the character ’s straight-forward likability in classics like “Live and Let Die” and “The Spy Who Loved Me”.

Not every Bond actor has had the opportunity to fully define their take on the char-acter. In 1969, George Lazenby brought emotional depth to

Bond in “On Her Maj-esty’s Secret Service,” but was replaced by Connery for the next movie. In the late 1980s, Timothy Dal-ton infused a

seriousness into his two stabs at the role, but he was frequently criticized as dour. Though now mostly footnotes, the actors could have conceivably grown into the Bond role. Pierce Bros-nan mixed parts of Connery and parts of Moore, stepping up Bond’s action and humor though still relying mostly on cheese.

“GoldenEye 007” for Ninten-do 64 probably had more influ-ence in keeping the Bond name fresh in the 1990s than Brosnan himself. “Die Another Day” in 2002 was bloated with CGI, hov-ercrafts and invisible cars and marked a desperate need for to-tal reinvention.

In came “Casino Royale,”

which in 2006 ditched the car-toonishness of previous films and gave Bond depth and nu-ance through Daniel Craig.

Like Christopher Nolan’s take on the increasingly campy Batman series, “Casino Royale” rebooted the franchise entirely with a dark origin story. While his initial casting generated con-troversy for straying from the Bond archetype, the lean, dam-aged and unstable Craig proved to be a spot-on update for the 21st century.

“Quantum of Solace” was less well-received, though this can be blamed partly on a rushed script due to the 2007 Writers Guild strike.

Luckily, early reviews sug-gest that “Skyfall” is as rejuve-nating as “Casino Royale” and brings a Joker-esque eeriness to the Bond villain through Javier Bardem (“No Country for Old Men”).

What’s next for Bond? This depends entirely on what’s next for society. The bleached-blonde cyber-terrorist of a villain sug-gests this entry is tapping into WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange for relevance. Presumably, the next installments will continue to re-flect modern fears and adjust its approach accordingly.

Craig is contracted to two more films (although previous Bonds have left their contracts early), after which bigger rein-ventions can happen if neces-sary.

The original formula of style and suave is as present as ever and Craig proves these staples can thrive as easily and cre-atively in 2012 as in 1962. Maybe if more franchises took note of Bond’s versatility, this wouldn’t be as “shocking, positively shocking” as it first seems.

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this week in film

at the ross:

“the Queen of versailles”

directed by: lauren Greenfield

• friday – 5 p.m., 7:10 p.m., 9:20 p.m.• saturday – 5 p.m., 7:10 p.m., 9:20 p.m.• sunday - 5 p.m., 7:10 p.m.

“Side by Side”directed by: christopher kenneally

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“pearl” screening and

discussion with dan butler and

ted kooserdirected by: dan butler

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MEt Opera live in hd presents “the tempest”• saturday - 11:55 a.m. (live)• sunday – 1 p.m. (encore)

new in theaters:

“Skyfall”directed by: sam mendesstarring: daniel craig, Judi dench, ralph fiennes, Javier bardem

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pick:

“Skyfall”directed by: sam mendes

Film expertly captures plummet

of super-rich family

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They had the world at their fin-gertips.

Billionaires David and Jackie Siegel were running the largest timeshare company in the world. They had a loving (albeit huge) family and were constructing a palace modeled after Versailles. It was to become the largest house in America, the cherry on top of their empire.

Then the 2008 recession hit, and it all came crashing down.

“The Queen of Versailles,” di-rected by Lauren Greenfield, is an endearing documentary that looks into the rise and fall of an excep-tionally wealthy family in Orlando and the lifestyle they lead. Green-field initially began shooting the film to document the construction of the Siegel’s “Versailles.” How-ever, once the recession hit, her documentary took a different turn. As David states at the end of the film, his story becomes a reverse rags-to-riches story.

The documentary begins by demonstrat-ing just how rich the Siegels re-ally are. Jackie proudly shows off her high-fashion wardrobe, the Siegel’s personal airplane and, of course, Versailles, driving the viewer to disgust and awe only a certain level of decadence can bring.

She describes her tale as a sto-ry of triumph. She was a model, living in middle-class Florida in an abusive marriage, until she divorced and became the trophy wife of David Siegel, owner and founder of Westgate Resorts.

David prides himself on the lifestyle he has created. He has a beautiful wife 30 years his ju-nior with whom he has seven children and money to burn. The film shows the grand opening of his new tower in Las Vegas, the “brightest on The Strip,” he says in the film.

Suddenly, everything chang-es after the recession hits. The Westgate corporation finds itself

trying to keep afloat by selling property to those who can hardly stay viable themselves. Jobs are lost and pay cuts are abundant. Yet David clings to Versailles as it becomes more than just a symbol of all he has accomplished, but

also of what he has to lose.

The documen-tary, at times, acts as a mirror, a re-flection of how consumerism has defined and taken over the American public. The viewer can’t help but be-come engaged and a bit envious at the

amount of wealth and riches the Siegel’s have.

Soon enough, the Siegels be-gin to realize that their lifestyle must change. David begins to sell some of his estates and devote all of his time and energy into try-ing to solve his financial prob-lems. Jackie, however, can’t seem to stop her shopaholic impulses, though she does start dedicating more time to her children after the family is forced to lay off al-most a dozen nannies and house-keepers.

“The Queen of Versailles,” is intriguing, entertaining and amus-ing all while showing the demise of one family’s American dream.

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oneering vegan cookbooks, once famously described the philoso-phy as “a way of life that avoids exploitation, whether it be of our fellow men, the animal population or the soil upon which we rely for our very existence.”

“I went vegan because it was a moral thing for me,” Kellogg said. “I don’t agree with the way ani-mals are treated at places like fac-tory farms and slaughterhouses.”

Especially in Nebraska, Kel-logg said she feels most people have skewed ideas about vegans.

“People think we’re health gurus, but I really don’t eat a lot of salad and I’m not working out all the time,” she said. “And we’re definitely not all hippies.”

Melissa Rodriguez, a freshman English major, has been a vegan for almost two years. However, she said her choice “wasn’t really about religion or morals.”

“I gave up meat first and grad-ually I started leaning toward all organic foods,” Rodriguez said. “I just feel so much more healthy, like I have more energy. I like to feel good about what I consume.”

Pam Edwards, assistant di-rector of dining services at UNL, said maintaining vegan options in the dining halls can be a difficult proposition.

“It’s a bit challenging from the perspective of knowing the num-ber of vegan students we’re cater-ing to,” Edwards said. “We want the quality of our food to be good and we don’t want to compromise that with excess food sitting out.”

In the UNL dining halls, veg-etarian and vegan options are marked with yellow labels.

Edwards said the most chal-lenging vegan-friendly meal is breakfast. Although the dining halls offer vegetarian bacon and sausage, they both still contain egg whites.

“If a vegan student at UNL is having trouble finding vegan op-tions in the dining halls, I encour-age them to let us know,” Edwards said. “We’ll work with them.”

After five years, Kellogg said veganism has become second na-ture.

“I’m planning on doing this for the rest of my life,” she said. “I

can’t really see myself going back now.”

For some perspective, I went vegan for a week and documented my personal experiences.

day 1Going vegan for the first time

in your life is a lot like when you pour a bowl of cereal, only to re-alize the milk is gone. Then you search the fridge for something else for breakfast, and it turns out there’s only a bottle of ketchup and a few leftover soy sauce pack-ets, so you end up going back to sleep, comforted only by a bag of frozen peas you hope will thaw out soon.

My first day as a vegan has been filled with confusion and the realization that basically ev-erything I eat contains some form of dairy or eggs or is meat. After a meal last night that resembled The Last Supper, I was vulner-able and didn’t know what to do, so all I ate was half a box of fruit snacks. Granted, they were glu-ten-free, but that was Vegan Fail No. 1, because a true vegan prob-ably wouldn’t eat something that claims it’s fruit but looks like a smiley face.

day 2I’ve had a vega-normous crav-

ing for some three-cheese chicken

nachos from Qdoba all day. Which leads me to Vegan Fail No. 2. In-stead, I ate a cup of chicken ramen noodles, thinking the flavoring was artificial.

Not only is the flavoring made with chicken fat and powdered cooked chicken, but I’m probably going to Vegan Hell for even en-joying the taste of chicken, artifi-cial or not.

I redeemed myself by giving the vegan options at the dining hall a chance (which, since the veg-an population isn’t exactly huge, are very few and far between). I settled on a veggie-vegan garden burger, which is found right next to the juicy beef ones. I’ll just say it neither resembles a garden nor a burger. However, if you don’t think about it, it’s edible.

Whatever vegan points I earned today were violently de-stroyed the second I absentmind-edly started munching on some Cheez-Its at a going-away party – Vegan Fail No. 3. As much as I don’t want to believe it, cheez is cheese.

day 3It has been a good day, full of

salads and more salads.I went to a coffee place with a

friend and I had to ask the barista what vegan options they had. For some reason, I could tell she knew I

was a fraud, so I quickly explained that, no, I’m not actually a vegan, I’m just doing it for a week and I’m not very good at it. Then my friend mentioned the Cheez-Its from the night before, and the girl (who turned out to be a vegan) gave me a condescending look and a smoothie.

day 4

I must have angered the vegan gods because I woke up sick today. I’ve really only drank lots and lots of tea to get rid of my sore throat. Copious amounts of tea. I am a tea-gan. The fun fact for today is that Kleenex lotion tissues are gluten-free and vegan friendly. Which is great because it would really suck to have to use leaves or something.

day 5

I had an epiphany when I opened my fridge and my room-mate’s string cheese didn’t talk to me. Honestly, the vegan thing isn’t so bad.

In between veggie wraps, hum-mus and Naked Juice, I’ve been having weird vegan impulses.

For instance, I’ll be watching someone eat a sub with five layers of bacon and a side of bacon – and suddenly I’m fighting the urge to go all Charlotte’s Web on them.

Call it overconfidence, but I’m painting with the colors of the

wind, my friend.day 6

So, say I decide to go vegan for the rest of my life. Does this mean I earn the right to special privileges? Will I be able to talk to animals? If I sing, will a bluebird come perch on my windowsill? I’m going to say I at least get the right to rub it in other people’s animal-killing faces.

I think I may be reaching the end of my gluten-free, all-natural, not-tested-on-animals rope. In my geology lab, I actually compared the metamorphism of rocks to medium-rare and well-done steaks while the vegan gods laughed above.

day 7

I barely made it through the week, so I wouldn’t say I’m a prime candidate for the vegan lifestyle, maybe just for some prime rib.

However, I have gained some major respect for vegans. You can’t really understand the determina-tion and willpower it takes until you’ve tried it yourself. We carni-vores may think it’s crazy, but any-one willing to make that much sac-rifice in order to stand by his or her beliefs is pretty impressive. They’re defending animal rights while our major movement is No-Shave No-vember.

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netflix pick of the week

After training the five dolphins used on “Flipper,” Richard O’Barry said he became tired of seeing them mistreated. He be-came an animal rights activist, defending the slaughter of marine life, specifically in Asia.

“The Cove” follows O’Barry and his team’s journey to expose the town of Taiji, Japan, which is infamous for its dolphin meat and

the shady methods of its accumu-lation.

The guerrilla journalism and stealth tactics O’Barry and his team use to gather footage make the documentary an edge-of-your-seat thriller, a harrowing at the ghastly images in their find-ings.

Though not in the realm of a Sarah Mclaughlin SPCA com-

mercial, the persuasion tactics of “The Cove” inspire an inner surge for change, though the realistic options are slim. Still, there is a lot to be said for a documentary which pulls no punches, a brand of which we need more.

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of the People,” by the legendary Henrik Ibsen. UNL’s staging of “Paragon Springs” is directed by Carrie Lee Patterson.

Raging debates of equal-ity, freedom, politics and mor-als dizzy the viewer with mental calisthenics and evade resolu-tion with belabored confusion, though it does speak to the abil-ity of the student cast – featuring Nate Ruleaux, Devon Schovanec, Clare Carl and Meghan Mo-drovsky – to deliver a quick and breathless line. The impulsive characters abandon romance in the quest for their ideal solution, yet the conclusion leaves much to be desired and quick-witted but inaccessible performances don’t help.

“Paragon Springs” yanks the audience into the ‘20s with jazz, typewriters and hearty lighting. The theater “in-the-round” chal-lenges actors with the task of en-gaging audience members from

all four sides of the stage and startling splashes of water seem to dare viewers to participate during the intimate, im-mersive expe-rience. Actors e m p h a s i z e their charac-ters’ presence with con-viction and c o n f i d e n c e , r e g a r d l e s s of projected voices and e x a g g e r a t e d gestures.

Jazz Age-clad crew members manipulate bulky furniture in the shadows, gracefully weaving about, like efficient ants to create three sets throughout the show. Costumes and sets offer subtle support, gently reminding audi-ences of the story’s spirit without waking them from the hypnotic

acting. The garments are of mellow

earth tones, typically plaids and stripes, paired with suspenders, bow ties or vests to accentu-ate each character’s flair. Though vintage, the style refuses to go gaudy with enthusi-asm, unless absolutely necessary. Even the glossy, gelled hair-styles emulate those consistent with the time period.

“Paragon Springs” lavishes viewers with complex reflections on righteousness, but fails to procure sensibility from beliefs, leaving the audience no option but to stagger away with marinating concepts and a healthy dose of conclusive con-fusion.

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STARRING: CLARE CARL, NATE RULEAUX, MEGHAN

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DIRECTED BY CARRIE LEE PATTERSON

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documentary speaks to techie cinephiles

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If you’ve ever been amazed by the immensely intricate process of putting together a movie, Kea-nu Reeves has a gift for you.

“The Matrix” star hosts Christo-pher Kenneally’s new documentary “Side by Side.” He sits down with Martin Scorsese, Christopher No-lan, James Cameron, David Lynch and dozens of the biggest names and experts in the film business to talk about the state and future of film.

Sound like a broad subject? It is, but at the center of the con-versations is the shift from 35mm to digital filmmaking, which is happening at an incredibly rapid rate. The technologies of the past are mostly quick summaries de-cade by decade, but Kenneally zooms in on the extraordinary leaps made just in the last few years.

“O Brother, Where Art Thou?,” “Sin City” and “Collater-al,” for example, made important technological contributions to the industry even as most audiences considered them mere entertain-ment. Even from 2010 to 2011 to now, cameras have undergone dramatic improvements in por-tability, quality and editing ease. The boat race scene in “The So-cial Network” was only possible to film because of an innovative camera David Fincher modified for that scene.

Creative minds in Hollywood aren’t just using technology cre-atively; they’re constantly push-ing it forward. As evidenced in their interviews, they think in terms of what could be in the fu-ture. Often it involves technology impossible to realize even a year earlier.

Many experts lend their voice to the defense of traditional film, and the arguments go far beyond a stuck-in-the-past obstinacy. No-lan created his Batman trilogy on film and makes a credible case that digital isn’t yet at a place to abandon film.

One of the complications is in the changing roles of cinematog-raphy and direction. Whereas an-alog filming required visual and color experts to make important decisions and footage could only be reviewed the next day, digital filmmaking lets the entire crew see the final picture in real-time. Creative control is now a tense topic of debate with no clear an-swers.

Digital also means shooting can go on much longer without having to replace film, decreasing creative breathing room. Fincher talks about Robert Downey Jr.’s

silent protest of this is-sue, which involved him leaving jars of urine dis-persed on the “Zodiac” set. Reeves’ easygoing in-terviewing style lets loose a number of candid insights.

Far from insulting its audi-ence’s intelligence, “Side by Side” delves deep into the step-by-step technical processes of film throughout cinema’s history. On the other hand, the movie also doesn’t assume anything. Every-thing from how a simple camera receives light to create an image, to how a digital camera accom-plishes the same task, to how computers and CGI can make the most minute changes is explained accessibly and diagramed simply.

A marvel like “Avatar,” for example, is an overwhelming technological feat when consid-ered on its own. Watching the in-cremental climb from “Star Wars” to ‘90s music videos to “The Ma-trix,” however, makes movies like “Avatar” seem conceivable, but also all the more incredible. It’s still movie magic, but with rec-ognition that it took a century of pushing boundaries to make that magic possible.

“Side by Side” has a very tech-nical aim, and although Kenneal-ly frames this through filmmak-ers’ dynamism and passion, some moviegoers will be more amazed by these nuts and bolts than oth-ers. And even though the range of perspectives is impressive, one can’t help thinking of what the likes of Quentin Tarantino and Steven Spielberg would have added. Still, as a crash course in movie-making and the seismic shifts now at play, “Side by Side” is a dream.

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SIDE BY SIDEB

DIRECTED BY CHRISTOPHER KENNEALLY

Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center

the theater ‘in the

round’ challenges actors with the task of engaging ... from all four sides of the stage.”

Legendary directors muse on cinema techonology in film perfect for diehards

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on stage performing sketches as a group.

“We’re comedians, we’re kind of lazy,” Perry said. “If we were just doing it one at a time, none of us would take the initiative to do it. When we have other people counting on us to do it, then we’re more likely to get things done that way. Plus you can share the responsibilities and not have one person that’s trying to do every-thing.”

Along with being able to play off one another, Peterson said there could be challenges to per-forming alone instead of with close friends.

“ Y o u o b v i o u s l y

want to make a contribution, as do (Perry and Terry),” he said. “I think a lot more can be gained from working with other people. You have to just put your ego in the backseat every once in a while.”

OK Party Comedy makes a point to give audiences a differ-ent kind of comedy they may not be used to seeing in clubs. Terry compared the group to a punk rock or indie band, saying they are against the status quo.

“A lot of people, I’m going to say with white male comedians, it’s like … (they rely on) pop cul-ture: ‘I don’t have a girlfriend (or)

Netflix,’” Terry said. “I kind of

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and stay away from that. I just say absurd things. I go on a 20-min-ute thing about how much I hate horses … Let’s get mad at horses for no reason.”

Perry said one of the aspects that makes OK Party Comedy dif-ferent is not just the topic of their sketches, but how they are deliv-ered.

“The cool thing is that we have complimenting styles and they’re each unique,” Perry said.

All three comedians draw on material from their daily lives, whether it is their opinion of horses, their family or the way

they view t h e

world.

“It takes a special kind of nar-cissism to believe what you have to say is important,” Peterson said.

OK Party Comedy diverges from the norm in venues, as well. Instead of performing at the Fun-ny Bone, one of the few comedy locales in Omaha, they performs at places such as the Waiting Room Lounge, O’Leavers Pub, the Slowdown and Studio Gal-lery.

“Well, comedy clubs are ter-rible places,” Terry said. “It’s very misogynistic, and racist and ho-mophobic. It’s like, ‘You’re going to come here, get insulted by some old white guy who’s angry.’”

OK Party Comedy aims to grow the Omaha comedy scene by inviting new and aspiring comedians to participate in its

shows. For one of the trio’s recurring events, Comedy

Battle Royale, seasoned comics and newcom-ers are given a topic and battle each other. Their next Comedy Battle Royale is Nov. 28 at the Waiting Room in Omaha.

Perry said he has seen a couple newcom-

ers who participate in the event begin performing on a regular basis.

“Anyone who has any notion of doing comedy

should talk to us,” Terry said. “We love putting ama-

teurs up … We’re definitely looking for new blood or faces.”

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Nebraska freshman Katie Ditter is relatively new to swimming.

Ditter started swimming when she was a freshman in high school. She didn’t think she would continue to swim in college.

That all changed when Nebraska coach Pablo Morales started talking to her about pursuing swimming. NU staff first started looking at her during her junior year. Assistant coach Patrick Rowan wasn’t on staff when the Huskers started to look at Ditter, but said he can see why they wanted her as a part of the team.

“The state meet for the last two years brought our attention toward her,” Rowan said. “Her club coaches re-ally pulled our eyes to her.”

Ditter swam the fastest 100-meter breaststroke time at the Nebraska state meet her senior year in the preliminary round, but finished tied for third in finals. Ditter will be swimming the breaststroke and the IM for the Huskers this season.

In high school Dit-ter, an honor-roll student, also played volleyball. Her decision to continue to swim was a tough choice.

“I loved volleyball, but swim-ming just makes me feel better,” Dit-ter said. “Swimming individually is fulfilling for me.”

She decided volleyball wasn’t going to take her anywhere so she started to focus intently on swim-ming. She joined a club team her sophomore year that ended up being her gateway to college swimming.

“My sophomore year after state was when I realized I could be good at this sport,” Ditter said.

Rowan believes in Ditter’s abil-ity in and out of the pool. He wants

her to continue her hard work in the classroom, while bringing intensity to practice.

“She has been doing a solid job,” Rowan said. “She has to improve in the pool and on dry land as well.”

Swimming in high school was an entirely different environment than what she has expe-rienced in college.

“High school swim-ming was for the fun of it, not so much for competi-tion,” Ditter said.

A big change for Dit-ter has been her attention

on her teammates. “My hardest transition has been

doing all of this for my team instead of myself,” Ditter said.

Ditter has made the commit-ment to her team and is there for all of her teammates. They have been helping her transition into collegiate swimming as well.

Rowan is excited to see how Dit-ter improves while on the team.

“She has to develop the attitude where she expects the best out of herself,” Rowan said. “She needs to internalize that level of expectation and excellence.”

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Red polos slipped on, phones away, eyes on your own pins; it’s test time for the women on the Nebraska bowling team.

Six women traveled Thursday to Valparaiso, Ind., for the Cru-sader Classic, NU’s first match of the 2012-2013 season. The three-day tournament starts Friday with baker matches and continues Saturday and Sunday with tradi-tional games.

Three Huskers lead the travel-ing team with experience: senior All-American Kristi Mickelson, junior Yan Ling and sophomore Liz Kuhlkin.

The other three women on the team are just starting their Nebraska careers this weekend. Sophomores Elise Bolton and An-drea Ruiz and freshman Bethany

Hedley will all be bowling as Huskers for the first time. Coach Bill Straub said the freshmen and transfer still have experience.

Hedley bowled internation-ally for Team England. Bolton, a transfer from Sam Houston State, competed for Team USA. Ruiz, a transfer from Bogota Central Col-lege in Colombia, is on the Colom-bian national team.

How the newcomers react to the collegiate bowling as a Husker depends on how Nebraska bowls as a team.

“I wish I had a crystal ball to know how they’re going to handle wearing that big red ‘N’ on the back of their shirt,” Straub said. “They’re all good players. I guess the obstacle is once you step into an event and they’re getting lots of attention paid to them just because they have a big red ‘N’ on their back. How well they handle that will have a whole lot to do with how well the team succeeds.”

Nebraska faces a tough field of competitors, with host team Valparaiso ranked ninth, second-ranked Arkansas State, fourth-ranked Vanderbilt and

sixth-ranked Central Missouri all bowling this weekend. The Husk-ers are ranked fifth. Straub said he disregards ratings and instead will let his players decide Nebraska’s success.

Mickelson is expected to build on her All-American season last year into this season. Straub has high expectations for Kuhlkin as well. Kuhlkin had a 197.4 pinfall average for the season and Mickel-son posted the second highest pin-fall average on the team at 203.3.

“I think she’s a better player now then she was last spring,” Straub said of Kuhlkin. “I think she’s looking at potential of having a very productive year.”

The four-time NCAA cham-pions lost Kayla Johnson and Valerie Calberry to graduation after last season’s third place fin-ish at the NCAA Championships. This year’s Husker squad may be young, but they have the knowl-edge to ace their first test of the season.

“From top to bottom, there’s a whole lot of skill here,” Straub said. “It’s just how’s that going to work out in competition.”

Kuhlkin agreed.“We’ve got a lot of good play-

ers, and we’re really excited to get things going.”

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Old and new faces dot Nebraska’s travel roster as Huskers begin 2012-13 season

We’ve got a lot of good players, and we’re really excited

to get things going.”

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record in a year when many thought the feat impossible.

“He’s a lot better football player than he was a year ago,” Pelini said. “He understands what they’re doing and how to do it and where they’re going with the football.

“He doesn’t make a lot of mis-takes and understands how to make the system work for him.”

Much has been said about the state of Penn State football with all that has happened, but when Satur-day comes, just as it did last year in State College, a game will be played. Defensive coordinator John Papuchis acknowledged the difficulties the Nit-tany Lions have endured, but also keyed in on where his team must fo-

cus to stop a team driven by so much emotional momentum. McGloin, Pa-puchis said, is Nebraska’s focal point.

“He’s very efficient, very produc-tive and he’s only thrown three inter-ceptions on the year,” Papuchis said. “He’s careful with the ball and makes good decisions.

“He’s maturing in the role. He has another 12 or 13 starts under his belt since the last time we played them, and you can see he has grown as a player. He knows where to go with the ball, he’s accurate, he finds a way to make things happen and he buys himself time in the pocket. He’s a good player.”

McGloin has thrown 18 touch-downs and just three interceptions

this season, compared to eight touch-downs and five interceptions all of last season. Papuchis said he’s confi-dent his defensive backs, who led the nation in pass efficiency defense, will be able to throw McGloin off track, and he plans to use a multitude of personnel to do so.

“We have an all-hands-on-deck mentality when it comes to who we play in the secondary,” Papuchis said.

“A bunch of corners have seen signifi-cant time for us this year … whatever fits that week, we go with the best per-sonnel and try to maximize the roster that we have.”

No. 16 Nebraska and Penn State kick off at 2:30 p.m. on Saturday, with television coverage available on ABC.

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file photo by aNDrew DickiNsoN | DNHusker assistant coach ron brown (right) leads Penn state and nebraska players in prayer after nU’s 17-14 win in state college, Pa., last year. the nittany lions have seen a litany of changes in the program over the past year.

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penn state Nittany lions

state college, pa.stadium: beaver stadium (106,572 capacity)rivals: michigan state, minnesota, nebraskaall-time record: 715-391-43 (112 wins vacated)claimed national titles: 2conference titles: 1 (inde-pendent until 1993)heisman trophy winners: 1last season: 0-4 (9 wins vacated)notable current players: Qb matt mcGloin, lb Gerald Hodges, lb michael mautinotable former players: rb franco Harris, lb Jack Ham, rb lenny moore, rb John cappelletti, Qb kerry collins, rb larry Johnson, lb Paul Posluszny, lb lavar arrington, Qb todd blackledgeterms of ncaa sanctions: fine of $60 million, four-year postseason ban, 112 wins vacated from 1998-2011, reduction of scholarships by 10 for 2011-12, 20 spread across following four seasons.coach: bill o’brien (1st year)overall head coaching record: 6-3playing career: defensive end/linebacker, brown (1990-92)head coaching career: Penn state (2012-present)notable assistant coaching stops: brown (te – 1993, ilb – 1994), Georgia tech (Ga – 1995-97, rb – 1998-2000, oc/Qb – 2001-02), maryland (rb – 2003-04), duke (oc/Qb – 2005-06), new england Patriots (asst – 2007, Wr – 2008, Qb – 2009-10, oc/Qb – 2011)

pennsylvania state university

established: 1855public university

students: 96,562 (44,679 at University Park cam-pus)endowment: $1.708 billionspecializations: Penn state is known for its acceler-ated programs, most no-tably offering students in its pre-medical program a chance to advance to Jefferson medical college in two to three years.

what makes it unique: the Penn state alumni associ-ation is the largest alumni association in the world, holding the honor among dues-paying schools since 1995.

key matchupsNu rushing attack vs. psu linebackersPenn state has always been known for its line-backers, while nebraska has built a reputation the past few years as one of the strongest rush-ing teams in the country. the two will do battle on saturday, with the winner going a long way toward deciding the game’s win-ner.

psu Qb matt mcgloin vs. Nu secondarymcGloin has come a long way from last season, producing 18 touch-downs and throwing just three interceptions this year. saturday will be arguably his biggest test, as nebraska leads the country in defensive pass efficiency. something has to give in this matchup, which will go a long way toward spelling the success of Penn state’s tight-end centric offense.

Nebraska vs. the clocknebraska has entered the fourth quarter in four of its last five games without a lead. the Huskers can’t keep waiting until the last minute to try and patch together wins, which it did on three of four tries. though the formula has worked up to this point, time is destined to catch up with the Huskers if they don’t start building leads earlier.

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her team can accomplish this sea-son.

“With Lindsey out there it boosts your morale and your confidence when she goes out there and makes plays – hustle plays every single

game,” Yori said. “Every single time down the floor she’s making some-thing happen so it gets in your head that if she can do it, everyone can all pitch in. It helps a lot.”

Hooper, an honorable mention

AP All-American last year, is look-ing to build off one of the best soph-omore years in school history, when she averaged 18.9 points per game and led the Big Ten in rebounds and double-doubles.

Tipoff for the final season in the Bob Devaney Sports Center is at 7:05 p.m. on Friday. Sunday’s game starts at 2:05 p.m.

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file photo by joN augustiNe | DNnebraska senior point guard lindsey moore looks for a shot in an exhibition against nebraska-kearney on sunday. moore said the Huskers still have many things to keep improving.

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tHis weekendnebraska travels to brookings, s.d., to compete against south dakota state on friday at 4 p.m. the Huskers return home to compete against northern iowa on sat-urday at 11 a.m. at the devaney natatorium.

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After taking some time off to re-cuperate from a pair of losses, it’s time for the Nebraska volleyball team to hit the court again.

The No. 9 Huskers (18-5 over-all, 10-4 Big Ten) kick off another two-match weekend when they take on Indiana (11-15, 3-11) on Friday and No. 21 Purdue (18-7, 9-5) on Saturday at the NU Coli-seum.

In its last outing, the team traveled to Michigan and Michi-gan State and dropped heart-breakers to both teams in five-set matches.

The winless weekend against the two schools was the second time this season Nebraska has been on a losing streak.

But instead of being up-set, NU coach John Cook said he looks at the team’s last two matches as a lesson.

“We’ve been winning a lot of close games, (but last weekend) didn’t go our way,” he said. “You can learn a lot from losing, so hopefully we do.”

Nebraska began its first match of the weekend, against Michigan, up 2-0. However, those would be the only two sets the team would win, as the Wol-verines fought back from behind to win 3-2 (25-21, 25-19, 21-25, 13-25, 15-9).

Midway through the fifth set, senior Hannah Werth sprained her ankle and was forced to sit out the rest of the weekend.

Against Michigan State, freshmen Kelsey Fien, Alicia Ostrander, Alexa Strange and Sheridan Zarda were called on to make up for 19 percent of Nebraska’s offense. Though the four freshmen chipped away for a total of 11 kills, their successful swings weren’t enough as Michi-gan State went on to defeat the Huskers 3-2 (13-25, 25-23, 18-25, 25-23, 15-17), handing NU its sec-ond loss of the weekend.

Despite going winless on the road trip, Cook said it was good to see the first-year players gain experience.

“I tell those girls all the time, ‘You never know when you’re go-ing to get an op-portunity; you always have to be ready,’” the coach said. “I think they’ve learned

some good lessons. They were in position to win a big match on

the road and we didn’t get it done. That’s why match-es like that teach them a lot.”

The Husk-ers have now lost three out of their last four matches.

Heading into this weekend’s matchups, Nebras-ka holds a 12-5 all-

time record against Indiana and

a 12-5 advantage against Purdue.The last time the Huskers

played at home, they went 1-1, los-ing 3-1 to then No. 20 Ohio State (Oct. 26), and beat then No. 1 Penn State 3-2 two days later.

So after losing three out of their last four games, how will the NU players build themselves back up?

“We just need to take it one point at a time,” Werth said.

Though it’s uncertain whether she’ll play in this weekend’s two matches, Werth said the team can’t worry about anyone else but

themselves if they want to win.“We can’t take things too far

and look too far in the future,” the outside hitter said. “We have to focus on our side of the court and not be thinking of (the opponent’s) side.”

Friday’s match against Indiana starts at 7 p.m. The Huskers will take on Purdue on Saturday at 7:30 p.m. Fans who have purchased a BTN subscription can watch the match against the Boilermakers on BTN.com.

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The Nebraska wrestling team’s regular season has not even be-gun, and injuries have depleted the Huskers.

Last weekend, in its Intra-squad Meet and the Warren Wil-liamson/Daktronics Open, NU suffered many injuries – some that are minor and some that will require surgery. Ice bags were common at the Huskers’ prac-tices this week.

“(This is) probably as many guys as we’ve ever had banged up in one weekend in 12 years I’ve been here,” NU coach Mark Manning said. “That’s alarm-ing.”

When No. 9 Nebraska travels to Greeley, Colo., and Laramie, Wyo., this weekend for duals against Northern Colorado and No. 19 Wyoming, the Huskers

might have to be flexible with their lineup. Manning said he will take a couple of options in a few weight classes.

“We are in flux a little bit just because we’re dinged up,” he said.

At 141 pounds, the Huskers will have the option of start-ing either senior Ridge Kiley or sophomore Skylar Galloway, both of whom changed weight classes from last season. The early season adjustments to new weight classes have also altered NU’s lineup.

“We’ve got some good com-petition, some good depth,” Manning said, “which we knew going in this year, but it’s kind of proved us right as far as hav-ing some depth and having some guys fighting for positions.”

Senior Josh Ihnen, the sixth-ranked wrestler in the nation at 184 pounds, is not one of the Huskers battling for a spot in the starting 10, but he said for his teammates switching weight di-visions, the toughest part of the season is out of the way thanks to last weekend’s competition.

“Everybody’s already got that initial weight cut. Getting

over that first one is really the hard one,” Ihnen said. “Your body adjusts a little bit more. You know what you need to do in or-der to get down. I don’t think the weight adjustments will really be much of a factor anymore.”

Among the starters moving up at least one di-vision are sopho-more Jake Sueflohn (149 pounds), sophomore Robert Kokesh (174) and junior Caleb Kolb – who suffered an injury last week-end while filling in for the sidelined Spencer Johnson at 197 pounds.

In the same weight class, Wyoming returns All-American Alfonso Hernan-dez from last season, when then-No. 21 NU upset the 14th-ranked Cowboys 19-15 in Lincoln. Wres-tling at home this Sunday, Wyo-ming might be eager to return the favor.

But Manning will not worry about that.

“I don’t care if they’re out

for blood. We’ll be out for blood too,” Manning said. “If they’re going to be out for blood, we’re going to drink their blood, I don’t know.”

He said he is excited to see how his team performs in scored competition for the first time this

season, and the added factor of opening the sea-son on the road will be good for the squad.

“It’s always good to build that mindset that you’ve got a bull’s eye on your chest,” Manning said. “They put that singlet on,

people are coming after them.”Ihnen said he has confidence

in his teammates to get the job done, and Manning sees the top-20 Cowboys as just another op-ponent on the schedule.

“They’ll wrestle hard,” Man-ning said, “but we’ll wrestle harder.”

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Huskers look to learn from losses

file photo by joN augustiNe | DNnebraska senior outside Hannah Werth suffered an ankle sprain in the fifth set of a 3-2 loss to michigan on friday. it’s not certain if Werth will return this weekend against indiana and Purdue.

you can learn a lot

from losing, so hopefully we do.”

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ly in the season to find the right approach. It might be a bit of mix and match as he learns along with his team.

“I’m going to let them play for a while,” he said. “We just need to feel this thing out. I want to give everybody an opportunity to play and compete, and I thought we did in meaningful times (in game one). I thought everybody con-tributed, too.”

Miles is preaching patience right now – both to his team and the fanbase. At this extremely early point in the season and his Nebraska career, Miles recognizes

that there is a long way to go with his team. Expecting him to fix all the holes overnight is ludicrous, he said.

“It’s old John Wooden, right?” he asked. “You only get a little better every day, and that’s all you can really expect from this team.

“We’re going to get a little bit better and a little bit better and a little bit better. We’re not going to go out there and … well, it’s go-ing to be a rock fight for a while.”

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file photo by briaNNa soukup | DNnebraska sophomore david rivers (2) goes up for a shot in an exhibition against midland on Wednesday. nU won 68-40.

weekend match to provide preview of championship

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It’s hard not to look ahead to the NCAA Championships in March when the shooting range is the same. The Nebraska women’s rifle team travels to Columbus, Ohio, for a two-opponent week-end.

This weekend’s shooting range is where March’s NCAA Championship will be held. The opponents NU will face this weekend will likely be the same opponents the Huskers will face in March in the championships.

“So this is really just an op-portunity for us to have a run-through of what it’s going to be like in March,” Nebraska coach Stacy Underwood said.

Saturday’s matchup is with a TCU team on a 17-match winning streak and a 35-match winning streak in regular season contests. The 2010 and 2012 NCAA cham-pion Horned Frogs are led by se-nior Sarah Scherer, the smallbore title winner at last year’s NCAA Championships.

TCU’s lowest total team score of the season is a 4,667. NU’s highest total team score this sea-son was 4,643, a loss against Ken-tucky.

The Huskers haven’t com-peted since Oct. 20 when they de-feated Ole Miss. The three-week break from competition could not have had better timing, Under-wood said.

“We’re definitely in the peak-ing phase of our training cycle,” Underwood said. “It’s actually worked out perfectly how we had

a couple weeks break. I think a lot of teams might’ve really trained a lot and trained a lot of hours and we actually probably trained fewer hours per week than we did in the past. We took a little bit of a mental break and increased inten-sity of our training, and I think it really shows during these last few days.

“You can see the quality of our shots increasing and our mental focus endurance has really in-creased. So I think we’re exactly where we wanted to be based on where our training cycle is and where we need to peak for these next two weeks.”

The Huskers are 3-1 this sea-son, and total team scores have stayed consistent, ranging from 4,635 to 4,641. Like the rest of the team, senior Janine Dutton will look to peak at this match. Dutton is coming off a strong showing against Ole Miss, posting the top score in air rifle with a 592 and the second-highest in smallbore with a 579.

“I don’t think we’re going to be slumping back, I think we’re going to do just fine,” Dutton said. “We’re at our peaking phase right now. That three weeks off is a good time to really work on things that might’ve not have been going well. I really feel like we’re going to just come back and be just as good if not better than we were before our three weeks off.”

Nebraska continues competi-tion on Sunday when the Huskers face off against Ohio State.

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file photo by morgaN spiehs | DNnebraska wrestler Josh ihnen (left) said the toughest part of the season is over for his teammates who switched weight classes.

injuries have taken a toll on Huskers, who may have to be flexible with lineup

if they’re going to

be out for blood, we’re going to drink their blood.”

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file photo by bethaNy schmiDt | DNnebraska’s Janine dutton said the three-week break has been beneficial to the Huskers and she expects the team to peak.

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a lot can change in one year’s time.

Nebraska (7-2, 4-1 Big Ten) prepares to play Penn State (6-3, 4-1) in a matchup that has taken on a vastly different face than it had one

year ago.Last November, the Huskers entered State

College, Pa., during perhaps the darkest week in college football. The wake of the Jerry San-dusky child sex abuse scandal sent the town, and much of the sports world, into chaos, with many questioning whether the game should be played.

Yet both teams took the field. Though the game ended with a narrow Husker victory, the attention was on the victims, as both teams unified in prayer at the middle of the field.

“That was a crazy time,” Nebraska coach Bo Pelini said. “There were a lot of emotions that were flowing through me that day and leading up to that game. For them, I can’t even imagine. That was a unique experience to be a part of. It was a tragedy that was a lot bigger than the football game.”

The year that followed was full of embar-rassment, fear and reparation. Long-time head coach and Hall of Famer Joe Paterno was fired, and the em-pire around him crumbled amid the controversy. The school was crushed with fines and other sanctions, including a four-year post-season ban for the football team. A new staff was put in place, led by coach Bill O’Brien, a former assistant for the New England Patriots.

In the year since Nebraska traveled to Penn State, the Nittany Lions’ program has been demolished, reimagined and is begin-ning to be rebuilt under O’Brien. The team be-gan the season winless in two tries but found a way to break through, winning six of its last seven games leading up to Saturday.

“I think he’s done a phenomenal job with what he came into and the situation he walked into,” Pelini said. “It shows the type of football coach he is, and also shows the type of charac-ter with the guys of that program … they have done a phenomenal job of managing it and overcoming it.”

Though Penn State is ineligible for a con-ference championship or even a bowl-game appearance, the team is still playing for pride. For a team with a roster decimated by lost transfers, Penn State has defied expectations.

“I think Coach O’Brien and his guys have a lot of character,” NU offensive coordinator Tim Beck said. “All of their players show that they are playing together for something.”

At the head of the team is senior quarter-back Matt McGloin. Under Paterno, McGloin battled in a back-and-forth fight for the start-ing job with Rob Bolden. Now a senior and with Bolden gone to LSU, McGloin has led the charge, helping the Nittany Lions to a winning

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Huskers ready for regular-season tests

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Tim Miles’ Nebraska men’s bas-ketball team is still in the devel-opmental stage.

If Wednesday night’s exhi-bition matchup with Midland University is any indication, Nebraska has a lot to work on as the nonconfer-ence portion of the schedule gets un-derway on Sunday. After his team’s first win, Miles pointed out three areas the team needs to improve on in the early go-ing: game plan-ning, rebounding and offensive flow.

Miles ad-dressed that third point – offensive flow – with the most depth following Wednes-day’s game.

“I think I know what we need,” he said. “We are going to need to play with multiple guards, mul-tiple handlers. I don’t think there is any question when we see a variety of defenses, we are going to need multiple people to make good decisions for us, not just Ben-ny Parker, not just whoever, Mike Peltz or whoever it might be.”

On Sunday, Nebraska gets the regular season going against Southern. The Southwest Ath-letic Conference school is another team the Huskers should beat, but more importantly, it’s another chance for the team to gel.

“The more games we play, the better the flow of our offense and defense playing together will be,” sophomore forward David Rivers said. “Everything is so new right now. We know what to do, but we are thinking too much.”

Nebraska wants to up the ante on the offensive end versus the Jaguars. The team fell two points

shy of 70, a number that would have earned the Bob Devaney Sports Center crowd free Runza sandwiches on Wednesday. Considering the number of pos-sessions Nebraska had, that’s not nearly enough, ac-cording to Miles.

“We have to score on a regular basis,” the coach said. “We went out and had 71 pos-

sessions (on Wednesday), but we only had 68 points. You want to have at least a point a posses-sion. For 71 possessions, if you are any good, you should have about 75 points, so we are way below where we need to be.”

Miles said he is going to push his team’s buttons for a while ear-

miles says offense must improve as season starts

Penn state quarterback matt mcGloin attempts a pass against nebraska last season. mcGloin has thrived in new coach bill o’brien’s offensive system, throwing for 18 touchdowns against just three interceptions this season.

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After winning two dominant ex-hibition games by a total of 74 points, the Nebraska women’s basketball team is ready to take the court for real this weekend. The Huskers open their season with home games against North Carolina A&T on Friday and Temple on Sunday.

The Huskers, who are ranked No. 18 in The Associated Press preseason poll, are favorites to c o n t e n d for the Big Ten title this year, and are out to prove they are a force to be reck-oned with. T h o u g h the exhibi-tion games w e r e b l o w o u t wins, coach Connie Yori said she learned a lot about her team during the past two weeks.

“I learned that we have some kids that have some pretty good toughness,” said Yori, who is coming into her 11th season as head coach. “I think that is some-thing that we can take from this.”

Nebraska is coming off a bit-tersweet season, finishing 10-6 in the Big Ten and 24-9 overall. The Huskers lost to Purdue in double overtime in the championship game Big Ten Tournament, and then lost to Kansas in the first round of the NCAA Tournament.

But behind the senior lead-ership of preseason All-Big Ten players Jordan Hooper and Lind-sey Moore, the Huskers have high expectations for the season. But they aren’t getting too ahead of themselves. Moore believes the team still has things to con-tinue working on.

“(It’s) just the little things,” said Moore, who averaged 15.7 points and 5.1 assists per game last season. “Rebounding, execut-ing on offense. Just the game in general. I think we can get better game by game. I think improving in all aspects is something we’re looking forward to do.”

Yori likes Moore’s attitude and is confident in her guard and what

No. 18 Nebraska opens year facing off against Temple, North Carolina A&T

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