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Earth Day every day Two people walk along the Holmes Lake dam under blue skies. The ever-changing and volatile weather this spring is very representative of Nebraska. INSIDE COVERAGE Country strong Self- educator Local musician preserves country music Tennis player teaches himself the game 5 10 3 DN THE TUESDAY, APRIL 23, 2013 VOLUME 112, ISSUE 143 DAILYNEBRASKAN.COM @DAILYNEB | FACEBOOK.COM/DAILYNEBRASKAN ‘College Hunt, USA’ comes to UNL UNL REACTS TO BOMBING SUSPECT’S CHARGES I agree with the decision (to try him in civilian court) because he is not tied to any terrorist group. His brother may be, but not him.” FRANCESCO VOLPI SOPHOMORE BROADCASTING AND GLOBAL STUDIES MAJOR I think he should be tried as a terrorist in military court because he bombed America, and that is a terrorist act.” HELEN SCHNEIDER SOPHOMORE ATHLETIC TRAINING MAJOR I would have him tried as a terrorist because I think that was the purpose behind the bombings. It was very deliberately set up to cause terror, and it did. I think we have gotten into so many definitions for what it means to be a terrorist that there needs to be an organization or a greater power behind the act, and I would disagree with that. I think if you are out to cause mass damage and panic and chaos, then that should count as terrorism.” RACHEL RIXEN JUNIOR PSYCHOLOGY MAJOR It would make more sense if he was tried in a military court because it is considered a terrorist act. Even if he is a citizen, anyone who sets off a bomb is a terrorist and they should be charged in military court. I think the government should definitely do more than civilian court.” LEANDRA MCLENNON JUNIOR HOSPITALITY, RESTAURANT AND TOURISM MANAGEMENT MAJOR I don’t think either civilian or military court is enough for him. I don’t think he should be given as many rights as other people in court because I don’t think he deserves it. Hopefully, he will get an appropriate charge for what he has done.” CHRISTINE MOHLMAN FRESHMAN PSYCHOLOGY MAJOR R yan Bostock wanted to open up his own gym after he completed his degree at the University of Ne- braska-Lincoln. Last week, he had applied for a position at the Campus Recre- ation Center for after graduation, hoping to get some experience as a nutritionist and a personal trainer. Two Sundays ago, the 24-year-old hung out with his sister, Shelby Bostock. They complained about school and talked about their futures. “Every conversation would be about how we hated it,” Shelby said. “And how in a few months we’d never have to go to class again.” Ryan was only two weeks away from graduating with a degree in nutrition and health sciences when he died in a rollover crash Saturday morning. Ryan was riding in a blue Mini Cooper early Saturday morning with friends Chad Spencer, a 24-year-old Lincoln resident, and Joshua Fagan, also 24 and a UNL stu- dent, when the car rolled over southwest of Branched Oak State Recreation Area at the intersection of West Raymond Road and Northwest 98th Street near Raymond. Spencer was also killed in the accident. Fagan, the driver and a senior nutrition and health sciences major, was flown to Bryan West Campus Saturday morning and was in critical condition Saturday. Fagan’s medical status was unclear at press time Monday. Spencer’s family could not be reached. The Grand Island Independent reported fu- neral services for Spencer are pending at Ap- fel Funeral Home, 1123 W. 2nd St., in Grand Island. According to the incident report, Sgt. Ryan Schmuecker of the Lancaster County Sheriff’s Office discovered the rollover at 6:28 a.m., but he said the crash could have happened as early as midnight. The report states Fagan was driving westbound along West Raymond Road and drove off the road and rolled over several times. The report suggests speed and alcohol as possible contributors, and authorities have said they do not know if the men were wear- ing seat belts. Members of the Bostock family will re- member Ryan as someone who always had a smile on his face and was always willing to help out. “He would do anything for anyone if they asked,” said Bethann Bostock, Ryan’s mother, “even a stranger.” Bethann and the rest of the Bostock fam- ily traveled to Lincoln Monday from their home in Red Cloud to pick up a few of Ry- an’s belongings from his apartment. She said he enjoyed coming home to their farm in Red Cloud to get away from the city. “I’m just at a loss of words,” his mother said. Shelby Bostock said she spent most of the weekend in denial of what had hap- pened. During the past few days, the family has been able to talk about Ryan and laugh again. Ryan and Shelby remained close during college. Ryan would often come over to her apartment, and they’d share a meal together. Shelby described Ryan as a “smart al- eck” at the dinner table with her. He would jokingly point out ways to make the meal healthier and “would complain about not using whole wheat pasta.” Ryan had so many friends that Shelby said she “couldn’t keep track of them all.” He moved to Lincoln in 2009 from Rolla, Mo., where he studied at the Missouri Uni- versity of Science and Technology. He had originally planned to go into nuclear engi- neering, but Shelby said he had a change of heart. “He didn’t want to be responsible for people’s lives if something went wrong,” Shelby said. After transferring to UNL, Ryan switched his focus to health. Ryan’s 16-year-old brother Jared Bos- tock said he’d remember Ryan every time he would play football or lift weights. The Bostock brothers bonded over football and were workout buddies. Jared said his older brother drove back to Red Cloud for every football game last fall and would give him tips on how to improve. “I’ll remember him in every practice and game and know he’ll be proud,” said Jared, who will be a junior at Red Cloud High School. Services for Ryan will be held in Satur- day morning at Red Cloud Lutheran Church. NEWS@ DAILYNEBRASKAN.COM Ryan Bostock remembered as always willing to help Story by Daniel Wheaton UNL student ‘always had a smile’ COURTESY PHOTO Ryan, Jacob and Shelby Bostock remained close as a family when Ryan and Shelby went to Lincoln for college. Ryan died in a rollover accident Saturday morning. He would do anything for anyone if they asked, even a stranger.” BETHANN BOSTOCK RYAN BOSTOCKS MOTHER COLLEEN FELL DN Surprise, University of Nebraska- Lincoln. You’re on candid camera. Television crews were a sur- prise sight this past weekend in Lincoln as production began on a new reality TV show. UNL will be featured in a com- ing reality TV show exhibiting two young Indian students on Ameri- can college visits. “College Hunt, USA” was filmed April 18-22 at various locations around campus. Plans for the show were final- ized after a UNL delegation meet- ing with U.S. Consulate officials in Mumbai this past January. “India is a target market for us and, for the first time ever, we sent a representative to college fairs there in August and January,” said Amber Hunter, director of the UNL Office of Admissions, in a press re- lease. The decision was made after UNL Chancellor Harvey Perlman and Prem Paul, vice chancellor for Research and Economic Develop- ment, gave a copy of “Tommy Lee Goes to College,” a 2005 series about Lee attending UNL, to the U.S. Consulate officials. The show will air as UNL push- es to increase enrollment to 30,000 students by 2017. “College Hunt, USA” is projected to reach 25 mil- lion youth in India. The selection process for the show consisted of an application process and an audition. The two students selected, Cuckoo Gupta and Shashank Sharma, are current- ly in 12th grade at their respective high schools in India. Both said it is more common for Indian students to study abroad for college. “I haven’t applied to any schools in India at all, but I applied for a few here,” Sharma said. Gupta added that she has only applied to schools in the U.S. and in Ireland. “Out of everyone in my (high school) class, no one is attending colleges in India,” Gupta said. Each on their college visits, Gupta and Sharma said they were unsure of what to expect from UNL. “I wasn’t expecting (Lincoln) to have such an urban lifestyle,” Gupta said. While in Lincoln, both Gupta and Sharma stayed in Abel Hall with university-appointed room- mates. Both said they enjoyed the freedoms and other perks of dorm life. “Teenagers here are much more independent,” Sharma said, “In In- dia, teenagers are spoon-fed.” But the pair did find some things to be overwhelming, such as the dining halls. “There is just so much variety, but Abel is the best,” Gupta said. TV SHOW: SEE PAGE 2 On Monday, charges were brought against Dzhokhar Tsar- naev, the 19-year-old surviving suspect in last Monday’s Boston Marathon bombings that killed three people and injured more than 170. The Justice Depart- ment gave a statement detailing the charges of one count of using and conspiring to use a weapon of mass destruction of property by means of an explosive device resulting in death. If convicted of the federal charges, Tsarnaev could be sentenced to death. The civilian court charges fol- low a national debate surround- ing the suspect’s legal rights. Prior to Tsarnaev’s appearance before a magistrate judge in his hospital room, there was specula- tion that he would be charged as an enemy combatant and tried by military commission. The deci- sion in favor of civilian charges was made based on lack of evi- dence that he was connected to an organized terrorist group and the fact that he is a naturalized U.S. citizen On Friday, authorities found an injured Tsarnaev hiding in a boat in Watertown, Mass. When taken into federal custody, Tsar- naev was not read his Miranda rights, which include the right to remain silent, the right to an attorney and the warning that any statement can be used by prosecutors. The public safety exception allows investigators to question a suspect before grant- ing him or her these rights. Tsarnaev remains in Beth Is- rael Deaconess Hospital in Bos- ton in serious condition, but is able to nod in response to inves- tigators’ questions. I don’t see how it ties to the military. He is still a United States citizen and is entitled to all legal rights as any United States citizen.” SHANE FREDRICKSON SENIOR MECHANIZED SYSTEMS MANAGEMENT MAJOR COMPILED BY MARA KLECKER NEWS@ DAILYNEBRASKAN.COM Indian reality TV show is set to premiere later this year

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Page 1: April 23

Earth Day every day

Two people walk along the Holmes Lake dam under blue skies. The ever-changing

and volatile weather this spring is very representative of Nebraska.

InsIde Coverage

Country strong

Self-educator

Local musician preserves

country music

Tennis player teaches himself

the game

5 10 3

dnthe

tuesday, april 23, 2013volume 112, issue 143

dailynebraskan.com

@dailyneb | facebook.com/dailynebraskan

‘College Hunt, Usa’ comes to UnL

unl reacts to bombing suspect’s charges

I agree with the decision (to try

him in civilian court) because he is not tied to any terrorist group. His brother may be, but not him.”

FraNcesco VoLpisophomore broadcasting and

global studies major

I think he should be tried as a terrorist

in military court because he bombed america, and that is a terrorist act.”

HeLeN scHNeider sophomore athletic training major

I would have him tried as a terrorist

because I think that was the purpose behind the bombings. It was very deliberately set up to cause terror, and it did. I think we have gotten into so many definitions for what it means to be a terrorist that there needs to be an organization or a greater power behind the act, and I would disagree with that. I think if you are out to cause mass damage and panic and chaos, then that should count as terrorism.”

racHeL rixeNjunior psychology major

It would make more sense if he was

tried in a military court because it is considered a terrorist act. even if he is a citizen, anyone who sets off a bomb is a terrorist and they should be charged in military court. I think the government should definitely do more than civilian court.”

LeaNdra McLeNNoN junior hospitality, restaurant and

tourism management major

I don’t think either civilian or military

court is enough for him. I don’t think he should be given as many rights as other people in court because I don’t think he deserves it. Hopefully, he will get an appropriate charge for what he has done.”

cHrisTiNe MoHLMaNfreshman psychology major

Ryan Bostock wanted to open up his own gym after he completed his degree at the University of Ne-braska-Lincoln. Last week, he had

applied for a position at the Campus Recre-ation Center for after graduation, hoping to get some experience as a nutritionist and a personal trainer.

Two Sundays ago, the 24-year-old hung out with his sister, Shelby Bostock. They complained about school and talked about their futures.

“Every conversation would be about how we hated it,” Shelby said. “And how in a few months we’d never have to go to class again.”

Ryan was only two weeks away from graduating with a degree in nutrition and health sciences when he died in a rollover crash Saturday morning.

Ryan was riding in a blue Mini Cooper early Saturday morning with friends Chad Spencer, a 24-year-old Lincoln resident, and Joshua Fagan, also 24 and a UNL stu-dent, when the car rolled over southwest of Branched Oak State Recreation Area at the intersection of West Raymond Road and Northwest 98th Street near Raymond.

Spencer was also killed in the accident. Fagan, the driver and a senior nutrition and health sciences major, was flown to Bryan West Campus Saturday morning and was in critical condition Saturday. Fagan’s medical status was unclear at press time Monday.

Spencer’s family could not be reached. The Grand Island Independent reported fu-neral services for Spencer are pending at Ap-fel Funeral Home, 1123 W. 2nd St., in Grand Island.

According to the incident report, Sgt. Ryan Schmuecker of the Lancaster County Sheriff’s Office discovered the rollover at 6:28 a.m., but he said the crash could have happened as early as midnight. The report states Fagan was driving westbound along West Raymond Road and drove off the road and rolled over several times.

The report suggests speed and alcohol as possible contributors, and authorities have said they do not know if the men were wear-ing seat belts.

Members of the Bostock family will re-member Ryan as someone who always had a smile on his face and was always willing to help out.

“He would do anything for anyone if they asked,” said Bethann Bostock, Ryan’s mother, “even a stranger.”

Bethann and the rest of the Bostock fam-ily traveled to Lincoln Monday from their home in Red Cloud to pick up a few of Ry-

an’s belongings from his apartment. She said he enjoyed coming home to

their farm in Red Cloud to get away from the city.

“I’m just at a loss of words,” his mother said.

Shelby Bostock said she spent most of the weekend in denial of what had hap-pened. During the past few days, the family has been able to talk about Ryan and laugh again.

Ryan and Shelby remained close during college. Ryan would often come over to her apartment, and they’d share a meal together.

Shelby described Ryan as a “smart al-eck” at the dinner table with her. He would jokingly point out ways to make the meal healthier and “would complain about not using whole wheat pasta.”

Ryan had so many friends that Shelby said she “couldn’t keep track of them all.”

He moved to Lincoln in 2009 from Rolla, Mo., where he studied at the Missouri Uni-versity of Science and Technology. He had originally planned to go into nuclear engi-neering, but Shelby said he had a change of heart.

“He didn’t want to be responsible for people’s lives if something went wrong,” Shelby said.

After transferring to UNL, Ryan switched his focus to health.

Ryan’s 16-year-old brother Jared Bos-tock said he’d remember Ryan every time he would play football or lift weights. The Bostock brothers bonded over football and were workout buddies. Jared said his older brother drove back to Red Cloud for every football game last fall and would give him tips on how to improve.

“I’ll remember him in every practice and game and know he’ll be proud,” said Jared, who will be a junior at Red Cloud High School.

Services for Ryan will be held in Satur-day morning at Red Cloud Lutheran Church.

neWs@ dailynebraskan.com

Ryan Bostock remembered as always willing to helpStory by Daniel Wheaton

UNL student ‘always had a smile’

courtesy photo ryan, Jacob and shelby Bostock remained close as a family when ryan and shelby went to Lincoln for college. ryan died in a rollover accident saturday morning.

He would do anything for anyone if they

asked, even a stranger.”

beTHaNN bosTockryan bostock’s mother

coLLeeN FeLLdn

Surprise, University of Nebraska-Lincoln. You’re on candid camera.

Television crews were a sur-prise sight this past weekend in Lincoln as production began on a new reality TV show.

UNL will be featured in a com-ing reality TV show exhibiting two young Indian students on Ameri-can college visits. “College Hunt, USA” was filmed April 18-22 at

various locations around campus. Plans for the show were final-

ized after a UNL delegation meet-ing with U.S. Consulate officials in Mumbai this past January.

“India is a target market for us and, for the first time ever, we sent a representative to college fairs there in August and January,” said Amber Hunter, director of the UNL Office of Admissions, in a press re-lease.

The decision was made after UNL Chancellor Harvey Perlman and Prem Paul, vice chancellor for Research and Economic Develop-ment, gave a copy of “Tommy Lee Goes to College,” a 2005 series about Lee attending UNL, to the U.S. Consulate officials.

The show will air as UNL push-es to increase enrollment to 30,000

students by 2017. “College Hunt, USA” is projected to reach 25 mil-lion youth in India.

The selection process for the show consisted of an application process and an audition. The two students selected, Cuckoo Gupta and Shashank Sharma, are current-ly in 12th grade at their respective high schools in India. Both said it is more common for Indian students to study abroad for college.

“I haven’t applied to any schools in India at all, but I applied for a few here,” Sharma said.

Gupta added that she has only applied to schools in the U.S. and in Ireland.

“Out of everyone in my (high school) class, no one is attending colleges in India,” Gupta said.

Each on their college visits,

Gupta and Sharma said they were unsure of what to expect from UNL.

“I wasn’t expecting (Lincoln) to have such an urban lifestyle,” Gupta said.

While in Lincoln, both Gupta and Sharma stayed in Abel Hall with university-appointed room-mates. Both said they enjoyed the freedoms and other perks of dorm life.

“Teenagers here are much more independent,” Sharma said, “In In-dia, teenagers are spoon-fed.”

But the pair did find some things to be overwhelming, such as the dining halls.

“There is just so much variety, but Abel is the best,” Gupta said.

tv shoW: see page 2

On Monday, charges were brought against Dzhokhar Tsar-naev, the 19-year-old surviving suspect in last Monday’s Boston Marathon bombings that killed three people and injured more than 170. The Justice Depart-ment gave a statement detailing the charges of one count of using and conspiring to use a weapon of mass destruction of property by means of an explosive device resulting in death. If convicted of the federal charges, Tsarnaev could be sentenced to death.

The civilian court charges fol-low a national debate surround-ing the suspect’s legal rights. Prior to Tsarnaev’s appearance before a magistrate judge in his hospital room, there was specula-tion that he would be charged as an enemy combatant and tried by military commission. The deci-

sion in favor of civilian charges was made based on lack of evi-dence that he was connected to an organized terrorist group and the fact that he is a naturalized U.S. citizen

On Friday, authorities found an injured Tsarnaev hiding in a boat in Watertown, Mass. When taken into federal custody, Tsar-naev was not read his Miranda rights, which include the right to remain silent, the right to an attorney and the warning that any statement can be used by prosecutors. The public safety exception allows investigators to question a suspect before grant-ing him or her these rights.

Tsarnaev remains in Beth Is-rael Deaconess Hospital in Bos-ton in serious condition, but is able to nod in response to inves-tigators’ questions.

I don’t see how it ties to the military.

He is still a United states citizen and is entitled to all legal rights as any United states citizen.”

sHaNe FredricksoN senior mechanized systems

management major

compiled by mara klecker

neWs@ dailynebraskan.com

Indian reality TV show is set to premiere later this year

Page 2: April 23

Another positive — Raising Cane’s.

“The dip is the best,” Sharma said.

Gupta and Sharma said there are many cultural differences be-tween India and the United States.

“People’s perspectives (in the United States) of a girl is equal to a guy,” Gupta said. “For example, if I were to be just hanging out by myself with a guy later at night, people would talk, if I was in In-dia. But here, it’s not a big deal.”

The duo also noticed many differences between the traffic in India and Nebraska.

“Here, you can walk any-where and not get hit by a car,” Gupta said.

“Yes, here, the cars actually wait for you to cross,” Sharma added.

During their visits, Gupta and Sharma became familiar with both the academic and athletic sides of the university. Gupta, who plans to study broadcast journalism, made a trip to the College of Journalism and Mass Communications to visit the show “Fast Forward,” which is produced by students studying broadcasting production.

Sharma, who plans to study psychology, said he visited the

psychology research labs at UNL. But he said one of his favorite parts of the experience was get-ting to use the basketball courts at the Campus Recreation center.

“In India, there’s a big basket-ball scene, but not really any facili-ties to use,” Sharma said. While visiting, Sharma participated in a pickup game of basketball with a

few members of the Husker men’s basketball team.

“It was actually a dream come true,” Sharma said. He added that he was impressed with the foot-ball program and Memorial Sta-dium.

“If I come to UNL, I might switch my sport to football just to play in the stadium,” Sharma said.

Late Monday night, the two, along with eight production crew members, flew to Ohio Wesleyan University, in Delaware, Ohio, for their next stop. After Ohio, they will end their journey with a day at State University of New York at Geneseo.

The show is projected to pre-miere as a three-part series later in 2013 on Channel V in India, which is somewhat comparable to Amer-ica’s MTV.

The two are unsure as to whether they will choose UNL, but said they enjoyed the experi-ence.

“We weren’t expecting such a warm and friendly welcome,” Sharma said. “Now you guys are making our decision hard. Lincoln is going to be tough to beat.”

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1997Admission stAndArds rise the 1997 freshman class may be the most elite class ever to enter the University of nebraska-Lin-coln, because of new, higher admission standards. Lisa schmidt, UnL director of admissions, said the (sic) “the strongest freshman class (UnL has) ever admitted” will be brighter and better prepared for college work than its predecessors. Between 200 and 300 prospective students will be denied admission, schmidt said. a total of 64 freshman applicants were denied admission last year.

1982CoordinAtor: Group to hAlt nuCleAr testinG “It’s time to say ‘stop—halt’ so we can begin to talk,” said Brian Coyne, state coordinator of the nebraska nuclear Weapons Freeze Campaign. Coyne, 23, took the position as state coordina-tor for the freeze campaign just more than two weeks ago. When he was hired, he was working on his undergraduate honors thesis at Cornell Univer-sity in Ithaca, n.y. He is a Lincoln native, and gradu-ated from Lincoln east High school in 1977. Coyne said the freeze campaign is not “trying to get rid of all nuclear weapons,” but to stop the testing, production and further development of nuclear warheads, missiles and other delivery sys-tems as a first step towards nuclear disarmament.

1948iowA Author to speAk here At ConvoCAtion dr. george mowry, University of Iowa professor and author of several books, will speak at a convo-cation at 11 p.m. on april 30 in the auditorium of Love library as a part of the nebraska History meet-ing of the nebraska History teachers association. “making Foreign Policy in your own Backyard,” will be dr. mowry’s subject. Besides teaching amer-ican History at Iowa, he is author of “american society in a Changing World,” “theodore roosevelt and the Progressive movement,” and other books.

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23on campuswhat: stress Free Zone where: nebraska east Unionwhen: 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.more information: Free snacks, giveaways, massages, dog petting and more activities.

in lincoln

what: study Break night at the sheldonwhere: sheldon museum of artwhen: 6 to 9 p.m.more information: Free yoga (bring yoga mat if possible), art activities and places to study.

what: nebraska Literary Heritage association adult spelling Beewhere: Brewsky’s, 201 n. 8th st.when: 7 p.m.more information: entry fee of $30.

tv shoW: FroM 1

congress limits political science research funding

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Political scientists across the country have lost a major fund-ing source for their research.

U.S. Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., submitted several amendments to the Consolidat-ed and Further Continuing Ap-propriations Act of 2013, a bill passed into law by President Barack Obama in late March that staved off a government shutdown. One of Coburn’s amendments prohibits the National Science Foundation from funding political science research unless the project is “promoting national security or the economic interests of the United States.”

Coburn has tried to cut po-litical science funding in the past; his original intention was shifting funding from political science research to cancer re-search.

According to the NSF’s website, the organization rep-resents 21 percent of the fed-eral budget for basic research at colleges and universities. It also requires results be made available to the public once completed. While political sci-ence funding was snipped, NSF increased its overall budget request by 8.4 percent to more than $7.6 billion for 2014.

“I’m pleased the Senate ac-cepted an amendment that re-stricts funding to low-priority political science grants,” Co-burn said in a statement in late March. “There is no reason to spend $251,000 studying Amer-icans’ attitudes toward the U.S. Senate when citizens can figure

that out for free.”The amendment passed in

March on a voice vote with 60 yeas.

Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., released a statement afterward expressing his disappointment.

“I am concerned that this amendment will restrict high quality research in critical ar-eas beyond our national secu-rity and economic interests and creates a threshold for certify-ing eligible political science research projects that could eliminate very worthy projects, if it is not applied wisely and thoughtfully,” Levin said.

At the University of Ne-braska-Lincoln, members of the political science department will now have to look to other places to fund research.

In the past decade, profes-sors John Hibbing and Kevin Smith have both received grants from the NSF. Smith said trusts and other groups also fund research but are more nar-row than NSF funding.

Smith said the U.S. Depart-ment of Defense will sometimes fund research but with the in-tention of a specific payoff.

“Why political science? Why not sociology? Why not any number of areas that use NSF funds?” said Elizabeth Theiss-Morse, political science professor and chairperson of

the department. She said the department has received a “fair amount of funding for research over the years,” most of which has focused on public behavior and political attitudes.

She said the cut inhibits researchers’ abilities to inves-tigate things elected officials might not agree with.

“It stymies research,” The-iss-Morse said. “Why can Con-gress tell us what we can and cannot study?

Smith agreed with Theiss-Morse’s sentiments. He said he was working on a new ap-plication that would have been submitted to the NSF. He has already been a principal inves-tigator on three NSF-funded re-search projects.

He said winning a grant from the NSF is difficult, as the board has a rigorous process of determining what to fund.

But while their help can be difficult to obtain, he said the NSF understands research comes with its successes and failures.

“I don’t know if (Coburn) had a political science profes-sor who was really mean to him or something like that,” Smith said. “If that was the case, I’d like to find that political scien-tist and give him an earful.”

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It stymies research. Why can Congress tell us what we can and cannot

study?”eLizabeTH THeiss-Morse

political science professor

sTaFF reporTdn

The My.UNL Blackboard sys-tem will be going through some changes on May 11.

“(The current version) is stable and has been running the whole school year, but with any kind of software program, it’s imperfect,” said Jeremy Van Hof, teaching and learning tech ser-vice manager for the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s Informa-tion Services.

These changes to Blackboard will include a simplified user interface (in other words, a new look to the system), extended text editing box and improved discussion boards. It also has the new features of test-item analy-sis for instruc-tors and “Video E v e r y w h e r e ” for those with a YouTube account and a webcam. No content will be lost when the change is made, nor will any cur-rent content need to be transferred beforehand for the change to hap-pen.

“This will represent the single greatest change in Blackboard,” said Van Hof. “It will look a lot cleaner and a lot newer.”

The simplified user interface will have a new welcome cal-endar on the home page for an-nouncements and important due dates that mimic a Twitter feed. It will include a global navigation menu for all courses and open all previous recently visited courses.

The calendar on Blackboard will have a link between the new visual calendar and the due dates for assignments, tests and discus-

sion boards. It will have an op-tion for monthly, weekly or daily viewing.

The visual calendar on Black-board can also be linked to exter-nal calendars on Google or on a laptop’s desktop calendar.

The new feature of “Video Anywhere” is an option in the text-editing box, which allows students and faculty to insert video comments, announce-ments or instructions.

Blackboard users need only a YouTube account and a web-cam attached to their computer or laptop to use “Video Any-where.”

The other new feature is the test-item analysis. This option allows instructors to analyze test questions and report per-centages to determine if a test question is too hard. It also ex-amines the quality of test ques-tions based on the overall test, Van Hof said, and will allow professors to determine if any content in a course was inad-

equately covered or if the students were unable to compre-hend the wording of a test question and so forth.

There is a test server of the new Blackboard avail-able for student and professor to view at http://bb-test4.unl.edu. Students and

faculty will be able to log into the new Blackboard using their cur-rent log-in credentials.

“While the new version of Blackboard is new to UNL, many institutions around the coun-try have already done the new changeover and have received positive feedback,” Van Hof said. “The new Blackboard will vastly improve faculty and student us-ers and will really help move them forward.”

Blackboard will be offline from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. on May 11 for the changeover.

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matt masin | dnone of the main characters in a new Indian reality tv show, shashank sharma, 17, from Bhopal, India, goes through an interview with admissions office employees while being filmed by a tv crew. sharma hopes to study psychology if admitted to UnL.

matt masin | dnsharma and Cuckoo gupta, 17, from Bangalore, India, are the stars of a new Indian reality show that visited UnL for filming.

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above: nick svoboda, a host of kZUm’s environmental radio show “earth to Lincoln,” glues eggcrate foam into his paper-mache helmet made to look like earth at antelope Park on sunday. svoboda was running the kZUm booth at the antelope Park earth day celebration and preparing his earth helmet for a later performance with Lincoln band Life is Cool at the rococo theater.

nickolai hammar | dnFarmland outside of Lincoln on south Coddington avenue soaks up snowmelt. snowfall this winter and early spring has done little to reverse the effects of nebraska’s on-going drought.

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Daniel Nyikos grew up speak-ing Hungarian in his U.S. home. This fall, he’ll put his language skills to use when he moves to Hungary to work on his disser-tation.

Nyikos, an English Ph.D. stu-dent at the University of Nebras-ka-Lincoln, won a Fulbright for the 2013-14 academic year. He is the fifth UNL student to win a Fulbright so far this school year.

Nyikos grew up in a military family that moved around the U.S. and in the Netherlands, ac-cording to a university press re-lease. He graduated from Utah State University with an English degree.

In Hungary, Nyikos will work on his dissertation, which is a novel incorporating Hungar-ian research.

“He is proposing a project that is relevant from the perspec-

tive of both contemporary Amer-ican and Hungarian cultures, as well as Hungarian-American re-lations,” Roland Vegso, an assis-tant professor of English, said in the press release. “His command of the Hungarian language and his familiarity with Hungarian culture are more than just excel-lent.”

Nyikos wants to spotlight the “beauty of daily life” in Hunga-ry, the press release said.

“Much of the literature that comes from that part of the world focuses on the ‘victim nar-rative,’ and I don’t like that,” he said in the release. “So I’d like to tell people’s stories in a way that focuses on the individual and everyday life.”

The Fulbright Program awards about 8,000 grants annu-ally. The grants allow recipients to research, study or teach in one of 155 designated countries.

Nyikos said he was thank-ful for the assistance of the UNL Fellowships Office.

“I am so pleased that he earned this opportunity to re-turn to Hungary to work on his novel,” Damuth said in the press release.

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english Ph.d. student receives Fulbright

courtesy photothe University of nebraska-Lincoln’s daniel nyikos recently received a Fulbright scholarship to Hungary for the 2013-14 academic year. the third-year graduate student will work on his dissertation there — a novel set in Hungary.

Daniel Nyikos will work on his novel in Hungary next year

Just a day after Earth Day, a holiday near and dear to the state of Nebraska, we photographers bring you

a display of what we found when sent out to search the city for environmental photos. We searched for moments, faces, places and actions. We found some of these moments on bike trails and in Antelope Park. We took our cameras around town and found that Earth Day did more than bring people closer to the planet they live on — it brought them closer to each other.

earth day every day

right: graham Lundberg, 4, blows bubbles into the wind at the antelope Park earth day celebration on sunday. the Lincoln earth day celebration let members of the community participate in outdoor, minimum-waste activities from sunrise to sundown, including a morning Fun run and a Party at the Park.

beloW: Birds fly over the Fremont Lakes state recreation area on sunday. the Fremont Lakes are a popular spot during the summer months for swimming, boating and camping and are home to many types of birds.

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In times of tragedy, people quickly look for someone or something to blame. People want to know why something as awful as the Boston Marathon bombings could have oc-curred. After the bombings, Amer-

icans wanted answers and comfort. People blamed Muslims, Chechnya

and politics for the bombings. A Twitter user asked whether Muslims and Arabs were celebrating in the streets while others called them derogatory names like “camel jockeys.” Politicians acted like scumbags by trying to use the incident to further their political agendas.

It’s understandable that people want someone to blame after a big tragedy. It’s still not OK to blame the bombings on an entire religion, nation or political party.

A woman and two boys died in the bomb-ings. More than 100 people suffered injuries, many of them lost limbs. A police officer died dur-ing a manhunt for one of the suspects last Thurs-day.

The people of Boston have gone through a hell of a week. Blaming innocent people marginalizes what the city went through.

The country saw heroic action in Bos-ton during that week. From the officers who responded to the blast to runners continuing past the finish line to donate blood, their actions helped. Their heroic deeds shouldn’t be tarnished by calls for hate.

It’s OK to grieve for the victims. What’s not OK is blaming an innocent person because of his or her race or eth-nicity.

Unfortunately, some Americans blamed Muslims for the bombings. Not only that, but Muslims experienced hate crimes after the explosion. The aftermath of the Boston bombings shows that preju-dice against Muslims is still alive in the United States.

Right after the bomb exploded, a by-stander tackled a Saudi Arabian because of his ethnicity. Police searched the Saudi’s apartment and questioned his roommate before ruling him out as a suspect.

The man was at the wrong place at the wrong time. His only crime was being a Saudi at the scene of the bombing.

The New York Post tied the bombings to the man. The paper later admitted its mistake.

Of course, that wasn’t the only mistake the New York Post made while covering the bombings. Other media out-lets criticized the New York Post after its “Bag Men” cover, which placed the blame on two innocent people, one of them 17 years old.

All three people had their reputation damaged simply

because of their ethnicity. The media did the public a disservice

by giving out false information. Not only that, but news organizations helped per-petuate the stereotype of Middle-Eastern-ers being terrorists in their rush to get a scoop.

Muslims still face prejudice after Sept. 11. After the two suspects in the bombings were verified as Muslims, sev-eral Muslims faced hate crimes. A white man harassed and punched a Palestinian woman in Massachusetts last Wednes-day. The attacker screamed at her, “Fuck you Muslims! You are terrorists! I hate

you! You are involved in the Boston ex-plosions! Fuck you!” The woman was a doctor; she wasn’t connected to the bomb-ings. She just happened to be wearing some traditional Muslim clothing, a hijab, which is a veil that covers the head.

Blaming American Muslims divides the country when we should all be united to help those affected by the bombings. Mus-lims in America can’t properly grieve over the bombings because of the eagerness of some people to blame them for the incident. Instead, some of them are forced to defend themselves and their religion, even though they had nothing to do with the bombing.

Before the FBI released information on the suspect, many Muslims prayed for the bomber to not be Arab or Muslim We still don’t know why the bombings occurred, even with more information coming out about the bombing suspects.

The fact that the suspects are Muslim is separate from the fact that they bombed the Boston Marathon.

Other Twitter users demanded that the United States declare war with the Czech Republic. Turns out, some people

mixed up Chechnya with the Czech Re-public. Oops.

Either way, an entire country isn’t re-sponsible for the bombing, especially be-cause this was the work of individuals.

Neither the Czech Republic govern-ment nor the Chechnya government or-dered the bombings. Chechen president Ramzan Kadyrov then turned the blame around to U.S. culture.

Kadyrov wasn’t the one to blame Amer-ican culture for the bombing. The Family Research Council said the bombing was be-cause of the moral decay of America. Read: People having sex or getting divorces.

Several politicians tied the bombing to opposing party platforms. Yes, the lead-ers who are supposed to be in charge of the country focused more on mudsling-ing their opponents instead of helping the people of Boston.

For instance, an Arkansas state sena-tor tweeted last Thursday, “I wonder how many Boston liberals spent the night cow-ering in their homes wishing they had an AR-15 with a hi-capacity magazine #2A”.

Democrats tied in the bombings to se-questration. House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer said the bombings provided proof that sequestration should be turned off. Republicans responded to the bombings by advocating against gun control laws or to complain about the U.S. immigra-tion system.

Sen. Rand Paul cited the bombings in a letter about immigration, saying that “the facts emerging in the Boston Mara-thon bombing have exposed a weakness in our current system. If we don’t use this opportunity to fix flaws in our current system, flaws made even more evident last week, then we will not be doing our jobs.”

While the immigration system needs

to be fixed, it is not responsible for the bombings.

Even President Barack Obama got blamed for the bombings.

The media also made politically-charged accusations, even though they are supposed to be unbiased. CNN’s Peter Bergen said that a “right-wing extremist group” could have been responsible, while MSNBC’s Chris Matthews said that “Nor-mally domestic terrorists, people, tend to be on the far right.”

You shouldn’t stereotype any political group. You definitely shouldn’t do that if you’re a member of the media.

To be fair, a lot of Americans showed compassion for the city of Boston and its residents. Several professional athletes and celebrities voiced support for the people af-fected by the bombings.

Comedian Patton Oswalt made a state-ment on Facebook that concluded with, “So when you spot violence, or bigotry, or intolerance or fear or just garden-variety misogyny, hatred or ignorance, just look it in the eye and think ‘The good outnumber you, and we always will.’”

We should remember these words be-fore blaming people we shouldn’t. We should blame the actual bombers, not in-nocent bystanders who had nothing to do with the actual bombing itself.

Needlessly blaming a religion or a country won’t help the victims or their families. They deserve better than that. We need to aim our anger at the people direct-ly responsible for the bombings.

We can move past this tragedy. To do that, we need to stop blaming Muslims, entire nations and politicians.

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Everyone hates finals. They are long. They’re difficult. Not to mention, professors’ questions are worded terribly. Students weigh all of their academic success on doing well on these finals or they may be taking

the class again next year. We all know that fi-nals are exhausting, and Dead Week isn’t even “dead.” Dead Week just gives you limited time to study all of your calculus problems and chemistry equations. So why study?

Professors may want to stop reading now. If you are a college student, feel free to contin-ue. I know this may seem a bit unethical and preposterous, but take some time to consider, “What if I didn’t study for finals?” With sum-mer break approaching, why should you study for a test when there are only two more weeks of school? Live a little bit. Shout “YOLO ” from the Abel/Sandoz rooftops!

What could possibly be the benefit of not studying? Is something really worth jeopar-dizing my grade for? These benefits do exist, and they aren’t too exuberant or difficult to at-tain. They are simple, and they will even help you in the long run.

1). you knoW it already or you don’t.

Quite frankly, you either know the mate-rial on your next exam or you don’t. We all know that cramming isn’t the answer. Not only do our professors say this to us all the time, but many of us have learned first-hand that this is quite possibly the worst decision we could have done to prepare for a test the next morning. Not only do you lose an incredi-ble amount of sleep, recite equations and prin-ciples all the way to class and blank out on the exam, but you’re risking your success in the class on one night of studying. What a poorly thought-out idea!

Instead, if you show up to class during Dead Week (if you have it), and review the ma-terial throughout Dead Week, you should have the course’s material in your head already. If not, then all those days you spent on Twitter in class are really going to come back to bite you.2). it’s basically already summer.

The weather is warming up, and the smell of a fresh-cut lawn is lofting in the air. Noth-

ing makes studying worse than looking out-side and having the urge to do some tedious activity to replace studying. Even chores and yard work sound like a better idea than study-ing. So why not do the chores and yard work? Might as well do the things you never want to do while you have the chance.

As I write this, a friend of mine is putting off his final project to pick up leaves from last fall. That’s some serious dedication. Not only does the idea of yard work or clean-ing your bedroom sound like a better idea, but with warmer weather comes better opportunities. You can go running, play basketball, visit a public park, maybe even swim. Why not get an early start to summer? Some fresh air never hurt anyone.3). increasing future motivation

In the off-chance that you do terribly on the final and fail the class, this isn’t as bad as you may think. When you fail, you look back over the semester to see what you did wrong. May-be it was skipping a week of class, turning in intentionally low-quality work just to submit something or forgetting to turn in homework. After looking back on your poor choices, you now have a new drive to do well in the class next semester. You will probably want to show up to class, turn in high quality work and get homework in on time to avoid repeating your

previous mistakes. This won’t only be true for the class you bombed the last semester, but to prevent this from ever happening again, your motivation will increase for other classes.

This not only applies to classes you fail, but even if you do well in a class, you will want to do better on tests early to possibly off-set the grade you will receive on the final. You know what people say, good things come to those who wait.4). more college.

And to those individuals who wait, you get more college. This is quite possibly the most beneficial factor for not studying for fi-nals. If you end up failing a class, you get to have another semester of college! Talk about all of the fun you are going to have with an extra semester of college under your belt. You can pick up a minor, take a racquetball class, finish your goal of eating at every sandwich shop in downtown Lincoln, (the list goes on and on). Who really wants to stop going to col-

lege? You are only at college for a short time before it’s gone and you have to earn an intramural champions shirt somehow. More importantly, another semes-ter of college means a semester more of knowledge from a great university in the Midwest. Of course, Selleck Dining Hall Food and Nebraska football tickets are potentially the most impor-

tant reasons for staying.Finals Week is, without a doubt, a stressful

time during the semester but it doesn’t have to be. By not studying, you can reduce stress, increase your motivation for future classes and get all of those tasks done that you have been putting off all semester. After all, you know all the material over your time in class during your semester or you don’t. Why should you cram all the material into one night when you learned it throughout the whole semester? So relax, check Facebook a little longer and start planning for summer.

Now if you will excuse me, I’ve got some laundry to do.

marc marean is a sophomore sec-ondary education major. reach him

at opinion@ dailynebraskan.com.

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become more environmentally

aware today There’s one week left in April and the weather has decided

to go crazy. Tuesday forecasts are predicting snow by the end of the day and forecasts are promising sunny, seasonal 70s in time for the weekend. Environmentalists are shouting global warming, while others have yet to see a significant change in the climate. However, climate change is real, and the best way to appreciate our environment and best take care of the earth is by educating yourself.

This week the Association of Students of the University of Nebraska’s Environmental Sensibility Committee is hosting Focus Nebraska week. Each day is jam-packed with events to inform you about the world around you and different sustain-ability techniques so you can better preserve it. So far, though, Mother Nature has been less than compliant, and some of the events have been moved because of the weather.

You can still look forward to the Earth Day Block Party on the Nebraska Union Plaza, which has been rescheduled for Wednesday. Other events to look out for are the Mock Oil Spill and the ASUN Senate Meeting, also on Wednesday. “Trashed,” a documentary, will be screened at the Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center on Thursday and a Wildlife Encounters event will be on the Nebraska Union Plaza Friday.

If you’ve never read the book, “The Giving Tree,” it ends with a dead tree and a sad old man. Let’s take a lesson from the book and this week of events and learn to take care of our earth.

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With the various country artists crossing over to pop music in order to gain larger appeal, Lloyd Mc-Carter is making a career

out of keeping the traditional country sound alive.

McCarter’s interest in music began when he was 8 years old and was learning and playing with his parents who were both musicians. When he was 18, Mc-Carter moved to Lincoln to attend col-lege, but after receiving an offer to play with Lincoln band FortyTwenty, he hit the road as their pedal steel guitarist.

After his time with the band, Mc-Carter started his own project, Lloyd McCarter and the Honky-Tonk Revival, in hopes of keeping real country music alive.

“A lot of the old country singers, like Johnny Cash, wrote songs about things that they actually experienced or lived through,” McCarter said. “They wrote about real feelings. For me, across all genres of music, money has re-ally gotten in the way as far as creating a song that will cross over in pop and country.”

In order to gain some kind of major radio airplay, artists need producers and record labels standing be-hind them. For McCarter, the idea of abandoning his true roots isn’t worth it the money.

“They transform you to look like what they want you to look like because they know it’s going to sell,” McCarter said. “You show the potential, the ability to sing or write and somebody picks you up and goes, ‘We’re going to make a lot of money off of you and make a lot of money for you, but in order to do that we need you to wear this style of jeans, this kind of shirt, shave your beard this way and all that,’”

Aside from the physical changes seen

in major country artists, the idea of cre-ating music that holds its own for a few weeks on Billboard’s Top 40 is unappeal-ing to McCarter, because a lack of lasting-ness that resides in current hits.

“In 10 years, who’s going to be sing-ing ‘Save A Horse (Ride A Cowboy)?’ In 10 years, people are still going to be sing-ing Johnny Cash’s ‘Prison Blues,’” Mc-Carter said. “People won’t care about it anymore because it’s old news, and it’ll just wash away.”

McCarter said his music is based off of touching the hearts of listeners and making music people can relate to while saving what country music used to be. Nowadays, he said, most major country hits revolve around an imagined lifestyle of country living like riding a tractor, at-tending a tailgate or going mudding.

“Just because you sing about country things doesn’t mean it’s a country song,” McCarter said. “I’m not saying country music has to be all depressing like ‘my dog

died,’ but there’s got to be some realness to the song, some heart, something you want to share, some kind of feeling, whether it’s happy or sad, some sort of feel-ing you want to convey to people and when you write a song, you want to relate to people.”

McCarter finds the songwriting process rather easy, only going off of ideas

that he experienced himself or in third person — writing music that he feels any-one can relate to.

“He is a seasoned songwriter,” said Mike McCracken, guitarist for Lloyd Mc-Carter and The Honky-Tonk Revival. “Working in Nashville, you could always tell the ones that really knew what they were doing versus the others, so I’m really impressed with his songwriting skills.”

McCarter said he won’t stray away from writing about real experiences while keeping a traditional country sound. He

said the majority of songs people hear on the radio and classify under the country genre tend to lean towards country-pop and that most artists have fallen into the art of crossing over in order to appeal to larger audiences.

“Country music has kind of faded away, except for a few people who are kind of in the shadows who keep it alive,” McCarter said. “Producers, songwriters and artists have absolutely destroyed the honesty and integrity of what it used to be.”

Despite the distaste McCarter has for a lot of the country stars playing on loop on the radio, he said that some artists, such as Brad Paisley, keep the traditional country sound for the most part. He respects those who try to keep country traditional and don’t fall into the theme of going too pop.

“Allen Jackson and George Strait have always really kept that traditional country sounds alive,” McCarter added. “They have so much longevity and they aren’t going anywhere because of that.”

All these factors and established artists play into McCarter ’s passion to keep real country music going. He and his band play from the heart and as a result, audiences respond well.

“I talk to a lot of people who come up to me and said ‘Man, I hate country, but I love what you guys do,” McCarter said. “It’s funny because what we’re do-ing is actually country music, but what they think they’re hearing — what they hate — is pop-country music.”

McCarter describes his band’s sound

as old school, traditional country music or “drinking music” to those who are new to listening.

“We play music where you can drink and have a good time, that’s exactly what we do,” McCarter said. “We’re up there

smiling, laughing and playing good old country music and people are having a good time.”

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lloyd mccarter walks with his wife, laschan, near o street on Wednesday.

lloyd mccarter smiles at his wife while he drinks a beer at duffy’s tavern in lincoln on Wednesday.

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Wade: music, wine allow consumer to reminisce

joe WadeWinter is almost over, but it seems like it should have been gone months ago. Once again, I’ll be saying my goodbyes to all the friends and trends I’ve been getting to know this semester. Once again, I’ll find myself in a familiar, sunny afternoon con-templating the ancient rituals of a life I used to know. Somehow they’re never quite as good as I remember. “The thrill is gone,” to quote B.B. King.

Still, there is something mag-ical about the freedom to lie on a hotel bed a day’s drive from home, alone, with a half empty bottle of tequila and absolutely no reservations about listening to Bananarama’s “True Confes-sions.” OK, I said Bananara-ma, but I meant The Jesus and Mary Chain’s “Stoned and De-throned.”

Anyway.It’s impossible to reconcile

with the emotion that a piece of classic music can provide. I’m not talking about Beethoven but, instead, something more per-sonal, like the feeling aroused by listening to Regina Spektor’s “Samson” and her character-istic vocal-pop, which used to be the new trend music fans were searching for. Those fans could’ve also related to Death Cab for Cutie’s somber “I Will Follow You into the Dark.” Whatever it was, that type of song sticks out as a moment in musical time. The place it repre-sents feels like a place of pure, nostalgic familiarity. It feels like a home that has been left behind.

Sure, YouTube is always there to help us remember but for me, watching a video is never quite the same as the fear and loathing I felt for my music theory professor. She was quite adamant about her affection for

the music of Norah Jones. Years later, I formed my own affection for Norah Jones’s “Sunrise;” It really is one of those songs that has a lasting quality. Every time I listen to it, I can picture the dingy community college class-room and my professor standing at the piano demanding that I name the exact musical inter-val I was hearing her play. The thought now is enough to cause nightmares, but, somehow, my mind still longs for those mo-ments.

Listening to those old songs again is like a ritual that con-jures the familiar essence of the people we’ve known and the places we’ve lived. I am again struck by the thought that mu-sic is like wine. Songs are ves-sels of flavor-filled memories. I can listen to Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit” and picture the clock radio I first heard it on. The memory of the summer night and the cool, country breeze coming in through the open window, while listening to the song, is similar to the images that can be conjured while tasting wine. It’s all mental but there is tex-ture, like feeling the ripe fruit hanging off gnarled vines; there is depth, like the history of the people that worked the vine-yard and there is sweetness, like that feeling of relaxation when a song hits all the right notes.

There is a depression that fol-lows the swell of nostalgic emo-tion that is induced by a favorite song or a terrific bottle of wine. It is the feeling of loss from re-alizing it is just a memory and remembering saying goodbye to something that is now held dear. Some songs, as well as artists, are driven by such emotions.

Those artists, or historians, rath-er, try to bottle all those feelings into something concrete like a time capsule. The act of opening that capsule, listening to those songs or popping the cork to at last release a trapped aroma can transport the individual back to a bygone trend. Musical history is like a cemetery for those pre-cious things. Songs that conjure images of past road trips and other adventures can play like dirges once the moment of clar-ity kicks in.

Turning to this semester, will we long for the Harlem Shake, The Lumineers “Ho Hey” or anything by Taylor Swift the same way some music fans might long the song “Talk” by Coldplay? I guess what I’ve learned is that, through these new trends and songs, even a great new song such as Depeche Mode’s “Alone,” hasn’t had enough time to foster a nostal-gic reference for me. Someday I’ll look back upon them and remember something about the soon-ending, spring semester of 2013. Like Neil Sedaka said, “Breaking Up Is Hard to Do.”

R e a l l y though, it’s not as bad as all that. Psy, for example, is back and mov-ing hips with his new single “ G e n t l e m a n . ” Also there are

several upcoming albums worth checking out over the summer months, the Goo Goo Dolls, Daft Punk and Vampire Weekend to name just a few. Having new music to enjoy is just one of the things worth looking forward to, as are the adventures that come with it.

Now that I’ve wrapped my-self up in restless nostalgia from anticipating saying my good-byes and the promise of a lazy summer afternoon it’s time to move on. The way I see it there are two choices: wait for the next trend to surface from the bottom of the bottle or go out and start my own new trend.

Cheers.arts@

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I WANT MY MTV...BACK

andrew Larsendn

After trudging along for the better part of a decade, Phoe-nix struck gold with “Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix,” a tremen-dous collection of songs guaran-teed to infiltrate your brain and nest there for an indeterminate amount of time. It’s been four years, and I’m just now getting its pop hooks removed. Natural-ly, the next question that comes after a band’s breakout hit is, what’s next? After that long-awaited seminal moment, the onus was on Phoenix to either deliver a sequel that somehow topped its previous work or to scrap everything and risk alien-ating all their newly won fans.

“Bankrupt!” allows the band to have their cake and eat it, too. They don’t ditch the pop sensi-bilities that made them rich and famous, and they don’t deliver on their promise of vast experi-mentation that they discussed in interviews about the new album last year. Instead they find a middle ground that allows them to deploy a few instantly memo-rable tunes while not ruining their festival-headlining success story.

Phoenix immediately un-leashes an all-out assault on the

eardrums with “Entertainment.” In a similar vein to “Lisztoma-nia” or “1901,” it’s the type of song that dares you not to sing along with Thomas Mars’ halt-ing voice and dance to its up-beat rhythms. Unlike its pre-decessors, the lead single and the songs that follow ditch the penetrating, ambling guitars and fuzzed-out deep bass for Asian-influenced synthesizers and drum machines. The main riff of “Entertainment” gives off a “Turning Japanese” vibe, and that ’80s influence continues throughout the remainder of the album.

As the record rolls on the overly produced, glossy sound

that was so prominent in the ’80s, it begins to take a toll. Aside from the seven-minute long, dream-like eponymous “Bankrupt!” every song is a synthesizer-scored rush to the finish line. It’s all a breeze to lis-ten to, and each tune is fun in its own way, but it never coalesces to become the collection of pop perfection that was “Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix.” Perhaps that’s the problem with finally breaking through to the main-stream, no matter what you do next, it won’t be good enough in the eyes of many.

“Bankrupt!” isn’t just an awesome single with a bunch of filler. “The Real Thing,” “Trying To Be Cool” and “Chloroform” help finish what “Entertain-ment” starts. Each song puts a different spin on their sudden Asian fusion sound, and each should be a concert staple in the future. For Phoenix fans look-ing for a bigger, slightly bolder pop sound than they got on the last record, this should suffice. For those looking for some-thing deeper than a slick-surface sheen, they might end up disap-pointed.

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songs are vessels of

flavor-filled memories.”

Phoenix fails to soar to previous heights

‘Bankrupt!’ doesn’t stray far from the band’s synth-driven style

courtesy Photoafter forming in 1995, France indie-pop quartet phoenix set a lofty standard for themselves with the release of 2009’s “Wolf-gang amadeus phoenix.” their latest release, “bankrupt!” isn’t as innovative.

“BANKRUPT!”Phoenix

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Theater troupe offers modern interpretation of Classics

casey kettLerdn

Thousands of years have passed, and still the wisdom of the great thinkers of Athens resonates through the shape and scope of our society.

Such is the idea behind this season’s Interdisciplinary Art Symposium (IAS), sponsored by the Hixson-Lied College of Fine and Performing arts. Now in its fourth season, the theme of this spring’s symposium has been “the ancient world through modern eyes.”

A two-night showing of Target Margin Theater’s “The Argument” and “The Dinner Party” at the John-ny Carson Theater Tuesday and Wednesday nights will serve as the performance section of this season’s IAS.

According to organizer Rhonda

Garelick, the goal of IAS is not sim-ply to enhance the education and experience of the students at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln but also, to seek to meld the events of the university with those of the community.

“We want to enhance the cur-riculum, yes, but more broadly, we want to tie together the community at large to create a sort of cross-pol-lination of think-ing about what it is to be a good citizen,” Garelick said.

Garelick de-scribed writer and artistic direc-tor of Target Mar-gin Theater Da-vid Herskovitz’s interesting path that led to these reworks of classic texts.

“David Herskovitz ... is a long-time friend,” she said. “He has two degrees in classics from Cambridge and because of that, he is able to read the original works in their original Greek. These texts weren’t originally dramas, so for him to be

able to read and understand the texts was critical.”

“The Argument” was written and is performed by David Greens-pan as an individual monologue or one-man play, based on Aristotle’s Poetics, and essays by Gerald F. Else.

“They don’t attempt to ‘update’ the ideas as much as place them in

a contemporary and theatrical context that today’s audience can understand and relate to,” said IAS associate director Amy Ossian.

Previous perfor-mances in this season’s IAS have included film, ballet and Isodora Dance, but Garelick says she is excited for the two nights of the-ater.

“Expect to see an extremely con-temporary performance full of ap-proachable, rich drama of eternal topics performed on stage with wit and sex-appeal,” Garelick said.

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interdisciplinary arts symposium views ‘ancient world through modern eyes’

expect to see ... rich

drama of eternal topics performed on stage with wit.”rhonda GareLick

ias organizer

courtesy Photothe target margin theater will be making a stop in lincoln as part of the lied-Hixon’s interdisplinary symposium. they’ll be performing “the argument” and “the dinner party” for local audiences on tuesday and Wednesday.

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Snoop Lion reincarnates reggae-rap mix

joe wadedn

It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s Snoop Lion. But, have no fear because the “D-O-double-G” isn’t going anywhere, unlike when Prince decided not to be Prince anymore. The chronic-iconic artist could be blowing smoke with the new im-age or music could have a genu-ine emcee bestowing reggae as a mainstream trend.

Snoop Lion’s debut, “Rein-carnated,” dropped Tuesday and is a Rastafarian explosion of interest for the music world, pre-dominantly because of Snoop’s new identity. This transformation has some music fans skeptical. Is Snoop Lion’s altruistic endeavor all-true? Maybe it’s a ploy like Joaquin Pheonix’s hip-hop ca-reer or maybe it’s a genuine Jah-inspired effort to help the reggae genre become as mainstream as rock, hip-hop and pop. Whichev-er it is, “Reincarnated” is a well-produced album that deserves to be enjoyed.

The 45-minute playing time is a smooth ride that features art-ists such as Drake, on “No Guns Allowed,” and Miley Cyrus on “Ashtrays and Heartbreaks.” While much of the album is struc-tured around the musical offbeat characteristic of reggae, the pre-dominant feel is a fusion of hip-hop, R&B and pop interlaced with the eclectic island-groove. This album never truly becomes a pure reggae experience so keep those Bob Marley and Black Uhuru al-bums close by. The important part is that the varied styles on “Rein-carnated” mix well, similar to the concept of Mumford and Sons’s blend of alt-rock and American roots-music.

“No Guns Allowed” is an obvious anthem for a Rastafar-ian-minded artist who wants to preach love and peace while tak-ing a political stance. The song begins with a steady, offbeat groove that is rich with acoustic vibrations. Snoop Lion’s vocal enters with electric-fluidity and swims in neon reverberation. Cori B., Snoop Lion’s daughter, joins him in duet and is the child-like voice that makes the song into an anthem. The song rhythmically builds and evolves in order to in-corporate Drake as he peaks the experience with some rap-riffage before fading back into the sea of harmonized ether.

Cyrus is a strange element to add to the flow of the album but it plays well with the overall com-position. “Ashtrays and Heart-breaks” is full of repetitive pop hooks and sounds, like a club mix with a subtle amount of Rasta fla-vor. Cyrus’s vocals tower over the beat in a way that gives the song a 1980s-throwback feel. However, part of the musical inference to the 1980s comes from Steward Copeland on drums. Copeland, along with Sting, was a found-ing member of the reggae-minded 1980s band The Police.

No album by Snoop Dogg, Snoop Lion or otherwise, would be complete without a few bong hits. Most obvious is “Smoke the Weed” but really, the whole al-bum reeks of creative, liberal us-age. This song, in contrast to the collaboration with Cyrus, is heav-ily steeped in the ganja groove and sounds that reggae listeners typically think of.

Perhaps the real reason for this album is just to function as a cloud of smoke to escape the gov-

ernment’s leash. No matter what the reason for the change in moni-ker, the new Snoop Lion album is a fresh step forward for reggae fans and a worthwhile listen for anyone who appreciates music.

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courtesy PhotoWith a new identity in tow, snoop lion’s first album, “reincarnated,” features a reggae-centered sound unique to snoop dogg’s previ-ous releases.

the artist formerly known as snoop dogg switches name, shifts style

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Mr. Solo Dolo. Man on the Moon. The Martian. Mr. Rager. Kid Cudi. Whatever you’d like to call him, rap’s melancholic Hercules is back, and he’s kicking.

Scott “Kid Cudi” Mescu-di, the once self-proclaimed “lonely stoner” of hip-hop, has returned to his native galaxy with a new album, “Indicud.” An oft-erratic, experimental voyage, “Indicud” features the rapping-singing Cudi fans came to know and adore on “Man On The Moon I” and “Man On The Moon II,” with a twist. Unlike past albums, “Indicud” debuts Cudi himself as the sonic mas-termind, and in fact, the entire album is self-produced by the man with the “Mojo So Dope.”

After Cudi’s recent foray into alternative-pop rock with WZRD, critics and fans alike questioned when and if he would jump back into the realm of beats and rhymes. With “In-dicud,” he’s done just that. While it wouldn’t be fair to com-partmentalize the kaleidoscopic “Indicud” as purely a hip-hop album, it is rap-driven. The al-bum features Cudi’s mystical, tantalizing flows throughout and includes guest appearances from distinguished rhymers such as Kendrick Lamar, RZA, King Chip and A$AP Rocky.

Sound-wise, the album seems to take cues from all of Cudi’s previous work, build-ing upon the foundations of “A Kid Named Cudi” and both “Man On The Moon” records and even drawing inspiration from WZRD. The music itself is synth-heavy, space-trippy, off-kilter and immer-sive. Melodically, the album does, at times, suffer from Cudi’s lack of pro-duction experi-ence. Songs such as “Young Lady” and “Burn Baby Burn” sound a bit clunky and convo-luted but admittedly, it’s difficult to know precisely what Cudi was going for on many of the album’s bizarre tracks. In Cudder’s de-fense, cuts such as “Immortal” and “Red Eye” push the enve-lope of his instrumental range in exciting ways that hint at where the “Moon Man” may be headed next.

In terms of lyrical content, “Indicud” will prove an inter-esting listen for fans who have reveled in Cudi’s introspective

stylings on pre-vious albums. As opposed to the depressed un-derdog of “Man On The Moon” and the more-mature-but-still-depressed rager of “Man On The Moon II,” the

Cudi reflected in “Indicud” is the triumphant “King Wizard”, a seemingly self-actualized hero-Cud who has transcended bar-riers that suffocated him previ-ously.

At the end of the intro track, we hear a Macaulay Culkin quote sampled from “The Good Son,” which states, “Once you realize you can do anything ... you’re free. You could fly. And nobody

can touch you. Nobody.” This sentiment captures a motif of overcoming and ascension that recurs throughout the album, most notably in songs such as “Unfuckwittable” and “Immor-tal.” Although personal transfor-mation may be the overarching theme of the album, Cudi en-gages many of his classic topics over the course of the 18 tracks, including madness, drug use, loneliness, women, friendship and ambivalence toward life.

All told, Cudi’s willingness to explore the boundaries of his musical talent makes “Indicud” a must-listen for any enthusiast of his work. Similar to Cudi’s pre-vious albums, this psychedelic journey may take listeners sever-al run-throughs before the vision begins to resonate, but as usual, the prize is worth the effort.

Despite its imperfections, “Indicud” presents an intrigu-ingly re-born Cudi who can still

bring the indescribable flavor that made fans quiver in the first place.

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kid cudi conjures up spacy jams

courtesy Photo29-year-old recording artist kid cudi has been on the rap scene since 2003. His latest release, “indicud,” is his third full-length album.

Man on the Moon trumps doubt surrounding last album release

“INDICUD”Kid Cudi

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Mmm, feel that warm summer air? Hell no you don’t — it’s still pretty shitty out there. Luckily, despite what it may seem like, sum-mer is right around the corner, and there’s no better way to men-tally prepare than to start things off with a summer playlist. Add these songs and maybe you won’t want to gouge your eyeballs out during finals week. No promises.

Gimme 5: songs to add to your summer playlist

1. “Get Lucky” — Daft Punk, Pharrell Williams: The new-est single from Daft Punk is oozing with sunshine. “Get Lucky,” along with its new album “Random Access Memo-ries,” was recorded on the West Coast and the beachy vibes are everywhere.

“Don’t Worry Baby” — The Beach Boys: The Beach Boys simply are summer. “Don’t Worry Baby,” is one of the group’s best and, like its others, is prime for the summer-time.

“Diane Young” — Vampire Weekend: Vampire Weekend is famous for its summertime sound. The completely in-fectious, “Diane Young,” will be stuck in your head until August.

“That’s What’s Up” — Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Ze-ros: Edward Sharpe’s sophomore album, “Here,” is full of upbeat tracks. “That’s What’s Up,” is the perfect song to sing-along to on a drive with the windows rolled down.

“Bicycle Race” — Queen: A song about bicycles sung by Freddie Mercury. You can’t get much happier than that.5.

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at one of two schools: William Carey University in Mississippi or the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

Jain would later take a job at the local tennis club, Greenwood Athletic Club, as a receptionist in the tennis shop. The pro at the club was Ryan Haith, a former Husker tennis player.

Because Haith worked a little with Jain on his game and started to understand his work ethic, he agreed to put his employee in con-tact with Nebraska tennis coach Kerry McDermott.

Beginning in April 2012, the aspiring player reached out to Mc-Dermott, explaining his determi-nation to play college tennis. The two stayed in touch throughout the summer, and as Jain competed in a number of tournaments, he sent the coach his results and up-dates on his game either by email or phone calls.

“I probably annoyed him,” Jain said.

Finally McDermott gave him the call he was waiting for.

“(Haith) said that (Jain) hasn’t played a lot of tennis, but he’s im-proved a ton,” McDermott said. “So I said, ‘Yeah, that’s fine.’”

McDermott reached out to Jain and asked him to walk on to the tennis program.

His reaction? “He couldn’t even speak to

us,” his mother said. “He was so excited.

More than 20 years ago, there was a player McDermott remem-bers in a tournament in Kansas; a local kid who was a walk-on for the Jayhawks. He wasn’t on anybody’s radar nor expected to make a splash in college.

“He did some unbelievable

things, and the coaches in the Big 8 were all surprised that he did so well,” McDermott said.

He proved them wrong.That’s the position the 5-foot-

10-inch Husker tennis player finds himself in. But while he has a long way to go to get there, Mc-Dermott said he’s made a lot of positive strides already.

For instance, when Jain first showed up to practice, he was in-timidated. His teammates would talk about big national tourna-ments, and all the 146-pound Jain could hang his hat on was his neighborhood tennis court.

Now he has more to prove be-cause of it.

“It was like, ‘Hey I deserve to be here just as much as you do,’ but at the same time I kind of had a little chip on my shoulder to beat them,” he said.

Still, McDermott wouldn’t keep him on the roster if he thought Jain was incapable of breaking into the starting roster. If that was the case, he wouldn’t allow him to play or practice with the team, McDermott said.

“In three to four years, if he busts his tail, we’ll see where it takes him,” the coach said.

That’s Jain’s plan, too. He still loves to practice and makes him-self do it every day for at least an hour, he said.

“I’ll take a day off when my body is telling me to take a day off,” Jain said. “But until then, there’s no reason I can’t practice every day. I’m still young.”

And yeah, he still looks up to Federer.

“(My teammates) call me Roger because of that,” Jain said.

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it was like, ‘hey i deserve to be here just as much as you do,’ but at the same time

i kind of had a little chip on my shoulder to beat them.”

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8. athletes aren’t infallible.

They’re full-time students working a job, too, just a dif-ferent kind. They go to parties, pull studying all-nighters and do bad on economics exams. They also don’t deserve spe-cial treatment or entitlement and any other student doesn’t either.9. try your damnedest to make it to any away game once a year.

For most people this means football, but you’re following the small sports by now too, right? For football, I recommend Columbus, Ohio, to watch the Buckeyes or Indianapolis for the Big Ten title game. Colum-

bus is a college kid’s dream. East Lansing, Mich., (home of the Spartans) has a nice sports bar called Crunchy’s with drink special that includes a 3-gallon bucket and four frosty mugs. Recanting your memories on the drive home might be the most fun.10. make your own traditions.

Whether it’s my weekly 8 a.m. cup of coffee with a splash of hazelnut, or some of my friends’ 8 a.m. cup of a freshly-tapped … refreshment, give yourself something to look for-ward to. Game day is the best day of the week by far, why not make it last as long as possible?

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1. indiana (29-8 overall, 8-4 big ten):

the hoosiers retain their top spot be-cause of the fact the team didn’t have any conference games last week. plus, in-diana is most likely going to be the first team in the big ten

to reach 30 wins this year, and the hoosiers are still no. 18 in the coach-es poll. indiana heads back into big ten play with a home series against michigan this week.

2. minnesota (23-13, 7-2):last week was a silent week for the Gophers. the team only had one game

in a non-conference matchup with augsburg, where the Gophers came out on top. after that game, a series with michigan state was canceled because of weather conditions. indi-ana is the only ranked big ten team, but minnesota is also receiving votes.

3. nebraska (19-19, 11-4):out of all the big ten teams, the huskers had the best week. First, the team was able to reach .500 with a 19-19 record af-

ter a rocky beginning to the season. second, nebraska beat no. 10 arkan-sas in a doubleheader last Wednes-day that included the first no-hitter by the squad since 1993. lastly, with a sweep against purdue, the husk-ers have the most wins in the big ten conference and have the week off in big ten play.

4. michigan (22-16, 8-4):the Wolver-ines had a roller coast-er weekend in illinois a g a i n s t

northwestern, losing the first game in a shutout and winning the second game with a shutout. the series fina-le ended with a 3-2 Wildcats win that went into extra innings. next on the conference schedule is a highly-an-ticipated road series against indiana.

5. ohio state (25-13, 9-6):ohio state earned its sec-ond consecu-tive confer-ence series win against illinois this weekend, scoring seven

runs in the last two games of the series. With no games during the week, ohio state has plenty of time to make it three-consecutive big ten series wins after the week-end set against penn state is all said and done.

6. michigan state (22-11, 5-4):the spartans won one game last week against to-ledo and should be ready to go this week with games against ball state

and notre dame. msu follows those matchups with a series against pur-due, a team that has struggled re-cently.

7. illinois (24-12, 6-6):after sweeping pur-due, the Fighting illi-ni had their troubles against ohio state, losing two out of three games. in the process, illinois is

losing ground in the big ten stand-ings after a successful non-confer-ence showing.

8. northwestern (17-14, 6-9):last weekend’s series with michigan started out with a great at-mosphere in the game played at Wrigley Field. shining in the big league stadium

was senior ace luke Farrell, who threw a complete-game shutout, tossing nine strikeouts and allow-ing three hits against the Wolver-ines.

9. purdue (11-25, 4-11):the boil-e rmakers have lost five of their last six con-

ference games after being swept at home by nebraska. purdue did have control of game two in the doubleheader saturday. heading into the sixth inning, the team was up 3-0 until big ten Freshman of the Week Jordan minch allowed his first earned run of the game and was taken out, which ended up go-ing favoring the huskers. nebraska routed the boilermakers 10-4

10. penn state (10-25, 2-10):penn state finally won its first conference game of the sea-son against iowa last w e e k e n d .

the nittany lions won two out of three games in the series and will look to continue to win in a series against ohio state in columbus, ohio.

11. iowa (14-20, 3-9):in the last 10 games, the hawk-eyes have been the w e a k e s t team in big

ten play, losing eight of the last 10 games. it’s not going to get any better for the team with a series against minnesota this week.

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It was an ideal weekend for Nebras-ka women’s tennis.

A clean sweep of weekend matches granted the Huskers their first Big Ten regular season title.

The Nebraska women’s tennis team started off its conference title-clinching weekend on the road against Minnesota in Min-neapolis.

The No. 4 duo of seniors Patri-cia Veresova and Mary Weatherholt knocked off the Golden Gopher op-ponent Friday and ended the match with an easy 8-0 victory.

Seniors Stefanie Weinstein and Janine Weinreich are currently the No. 77 doubles team in the nation, and they showed it Friday, beating their opponents 8-3.

Weinstein opened singles play with a win in straight sets. Wein-stein’s win was followed with victo-ries from her teammates Weinreich, Veresova, sophomore Izabella Zgierska and No. 11 Weatherholt.

After toppling the Gophers, the Huskers sat No. 14 in the national rankings with a 9-1 Big Ten record. Nebraska was a single match win away from claiming its first Big Ten title.

Sunday not only marked the last regular season match against Wisconsin, but senior day as well. It was much different than any of the previous matches.

“I think Sunday was just incred-ibly sentimental to us all,” freshman Maggy Lehmicke said.

Although the team knew what was at stake, Lehmicke said it was less about tennis and more about the seniors and their accomplishments.

“We wanted to make Sunday great for everyone, especially the se-niors,” Lehmicke said. “We were all so excited.”

Seniors Weatherholt and Vereso-va started off the match with a doubles win at the No. 1 slot. The remaining doubles matches went unfinished because the points had been secured by seniors Weinreich and Weinstein in the No. 2 position.

As singles matches began, Weatherholt trampled her Badger opponent with a 6-2, 6-0 finish. Next up was Veresova, who came up victorious as well in straight sets.

The Huskers needed one more singles win to claim their Big Ten ti-tle. On senior day, it all came down to a freshman, Lehmicke.

“I just remembered (assistant) coach (Hayden) Perez saying ‘Big Ten rings don’t say co-champi-ons,’” Lehmicke said.

She took the court with confi-dence and was ready to bring her team’s final match to an end.

Lehmicke took the match win with a 6-2, 6-0 score.

“After I finished with the win,

coach came up to me and said ‘Con-grats. We just won the Big Ten,’” Lehmicke said. “I couldn’t believe it. Then I walked over to Mary, and she started to cry. Pretty soon Steph (Weinstein), Patti (Veresova) were crying. It was such an incredible mo-ment,”

The key to their win was simple, Lehmicke said.

“Everyone was anticipating the win, but coach Jacobson told us we needed to keep our heads in the game,” she said. “We took it one match at a time and ended up with the win.”

The day couldn’t have ended better for Nebraska. The Husk-ers celebrated four senior tennis players coach Scott Jacob-son said are some of the most talented women he has ever coached.

“They all be-gan playing (at Ne-braska) at different

times,” Jacobson said. “Together, they make a great team.”

That team still has a chance to prove its regular season title this weekend at the Big Ten Tourna-ment. Nebraska will face the Penn State/Minnesota winner on Friday in hopes of continuing on to the semifinals.

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file photo by matt masin | dnmaike Zeppernick congratulates a teammate earlier this season at the nebraska tennis center. Zeppernick and the huskers won the big ten regular season title this weekend.

The Huskers make school history with a pair of conference victories

i think sunday was

just incredibly sentimental to us all.”

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Gagan Jain was 14 years old when he turned the TV to a Wimbledon match.

Roger Federer, the eventual champion that year, was playing.

Jain watched Federer’s powerful serve, swift footwork and looping forehands and was instantly drawn in.

“I said, ‘Hey, this guy looks pretty good,’” Jain said. “So I really liked how he made the game look so easy.”

Jain idolized Federer. He put him on a pedestal.

So the 14-year-old kid began watching YouTube videos of the most dominant tennis player at the time. Jain would break down Federer’s game in every aspect possible. He would watch slow motion videos that would show every intricate detail to what made the world’s No. 1 tennis player.

Jain watched every possible aspect of Fe-derer: his footwork, his grip, his movement, his strategy. Everything.

Then he took what he learned to the court, usually with a friend. When nobody was available, he would go to a local park in Lit-tleton, Colo., and work by himself. He’d find whatever he could.

A wall. A park. Anything.For the next several years, tennis became

the Indian-born player’s life.“He was practicing every day maybe four

to five hours,” his mother, Prathibha Anil, said. “All he did was tennis.”

Most kids that age who are serious enough about tennis, like Jain, have personal coaches to guide the young athletes through the dif-ferent levels of play. But Jain didn’t have one.

So watching Federer pushed Jain to get better, he said. Seeing how Federer could dominate the sport kept Jain itching to hit harder and run faster. Without a coach to mo-tivate him, he used Federer as inspiration.

In the eighth grade, Jain enrolled in a ten-nis camp taught by his high school’s tennis coach, Chad Hanson.

The camp, which was held three days a week for about two months, was an introduc-tory summer camp for anyone wanting to play tennis in high school, Jain said.

By the end of the camp, Hanson saw some-thing in Jain. So he pulled him aside to talk.

His message: “Keep working. Hard work goes a long way.”

That’s when Jain knew he had the poten-tial to play tennis at the collegiate level.

“So then we thought we could look for col-leges where he could play tennis because he’s so focused and hard working,” his mother said.

Eventually, Jain decided he wanted to play

Freshman finance major Gagan Jain is a member of the nebraska men’s tennis team. Jain taught himself how to play tennis in 2007 by watching youtube videos of professional player roger Federer.

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Gagan Jain looks to impact the NU men’s tennis team after teaching himself the game

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Once again, the Nebraska baseball team has a change in schedule because of pending weather.

The team announced Mon-day afternoon that its game against Kansas State will be played Wednesday night in-stead of Tuesday, the day it was originally scheduled. The game will start at 6:35 p.m. Wednesday at Hawks Field in Haymarket Park.

The Nebraska Weather Service forecasts a high in the upper 30s Tuesday, with gusts of wind between 25-30 mph. There is also a 20 percent chance of snow throughout the

day on Tuesday — the main concern among Nebraska of-ficials.

Wednesday’s forecast looks more promising for baseball with sunny skies and highs in the upper 50s.

This schedule change marks the ninth time this season the Husker baseball team has either canceled or postponed a game because of weather.

Fans who reserved tickets for Tuesday’s game will still be able to use those tickets on Wednesday. If fans are unable to attend Wednesday’s game, they can use the ticket for any remaining home game this sea-son.

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I don’t have the words to describe the feeling, but it’s a swirling mess of relief, sorrow and excitement.

It’s the feeling of writing this, my final musings that’ll be printed in the sports section of my beloved Daily Nebraskan.

I’m less than two weeks from walking out of the newsroom for the last time and leaving the press passes on the sports desk behind me. As I

write, I’m doing the “what’s the low-est grade I can get on the final and keep my current grade” dance with a couple professors via email.

I don’t know what will stick with me after I leave, so let me leave you with my thoughts, advice and memories about the fantastic expe-rience of sports at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.1. have perspective.

This means knowing the other teams’ win-loss records, their best players and coaches. You’ll never win an argument about sports if you don’t know anything about the com-petition. This also means knowing Nebraska’s place in the sports world. It’s not easy to lure 5-star football or basketball players here. Never settle for mediocrity from your teams, but have realistic expectations.2. stay until the end.

T-shirts and game day hang-overs fade away in time, but no one can take away your ability to say “I was there!” Even when it looks bad, stick it out. Leaving the Nebraska vs. Ohio State football game in 2011 at halftime (biggest comeback in school history) haunts me. I can say, though, I saw “the kick and

the pick” against Colorado in 2008, as well as the Wisconsin, Michigan State and Penn State comebacks this year.3. look at the big picture.

Don’t be so fickle with sports that your opinion changes with every possession. Keep your pre-season expectations in mind when you make a snap judgement after a bad game or even a bad quarter, set or round.4. check out a small sport sometime.

You wouldn’t believe how row-dy a Nebraska tennis match gets inside the bubble at the Nebraska Tennis Center. Some of the coolest sports story lines fly under the ra-dar, like the season Nebraska bowl-ing had for months before anyone saw one single match on TV.5. get on board with the basketball team before it’s cool.

Husker basketball is sort of a hidden gem — there’s nothing quite like watching college basket-ball in person. Sure, Nebraska’s no

good, but that could easily change in the next four years under Tim Miles. Like I wrote last week, the new and improved Haymarket is going to be a bangin’ good place to hang out.6. never miss a chance to eat a slice of memorial stadium pizza.

I wish I could figure out why those individual slices of Valenti-no’s hamburger pizza are so damn good. My theory is that there’s ex-tra butter in the pizza, somehow. Maybe the added bliss just comes from eating said pizza while baking in the September sun and watching college football.7. make it to at least a couple spring baseball games.

There’s nothing quite as purely American and beautiful as watch-ing baseball and chewing sunflow-er seeds on the beams of a warm spring day. You’re not far from the Haymarket afterward, either…

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