Love and care for one another.That was the message three survivors of the 1963 16th Street Baptist Church bombing in Bir-mingham, Ala., delivered to students and faculty in a moving speech Tuesday night.

This is the first time the three sisters, who lost their sister, Addie Mae Collins in the bombing, have presented together at a university. The event marked the first of several University of Nebraska-Lincoln events this week honoring Dr. Martin Lu-ther King Jr. Day.

As they each recounted the events of that tragic day, the sisters nodded in sup-port of one another, often placing a gentle hand on one anothers back.

Wheres Addie? Janie Collins-Simp-kins recalled saying. Her flashback to af-ter the explosion triggered tears.

Overcoming struggles, both before the bombing and after, and trusting their faith in Jesus Christ has tied the Collins sisters together.

Taking a break from telling the story to compose herself, Junie Collins-Wil-liams slowly walked to the other end of the table and gave her sister a comforting hug.

Collins-Williams remembers hanging out in the lounge before Sunday school started. She remembers being told several times by a woman to leave and get to her classroom. She didnt. After the final time she had been told, she decided instead to sit down in a chair in the restroom and be-

gin reading her Sunday school book.That was when the Lord brought to

my attention, You know, youre not sup-posed to be down here, Collins-Simp-kins said.

As she left the lounge and walked up the steps to her classroom, the bomb went off.

After it was over, she remembers thinking to herself, This woman saved my life.

The bombing just added on to a lot of other problems she was dealing with,

Collins-Williams said. And after all she has dealt with in her

life, Im here, Im here, Collins-Williams repeated several times at the end of her testimony, tears running down her cheeks.

Sarah Collins-Rudolph, the youngest of the three sisters, was in the church rest-room when the bomb detonated and killed Addie Mae Collins, Cynthia Wesley, Car-ole Robertson and Denise McNair. Glass

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kaT bucHanan | dndirector of the survey research and methodology Bob Belli survived a fire in his home Jan. 7. His house of 10 years burned to the ground due to improperly disposed wood ashes in the garage.

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The Ku Klux Klan bombed the 16th street Baptist Church in Birminghmam, ala., killing four girls and injuring 22 others. addie mae Collins, denise mcnair, Carole robertson and Cynthia Wesley had been in the basement womens bathroom when the bomb, which was planted beneath their feet, exploded. Though law enforcement had four Klan-member suspects in 1965, the FBI closed its investigation in 1968 without filing charges. In 1977, robert e. Chambliss was tried and convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to life in prison in connection with the bombings. The case was reopened in 1980 and 1988, each resulting in no convictions. But in 2000, Thomas Blanton Jr. and Bobby Frank Cherry were retried. The two were both convicted on four counts of murder and sentenced to life in prison.

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Gov. Dave Heineman approved on Tuesday a new route for TransCan-adas Keystone XL pipeline, which moves the pipeline away from Ne-braskas environmentally sensitive Sandhills region.

In a letter released to President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Heineman outlined the specifics for the new route and moved the project one step closer to construction.

I am writing to you today to in-form you that the State of Nebraska has completed the evaluation pro-cess of a proposed reroute of Trans-Canadas Keystone XL Pipeline proj-ect through the State of Nebraska, Heineman wrote.

The State Department has the final say on the fate of the pipeline, which would pump tar sands oil from Alberta, Canada through Nebraska to oil refineries along the Gulf of Mexico.

The 194.5-mile-long reroute moves the pipeline east of the origi-nal route and would cross the High Plains Aquifer. The original route put the pipeline on top of Clarks Wellhead Protection Area, a sensi-tive region where the aquifer is close to the surface. Environmentalists

have said a spill could damage the Sandhills ecosystem, as well as poi-son the Ogallala Aquifer, which is the source of groundwater for most

of the Great Plains.Over the past year, we have been

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Bob Belli watched as his alma mater Notre Dame lost the BCS National Championship on Jan.7, not knowing that later that night he would lose his home.

Bellis house of 10 years burned down around 7:45 p.m. The fire was caused by wood ashes improperly disposed of in the garage. Belli, his wife Jessie and their four cats all made it out safely.

Since then, he has received an outpouring of support from the community, his neighbors, the Uni-versity of Nebraska-Lincoln College of Arts and Sciences, the psychology de-partment and his family.

Overcome with gratitude toward all who have helped, Belli, director of the Survey Research and Methodology program and member of the Cognitive and Quantitative Psychology program at UNL, plans to take what hes received after this tragedy and give back to those whom have given him so much.

The ones who should be receiving the contributions are not ourselves, Belli said, but those that have helped us in our time of need.

Neighbors have offered Belli and his wife emergency clothes, temporary transportation, care for their cats and warm hospi-tality.

They pretty much all of-fered us a place to stay that

night, Belli said.American Red Cross volun-

teers were also first responders to the scene, offering similar essentials as well as hot coffee and food for the Bellis and the firefighters.

The Belli Fire Emergency Fund was set up by his col-leagues in both the psychology department and the College of Arts and Sciences.

Dr. Belli has been at UNL for a number of years, said Da-vid Manderscheid, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, and a very loved professor. I really wanted to help him out, and I knew the college would too.

Rick Bevins, UNL psychol-ogy department chair, and Ale-cia Kimbrough, assistant dean for business and finance, also worked to get the fund started.

This is not how I want to grab a t t e n t i o n , Belli said.

He would much rather attract at-tention by making a p r o f o u n d d i s c o v e r y in his field of cognitive

psychology. But, although he was reluctant to have a fund set up in his name, Belli was not at all hesitant to decide what to do with the donations.

If my example serves as a catalyst to donate to the first responders who selflessly and courageously helped my wife, Jessie and I, then I am pleased and grateful that this kind of gesture of support has been ini-tiated by my colleagues, Belli wrote in an email.

Susan Epps, executive direc-tor of the American Red Cross

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Junie Collins Williams comforts Janie Collins simpkins as she recounts her memories of the 16th street Baptist Church bombing in Birmingham, ala., in 1963. Williams and simpkins are two of the three sisters who spoke Tuesday about sur-viving the 16th street Baptist Church bombing.

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The University of Nebraska-Lincolns stadium loop might flip from blacktop to green grass under a new campus development plan.

More finalized concepts of UNLs new master plan concept were pre-sented at an open house on Tues-day. The plan will bring more green spaces and increased mobility to City Campus and a new union transpor-tation and loading area to East Cam-pus.

This is an opportunity to stand back and think about the future, said Greg Havens, a member of Sa-saki Associates, Inc., the firm putting the master plan together. Its an op-portunity to examine and compare your campus to peer campuses. It is also an opportunity to stand back and think about where you are today and where you want to go.

The three main concepts of the new master plan are incorporating sustainability elements on UNLs campus, improving the connectiv-ity between campuses and down-town Lincoln and developing a bet-ter overall learning environment on campus.

We are really looking at land-scape, circulation and where addi-tional development can take place, Havens said.

If all the master plan concepts are implemented, it could mean several big changes for both City and East campuses.

On City Campus, the stadium loop parking area located east of Me-morial Stadium and the section of 17th Street running through campus would

be replaced with green space areas. Several other streets would be redone to include separate areas for bikes, pe-destrians and vehicles.

Plans for East Campus include constructing a new union area to make it more visible from the perimeter of campus as well as expanding the central mall loop area to accommo-date bike lanes and a bigger area for pedestrians.

About 30 people attended the open house, including four students.

I dont think theres currently enough green space on campus, so I liked that idea, said Alex Schmitz, a freshman exploratory major. The roads and sidewalks are kind of a mess with bikes and people running together.

Mitchell Quaiver, a sophomore actuarial science major, agreed and said more recreational areas would greatly improve the campuss overall look.

The quad next to Memorial Stadi-um is exciting to think about, Quaiver said. I think the parking that is there is

kind of disgusting. Its not a very nice area.

Every other Big Ten university has some sort of iconic green space, but none are right next to a football sta-dium, Havens said.

The thought is to convert that space into a really recreational area, he said. It could be a tailgating area on gamedays and a shuttle would be allowed to drive around the perimeter and make stops on either side.

Havens said there isnt a timeline yet for when the master plan changes will begin, but said the Sasaki group will return to UNL in March for fur-ther planning and discussions.

Patrick Luddy, a freshman com-puter engineering major, said he has been impressed with the collaboration of Sasaki planners and the public on the master plan concepts.

I think they did the process re-ally well, Luddy said. They did a good job of getting a combination of things that everyone wants.

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The Association of Students of the University of Nebraska asked for an 11 percent decrease in its University Program and Facili-ties Fees request last Thursday. Its the only Fund A fee user which includes the Daily Nebras-kan, DailyER Nebraskan, Univer-sity Program Council and Lied Center to ask the Committee for Fees Allocation for a budget decrease.

There was a lot of pressure from the top to keep student fees low, said CFA chair Kalby Weh-rbein, a senior mechanized sys-tems management major. Being able to see a fee user really take that to heart and look at areas where they can save money was great to see.

ASUN President Eric Kamler, a senior agricultural economics major, said the decreased fee re-quest for the 2013-2014 budget came largely from a more ef-ficient management of the 475-RIDE program, which is a cab service that provides students with a ride home when they are in an unsafe situation.

ASUN switched its 475-RIDE operator from Servant Cab to Happy Cab last semester, which Kamler said offered significantly lower usage rates. Because of this, ASUN was able to ask for $30,000 less in University Program and Facilities Fees (UPFF) funding for the operation of 475-RIDE.

ASUN also took $60,000 from its 475-RIDE and ASUN Contin-gency funds because both contin-gency accounts stand at $100,000, which Kamler said is healthy for ASUNs budget.

It was just convenient how the contingencies were bloated, Kamler said. You dont need to have that much money sitting there when you can use it to help your budget.

With decreases in those areas,

ASUN transferred funds to in-crease salaries for its employees.

Its important, especially for Student Legal Services, be-cause their case loads have been

increasing significantly over the past few years, Kamler said.

ASUN increased its funding for The Big Event by $1,500 to match the funding for Homecom-

ing. ASUN also gave $3,500 to its Conference/Travel & Training budget for hosting the Home-coming Student Exchange and the Nebraska State Student Asso-ciation, which is an annual con-ference ASUN is pioneering for student governments across the state to meet and exchange ideas. Other money was allotted to its Freshman Campus Leadership Associates and other program-ming.

Being that we were the sole Fund A user to ask for a decrease, they were more than satisfied, Kamler said in regard to CFAs reaction to ASUNs budget re-quest.

It will be a challenge to keep the ASUN budget request the same next year, according to Ka-mler.

There wont be much room to go any lower, he said. I can see about a 5 percent increase at the maximum next year.

CFA will decide the amount of student fees allocated to ASUN on Feb. 7.

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asUn BUdgEt rEqUEst11 percent decrease in uPFF request

The breakdown:$30,000 decline in request for 475-rIde programming due to Happy Cab operations.$60,000 decrease from 475-rIde and asun Contingency funds. Contingency reserves remain at $100,000 each.merit increases for all asun employees.$1,500 increase for The Big event.$3,500 increase for Conference/Travel & Training.$300 increase for FCla end-of-year dinner and added supplies for Big red road show.$200 increase for student legal services conference.

source: asun 2013-2014 Budget request

courTesy pHoToProposals for a new master plan for the university of nebraska-lincoln include turning the stadium loop into green space.

Plan proposes turning Stadium Loop into green space, increased mobility

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shot into Collins-Rudolphs face and eyes. Doctors had to operate on her eyes and her sisters con-tinued to pick glass out of her face in weeks to come.

My teacher thought I was spoiled because I couldnt stitch right, Collins-Rudolph said. When she remembered thinking her eye was going to fall out and roll across the classroom floor, the audience joined the sisters in laughter.

Unlike many victims from events such as these, the Collins sisters were never compensated with medical bills or psychiat-ric help. They wrote President

Ronald Reagan for compensa-tion, but were unable to get any because they were not currently in pain.

The sisters continued to acknowledge their faith as something they could rely on throughout their lives.

Without him, we wouldnt be here today, said Collins-

Simpkins.Jordan Vargas, a 2011 UNL

graduate, was inspired by the women and their persistence through hardship.

Their troubles have got me to where I am successful in life, Vargas said.

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kaT bucHanan | dnThe Collins sisters spoke Tuesday in the nebraska union auditorium about the 16th street Bap-tist Church bombing in Birmingham, ala., that killed four girls, including their sister addie mae, and injured 22 others.

Their troubles have got me to where I am successful in life.

Jordan vargas2011 unl graduate

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Representatives from Universi-ty of Nebraska-Lincoln Campus Recreation requested $278,440 in increased funding for the 2013-14 academic year at the Association of Students of the University of Nebraska Com-mittee for Fees Allocation meet-ing on Tuesday evening.

Campus Recreation repre-sentatives requested amounts to a 4.95 percent increase in stu-dent fee funding by $6.08 per student per semester. Campus Rec currently receives $123.07 from each student each semes-ter in Fund B student fees.

One year from right now, we are going to be operating the

Outdoor Adventure Center, said Bill Goa, senior associate director of Campus Recreation. Thats what the Yes 2 Better Rec Centers campaign is all about. We need to talk now about how were going to pay for all of these facilities.

Goa empha-sized the fact that 72 percent of students vot-ed to pass the Yes 2 Better Rec Centers project in fall 2010, which meant students were aware of the necessary fee increases.

Our goal was to keep this phase one of student fees as low as possible, Goa said. Ev-eryone who has worked with us before knows we are very tight

with our student fees and we al-ways try to cap that off.

Goa said $218,905 of Campus Recreationss proposed funding increase would go toward the

Outdoor Ad-venture Cen-ter and other Rec Center improvement a s s o c i a t e d with the Yes 2 Better Rec Centers cam-paign.

C a m -pus Rec re-quested that their repair and improve-ment budget remain the same at $20 p e r - s t u d e n t per-semester,

even with the opening of the Outdoor Adventure facility and an increase in equipment for the City Campus Rec Center.

Yes, that part of our budget gives me heartburn, Goa said. Yes, Im getting gray hair and its falling out, but we are trying to do everything we can to keep student fees low.

Andrew Shaw, a senior nu-trition and health sciences ma-jor and president of the Campus Rec Advisory Council, said the Rec Center s budget increase is necessary to continue providing all of its programs and activities to students.

We hope you will find the campus recreation budget ap-propriately reflects the desires of the students at UNL, Shaw told committee members.

The committee also heard

budget proposals from rep-resentatives from Nebraska Unions, which requested their funding to remain the same, and the College Readership Program, which proposed a de-crease in funding for the 2013-14 academic year. Representatives from Nebraska Unions request-ed their student fee funding to remain at just over $4.04 million for the 2013-14 academic year, or $88.21 per student per se-mester. Representatives for the College Readership Program proposed a budget of $160,000 a $40,000 decrease from the 2012-13 academic year.

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campUs rEcrEation rEqUEst For 2013-2014

$278,440 funding increaseIncreases per student per semester fees by $6.08students currently pay $123.07 per semester

one year from right now, we are

going to be operating the outdoor adventure Center. Thats what the yes 2 Better rec Centers campaign is all about.

Bill goasenior associate director of campus

recreation

The increased fee allocation would allow Campus Rec to pay for new facilities

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The Residence Hall Association of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln appropriated $5,550 of its $13,000 general program-ming fund to two events at Tuesdays meeting. The move leaves RHA with $7,450 left in its general programming budget for the remainder of the spring semester.

The majority of the funds will assist Campus Nightlife with the cost of the end-of-the-year bash. The $5,000 RHA appropriated covers roughly one-third of the $14,489 car-nival, which will tentatively include three carnival rides, two carnival games, free food, inflatables, a temporary tat-too artist, wildlife encounters, a magician and other carnival activities. According to Tyson Nickerson, a representative of Campus Nightlife and senior criminology and criminal jus-tice major, every activity at the event will be free except the car-nival games, which will cost $1 per round. The proceeds of the game will go back to RHA.

We try to give people events to go to rather than drinking, Nickerson said. Thats why we plan our events mostly on Thursday and Friday evenings.

The bill to approve the ap-propriation was passed unani-mously.

The other $550 was appro-priated to the Diversity Stra-tegic Development Committee (DSDC), a subcommittee of the Association of Students of the University of Nebraska, for an event that aims to improve re-lationships between American and international students at UNL. The Friends Without Bor-ders event will allow interna-tional students to sign up and stay in a volunteering American students house over a week-

end. According to Garret Allen, a representative of the DSDC and a senior philosophy major, the event is a first for UNL.

It works best for Thanks-giving and holidays like that, Allen said. Were running a sort of pilot this upcoming se-mester. Eventually it will be applied to create relationships on campus and share American culture.

Prior to the weekend stay in March, the event will hold two socials for international students and American stu-dents to meet each other and decide whether they wish to go through with the weekend stay. However, a number of RHA sen-ators voiced their concerns over the lack of safety precautions in place.

It sounds like theyre al-most working on a Craigslist idea of, well pair you up and youre on your own, said Zach Christensen, a Kauffmann sena-tor and a junior biochemistry major.

The bill passed to approve the $550 for the event under the conditions that the DSDC would return to RHA with an safety plan before the event was hosted. An emergency contact line and the ability to return early from the weekend were discussed.

You can maybe set check-in points where DSDC mem-bers call the students rather than hoping they all make it back safely on Monday, Chris-tensen said.

RHA also approved its spring semester budget unani-mously during the meeting. The budget includes rough-ly $1,000 of rollover in each committee from the previous semester, according to RHA president Meg Brannen.

We usually have more committees and less roll over, said Brannen, a senior adver-tising and public relations ma-jor.

According to Brannen, the format of the committees recent-ly changed, causing the rollover from last semester.

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Cornhusker chapter, said what Belli is doing is phenomenal.

We dont get any govern-ment money, Epps said. So we rely completely on donations.

According to Epps, the money that Belli will donate to the American Red Cross will go to recruiting and training volunteers, buying necessary equipment and supplies and providing temporary housing to someone who has lost their home.

Sitting in his living room watching the football game the night of Jan. 7, Belli heard what sounded like a knock on the door leading to the garage. He went to investigate. He touched the door knob; it wasnt hot. He opened the door and was met by a wall of fire.

Call 911, we have a fire, Belli yelled to his wife. He ran out of the house, losing a slipper along the way.

L i n c o l n Fire & Rescue showed up promptly, set up their headquarters in a neigh-bors garage and began battling the flames.

The garage was more clut-tered than usual, Belli recalls, because of a large number of clothes and books that he and his wife were going to donate to veterans.

They doused the fire in the garage fairly quickly, Belli said. But they ran out of water, and because of that, the fire con-tinued to burn.

Ken Hilger, fire inspector for the city of Lincoln, said that if there had been a fire hydrant closer to the property, much of the house could have been saved.

Once the rural fire depart-ment arrived, it took about 30 minutes to get their system in place. By that time the house was too far gone, Belli said.

Bellis house was in a hous-ing association a few miles east of Lincoln that was annexed by the city in August. Before the annexation, the housing asso-ciation was considered a rural area, one that runs on a commu-nity well-water system without fire hydrants. Today, the hous-ing association still does not have fire hydrants.

The Lincoln Journal Star re-ported that the annexation was approved on the grounds that the housing association resi-dents would provide their own water until an agreement was made between residents and the city about how to extend the citys water main to the as-sociation. This can take up to 18 months and cost around $500,000 to $600,000, according to Nick McElvain, operations support manager for Lincoln

Water System.Once the water main was

extended, the residents of the Sky Ranch neighborhood would have to upgrade their current water system in order to accom-modate fire hydrants, which need at least a six-inch pipe, McElvain said.

According to Belli, the city did express concern that there are no fire hydrants. However, the housing association request-ed the annexation and was so keen on getting it in order to hook into the citys sewer sys-tem that the city approved it.

Two weeks after the fire, Belli said he plans to rebuild in the same location and push for installing fire hydrants.

While trying to balance his ad-ministrative duties Belli has had to interview doctoral candidates for the psychology depart-ment at midnight and other work since the fire, he feels three emo-tions above all. One is embarrass-ment.

We should have known better in terms of how to appro-priately dispose of ashes, Belli said.

Another emotion is regret.Because the fire was pre-

ventable, you sort of have a sense of responsibility over the consequences, Belli said.

The third emotion: grateful-ness.

(The communitys) willing-ness to help, their well wishes, and the extent of it, which has given both Jessie and I a lot of comfort, Belli said.

This community support is something Belli sees as unique to UNL.

(Community) gives people a sense that we are not isolated, which is a very scary place to be, Belli said.

After this tragedy, Belli finds it important for students to rec-ognize the risks that exist and learn to mitigate them as best they can.

Epps said Bellis contribu-tion is invaluable, but wants to stress that the American Red Crosss services are always free, and no one should feel like they owe anything.

It really shows the type of person he is, Manderscheid said. They incur all of these great lossesand they still want to give back to the community.

Donations for the Belli Fire Emergency Fund are accepted at any Wells Fargo location.

Belli regards UNL as a very special place and is happy to be here.

Material comforts, al-though nice, are far less impor-tant than the richness that is ob-tained by people caring for one another, said Belli.

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listening to Nebraskans as we worked to identify a new route for the Key-stone XL Pipeline that avoided the Sandhills, protected sensitive areas and addressed as many concerns as possible, said Russ Girling, Trans-Canadas president and CEO, in a press release. The NDEQ (Nebraska Department of Environmental Qual-ity) process has clearly taken into ac-count the input from Nebraskans and todays approval of the Nebraska re-route by Governor Heineman moves us one step closer to Americans re-ceiving the benefits of Keystone XL the enhanced energy security it will provide and the thousands of jobs it will create.

The Keystone XL pipeline has been controversial since it was initial-ly proposed in 2008. In 2011, Heine-man called for a special legislative session to discuss the pipeline. On Nov. 22, 2011, the legislature passed several laws addressing the environ-mental concerns of the pipeline.

Heineman said pipeline construc-tion would create $418.1 million in economic benefits and roughly $16.5 million in tax revenue to the state. TransCanada estimates the pipeline could carry 830,000 barrels of oil per day.

His plan also requires Keystone to develop an emergency response plan to respond to a spill, which would hold the company financially liable for any spill-related damages.

Jane Kleeb, executive director of Bold Nebraska and an opponent of the Keystone XL pipeline, said she was disappointed by Heinemans an-nouncement. She was hopeful that hed not allow the pipeline because he asked Obama to deny the initial request in 2012.

The governor had a chance to lead by protecting the environment and property rights, Kleeb said.

She said the current proposal doesnt do enough to protect farmers. Even though TransCanada would be

held accountable for a spill, possible economic losses are not factored in.

Imagine if you are a cattle ranch-er and a spill taints the water, Kleeb said.

Even with the news, she has not lost hope in her fight against the pipeline. Citing Obamas inaugu-ral address on Monday, she said Obama will likely act against the pipeline.

We will respond to the threat of climate change, knowing that the failure to do so would betray our children and future genera-tions, Obama said in his speech.

Obama faces the political chal-lenge of balancing the economic gains of the pipeline with the pos-sibility of environmental harm. The debate over the pipeline has become hyperpartisan outside of Nebraska. Republicans have tout-ed the potential for job creation. TransCanda estimates construc-tion could create up to 9,000 jobs.

Democrats have opposed the pipeline by citing environmental harms from the tar sands in Al-berta to the potential for a leak.

Additionally, Kleeb said legal fights against the pipeline might derail the construction.

On the University of Nebras-ka-Lincolns campus, opinions were mixed.

Cindy Cammack, associate di-rector of admissions, said she did not support the pipeline.

I expected it was going to happen, Cammack said. But Im disappointed.

Association of Students of the University of Nebraska President Eric Kamler said he was glad the route was approved because it would bring more oil to the U.S.

Its a good thing because well see some economic benefits, Kamler said.

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Berens: Hagel would be obamas asset RHA allocates $5,550 to two campus events

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Charlyne Berens phone has been ring-ing a lot lately.

Since President Barack Obama nominated Chuck Hagel to be the U.S. Secretary of Defense on Jan. 6, national media have sought the opinion of Be-rens, a University of Nebraska journal-ism professor who wrote a biography of Hagel, the former Republican U.S. Senator from Nebraska and Vietnam War veteran. Conversation from both sides of the aisle have flooded the air-waves regarding the qualifications of the presidents Cabinet choices es-pecially those of Hagel.

In 2006, Berens, associate dean of the College of Journalism and Mass Communications, wrote a biography about Hagel, detailing how a plain-spoken Nebraskan made his way to the nations capital. And Berens said shes not aware of anything Hagel has said that disqualifies him from secretary of defense.

Chuck Hagel will not set his defense policy, President Barack Obama will set his defense policy, she said, and Chuck Hagel will bring his ideas and influence.

Berens said shes been interest-ed in Hagel since the 1990s.

I was really interested in this guy who grew up in Nebraska, got his degree at (the University of Nebras-ka at Omaha), then he went off to Washington, Berens said. In the early 90s he ran for Senate against Ben Nelson, who was the governor at

the time and quite a popular gover-nor. Hagel beat him, and I thought that was very interesting.

After Hagels election to the U.S. Senate in 1996, Berens became intrigued about what Hagel could do politically in the years to come. When he was reelected in 2002, there was some talk that started that maybe he would run for pres-ident, Berens said. Thats when she decided to write his biography. Berens had never met the Nebraska senator, but when she started asking if he would let her write a book, Hagel

was more than willing to assist. Most of Berens research and

interviews were conducted in the spring of 2004. She met with Hagel in Washington, D.C., and occasion-ally in his Omaha office.

He let me ride along on the plane to Scottsbluff where I was able to meet his constituents and hear him speak throughout Norfolk and Columbus, Neb., she said.

She began writing her book in 2005, and it was published in 2006 by the University of Nebraska Press.

He was very generous with his

time, Berens said. I spent a lot of hours talking with him and people who knew him.

Berens said Hagel was appealing as a Nebraska politician because he is plainspoken, has a personal under-standing of what it means to go to war and has business and political experience.

He has a way of speaking that I think Nebraskans appreciate, Be-rens said.

Berens noted that despite Ha-gels 95 percent conservative vot-ing record, his oath was not to a president or party but rather to uphold the Constitution.

Particularly after the invasion of Iraq, some of the policies and practices that were happening, she said. When he disagreed, he just said so. And he did this with a lot of high-profile issues.

Berens said she had fun working on the project and get-ting to know Hagel.

Obama is looking for people who think carefully, who are true to their principles, and who will tell him what they really be-lieve, she said. So it seems to me that Hagels outspokenness would be an asset to the president.

Hagels nomination hearing for defense secretary is set for 9:30 a.m. on Jan. 31.

Chuck Hagel: Moving Forward will begin to be sold in paperback at the Nebraska Bookstore this summer.

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They ran out of water, and

because of that, the fire continued to burn.

BoB BEllipsychology professor

kevin moser | dnCharlyne Berens, associate dean of the College of Journalism and mass Communications, meets with deb Klimes, a CoJmC accounting associate in her office in andersen Hall on monday.

unl on THe keysTone xl pipeline

It is a risk because it could break and

damage the aquifer. david pachEco

senior mechanical engineering and spanish major

Im kind of indifferent. Its good

for jobs, but it can also be bad for the environment.

FrEya tEglandsenior advertising and public

relations major

(The new route) is good because you

dont want to ruin the aquifer. any oil break would be really bad.

John posKochil freshman history major

I think it is good because it protects

nebraskans. sonia sandoval

sophomore theatre major

Funds will assist Campus nightlife, Friends Without Borders events

40 years later

photos by Allison Hess

above: sandy danek, president of nebraska right to life, prepares carnations prior to delivering them to senators Tues-day morning. Tuesday marked the 40th anniversary of the u.s. supreme Courts roe v. Wade decision.

lefT: nebraska right to life delivers pink and blue carnations to senators Tuesday morning at the Capitol.

What do you call someone who speaks two languages? Bilin-gual.

Three languages? Trilin-gual.

One language? American.That joke probably made a few people sour

and defensive, but theres some truth behind it.In my French classes abroad last semester, I

was one of two Americans. My class consisted of students from China, Thailand, South Korea, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Austria and Rwanda. The majority of them spoke at least three languages.

The United States is definitely behind in for-eign language learning. Forbes found that only 18 percent of Americans can speak a language other than English. Comparably, 53 percent of Europe-ans are at least bilingual.

There are a lot of different factors that affect why this is the American reality right now. For one, the majority of other top industrialized na-tions begin teaching a foreign language to their students in elementary school.

The United Kingdom, for example, now re-quires children to begin learning French, Spanish, German, Mandarin, Latin or Greek by age seven. Australia has a National Policy on Languages, and its government has pumped more than $60 million into a national program for studying Asian languages. More than 60 percent of Euro-pean countries require at least nine years of for-eign language study.

Meanwhile, most Americans dont start this study until theyre 14, and many only take the re-quired one or two years to get into college.

The research on the existence of a critical pe-riod for second-language learning is conflicting. Some argue that older learners are better, because learning two languages together at a young age risks the possibility of never having a fully fluent grasp on either. However, most scientists agree on a rule of thumb that younger is better. A childs brain is more plastic, meaning its better at ab-sorbing a slew of new information.

American students have a much smaller list of languages to choose from. My high school, for example, only offered Spanish and French. Many small schools only teach Spanish, if anything at all. A lot of this is because of a lack of quali-fied teachers. Around 25 percent of elementary schools and 33 percent of middle schools report this kind of shortage.

Foreign language education also faces a lack of funding. Because of this, programs ev-erywhere are being cut. The percentage of el-ementary schools teaching other languages fell

from 24 to 15 percent. Middle schools fell from 75 to 58 percent. Only about half of universities re-quired it in the 2009-2010 academic year. This was all before the early 2012 budget cut of $27 million worth of grants for foreign language education in the United States.

Besides the shortage in general, American education seems to favor German and Romance languages like French, Italian, Spanish and occa-sionally Portuguese. Mandarin has seen a recent surge, but theres not much comparable encour-agement for languages like Bengali and Indone-sian. Although not spoken widely in the States, their speakers are growing in numbers in the con-text of the global economy.

On the other hand, English seems like the language to know. Statistically speaking, the es-timates vary between 400 million and 900 mil-lion speakers of various levels worldwide. While in France, I scarcely found someone who didnt speak it at least at a beginning level. I spoke to a couple people (in French) about how they were dismissed from educational or professional op-portunities because they didnt speak English. Why, then, as Americans, should we bother learn-ing foreign languages when we seem to have drawn the lucky linguistic straw?

Being at least bilingual has many advantages. Perhaps the most obvious, its a resume builder. This qualification will increase your competitive-ness as an applicant. Employment in the govern-ment, American and international business and health care often require it. Knowledge of a for-eign language can also open the door to employ-ment or internships abroador it may just soften the blow of culture shock on your European va-cation. These stints abroad can also, in turn, be resume boosters.

From a purely monetary standpoint, being at least bilingual will also earn you a larger salary.

On average, American workers with this extra language asset receive anywhere between 5 per-cent and 20 percent more per hour than unilin-gual employees. Government employees can also earn up to $1,000 of proficiency pay for their skills. In Canada, English-French bilinguals have lower unemployment rates than those who speak only one or the other.

Foreign language learning and speaking has also been show to aid in cognitive development, improve memory and increase multi-tasking abilities.

There is also evidence that second-language learning aids in other areas of education. A study of elementary-age children in Louisiana found higher English state exam scores in those who had experience learning a foreign language. Col-lege Board surveys indicated that it also increased verbal and math SAT scores for many students.

Most foreign language learning is also cou-pled with cultural educationcultural education that one might potentially miss out on other-wise. My own K-12 education happened to favor Western (mostly American) civilization and his-tory. My French courses in college exposed me to periods and regions I skipped previouslythe French Revolution, African studies, the Euro-pean colonial empire, etc. As I gear up to write a thesis on the Democratic Republic of the Congo, my knowledge of French allows me to read from sources in French and English. The research possi-bilities have practically doubled in consequence.

Study abroad programs are also easier pick-ings for the bilingual student, particularly those eyeing exchange. This form of education offers the best kind of language immersion, where a student must speak the language outside of class to get by. At the same time, we observe and learn new customs as they occur in real time. It gives us the equal opportunity to see new things and dif-ferent versions of what we see every day at home.

I firmly believe foreign language links the world. To use a personal example, my classmate from Seoul and I would have never been able to communicate last semester without our mutual knowledge of French. Language gives us the op-portunity to speak to people we would have nev-er met otherwise the chance to build bridges.

If we are all meant to stay in our respective countries and never interact with one another, maybe we could get by as unilingual beings. But we left this kind of society behind hundreds of years ago, and we must continue to move for-ward.

ruTH boeTTner is a senior frencH and global sTudies major. reacH Her

aT opinion@ dailynebraskan.com.

If you gathered a bunch of athletes around a table to argue why their sport is best, most of them would quote the romantic images of prac-tice and winning. Many might also brag about the superior physical

demands their sport requires. Every ath-lete would hopelessly defend and herald their sport as the best. If I had a seat at the table, I could only shake my head be-cause those athletes dont know that row-ing is the best sport out there.

Ive had the pleasure and opportunity to row on the NU crew team for the past year and half. While that is too short a time to claim a full understanding of the entire nature of this challenging and com-plex sport, its been more than enough time to pledge a lifelong allegiance to it.

My teammates often gush over the overwhelming beauty of sunrises on the water at morning practice and the thrill of racing other crews. I love these things as well, but its not enough to fuel my en-tire conviction for this sport.

Ive never thought I would have been interested in a sport like rowing, as Ive always favored more dynamic sports with varied skill sets like soccer, golf, tennis and martial arts. Perhaps I was attracted to the idea of rowing. But my choice to commit to rowing is actually consolidated by the day-to-day suffering needed to succeed in this sport.

The winter is the most difficult. Were forced to sacrifice rowing on water to train our physical conditioning indoors. We began our semester this year waking up at 5:30 a.m., long before any of our first classes. Most mornings our early alarm clocks trigger a brief existential crisis as we question why we push our-selves to wake up so early, walk to prac-

tice in the bitter cold only to arrive to a strenuous physical test for the next two hours. There is nothing pleasurable or ro-mantic about this.

While the short-term choices are a struggle, the long-term physical and emotional rewards of rowing are unlike any other sport. Through hard work and physical suffering, rowing is one of the few experiences in life that allows one to face the most honest reflection of his or herself. When other sports carry com-plicated rules and require a wide range of physical skills, rowing is simple, pure and hauntingly human.

Rowing is the best sport anybody, novice athlete or elite competitor, can invest in. The sport is intensely competi-tive at its highest caliber, but its also very accessible for beginners. Rowing is con-sidered low-impact and not particularly straining. The fitness rewards of rowing are incredibly efficient; an athlete could burn more than 1,000 calories in an hour session. Every stroke involves a leg press, pull and a strong and balanced core. Un-like the demands of some other sports, the rowing motion doesnt require the body to contort or reach into unnatural or dangerous positions and movements. Most people find themselves rowing well with some basic coaching.

Well, not necessarily. Excellent rowing technique is certain-

ly more nuanced than it may appear and requires years and experience to master. But the real demands of this sport are within the human nature. Ironically, the greatness of rowing is because its defi-antly everything a human isnt. Success in this sport requires a forfeit of individu-ality and accepting a lack of choice. There is only one motion and one way to win.

There are no points or Hail Mary passes. Rowing requires the athlete to embrace an attitude most would dismiss.

Rowers are defined not by their in-dividual achievements as much as the program and the team they come from. Rowing athletes dont have any of the elusive flair of soccer or basketball players. There are no glorious highlight reels of rowing because every montage is the sameoars pulling the boat in unison and grueling practices on ergs indoor rowing machines.

The erg is a unique tool that provides a troubling mental experience in itself. Imagine you were a soccer player who was tested every day on the strength and precision of each of your kicks. A number could measure your day-to-day progress and against all of your teammates. The process creates an environment of hyper self-awareness on the verge of extreme insecurity.

There are a few options in rowing. Rowers can race as a single competitor to

as many as nine at a time eight row-ers and one coxswain, or steersman. In boats of two or more athletes, individual performance and progress counts, but its not what matters. Each rower must per-form excellently for the team to succeed, but no one individual can be celebrated as responsible for victory.

Mechanically, the race cannot be won without perfect unity of the oars and bod-ies of the boat. No athlete can move faster or slower than the others and no athlete can deliver less power than is required. No oth-er sport dares to sacrifice the human ego. They rely on it. They put names on the back of jerseys.

The spirit of sports is about creating an environ-ment where people are al-lowed to express their deep-est desires and achievements that cannot be replicated in reality. They are metaphors of war, poetry and art. Sports allow athletes and fans to ex-perience something they are not allowed to feel at school, work or parties.

Many sports are in fact perverted to mere parties, with huge colored arenas and parapher-nalia stamped with logos and mascots. The athletes themselves become false de-mi-gods who are given million-dollar en-dorsements and subjected to media atten-tion where they can flaunt their wealth and extravagance.

Rowing is pure sport and allows ath-letes to truly engage in the human experi-ence and condition. Rowing athletes have little prospect of million-dollar endorse-ments, even at the highest levels. Yet the sport remains popular and addictive be-

cause it engages a part of the human soul that is a sum of both insecurity and an intense desire for victory, all while forced to completely embrace the need for team-work.

Rowing doesnt guarantee a mon-etary profit, but persistent participators will receive a payoff. It will put you in the best shape of your life. More importantly, it will challenge your entire identity as an individual.

In fact, through the process of dilut-ing individual glory and insecurity, row-ers find the strongest and most secure sense of themselves as a human beings. They have the privilege to define their

athletic careers by their own physical and emo-tional growth.

The media are bored by the rowing formula. No one can grab hold of a single figure or even a single moment in the sport, because the mo-tion is monotonous and the outcome predict-able. Every race ends the samesome crew will cross the finish line first.

Fortunately, this means the sport remains untainted by superficial distractions.

In true sports, the aim isnt to see the winning shot or to cross the finish line first. Rather, they give us opportunities to see a reflection of ourselves different than what we were at the beginning. Rowing is the best path to this purpose.

jane seu is a junior poliTical science major. follow Her on

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plan to add green spaces will create parking problemSasaki Associates, Inc., a Boston-based planning and design

firm, gave more details about UNLs new master plan concept yesterday.

Among the ideas were some good ones and some bad ones.Should the plan go through as is, the stadium loop would be

replaced with a green space. A more environmentally friendly, greener and open area sounds nice and relaxing. But UNL has a very real parking problem, and eliminating already existing parking spaces is a step backward on that front. Unless this change can be balanced out with replacement parking elsewhere on campus, the idea of giving up parking for green space isnt worthwhile. The green space would also have to be impressively resolute if Sasaki ex-pects it to come out of football season in one piece after being driven on and stomped across by football fans every other Saturday. Mix tens of thousands of football fans with a steady rain, and well find ourselves with a messy, muddy and no-longer-quite-green space.

Also, a plan to convert the portion of 17th Street that runs through campus into a green space is alarming. Off-campus students: ask yourselves how often you use 17th Street between R and Y streets to get to class or leave campus. Unless traffic was filtered around the area in a very fluid way, this would largely disrupt transit on the east end of campus.

We at the DN urge Sasaki to take these concerns into consid-eration and shift their plans by the time the company returns in March.

But the plan isnt all bad news. Were an environmentally conscious generation, and Sasaki realizes our want for more and better bike and pedestrian pathways. We support Sasakis planned implementation of both on City and East campuses. The proposal to construct a new Nebraska East Union area that is more visible from the perimeter of campus would also benefit the connectiv-ity between City and East campuses. The Nebraska East Unions current central location makes it hard to see and hard to remember for students who spend a majority of their time on City Campus. Increasing its visibility could increase its use.

Yesterdays open house served as an opportunity for students to hear directly from the Sasaki group about their plan.

But only four students showed up.Those four students cant possibly, by themselves, represent our

student body or, through any form of sharing, let all of the campus know what Sasaki is bringing to the table. So we also urge Sasaki to better publicize future open houses. No matter what was done to advertise for yesterdays open house, it obviously failed in terms of bringing students in attendance as the directly impacted audience that we are.

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rowing is pure

sport and allows athletes to truly engage in the human experience and condition.

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yuliya petrovadn

With deadlines looming, late-night study sessions and part-time jobs, some college students dont al-ways have time for the hobbies they enjoy.

Tyler Sells, a sophomore ad-vertising and public relations ma-jor and soon-to-be theater major, finds time in his busy college life to turn his passion into commerce with a local business named Draw-ing Sells.

Sells comfort level with pro-ducing representational art started early.

My mom has a picture of a drawing that I did when I was three, so that was the first docu-

mented drawing that Ive done, it was a drawing of my mom, but basically it was just a bunch of scribbles, Sells said.

Growing up, Sells learned various drawing techniques both in school and from his grandmother.

Basically, art was the only class I didnt hate, Sells explained. Ive always had pretty good teachers, and my grandma taught me a lot of stuff about draw-ing. Seeing my dads drawings hanging around our house made me want to try to draw better than him. I liked my dads drawings, but I just thought that maybe I could do a little better.

Two years ago Sells favorite thing to draw was cars because he wanted to be an automobile designer, now hell illustrate any-

thing and everything as part of Drawing Sells.

I want to draw anything that you have, Sells said. Drawings can make a good present, Ill draw

flowers for an an-niversary. Giving someone flowers, the flowers die, but giving them a picture of flowers, it will last forever. Theres a beauty in that it will last as long as you let it last.

The roots of Sells commercial enterprise were planted when he

lent a helping hand to a fellow UNL student.

Last semester I had a project for a copy and concept class and when I talked to Tyler on a Tues-day, in less than 32 hours by Thurs-day he had the whole campaign

E ach individual may have their own definition of fashion, but culture and country dictate certain expectations of fashion for its citizens.Coming from China to the University of

Nebraska-Lincoln in 2011, sophomore adver-tising and public relations major Yun Hu no-ticed right away the difference between Chi-nese and American trends.

Most girls in China dont wear sports shoes out, they wear high-heels, Hu said. In the university, girls wear make-up every day;

they try to look pretty going to class, but here for most girls its just normal t-shirt and jeans.

Some international students are familiar with American fashion because it has already shown its presence in their home countries.

It was not shocking or anything new for me, said Gaurav Budhiraja, a graduate student

in chemical engineering. In Delhi, Western envi-ronment has already taken over.

Other international students from India no-ticed the prevalence of informal dress, especially in social situations.

When I first came to US from India, I no-ticed people here dress more casual; its totally

different, said Ashish Singh, a junior management major. Its more relaxing here than the Asian countries I would say. With American fashion, nobody cares what youre wearing, unless youre going to a party, and only then would girls wear a red carpet dress and guys wear a suit and tie, but in India, if youre going to hang out with your friends you have to dress up, look nice.

The only space the dress-down culture of the Mid-west doesnt show itself might be in business offices or white collar jobs, said Gennady Yashirin, a custo-dian at Nebraska City Union.

Kids here are more free, said Yashirin, origi-nally from Russia, They dont pay attention to their clothes. They only wear good clothes when they interview for work somewhere, but in Eu-rope, you see people look good always.

But that lack of high fashion isnt unwelcome in the eyes of some international students.

In India, people dont come out in pajamas and sports shorts, but most people here come out wearing that, said Saichand Palusa, a computer science graduate student. Here its quite different, but amazing. Its cool, I like the fashion here,

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use loss to shape ambitions

tylEr kEownSunday evening, I got a message from my mom saying my grand-mother had passed away.

I looked up from my phone and back at the AFC Champion-ship game. They were showing Tom Bradys face, three minutes away from the end of his season, full of frustration.

Tom, calm the hell down. I said aloud. You are playing a game. You will play more games. My grandma is dead, Tom.

I sat there fuming at Tom Brady and his lack of perspective. I opened my laptop for a moment and read a few Facebook updates. Each one angered me more than the last. How inane is it for every-one to post about the Super Bowl? Who cares?

I shut my laptop down and muted the television, trying to calm down. It was then that the realization hit me: this is not how my grandmother would want me to react.

My grand-mother was full of endearing quali-ties. The way her laughs would fill a room; her per-petual, warm smile; the way she would swear at bad driv-ers, gasp and cover her mouth.

One of her best qualities, how-ever, was her ability to shape her perspective.

Legally, she isnt my grand-mother. I was adopted at birth and she was my biological moth-ers mother.

Not that it mattered. In her eyes, I was her grandchild and

that was it, legal standing or no.Its this control over perspec-

tive that I hope I can apply to my own life. In college, its so easy to get caught up in small details: how often am I talking to this girl, why didnt my latest story get more attention, etc.

Its also very tempting to look at things the way you think you should versus the way you want. I am very passionate about the world of professional golf, but be-

cause golf is con-sidered boring by many people my age, its not any-thing I bring up often. As a result of talking about golf less, I end up thinking about it less, and like that, something Im ac-tually passionate

about is swept under the rug.I want to care about the things

I actually care about, like my grandma did.

College is an anomalous world, full of all kinds of influ-ences. Many of us, myself includ-

its also very tempting to

look at things the way you think you should versus the way you want.

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Student turns passions into small art business

tyler sells draws for customers as part of his online service drawing sells

theres a beauty in

that it will last as long as you let it last.

tyler sellssophomore advertising and

public relations major

...People here dress more

casual; its totally different.

ashish singhjunior, management major

most girls in china dont wear

sports shoes out, they wear high-heels.

yun husophomore, advertising/public

relations major

being Here, Part 7: students find american fashion more casualFans scramble

for coke on Pepsi campus

madeline christensendn

University of Nebraska-Lincoln students are all Coked up.

Were not talking Charlie Sheen, but the bubbly bever-age is so hard to get your hands on at a Pepsi campus, it may as well be a black market drug.

When I found out there wasnt any Coke on campus, I was flipping tables in the dining hall, said Zach Kyle, a fresh-man theater major. Honestly, had I known UNL was a Pepsi campus, it probably would have affected my college decision.

Kyle said Coca-Cola fans dont joke around about their drink of choice. He is one of many stu-dents on campus who will go to great lengths to get their daily carbonated fix.

Ill get my friends to drive me to McDon-alds or wherever just to get a Coke, Kyle said. Ill never resort to drinking Pepsi. I can smell the differ-ence.

thE cold truthIn 1997, university officials announced Pepsi would be the exclusive drink provider of UNL, sealing the fate of Coca-Cola lovers on campus for 12 years.

In 2009, the contract was re-upped for another 10 years, following a competitive bid process that involved primarily Pepsi and Coca-Cola, said Kim Phelps, associate vice chancel-lor of business and finance.

Phelps said the decision was based on a number of factors, including product selection and pricing, management of recy-clable waste materials and com-pensation offered to the campus in exchange for an exclusive beverage agreement.

Pepsis 2009 bid was judged by a committee comprised of faculty, staff and students to be in the best interest of the cam-pus using these criteria.

According to a 2009 UNL News Release, the universitys

current contract with PepsiCo and LinPepCo brings in a mini-mum of $1.5 million annually in exchange for exclusive pouring and vending rights.

PoPPin tabsCoca-Cola advocates on

campus will assure you its not easy getting by when theyre surrounded by that other brand.

I was very mad when I found out UNL was a Pepsi campus, said Nicole Rein, a freshman marketing major. I only drink Coke, I dont drink Pepsi.

Whenever I go home I al-ways make sure I take some Coke back to campus with me, Rein added. If I go out to eat or something and they have Coke, Ill spend that extra three dol-lars so I can have some.

Rein said she has no idea what it is that makes Coke so much better than Pepsi, but she can taste the difference.

Somet imes Ill resort to drinking Pepsi on campus, just for that cola taste. But its al-ways really dis-appointing, she

said.Talking to die-hard Coke

fans, drinking Pepsi really is a last resort.

I would maybe drink Pep-si if I was pretending it was a Coke, said Kelsey Sorlien, a sophomore pre-nursing major.

Sorlien came from a Pepsi-only high school, and used to walk to a gas station across the street for her Coke fix.

I will still go out my way to get some Coke off campus, Sorlien said. I will walk to places where there is Coke even if its blocks away.

Sophomore athletic training major Helen Schneider didnt start drinking pop until finals week, but she still found she had a preference.

If I really need caffeine on campus, Ill drink Cherry Pepsi, but it does not taste the same, she said. Im just sick of Pepsi. Its everywhere.

However, some students find the Pepsi contract to be less of a life-or-death situation.

I think its kind of silly its such a big deal to people Ill drink Pepsi if theres no Coke

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Pepsi contract forces students to go off campus to find favorite beverages

when i found out

there wasnt any coke on campus, i was flipping tables in the dining hall.

zach kylefreshman theater major

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metal band sews deep local roots

joe wadedn

The Lincoln-based death metal band Ezra has been playing shows around the Midwest for more than 18 years. Despite a few lineup changes since the band started in 1994, Ezra con-tinues to be a favorite among local metal heads.

Ezra recently performed live on 89.3 KZUM, is currently working to plan a spring tour and to upload past performance videos to the In-ternet. The band will be performing Feb. 16 at Knickerbockers.

How would I describe it? Well, old school death metal when we started, but with Ross and Brad playing, I think it gives it more of a modern grind (sound) actually, said Scott Schlesinger, founder of the band.

Ezra is comprised of Scott Schlesinger, on guitar and vo-cals; Ross Raws Schlesinger, on drums; and Brad Mourningstar Hensley, on bass. Ezra sprouted from Scott Schlesingers desire to work with like-minded, aggressive music fans.

I always liked music as a kid, Scott said. My parents would go out for the evening, wed have a babysitter and would do KISS con-certs. Then as I got to be a teenager, it was like what tools did I need to be able to do something like that? It was guitar, then the vocal thing just got thrown in because we were looking for a vocalist, but gigs started coming.

Death metal is a style of music characterized by gruff vocals and fast guitars. Some of the music that inspired the sound Ezra ad-opted were albums like Cancers Death Shall Rise and Carcasss Necroticism Descanting the In-salubrious.

Old school death metal from when I first heard it, 20 years ago or so, it had a groove to it, but it was really fast, Scott said. Today the kids that are playing it are get-ting faster.

Before the band started, Scott was working at a factory when a

coworker introduced him to the al-bums by Cancer and Carcass.

I heard those and that was the kind of band I want to be involved in; that kind of sound, he said.

According to him it took about a year from hearing those to form-ing Ezra. Scott was performing covers in his hometown of Dun-can, Neb., at the time. Eventually he decided to move to Lincoln to find the musicians needed for the project. Brandon Reischick became his drummer.

The first thing I remember, we didnt have a bass player or a vo-calist yet, there was the open jam downtown, Scott said. No one was really doing the death metal thing or the really fast double-bass. Brandon was pretty good at that, and I think it surprised a lot of people. I guess people hadnt heard of that sound yet here. Which when I was moving from a little town to Lincoln, I thought ev-erybody had already heard of that.

When Ezra first started, there were not many original bands per-forming, according to Scott.

There were still a lot of cover bands people would go dance to.

The original band, which per-formed locally, enjoyed a sense of camaraderie and support.

Those were the days when youd call a bunch of your friends and the word spread that way, Scott said. Now, there are a lot

more original bands and theres a lot more in-your-face advertisement compared to how it was.

Bands in those days would typi-cally hand out flyers and rely on word-of-mouth to attract concert-goers. Ezra would perform a couple nights a week (more regularly than today), frequently playing to built-in audiences, who supported the venue more than the bands per-forming.

Today its definitely bring-your-own audience, Scott said. (Back then) you could go play The Hurricane and there was a bunch of people you didnt know, but they supported that club.

Scott doesnt do much online promotion himself, however, his brother Ross keeps fans up-to-date via his Axidentuhl Theruhpy web presence.

According to Scott, the band is firing on all eight cylinders with the current lineup. The experience Ross Schlesinger and Hensley bring to the band makes it easy, espe-cially while touring.

(We are) hoping to do a tour this spring for like a week, Scott said. Were like a Midwest death metal band, we do our circles: Min-neapolis, St. Louis and the bigger cities in the Midwest.

Minneapolis is one of the bands favorites because there are many touring metal bands based there, which often perform with Ezra

when they come through Lincoln. When Ezra performs in Minneapo-lis, it usually plays to a full audience of familiar and semi-familiar faces.

In 2009, Ezra did a slew of Mid-west dates with the band Master, who were on tour from the Czech Republic and been around since 1983, Ross said. It was cool seeing how this band works after all this time. It was great getting to spend a lot of time with these guys, hanging out and getting to know each other, having beers and partying. This was basically a once in a lifetime mo-ment where you take it all in and keep it with you.

Typically, Ross and Hensley work out the details of the rhythm parts of the songs because both of them have a strong background in bass and drums. The whole band composes the music before Scott adds the lyrics.

Its a super strong rhythm sec-tion, I just try to bring in some riffs and we go from there, Scott said. The lyrics are pretty much Catho-lic-based, thats how I was brought up, they are positive, but its for all people who want a positive mes-sage. They do talk about God and I do sing about God in a positive way.

One of the songs, Drink the Blood, is about taking communion, for example.

I thought it was cool lyrics, its stuff I enjoy, and its not pansy sounding lyrically, Scott said. I want to make it strong and aggres-sive for people that like aggressive music. Ezra is what I enjoy. Getting up every day and making my list of people to call and whatever. Thats why I dont have any side projects myself. Im always trying to main-tain or improve on it.

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if you go:Ezra w/ speak loud advocate, Fair childwhen: wednesday, Feb. 16, 9 p.m.where: knickerbockers, 901 o st.how much: $5 cover

ed, are still shaping the people we will be. Having the right perspective and chasing what mattersthose things have huge impacts on us right now.

I grew up with her very much a part of my life, with regular visits to Omaha during which she and my grandfather, a judge, would drive me around the city, pointing out notable crime loca-tions.

This is my favorite memory of her, she and my grandfather in the front seat, jazz music on the radio. My grandfather points at a hotel and says, a woman was stabbed 11 times there. She grabbed my grandfathers arm and told him I, 10 years old or so, was too young to hear about that.

Besides, she added, I think it was 13 times. I still remem-ber the two of them laughing for blocks.

Toward the end, when she was diagnosed with cancer again, instead of battling through wave after wave of chemotherapy, she chose to let her body be what it was. While this spelled out an end for her, she chose to take the chance

to say goodbye to those that she loved.

I had a chance to see her in hospice over break. Even with her body failing her, her eyes sparkled and she laughed with everyone visiting. She grabbed my hand and told me she was proud of ev-erything Id done. You could tell though she may have not been ready to leave, she was apprecia-tive for the opportunity to survey all of the beauty in her life and fam-ily one more time.

Even in the grieving stage, when seemingly everything re-minds me of her and lyrics some-times stick in my throat as I try to sing along to the radio, the idea of her passion helps my eyes burn a little less.

Going forward, I hope this thought sticks with me. Living a life based on what you love its a universal idea applicable to us all, especially in college, when real life is just about to begin.

tylEr kEown is a soPhomorE journalism

major. rEach him at arts@

dailynEbraskan.com.

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Nearly twenty years on, Ezra still screams Lincoln death metalscene royalty

shElby wolFE | dnthe lincoln metal band ezra has been active in the scene for the last two decades. Pictured is bassist brad Hensley, drummer raws schlesinger and guitarist and lead singer scott schlesinger.

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Johnny Rosenblatt Stadium closed its doors in 2010, and left the Omaha World-Herald searching for a way to commem-orate the landmark for lifelong College World Series fans. It did so in the form of a 300-page book filled with past World-Herald photos and stories.

The book,Rosenblatt Sta-dium: Omahas Diamond on the Hill, was a surprise hit. Ever since then, the newspaper has been aggressively capital-izing on its archived content to revive Nebraska history in top-ics ranging from the Cold War to the illustrious career of Tom Osborne.

If news is the first rough draft of history, the World-Heralds archives are a treasure trove of half-finished hard covers. Such an enormous ar-senal of informa-tion means plenty of ideas for future books, according to Omaha World-Herald books edi-tor Dan Sullivan.

When we started, we took ideas from the (World-Herald) staff, he said. We have a pool of ideas already, and they kind of just turn up.

Henry J. Cordes was one of the newsroom staff to see his idea come to fruition. The au-thor of the World-Heralds most recent book, Unbeatable: Tom Osborne and the Greatest Era of Nebraska Football, is an Oma-ha World-Herald staff writer with a passion for football.

I had the thought that a narrative account of the Os-borne championship years would have a lot of appeal and make an interesting book, he said. The 1994, 1995 and 1997 Huskers were surely great foot-ball teams, but there was also a lot of drama associated with them on and off the field.

Unbeatable includes cov-erage of that drama Tommie Frazier s blood clots, the Law-rence Phillips affair and Brook Berringers tragic death, among other incidents.

I also thought I could 20 years later get more into the back story of those teams,

Cordes said, (and) reveal more about Phillips, delve deeper into Osbornes decision to retire or learn more about what made those teams so successful.

Cordes crafted Unbeat-able with a combination of old and new material, but thats not always the case with the World-Herald books.

Sullivan said the At War at Home series already two books in the making, largely about the experience of living in Nebraska during World War II and the Cold War, respec-tively were about 99 percent archived material, effectively cutting down the total produc-tion time.

A lot of the archives have already been thoroughly re-searched, edited and reported, he said. That short-circuits the whole process.

But minimal editing doesnt mean writing a book is quick or easy, especially when the authors

and researchers have other jobs.

Running it out of the news-room allows for us to do things more efficiently, Sul-livan said. But imagine your boss telling you, now you have to work on a book, too.

Though the books have prov-en lucrative for the newspaper, thats not the

chief reason for their creation, according to Sullivan.

Some of our books are fi-nancially smart, then we had the idea that its worth explaining or showing people we have faith-fully done this over the years, he said.

This idea of permanence is the driving force behind the third installment in the At War at Home series a book, still in the works, on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Though the for-mat will be the same, the third book will rely on new reporting, different from its predecessors.

As journalism moves into a digital future, the Omaha-World Herald is moving right along with it. The books demonstrate to Nebraskans that, even 50 to 100 years ago, the newspaper had a history of producing accu-rate, timely news, and intends to continue that tradition.

Im not sure if, in 100 years, well be publishing on paper, Sullivan said. The added value of the books is to enhance our brand. We are permanent and reliable.

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world-herald archives revive state history

Omaha newspaper republishes old articles and photos in book form

the added value of

the books is to enhance our brand. we are permanent and reliable.

dan sullivanworld-herald book editor

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drawn out, said Austin Peters, a junior advertising/public relations major.

Originally, Sells studied as a graphic design major, however he felt that wasnt the direction for him.

(Graphic design classes expect-ed) me to draw from within my own experiences, draw for myself, Sells said. Id rather look at the world and draw that. I feel like the world is more important than me. Its bet-ter to give it something beautiful back than what may or may not be beautiful to me.

UNL professors notice Sells pursuit of passion.

Tyler is a very motivated stu-dent, very talented and very moti-vated, said Amy Struthers, an as-sociate advertising professor. The skills he is learning in our adver-tising and public relations major, and while combining his passion, will help him to achieve his career goals.

Sells is inspired by comic book art, mostly for the bold colors. He uses many different types of media for his drawings, but takes special interest in the use of pencil or pen-and-ink.

Inspiration can come from any-where, which is why I like some-one having an idea and telling me what they want me to draw, Sells explained. Ultimately I just want to help people see what they want to see; my goal is to make people happy through my drawings.

Even those without the self-disclosed artistic eye can appreciate Sells work.

I was always impressed by him, I am not that great of a judge on artistic talent, but everything Ive seen by Tyler is really good, said Ja-cob Tegler, a sophomore psychology major and Sells former roommate.

In between requests to design

t-shirts, tattoos, portraits and sto-ryboards, Sells enjoys playing gui-tar and reading comic books and graphic novels.

I would love to design book covers or do illustrations for books, anything that I could draw, I would, Sells said.

In the course of his college ex-

perience at UNL, Sells has chosen to combine his educational training and pre-existing talents into a busi-ness he can develop.

I started doing this because I wanted to do something different than what a lot of college students do, he said. Entrepreneurship isnt really a brand-new idea, but

its something I can do that some people cant. Some people also have this skill and have different styles than me, but I wanted to take what Ive learned in advertising to try to make it more available.

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cara wilwErding | dntyler sells, sophomore advertising and public relations major, draws a poster for his cappella group, Pitch Please. while sells often draws with a tablet attached to his computer, he also regularly sketches in his notebook. sometimes i just take that and draw in the library after class, sells said.

sElls: from 5

bEing hErE: from 5

in india, people dont come out

in pajamas and sports shorts.

saichand paulsagraduate student, computer science

american fashion is fast fashion.

ye lisenior, business administration major

we have small shops in china,

here there are mostly chain stores.

ying luassociate professor of computer

science and engineering

cludes the traditionally recog-nized pink and blue as indicators of genderized clothes, something that doesnt necessarily sit well with visitors.

I overall like the fashion cul-ture here, but one thing, girlish and boyish things (are) separated too much, the pink and blue color separation, Budhiraja explained. Pink for girls and blue for boys is emphasized too much. The color shouldnt matter for boys or girls.

Then theres the matter of fashion availability. Nurul Nor-man, a senior psychology major, said theres more variety in Amer-ican stores than her home country of Malaysia.

I think here there are a lot of fashion choices, she said.

Still, some of choices in the U.S. fade away just as quickly as they came.

American fashion is fast fash-ion, said Ye Li, senior business administration student. Stores like H&M, Forever 21 are popular here, especially for young people. I think Chinese fashion has more variety than American fashion; we have influences from Korea, Japan but also Western culture.

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emily kuklinskidn

Sometimes there really are mon-sters hidden away in the closet, and Grandma is the one who put them there.

The Flat is a documentary following director Arnon Gold-fingers pursuit to find out what secrets have been festering in his grandmothers closet.

After the death of Goldfingers grandmother, he and his family are given the task to sort and clear out the belongings from her flat. Grandma Tuchler was a native German who was forced to flee to Israel in 1930 to avoid the wide-spread persecution of Jews. As Goldfinger says, she lived as if she had never left Germany. Her house was decorated with a vari-ety of German books and clothes, and she preferred to speak in her native tongue, if able.

At first, Goldfinger and his siblings find trinkets of comical or little significance hiding away in her closet. They make fun

of her mink scarf and are seen carelessly throwing unwanted junk out the two-story window. It seems as though this exercise will simply be a bout of spring cleaning. However, the discov-ery of letters corresponding with a Nazi family is what shapes the documentary narrative.

As Goldfinger looks further into his grandparents involve-ment with Nazi officer Baron von Mildenstein and his wife, he dis-covers they wrote each other of-ten. Even after the political tumult of World War II the two couples decided to continue their friend-ship. Knowing Grandma Tuchlers mother was sent to a death camp begs the question as to why they continued their relationship. Such questions are what shift Goldfinger into a new role: from curious grandson to full-fledged detective.

As he travels the world, and meets with the Mildensteins daughter Edda, the story chang-es from that of a genealogical document