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Neil Dufford knows the path to his dream job won’t be easy. The University of Nebraska-Lincoln senior Russian major hopes to work in the national intelligence field one day, after interning for the government in Washington, D.C., this summer. But the senior says he didn’t have to attend a fancy spy school or become best friends with President Barack Obama to get a leg up on the competition.

Instead, he found his footing with the resources offered by one of UNL’s least common majors.

Dufford said he decided to major in Russian, which boasts about 17 students, when he came to the university on a college visit. He said he imme-diately clicked with the professors in the program and decided to sign up right away.

A decade ago, the decision might not have been so simple. Professors were leaving, and the program’s existence was threatened. “We were vulnerable about eight to 10 years ago,” said Radha Balasubramanian, an associate Russian

professor at UNL. At the time, the department was down from

five professors to two, she said. Now, Balasubramanian said, the Russian pro-

gram at UNL is stable.For other smaller majors, UNL officials say

they do what they can to keep them in existence. Steven Thomas, chief adviser and associate

professor of water science at UNL, said there has been discussion about how to improve the major, which hosted 16 people at the beginning of the fall semester.

He said one of the biggest problems with the major is that not a lot of people know about it or what it is. Just a few years ago, fewer than 10 peo-ple were enrolled in the major, which deals in basic and applied sciences to water resources.

Still, Thomas said, the program is growing. He isn’t worried about it being cut entirely.

“After discussion, the department was not al-lowed to drop the major,” Thomas said.

Even though the major is a big investment in faculty time, Thomas said, it is not necessarily a large investment in faculty pay. This is because professors such as Thomas receive about 20 per-cent of their pay for teaching and 80 percent for research.

But even with a stable program, some students wonder if the payoff from less common majors, such as Russian, are worth the time and effort.

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Back when David DiLillo was a student, he didn’t have to worry about things like low income and an oversaturated job market. The University of Nebras-ka-Lincoln clinical psychology professor received his bachelor of arts in history from Rhodes College in 1989 before taking a job at a psychiatric facility. The job confirmed his interest in psychology, and he decided to attend graduate school the same year.

Eight years later he left Oklahoma State Univer-sity with a Ph.D. in clinical psychology.

“I just always hoped and assumed that a career path would become clear,” said DiLillo, who special-izes in the causes and consequences of family vio-lence. “And when I completed my Ph.D., I was fortu-nate enough to have a few different opportunities to pursue different jobs that I liked — academic jobs.”

The decision to pursue psychology is not so clear-cut for current undergraduates. If she pursues a career as a clinical psychologist, freshman Hannah Meuret will find herself in the career field with the

highest unemployment rate in the country — 19.5 percent, according to the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce.

But Meuret says she developed a passion for psy-chology after her high school psychology class be-gan looking into a case study involving a 4-year-old with behavioral problems.

“They figured out that it was a psychological problem, and once it was addressed, the child’s be-havior made a total 180,” she said. “It was really cool. I don’t think any kids choose to be bratty or difficult, and with the right guidance and therapy, they can become happier, self-controlled people.”

Being the oldest of seven kids, Meuret’s personal experiences dealing with children have pushed her toward psychology with a minor in early childhood development. While she has not landed on a definite career path, she said she could see herself being a clinical psychologist, a child or family counselor or a social worker.

“I have a lot of skill and experience in helping others talk through their thoughts and feelings,” she said. “I have even more experience with children.”

Even though she isn’t concerned about whether she’ll be able to find a job when she graduates, re-cent data show that careers in psychology can vary wildly in terms of salary and employability.

DiLillo says clinical psychology involves un-derstanding and treating different behavioral and emotional problems experienced by adults and chil-

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dren. Median salary for the field is around $72,000 per year.

But those in Meuret’s other field of choice, counseling psy-chology, could see salaries half as high. People in counseling psychology, which includes fam-ily therapy and school counsel-ing, had the lowest median pay – $29,000 per year – in a 2011 Georgetown study of the job mar-ket. Early childhood education as a major has the second lowest me-dian pay, at $36,000 per year.

But Carolyn Edwards, an ear-ly childhood development profes-sor, said the numbers could be misleading.

“If you’re a preschool teacher in the community, your salary is not very high,” she said. “That is not regarded by all people as an early childhood development field. But for people working in public school settings, salary ben-efits are much higher. It would be comparable to that of elementary school teachers.”

UNL’s four-year degree pro-gram in early childhood develop-ment gives students an advantage over two-year programs, making them eligible for work as elemen-tary school teachers and giving them tools to potentially open and operate their own businesses, Edwards said. She added that the emerging field is gaining credibil-ity all over the country.

And she said graduate pro-grams can open up even more opportunities than a four-year de-

gree alone, allowing a student to become a licensing official for the state department of education, a school administrator or, like her, an academic.

For the 2013 fall semester, UNL has more than 800 students enrolled as psychology majors. Considering that employment and pay can be an obstacle in many psychology careers, the question arises of what influences college students in their choice of major or career.

According to a recent report by the National Association of Colleges and Employers, the No. 1 reason indicated by college se-niors as to why they chose a cer-tain major was “leads to a specific career.” Only 16 percent of re-spondents listed income and em-ployability as their top reasons for choosing a major.

DiLillo’s decision to pursue psychology didn’t involve the sal-ary and employment concerns of today.

“I think what the data sug-gests is that people should enter the field of psychology with an awareness that it’s not immedi-ately going to lead to the most lucrative career,” he said. “Un-dergrads should enter this major because they have a true passion and interest in the discipline and not see it as a way to a high sal-ary.”

Though he warns that gradu-ate school has become more competitive since he received his

Ph.D. in 1997, DiLillo stresses the importance of masters or doctoral programs for students interested in psychology careers.

“In almost every state in the country you have to receive a graduate degree in order to be licensed as a psychologist, so for people who want to provide di-rect services to clients and pro-vide psychotherapy you need at least a master’s degree, if not a Ph.D., in order to truly become a psychologist,” he said.

The Georgetown study, and many others, indicates that re-gardless of the field, graduate school makes a student more em-ployable and increases median salary.

Bill Watts, director of Uni-versity Advising and Career Ser-vices, said many factors should be considered when choosing a major, beyond salary and employ-ability, and students should use all resources available to them be-fore making such a decision.

“Clearly each student is differ-ent, some will value income, oth-ers might value time with family,” he said. “Students should consid-er many factors, including their interests, abilities and values, and how each of those matches the curriculum of various majors.”

And other factors can have major impacts on a student’s em-ployment prospects once they graduate.

DiLillo said research experi-ence in particular can give a stu-

dent the skills needed to separate his or herself from the rest of the pack.

“The kinds of skills you ac-quire by being involved in re-search, attention to detail, organi-zation, how to logically approach a problem and evaluate data, those are skills that are useful re-gardless of your career path,” he said.

And because of a drastic shift away from lifelong careers toward more short-term employment, the job market itself can be much trickier to navigate, Watts said.

“Few individuals will prepare for and stay in the same job for a lifetime,” he said. “It is impos-sible for current students to pre-dict and prepare for all the career options that may develop in the next five to 10 years. Therefore it is more important than ever for students to understand their own strengths and to develop the life-long ability to learn, adapt and network. These skills are indepen-dent of any single major choice.”

Meuret’s passion for psychol-ogy and childhood development outweighs her concerns about finding a job after graduation. Her current plan is to attend graduate school when she completes her undergraduate degree, although she said that may change.

In order to stay competitive in a changing industry, she knows, she may not have a choice.

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Passion isn’t easy to find, enable and unleash, but a bus tour tried to do just that at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln on Saturday.

The #besomebody tour stopped at UNL with the ulti-mate goal of creating a platform for passion, said Andy Heck, a production manager of the col-lege bus tour. About 50 students visited the #besomebody tour bus, taking pictures with Lil’ Red and a shield that said “Big Red Chal-lenge.”

Kash Shaikh founded #be-somebody to channel his passion of writing through prose of his ex-periences as a global executive for Procter & Gamble in 2011. People across the world soon began using the #besomebody hashtag to share their passions.

The #besomebody team’s goal is to travel 10,000 miles and visit 25 schools, and the bus has visited 18 schools so far. Two videogra-phers, a creative director, a social media manager and the founder travel on the bus. Next year, the bus plans to visit high schools and

businesses, Heck said. Most of the funding for the

bus comes from the founder, Shai-kh, but the tour members are just getting by, Heck said.

“We eat a lot of Ramen noo-dles,” he said.

#besomebody gave Big Red Challenge – a 5K and 10K obsta-cles race with profits funding a scholarship for veterans – $1,000 to put on the event, which will be April 24, 2014. #besomebody wanted to associate itself with or-ganizations that positively impact

the community, Heck said. Doug Cmelik, executive di-

rector of the Big Red Challenge, said the group hopes to see 5,000 runners and raise $300,000 to $400,000.

“The ultimate goal is to set up a unit for disabled veterans to come to UNL,” Cmelik said.

This scholarship would go into effect next school year, but Cmelik was unsure how many people will be able to receive the scholarship because the race’s profit will de-termine that.

Bobby Carter, a senior broad-casting major, said he didn’t know what the Big Red Challenge was

before visiting the #besomebody tour bus.

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allisoN hess | DNTaylor bolam, a sophomore accounting major, plays a game during the #besomebody College Cam-pus Tour saturday. The tour made stops throughout the United states, traveling 10,000 miles and stopping at 25 different college campuses.

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With many UNL students paying nearly $30,000 a year to attend classes, some question the value of their major. For ex-ample, the average starting sal-ary for an English major with a bachelor’s degree is $21,275, according to Studentsreview.com.

But Dufford doesn’t see low wages as a future problem, as the median salary for an intel-ligence analyst is more than $77,000. He said he already has three job offers for positions he’d start after graduation.

Dufford said he knows there is high competition for government jobs, but his knowledge of Russian is what makes his skills unique. Along with Arabic and Chinese, Rus-sian is considered a critical lan-guage by the U.S. government.

“There might be 1,000 in-ternational studies majors, but I wanted that one thing that set me apart from the rest,” Duf-ford said.

Unlike Dufford, some stu-dents have uncommon majors as secondary and tertiary fo-cuses. This trend is not uncom-mon for the major of women’s and gender studies, said Chan-tal Kalisa, director of women’s and gender studies.

The major, which currently hosts 23 undergraduate majors, has been offered at the univer-sity for more than 30 years.

Kalisa, who calls the major the university’s “best kept se-cret,” said those in the major or taking courses within it usually don’t enroll in it the beginning of their college careers.“It’s not something students are usually exposed to right out of high school,” Kalisa said. “People consider changing after taking their first class.”

Kalisa said students usu-ally pair the major with an-other major in the sciences and humanities, such as English, history, psychology, sociology, political science or communi-cation studies. Many women’s and gender studies majors want to work with women’s issues in areas such as politics, law or health, she said.

The major can be more ben-eficial for medical students than one may think, Kalisa said.

“The world is more than half women, and they have

specific health issues,” she said. “You can’t treat men’s and women’s bodies in the same way.”

Catherine Tran, a 2013 UNL graduate, majored in women’s and gender studies and is now attending the College of Medi-cine at the University of Ne-braska Medical Center. Tran, who transferred to UNL as an undeclared major her junior year after attending the Uni-versity of Pennsylvania, said she was interested in the major because it was interdisciplin-ary.

She said having the major in her arsenal gives her an edge in medical school.

“Most of my classmates are biology majors,” Tran said.

She said that as a hopeful future doctor, it is important for her to understand the cul-tural and historical context of health issues.

“You’re treating the whole person, not just their disease,” Tran said.

In the future, Tran said she is considering the options of working in women’s health or becoming an OB/GYN. What-ever she chooses, Tran said she wants to remain an advocate for women’s issues.

Besides long-term benefits, smaller majors have some ben-efits that students are reaping right now. Fewer people in ma-jors means smaller class sizes.

Dufford said he likes it this way because he can approach his professors and classmates easily, as opposed to being in a major like biological sciences, which had more than 600 stu-dents at the beginning of the semester, or business admin-istration with more than 1,100 majors.

“By senior year, you’re down to three or four people in each of your classes,” Dufford said.

He said he doesn’t think he would have been able to learn the language as well if he was in a larger class.

The only drawback, he said, is that he can’t slack off in his smaller classes.

“We have to come to class ready and engaged every sin-gle time,” he said. “You’re al-ways on the edge of your seat.”

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Michelle Waite will read 407 names to an audience on Mon-day. She’s scheduled to spend three seconds on each name, but

may linger a bit longer on one in particular: her grandfather’s.

Waite, assistant to the chan-cellor for community relations and co-chairwoman of the Stu-dent Veterans Task Force, is one of 13 volunteers to read the names as part of National Roll Call. The program, which Eastern Kentucky University started last year, seeks to commemorate Vet-eran’s Day by reading the names of fallen soldiers. The University of Nebraska-Lincoln is one of 91 schools in 34 states that pledged to be a National Roll Call partici-pant, promising to read names of Killed in Action soldiers and to hold a moment of silence. UNL’s Student Veteran Task Force is sponsoring the reading of 4,569 names of Nebraskan men and women killed in action since the start of World War I. The Univer-sity of Nebraska at Omaha is the only other Nebraska school par-ticipating.

UNL’s National Roll Call will start at 12:30 p.m. Monday in the Nebraska Union’s Heritage Room and is estimated to end

about 5:30 p.m. A moment of si-lence will occur at 1 p.m.

Other volunteers include ROTC members, Student Veteran Organization members and fac-ulty with other military connec-tions. The reading of the names will follow a presentation of the colors by UNL ROTC, the singing of the national anthem and a mo-ment of silence.

Beyond Waite’s professional interest in providing for student veterans on campus, her inter-est in honoring the fallen is also personal.

Her grandfather was killed in the Battle of the Bulge, the major World War II German of-fensive campaign in 1944 and 1945. Waite will read his name, along with 406 others, during her scheduled time frame.

Waite also has a son in his sixth year in the Army, currently stationed in Fort Bragg, N.C. She said she will be thinking of him during the ceremony as well.

“I think that there is some-thing just thought-provoking

about hearing the names,” Waite said. “It makes you think about what type of country we live in and our freedom and values.”

Tom Allison, director of Ca-reer Services and member of the task force, organized the event after hearing about the National Roll Call program at a sympo-sium February in Louisville, Ky. Allison said UNL is the only school reading names from as far back as World War I.

Though his father did not die in service, Allison grew up with him in the military. His father served two tours in Thailand during the Vietnam War, and Al-lison knows the effects that mili-tary service has on a person and a family. He’s seen it in his work as well, as the task force continues to identify and address issues that student veterans face.

Allison encourages all stu-dents, faculty and staff to come hear the names.

“The impact will be different for each individual, but everyone has some connection to a fallen

solider,” Allison said.Allison also wants people

to understand what nearly five hours of reading names really represents.

“That number is powerful,” Allison said. “Once you come to think about it, almost 5,000 individuals from Nebraska have given their lives in defense of this country since World War I. I think it’s important for us as an institution of higher education to bring those names forward as a point of remembrance.”

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Blue ketchup, a garden gnome and a taxidermic squirrel were just some of the items collected during the fourth annual Husker Hunt last Saturday.

Husker Hunt is a 24-hour campus-wide scavenger hunt hosted by the Residence Hall As-sociation that began last Saturday and ended Sunday. A tired group of students filled Harper Hall’s dining conference room at 2 p.m. Sunday, eagerly waiting to hear who won so that they could get home for some sleep.

The team “Peanuts” came in first place with 1,041 points. The winning team received a gift card of their choice as long as the business doesn’t sell alcohol. The second-place team, “Nifty Thrift-ies,” had 908 points. “The Chip-munks” came in third place with 878 points. The runner-up teams also received gift cards of lesser value. All teams received $10 gift cards for participating.

Team Peanuts was unsure what kind of gift cards it wanted and what it was going to do with

them; however, some of its mem-bers suggested they would choose Best Buy or Amazon.

This year’s challenge consist-ed of 12 teams. Each had to pick a certain theme and wear a uni-form throughout the challenge. The four-member teams were not allowed to separate or drive. Walking, biking and use of public transportation were allowed.

The Husker Hunt also fea-tured a brand new event selec-tion consisting of cupcake wars, catapult wars, a duct tape dress-making contest and an ROTC boot camp at 4 a.m., RHA events com-mittee chair and sophomore biol-ogy major Ethan Schwarten said.

Team cap-tains were also kidnapped at one point and had to be relocated by team members.

Photo chal-lenges had to in-clude a picture with the team captain and item, sent via email or tweet. Some of this year’s challenges included obtaining a photo with UNL Chancellor Harvey Perlman and a photo with both a campus cat and squirrel.

Team Peanuts’ favorite chal-lenge was the cupcake wars. Each team received 24 cupcakes and had to make a UNL-related monu-ment. Team Peanuts won with its Memorial Stadium replica, team captain and senior civil engineer-

ing major Heath Brockman said.Brockman also said the ROTC

challenge gave him a newfound respect for ROTC students.

“It was only 25 minutes, and we nearly died,” Brockman said.

Though Team Peanuts came out strong in most of the events, they did have one minor setback early in the challenge.

“We lost the pool challenge pretty handily – that was our sec-ond challenge, so it was pretty discouraging,” senior actuarial science major Nicholas Shaneyfelt said.

Although events such as the cupcakes wars and catapult challenge were optional, they were highly recom-mended because they were worth the most points and winning wouldn’t be possible without them, Schwarten said.

“I just wanted to make sure every-

one had a good time, people were happy with the events and the events were treated properly,” he said.

The winning team mentioned that its members’ lack of sleep put them at an advantage.

“We didn’t sleep — that’s a big thing,” Brockman said. “A lot of the other teams slept. We re-lied on our resources, we called friends who we knew had things.”

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From cupcake wars to boot camp, Husker Hunt engages students in 24 hours of diverse challenges

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It makes you think about what type of country we live in and our free-dom and values.”

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festival of lightsphotos by Matt Masindancers perform during the opening ceremony of the diwali festival in the Centennial room of

the nebraska Union on saturday. For Hindus, diwali is one of the most important festivals of the year. Families celebrate the holiday by performing traditional activities together in their homes.

a group of young dancers readies themselves for a bollywood-style dance during the diwali festival. The danc-ers performed in front of nearly 150 people who came to celebrate, as well as eat traditional Indian food. diwali is known as the “festival of lights” and families take part in the holiday by lighting candles together.

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Co n f u c i u s said, “Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work

a day in your life.” Some of the people I consider the most successful in my life have repeated this to me over and over again as their key to success. My aunt, who’s a nurse, and my eighth grade history teacher are both doing what they love, and wouldn’t trade it for anything. The best advice I can give to incoming freshman is to follow your passion and choose to do something you love.

When I graduated from high school, I thought I’d find a good major in the College of Business Administration. The biggest influences in my deci-sion were my family and teachers in high school.

Everyone loves to give advice on what they think you should do, and I was told to major in ev-erything from education to engineering, but the most common suggestion was business. I seemed to be thinking along the lines of many of my fam-ily members when they told me I could make a lot of money and that it

would be a practical major with a lot of different choices for an occupation. I thought I would major in business administration or finance, and maybe someday work at a bank as a financial advisor. I had never really thought about anything else, so it seemed like an easy choice, but looking back, it wasn’t the right one for me. After almost three months here at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, I’ve learned that business is not for me; my passion is in helping others. I’ve learned not to rely solely on the advice of others when deciding on your col-lege major and to make sure that it’s something that makes you happy.

There are well-paying occupations for every major, but the opportunity to do what you love and follow your passion is greater than any salary you could ever receive. If you are sitting at a desk in a dark, bland cubicle for the rest of your working life when your passion lies in teaching and leading a classroom or as a nurse, the amount of money you make in that office can never equal the satisfaction you get from following that dream.

Part of the challenge of finding a major that’s right for you is discovering what your passion is. Some people know what they want to do from a very young age, and some people discover their passion much later in life. I am lucky to have found out what I want to do early on in my college ca-reer, saving me time and money by taking classes only necessary for my major. I realized one day sit-ting in my BSAD 111 class that my passion wasn’t in business, it was in helping others, specifically teaching. That very week, I talked to my advisor about changing majors, and made the switch from the College of Business Administration to the Col-lege of Education and Human Sciences.

There are a couple of teachers I had during my middle school and high school years who re-ally made an impact on me. I could see their love for their career in the dedication and time they put into making their students better people, and I wanted to be able to help people in a similar way. Because my teachers gave so much and taught so much to myself and my classmates, I feel that I can do the greatest good for others by teaching them the way my teachers taught me. After listening to various lectures from actuaries, accountants and fi-nancial advisors, I knew business wasn’t for me. I just couldn’t see myself sitting in an office working on spreadsheets and crunching numbers all day. I needed to be working with people.

To me, being successful isn’t making the most money or having the biggest corner office. It’s do-ing what you love. I want to go home at the end of the day and feel good about myself and what I have done for others that day. With speech pathol-ogy, I will be making a difference in the life of chil-dren and elderly. I will be able to help a child with a learning disorder figure out the connection be-tween a dog and the sound it makes. I will be able to help someone’s grandpa relearn how to swallow after having a stroke. To me, that is more satisfying than giving someone a loan for a car or working on spreadsheets for an insurance company.

So to next year’s freshmen and people who aren’t sure about their current major, make sure that whatever you study is something that you want to do for the rest of your life, and that it’s something that you will enjoy doing. You will be infinitely happier doing what you love rather than what is most practical.

I’m only a freshman, so who knows — I might find something new that sparks my interest even more down the road. But whatever my final major and subsequent career may be, I know that I won’t be calling it work — I’ll be calling it “doing what I love.”

Travis eubanks is a freshman speech paThology major. reach him aT opinion@

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What exactly is the point of going to a four-year col-lege? This

is the most important question nearly 3.3 million high school seniors will soon be asking as they graduate high school this year. Some people will tell you to explore your passion or ex-plore research only in your areas of interest. I would argue the focus of going to a four-year institution should be none of these. The main reason some-body should go to college is to make them more employ-able than they were before they entered. The only way to do this is to choose a practical major.

The University of Nebraska-Lincoln offers more than 150 majors to students, including Art History and Criti-cism, Biochemistry and many other in between. Along with this wide range of majors comes a wide range of flex-ibility. According to a 2013 Georgetown University study, 7.9 percent of college graduates ages 22 to 26 are unem-ployed and millions more underemployed. Now you must ask yourself: Is now really a good time to pursue your pas-sion? It depends on how marketable your degree is. Even if you find your college education incredibly rewarding and valuable, what really matters is how important the person on the opposite side of the interviewing table finds it. You might have a nearly infinite amount of knowledge of poetry during the French Revolution, but that doesn’t mean you’ll find many jobs with your Renaissance Studies degree. This is why you should choose a major in an area that’s likely to lead you to success.

The practicality of a major can take form in a variety of ways. There are definitely majors that are almost never relevant to the areas their graduates pursue. Degrees such as anthropology are a good example. The current job mar-ket doesn’t offer a lot of positions for 22-year-old experts in the study of mankind. These types of degrees will likely place you in an unrelated career or force you to earn a mas-ter’s degree if you want to continue in the field. Instead, it would make more sense to get a degree in something such as communication studies. You’re still studying the social and biological problems of humanity, but it’s in an area of wider application. You could use a that degree to go into telecommunications, human resources or even business.

Students who take the pre-professional path also often get lost on finding a practical major. While I com-mend these types of people for showing the ambition to become a lawyer or doctor, sometimes the majors they choose aren’t ones that will set themselves up for suc-cess if they change their mind. Imagine entering college with the vision of becoming a lawyer. You’ll likely choose a standard major that is associated with pre-law students such as political science. If, after four years of college, you can’t get accepted to law school or decide that becoming a lawyer isn’t right for you, you’re now stuck with a degree in a very limited field. Students who want to take the pre-professional path should make sure they choose a major that will lead them to a career of interest if their first choice doesn’t work out. A more sensible major for students in-terested in pursuing law school might be one in the busi-ness college. A major in the business field would give them courses in marketing, accounting, finance, management and other subjects useful for lawyers that they may not learn in law school. These types of majors would make students more marketable to graduate schools as well. In addition to having a major that helps separate them from many other applicants, they will have appealing skills that many others don’t have.

Just because a major might seem broad does not nec-essarily make it less practical. In fact, a more general ma-jor might actually make even more sense in the modern economy. More and more jobs for college graduates will require employees to cover a wide variety of skills and tasks. The ability to adapt and innovate will only become more important.

Let’s take a student in the business college, for exam-ple. If you come into college only interested in becoming a financial advisor, a finance degree would make quite a bit of sense. But if you’re the vast majority of students en-tering college, you probably have a general idea of what you want to do, but not exactly what you want. These students would be better choosing a logical major that offers flexibility. Personally, I thought my skill set would work well in a career in business but had little knowledge of working in business before I entered college. I chose a business administration degree, which has allowed me to pick courses in marketing, economics, management and other areas. There isn’t a particular area where I’d call my-

self an expert, but there are many areas where I would say I’m qualified. That has allowed me to sell my skills and myself much better than if I only knew about one or two subjects.

Any major can be practi-cal at some point. The biggest question is if your major will lead you to the best chance of success. If you want to become an art teacher, an art

major would be very reasonable. If you want to become a doctor, maybe a major in the science or health field would be a better idea. One of the most important questions you can ask yourself in college is if your goals are realistic. Whatever your major, you must set yourself up for success.

Wade burkholder is a senior business adminisTraTion major. reach him aT

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College major selection should consider the need to make graduates more marketable in their chosen field

Finding a major that suits one’s temperment, interests, passions will satisfy the need for success in the long run

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‘QWoP’ offers no plot, difficult game controls

Video games, if done right, can deliver spine-rending difficulty while also being artistic or at least entertaining with well-written plots and atmospheric settings.

The infamous flash game, “QWOP,” does absolutely noth-ing to doll up its hilarious and cruel controls or its ungodly dif-ficulty. Many wouldn’t even con-sider this incredible display of terrible inhumanity a video game at all.

But if one wants the most dif-ficult challenge in video games, then one can’t find anything as torturous as “QWOP.”

“QWOP” sets players in the heroic, proud shoes of a track ath-lete, ready to make a dash toward victory by running as far as he can before his feeble limbs crumple under his weight, and he falls to the ground like a sack of anvils. The storytelling is lifeless and a disgrace toward modern video game conventions. It besmirches

the good name of games, even other flash games, and I person-ally hold contempt toward it.

But that’s not what players come for when they accept the punishment that is “QWOP,” is it?

No, what players look for is a challenge that will make them re-gret playing the game. Intelligent and decent folk will avoid this monstrosity at all costs, or they will secretly be lured into buying it by obscure deals with demonic forces. The unlucky,foolish souls who partake in this game will re-alize that the controls are laugh-able and treacherous: The Q, W, O and P keys of any given computer keyboard control the runner’s left and right calves and thighs indi-vidually. While this may seem slightly difficult but still possible to overcome, the sadistic mon-sters who designed the “game” — the ones who laugh at your at-tempts to succeed — established factors such as the gravitational pull of Jupiter and a weight for your runner matching that of a cardboard cutout of Rachel from “Friends.” All of this makes it so no human, no Robocop and no transcendent being from beyond will be able to make their runner reach 20 meters without sacrific-ing millions of hours or a goat (if one would desire to “cheat” at

this with supernatural forces.) However, “QWOP” is not

only horrendously hard, it’s also hilarious as hell. Nothing brings a group of (stoned) friends together better than a game that makes them slowly regret their decision or one that makes everyone seem like a pathetic creature incapable of simply making an avatar lift his feet up and run. The game will not be about who wins but about who loses less and who holds their sanity the longest. Everyone will feel humble with the fact that a damn flash game owned them.

“QWOP” is just a piece of work that the faint of heart should keep an arm’s length away. The game is so frustratingly hard that each person’s performance itself becomes hysterical.

It can also make for some good gambling when coupled with people who have never heard of it. Just a thought.

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new ‘pokemon’ game improves on old formula

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On Oct. 12, it became a little more dif-ficult to catch ‘em all.

“Pokémon X” and “Pokémon Y,” released on Nintendo’s current handheld, the 3DS, are the sixth gen-eration of entries to the main series of “Pokémon” video games developed by Game Freak and published by Nintendo since “Pokémon Red” and “Pokémon Green” were released on the Game Boy in February 1996 in Japan.

Each pair of “Pokémon” games released contains minute differences in scenery and each contain a hand-ful of Pokémon exclusive to one ver-sion or the other, allowing players to choose a slightly different path before they even start their Pokémon jour-ney and encouraging them to battle and trade with players of the other version in order to “catch ‘em all.”

Approximately every two years, a new generation of Pokémon is re-leased. The defining traits of a gen-eration include, but are not limited to, new Pokémon being introduced, usually, in a new location (or region) in which the story will take place, as well as new human characters and updated graphics. At its core, the for-mula of a player battling their Poké-mon against opponents’ Pokémon in order for their Pokémon to gain experience and level up has remained consistent across all six generations. Because of this, it could be difficult for someone who has never played Pokémon (yeah, right) to understand why it continues to thrive in a post-“Pokémon Madness” world.

“Pokémon X” and “Pokémon Y” follow the precedent of what defines the pair as a new generation, but what sets these two aside from the rest are, most notably, the corrections made to the type-balancing issues that have pestered the competitive bat-tling scene for years and improved accessibility to casual players by de-veloping the ability to quickly make teams of Pokémon fit for competitive battling.

In every game, each Pokémon has at least one, but no more than two of now 17 types, and every attack a Pokémon can learn has one type. Types are a generalized categoriza-tion system that determines which Pokémon will have certain advantag-es and disadvantages over another. These types are composed mostly of realistic elements: Fire, water, electric and ground being a few examples. In the second generation, two new

types, Dark and Steel, were intro-duced in order to fix balancing issues between the original 14 types. No new types have been introduced be-yond that point until this generation.

Between now and then, however, Pokémon with different type combi-nations have been introduced, as well as new attacks, each with different ef-fects in battle, and several of these are introduced in every generation. Over time, as more generations passed, new issues arose.

“Pokémon X” and “Pokémon Y” introduces the fairy type to balance the overpowered dragon type — one of the biggest headaches of competi-tive battling since “Pokémon Red” and “Pokémon Blue.” As a rather se-rious player, this is something that is very exciting to me and other individ-uals who are interested in Pokémon..

On the topic of competitive bat-tling, X and Y have made it easier than ever for casual players to tran-scend the line between casual and competitive. One of the most impor-tant aspects of competitive Pokémon battling is paying attention to each of your Pokémon’s “effort values,” or EVs. Effort values are what control any individual stat of a Pokémon, and how each of those stats increase when the player’s Pokémon defeats an opponent.

Additionally, Individual Values, or IVs, are a value between zero and 31 randomly assigned to each of a Pokémon’s stats, and it is highly un-likely any two Pokémon’s IVs will be exactly the same. IVs are just another way to make each individual Poké-mon more unique.

Before the sixth generation, this information was largely glazed over by official Nintendo media, primarily because the majority of Pokémon fans are children and do not understand these concepts. Recently though, Game Freak has realized the competi-tive battling scene is growing larger, and, as a result, introduced “Super Training” to make EV training more accessible.

In Super Training, the player chooses one of the Pokémon in his or her party to play a mini-game that requires the player to hit constantly moving targets using the 3DS’s touch-screen and stylus. The more accurately the player hits the targets, the larger the resulting rewarded EV gain is. This way, a player can com-pletely distribute the EVs exactly the way he or she wants in a time span of about 45 minutes or less, as opposed to the several hours it would take in all of the previous games to battle

hundreds of a specific Pokémon that would yield the desired EV.

For lack of a better phrase, this feature is one of the best examples of fan service and responding to what the target audience wants in a video game. Other major developers in the video game industry could definitely learn a thing or two from Game Freak.

Another big change to competi-tive battling is the introduction of Mega Evolutions. Mega Evolutions are temporary evolutions that only last for the duration of a battle, which can be activated if a Pokémon is able to Mega Evolve and is holding the correct Mega Stone. Only one Poké-mon on a player’s team can Mega Evolve at any time during battle. When a Pokémon Mega Evolves, its appearance changes and certain stats are increased, adding an entirely new layer to team-building for competi-tive battles.

Outside of extraordinary im-provements to the battle system, X and Y received the biggest graphical update in the history of the main se-ries. For the first time, X and Y feature 3D models of every Pokémon in fully-rendered 3D environments. This ad-dition to the main series is something Pokémon fans have craved for years.

What’s more, Game Freak has gone all-out in terms of internet con-nectivity. “Pokémon X” and “Poké-mon Y” introduce new features such as Wonder Trading, the Friend Safari and O-Power, all giving the player an

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When it comes to greasy things you take home after a night out, you have two options: That guy in the Hawaiian

print button-up who came on to you or a crispy, golden chicken tender.

Let’s be real — you can dip only one in Cane’s sauce and not regret it in the morning.

University of Nebraska-Lincoln stu-dents began flocking to Raising Cane’s post-bar crawl when it opened a down-

town location at 14th and P streets last year.

With four main meal combos on the menu, it’s easy to slur “three-finger combo” at the counter and end up with all the carbohydrates your drunken heart desires.

The Daily Nebraskan took the initia-

tive to ask Saturday night’s bar crowd about chicken and what they would do with a gallon of Cane’s special sauce.

As he sat alone in a booth in the ear-ly hours of Sunday morning, Cody Kim-ball kept to his typical three-piece order from Cane’s while assuring us that, yes, he actually had friends with him.

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Lately, it’s been getting more and more difficult to enjoy a movie in theaters.

Bright cellphones, side con-versations, loud popcorn munch-ing — seems to me people don’t have much respect for the other members of an audience, which is disheartening because seeing a movie on the big screen is one of those consistently entertaining experiences. It’s a popular form of escapism for a reason.

When I saw “12 Years a Slave” on Friday night at The Ross, the entire theater was damn near si-lent for the full 134 minutes.

“12 Years a Slave” is the true story of Solomon Northup, a free black man who was kidnapped and sold into slavery. The film notes that very few men who found themselves in similar cir-cumstances were able to prove their free status and be freed like he was.

Northup (Chiwetel Ejiofor) is first owned by a Baptist preacher named William Ford (Benedict Cumberbatch), but run-ins with Ford’s aggressive overseer John Tibeats (Paul Dano) lead to North-up’s sale to Edwin Epps (Michael Fassbender).

Northup toils away under Epps’ draconian rule, befriending a hard-working slave named Pat-sey (Lupita Nyong’o) and making several attempts to save himself without any success. Eventually, with the help of a friendly Cana-dian named Bass (Brad Pitt), Nor-thup is able to notify his family of his whereabouts, is rescued from Epps’ plantation and returned to his family.

“12 Years a Slave” is two mov-ies, I think. Not in the sense that

there are multiple distinct nar-ratives because the film is quite linear in telling Northup’s story, but in the sense that director Steve McQueen made it with two dis-tinct goals in mind, both of which he achieved with breathtaking clarity and vision.

The first goal is to tell the hon-est story of a man whose freedom was taken from him and replaced with whips and chains. He ac-complishes this easily thanks to powerful dialogue and a brilliant, moving performance from Ejiofor, whose oscillation between a Book-

er T. Washington and a W.E.B. Du Bois ideal of black survival and empowerment is heartbreaking and inspiring. Several powerful scenes illustrate his dilemma.

In the first, Northup argues with a fellow slave who has been separated from her children. While she wants to cry, he tells her the only way to survive is to be strong, to put their heads down, work hard and hold onto hope for a better future. In another, he is unable to restrain his anger at the overseer Tibeats, beating him savagely in a field, echoing an ear-

lier scene where the same is done to him.

McQueen reconciles his com-peting visions in a third, over-whelmingly powerful scene: After an older slave drops dead in a cotton field, the others bury him and hold a brief funeral. Solo-mon stares off in silence while the others sing a spiritual, but as his passion grows, he joins in, grow-ing louder and stronger with each refrain.

I see it like this: Knowing he can’t simply escape, knowing that no matter how hard he works

and how kind he is, Epps will de-spise him simply for the color of his skin. He reconciles himself to a spiritual rebellion, one which allows him to keep dignity and self-respect while vocalizing his discontent and anger. It’s a beau-tiful scene that demonstrates how, even in the face of unthinkable op-pression and brutality, the human spirit can always overcome.

The second goal is to delin-eate the competing ideologies and opinions regarding that “pecu-liar” institution. Each character, especially the white characters, demonstrate a different view. Ford is not an unkind man, he treats his slaves with respect, and one gets the impression that he resorts to slavery more out of the need for cheap labor than because of a ha-tred for black people. The overseer he employs does not feel this way, however, and both use that hateful racial slur with reckless abandon.

Epps, a horrifyingly good per-formance by Fassbender, makes no secret of his racism, on the oth-er hand. He uses the Bible to justi-fy slavery, waxes poetic about his “property” and ruthlessly beats any slave whose productivity falls by even a fraction. Far and away the most productive slave, Patsey, is ironically the one beat the most, because of Epps’ wife’s irrational and violent hatred of her.

And then there is Bass, who tells Epps to his face that slavery is morally wrong, and who does his “duty” by helping Northup contact his family and securing his release.

McQueen and his excellent cast show us the ways in which slaves coped with horrible oppres-sion and the ways in which white people saw slavery as an institu-tion. He gives us a fairly complete picture of the dynamics of slavery

through the story of a man who, like millions more before and after him, was deprived of the most ba-sic of all human rights.

“12 Years a Slave” and the tragic injustices it tells of should be burned deep into our collective consciousness and never, ever for-gotten.

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I love superhero movies. “Iron Man” (the first one) is my jam, I saw “The Avengers” five times in theaters, and I could probably recite the majority of “The Dark Knight” to you word for word (I know, not Marvel, but still).

But even with my avid love of all things superhero, I still had low expectations going into “Thor: The Dark World.”

The only reason I wasn’t expecting much from the new “Thor” movie was because it was a sequel to a movie that, quite honestly, kind of sucked. It man-aged to be both predictable and somewhat confusing, with char-acters that (aside from Loki) were not all that unique or engaging (though I still watched it because Chris Hemsworth is pretty). So when I sat down to watch “Dark World,” I reminded myself to keep my expectations low.

I was pleasantly surprised.The plot is still relatively pre-

dictable. Aside from a couple of twists, audiences can pretty much see everything coming, but it doesn’t kill the excitement en-tirely. As you might guess, Thor (Hemsworth) has to take down an evil army that seeks a weapon to destroy the universe — as usual.

This time, however, he has to enlist the help of his charismatic

and slightly maniacal brother, Loki (Tom Hiddleston), and that’s where things get interesting.

For a lot of superfans, the “Thor” series is now less about Thor and more about Loki, and this movie showed exactly why: Loki is dynamic, unpredictable and hilarious. Hiddleston’s char-acter is so much more layered and compelling than anyone else

in the movie that he alone keeps the audience guessing, something to which no other characters in “Dark World” came close. He’s not just hard to figure out; he’s ridicu-lously funny. Loki’s witty retorts (particularly in a scene in which he shapeshifts into other various characters from the Thor and Mar-vel universe) provided the major-ity of the movie’s comedic relief,

and I was totally OK with it.That being said, Kat Dennings

provided a couple of laughs here and there as Jane’s brash and clue-less intern, Darcy, but I was glad that her clumsiness wasn’t the only humor the movie offered.

That brings me to one of the film’s biggest disappointments: Dr. Jane Foster (Natalie Portman). Now maybe it’s just that I forgot

that she played such a small role in the first movie, but I was ex-pecting both more screen time and a more active role for a char-acter with so much potential. She takes the back seat as a damsel in distress for nearly the entire film, only serving to help for a few mo-ments in the movie’s concluding scenes.

A character with intelligence like Foster being played by an ac-tress like Portman deserves much more than what this movie al-lowed.

Lastly, if you’re a superfan like me, you know to stay after any Marvel movies’ credits for your extra little dose of cliffhanger, and this one was no different.

The extra credits scene was the most confusing one I’ve ever seen. I can’t reveal anything, but I think it sets things up nicely for a new Thor movie. I say “think” be-cause I had such little knowledge of what was going on that I had to come home and research the char-acters mentioned. But whatever they were talking about, it seemed like an exciting opportunity for some serious butt-kicking, good-conquering-evil stuff.

Now whether you adore Mar-vel like I do or you have no idea who Nick Fury is, my advice to you would be to go into “Dark World” without any prejudices, unlike me. It may not be as su-per as some of Marvel’s previous

heroes, but it’s the best Thor has done yet.

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sometimes it can feel like you’re not getting the most out of your Heelys. it can be easy to settle into normal tricks, such as tail grabs,rail slides and half-boys, but sometimes you gotta spread your wings and take advantage of your shoes with built-in wheels.

1. the moving sidewalk. We know skateboards are lame and not used anymore, but if you can find one at a garage sale or the town dump, try wearing your Heelys while riding it. six wheels, dude! this is the stuff your grandfather dreamed about. other pedestrians will see you and be like, that guy or girl is tearing it up without a shred of mercy.

2. the Heelin’ and dealin’. Go buy a pack of cards at the local magic shop — you’re going to want the highest quality you can find, no dollar store crap. Fill your pockets with them and find a good place to show off. Gather an audience and start an exhibi-tion of your skill. mid-front flip, grab the cards and throw them to the ground. yell out the name of a card and then land on that exact one. alternative name for this move: 52-card-pick-up-some-tail.

3. the Heelchair. time to think outside the box — and outside the shoe! take those bad boys off right now. Use a piece of twine to tie them together (make sure the knot is taut), then sit on them. if you use your torso to shift back and forth, you can generate some speed. try going through a fast food drive-thru. Usually drive-thrus can only detect cars because they’re made of metal, but there is nothing more metal than Heelys.

4. the come-on-and-Get-down. if you have strong thighs, then you have a new Heely move in your arsenal. this move is all about squatting, which can seem weird while heelin’ because you’re usually way up in the air, showing gravity what’s what. but for this move, you’ll want to squat so much that your knees are around your ears. this’ll decrease the drag you get while you ride around, letting you gain speed you can use to jump even more stairs.

5. meals on Heels. if you have some cold food and don’t have the time to nuke it, tie it to the back of your Heelys and take the heat to the street! the faster you heel, the faster your food is going to be ready to eat. and let me tell you, nothing tastes better than food you warmed by dragging it behind you for a few minutes. Heads up, though, you might get some odd stares from others, but know that it’s only because they’ve never seen such a genius idea before.

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The Friend Safari includes a new area for each friend code a player has registered in his or her 3DS. Each new area contains two to three of a single type of Pokémon, which may or may not have a secondary type as well. For the first time, players are also able to find the starter Pokémon of other generations in some of these safaris with the right amount of luck. The type of the safari is randomly assigned to each player at the start of the game and does not affect any other aspect of the game in any way.

O-Powers are power-ups that allow you to help your friends in in-game battles. There are O-Powers for every stat, and they improve the chosen stat of the first Pokémon that

is sent out in the next battle. The more a player sends or uses a certain O-Power, the stronger the O-Power becomes, giving the next Pokémon to use it even more of an advantage in battle.

Compared to all of the improve-ments in competitive battling and additional connectivity features, the new Pokémon and new scenery that are introduced with every iteration of the series are just icing on the cake.

The plots of “Pokémon X” and “Pokémon Y” are more or less the same as all the other “Pokémon” games: The protagonist is the “cho-sen one” out of their friends starting upon similar journeys and must ob-tain gym badges by beating the eight Pokémon Gym Leaders in order to take on and defeat the Elite Four, while simultaneously foiling Team Flare’s plans to wipe out the entirety of the human species in order to cease further destruction of the Earth’s nat-ural beauty (seriously). This is noth-ing ground breaking or overwhelm-ingly new in comparison to the other aspects of the games, but still a blast to play through.

“Pokémon X” and “Pokémon Y” pleasantly welcome new fans, will not disappoint old fans, and, if any-thing, should revive hope in those who have drifted away from the se-ries in the past. This is the pinnacle of “Pokémon” gaming to this point.

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The senior engineering major said coming to Cane’s is a weekly ritual for him, especially after a night out.

“I usually come in during the day,” Kimball said. “Every week or every other week when I’m drunk, usually.”

Kimball said his loyalty to Cane’s chicken, sauce and Tex-as toast is unparalleled, and it would take a tragic event to keep him from his late-night ritual.

“Raising Canes is pretty awe-some,” Kimball said. “It would probably have to be a death in the family, to be honest.”

Austin Connor and Erik John-son, two junior physics majors at UNL, arrived at Cane’s after a night of hanging out and watch-ing football in Sandoz Hall with friends.

Both students typically order “The Box Combo” and are all about the Cane’s sauce.

Though Connor said it would take “a full furlong” of Cane’s sauce to kill a man, he said he would embrace the opportunity to obtain a gallon.

“First, gather all sorts of food,” Connor said. “Whether it’s a dessert item, main course, any-thing. Even a zucchini. And just taste it and test it to see if any-thing new could come up. Then, you know, just have a party with it. Just drink it.”

The downtown Raising Cane’s has benefited from the drunken crowd and night owls who ar-rive between midnight and its 3 a.m. close, but many were loyal to Cane’s long before its newest Lincoln location.

“My brother graduated from UNL and told me all about it,” Johnson said. “So the first time I came here, I fell in love with the place. It’s just a staple at UNL — you have to go to Cane’s after Husker football games. It’s not just a restaurant, it’s more than that. Plus, the food is delicious.”

Though Connor, a former em-ployee of the 14th and O Jimmy John’s, said Jimmy John’s is still Lincoln’s prime drunk and late-night food establishment, John-son remained loyal to Cane’s.

“Whenever you have security officers or police officers in the lobby of the establishment, that says something about it,” John-son said.

Christopher Hurley is one of those security guards.

Like the rest of the people in-side the restaurant, Hurley is a “caniac.” Hurley has been work-ing for Lincoln Guards as a secu-rity guard at Raising Cane’s for more than two months and has

experienced crowds of all tem-peraments and sizes.

“It gets a little crazy around 2 when the bars close,” Hurley said. “But it depends on the day. Usually at least one person every night gets kicked out, either for being too drunk or getting in a fight.”

Although the Cane’s menu is uniform across the country, Sarah Paprocki, a Nebraska na-tive who now attends Oklahoma State University, said she has yet to encounter a Cane’s as good as the ones in Lincoln.

“The Cane’s sauce is not up to perfection yet in Oklahoma, but it’ll get there,” Paprocki said. “I get extra Cane’s sauce that I take home, and I dip my pizza in it. I’m not even joking. It’s delicious.”

Paprocki also said she eats at Cane’s about once a week, but tries to limit her chicken finger intake because she is a “broke col-lege student.”

“Even if it’s not as good as last

time, it’s still always good,” Pap-rocki said.

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so the first time i came here, i fell in love with the place. it’s just a staple here at Unl — you have to go to cane’s after Husker football games. it’s not just a restaurant, it’s more than that. Plus, the food is delicious.”

erik joHnsonsenior physics major

Allison hess | dnmany people routinely frequent the raising cane’s on the corner of 14th and P streets for a late-night meal on the weekends.

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The Husker wrestling team show-cased the 2013-14 team in this year’s wrestle-offs on Friday at the Bob Devaney Sports Center.

The wrestle-offs were the end of the annual coaches clinic. The competition between teammates was intense, as each athlete wres-tled for his spot as the No. 1 wres-tler in his weight class.

The wrestlers enjoyed wres-tling on the stage.

“There’s a lot more hype for these,” senior 197-pounder Ca-leb Kolb said. “Practice is always intense, but when you are out in front of the crowd, under the lights, with only two matches go-ing, you know everyone’s watch-ing, and you don’t want to make a mistake.”

The night was kicked off with redshirt freshman Tim Lambert beating senior Shawn Nagel by way of a pin in the second period at 125 pounds.

Nagel wrestled at 133 pounds last season for the Huskers and wrestled well in many duals.

“Tim Lambert was a real stand-out tonight,” coach Mark Manning said after the wrestle-offs. “Shawn has wrestled for us for three years now, and he has won a lot of big matches for us and is a great com-petitor.”

Other wrestlers were im-pressed with Lambert as well.

“For me looking at him as a senior, I know he is going places,” Kolb said. “He is always working hard, always going the extra mile. When he gets older and is a leader on this team, they will go far be-cause his attitude is infectious.”

All-American junior Rob-ert Kokesh wrestled once at 174 pounds, winning his match against redshirt freshman McCoy Newberg by way of technical fall.

There were other impressive performances on the night.

Kolb was the winner of two matches, both of which were taken

into multiple overtimes. Kolb bat-tled junior Spencer Johnson in the 197-pound class. The first match between the two went into double overtime, with Kolb winning by an escape.

The second match went into triple overtime, with Kolb riding Johnson out to win the match. This was Kolb’s first chance at competi-tion this year because of an ankle injury.

“It was crazy. My first match of the year going into double over-time is intense stuff,” Kolb said. “I’m never the biggest guy in my weight class, and I don’t have to worry about cutting weight, so when I get into overtime I’m pretty

confident.”NCAA Tournament qualifier

junior Jake Sueflohn also had an impressive outing for the team. He won both of his matches. In the first match, Sueflohn won by way of pin against junior Luis DeAnda at 149 pounds.

He won his second match against freshman Destin McCau-ley by an injury forfeit.

“I felt I did pretty good,” Sue-flohn said. “That first match I came out a little slow. I didn’t get a take-down until like a minute into the match, and then the second match was a good match. We started off with a good 30 to 40 second scram-ble. It was good competition, and I

thought I did well.”It was not all good for the

Huskers, as three athletes went down with injuries. Redshirt fresh-man Collin Jensen, McCauley, and junior Brandon Wilbourn went down.

“It’s a part of our sport that we don’t like, but we have to deal with,” Manning said.

The Huskers dual season be-gins Sunday against Big Ten Con-ference foe Northwestern.

“We will have a good week of practice, and we will put our best 10 guys out on the mat for North-western,” Manning said.

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The Nebraska women’s basketball team began the new era of Ne-braska basketball – twice.

Senior forward Jordan Hooper matched up against UCLA’s Lu-iana Livulo for the tip-off of the first regular-season game at Pin-nacle Bank Arena. Neither player had an advantage once the ball was in the air, and it came to the ground. The scramble for the ball resulted in a jump ball.

Both teams gathered at center court to try the tip off again. This time, Livulo won the battle, and Game 1 was under way. It ended in a 77-49 victory by the No. 17 Huskers.

The scoring opened up on the Bruins’ first possession, as senior guard Thea Lem-berger drained a deep 2 from the outside.

With 15:50 re-maining in the first half, Nebraska ju-nior forward Emily Cady put away the first made 3-point-er of the game. It gave the Huskers a 3-point lead over the Bruins, and the NU squad would hold onto the advantage for the rest of the game.

The Huskers added to the lead by going on a 21-4 run.

During the run, Hooper made her first 3-pointer of the game, and UCLA’s senior forward Ant-onye Nyingifa missed a jumper on the next possession. The ball was collected by junior Brandi Jef-fery and quickly pushed up court. Hooper got the ball and put up a shot from beyond the arch with a hand in her face. The shot was good and was Hooper’s second 3-pointer of the game.

The next 4 points for the Husk-ers came off of two fast-break la-

yups from Jeffery, after the Bruins missed two consecutive 3’s.

Jeffery totaled 4 points, 2 as-sists, 3 rebounds and a steal dur-ing the 20-4 run.

“Brandi had a good section,” Nebraska coach Connie Yori said. “She played re-ally well during that section of the game.”

The coach also said part of the run was the Bruins’ fa-tigue.

“We obviously knew they were undermanned, and so that was a fo-cus going in,” Yori

said.UCLA played with six players

during the entire game because of injuries. According to UCLA coach Cori Close, this was not a factor in the team’s loss.

“Hooper played 32 minutes, and if the game wasn’t out of hand, she would’ve played more than that. And could she have played more than that? You bet,” Close said. “I thought it was that we weren’t experiencing success, and we were slow getting back.”

The Huskers came out in the second half with the same suc-cess as in the first. Nebraska built

a lead of 30 points in the second half with 28 seconds left in the game.

When the final buzzer sound-ed, the Huskers earned the first win of the regular season.

“I felt like we came out and just had fun with it,” Hooper said. “We were really excited about this.”

Hooper recorded a double-double with 27 points and 11 re-bounds. Freshman Allie Havers was second on the team in points with 14. The Huskers shot 50.9 percent from the field for the game.

The Bruins were led by senior guard Lemberger, who recorded 17 points and 4 assists while play-ing 38 minutes. Nyingifa played all 40 minutes of the game and racked up 12 points, 7 rebounds and 3 steals.

The Huskers will take on Alabama on Monday at Pinnacle Bank Arena.

Alabama is coming off an 82-70 road loss to Tennessee-Chatta-nooga, which Nebraska defeated in last season’s NCAA Tourna-ment. The Tide had four players record double-digit points, with senior Shafontaye Myers leading the squad with 19 points. Ala-bama shot 46.9 percent from the field in the game.

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Going into its fourth match of the season Saturday, the No. 5 Ne-braska rifle team hoped to have a home advantage against No. 9 Memphis. Although the Huskers knew it was going to be a chal-lenging and close-scoring meet, coach Stacy Underwood said she had high hopes for the team.

The team walked away with its third straight win, 4,635-4,630.

“It was a very close match,” Underwood said. “I’m a little bit disappointed because after see-ing how we trained this week, I know we didn’t perform to our full potential. I think we dropped

the ball on a chance to get higher scores.”

Memphis was led by Dan Hermsmeier, who shot a 582 in smallbore and a 590 in air rifle. Nebraska was led by freshman Rachel Martin in smallbore with a score of 581 and sophomore De-nise Martin with a score of 591 in air rifle. Underwood said she was impressed with their final scores and thought it was a highlight of the match.

“There were definitely some good moments in this match, but we just need to make it all happen at once,” Underwood said.

In this match, Underwood was looking for senior Sunny Russell to have a breakthrough and also had high expectations for junior

Kelsey Hansen, who Underwood thought had improved in terms of her mental approach.

Russell went from a 568 in smallbore and a 586 in air rifle at UT-Martin to a 569 and 578, re-spectively.

“Individually, my perfor-mance was not nearly as strong as I had hoped,” Russell said. “I did not execute my shots like I had been doing in training and now have new goals for the upcoming weeks.”

Hansen went from went from a 571 in smallbore and a 583 in air rifle to a 575 and a 584, respective-ly. Underwood thought Hansen’s first 30 shots in air rifle were well done.

Overall, Underwood said she

thinks the team wasn’t relaxed during the meet.

“I think we were a little out of our comfort zone,” Underwood said. “Hopefully we can just go through the rest of the season and become more com-fortable and get some higher scores; that’s what we’re lacking.”

At their previous match against UT-Martin, Underwood felt the team lacked skill in air rifle. The week leading up to their match against Memphis, Underwood had her team focus heavily on that weak-

ness, practicing new drills and doing more focused training.

“She has been setting high goals and standards for all of us, and these have helped motivate us toward harder work and higher scores,” Russell said. “We would benefit from bettering our abil-ity to carry over what we work on in train-ing into more stress-ful match scenarios. We want to fully stick to the game plan we developed in practice during a competition

and not allow stress or anxiety change our approach.”

With three wins and one loss under Nebraska’s belt, Under-wood said she has many plans for the rest of the season.

“We’re going to push hard to replicate a match and be prepared,” Underwood said. “Matches are four hours of being drained both physically and men-tally – people sometimes compare it to an SAT, where you’re just so mentally drained after. We’re go-ing to work on being outside of our comfort zone and knowing how to compete and stay strong during a match.”

The team’s next match is against Ohio State on Nov. 23 at 8 a.m.

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JeNNifer Gotrik | DNsenior 197-pounder caleb kolb won both of his matches against teammate spencer Johnson in the nebraska wrestle-offs on Friday night. kolb won the first match by escaping in the sec-ond overtime and the second match by riding Johnson out in the third overtime.

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The No. 11 Nebraska volleyball team took down No. 16 Wisconsin (18-25, 25-20, 25-23, 25-19) and No. 9 Minnesota (25-22, 15-25, 27-25, 15-25, 15-11) this weekend.

The Huskers began the week-end against the Badgers on Friday, and according to Nebraska coach John Cook, the start of the match was not up to par for his squad.

“We were not good in Game 1,” Cook said in a post-match radio show. “That might have been our worst game all year.”

The Badgers jumped out to 7-1 lead to start the game on Nebraska freshman Amber Rolfzen’s attack-ing error.

The Huskers started to cut into the lead on a Rolfzen solo stuff block to pull Nebraska within 5, but the errors from the Huskers and the persistent Badger attack kept NU from completing the comeback at-tempt.

Wisconsin sealed Game 1 on a kill from junior Ellen Chapman.

Chapman recorded five kills in the set to lead the Badger attack. Freshman setter Lauren Carlini paced the offense with 11 assists and an ace in Game 1.

The Huskers offense was led by freshman Kadie Rolfzen, who earned 6 kills in the set.

The second set was a close bat-tle until the end. Neither offense got going in the set, as the Huskers had a hitting clip of .139 percent, and the Badgers recorded a .000 percent hit-ting clip.

The teams totaled 11 attacking errors and 6 service errors in the set.

With the score knotted up at 18, the Huskers grabbed the lead on a Badger attacking error. The Husk-ers maintained the lead to claim Game 2.

The third set had both offenses back in rhythm, as both squads notched a hitting clip above .350 percent. Much like the previous set, the score went back and forth until the score was tied at 18.

Again the Huskers took the lead, but this time on a kill from senior Kelsey Robinson, and the squad held off the Badgers to con-trol the third set.

Robinson notched a kill to give the Huskers an early 3-2 lead in the fourth set, and that proved to be enough, as the Huskers never gave up the lead.

With match point, Robinson fired a service ace to finish the game.

Robinson completed the match with 21 kills and 13 digs. Kadie Rolfzen notched 19 kills and a team-leading 17 digs.

Cook said the floor defense was crucial in the game.

Wisconsin was led by Chap-man and junior Deme Morales, who both recorded 15 kills. Carlini continued her impressive first year by adding 42 assists.

The Huskers then took on the Minnesota Gophers Sunday.

The Huskers held a slight ad-vantage for the majority of the first set, but the Gophers tied the score at 20 on a double block on Robinson from junior Adrianna Nora and se-nior Tori Dixon.

Coming out of the timeout, the Huskers earned back-to-back double blocks. NU took Game 1 on a kill from Kadie Rolfzen.

Robinson notched seven kills and two blocks in the first set, and junior setter Mary Pollmiller earned two service aces and 17 assists.

Senior Ashley Wittman and Nora both recorded 4 kills in the set.

The second set had the Gophers grab a 20-14 lead on a Robinson at-tacking error, which lead to a Ne-braska timeout. After the timeout, the Huskers only recorded one point, on a kill from sophomore Kelsey Fien.

Nora commanded the Gophers’

attack, tallying 6 kills in the set.Game 3 started out with Husk-

ers advantage, but the Gophers stayed in the game and tied the score at 23. After a double block from Amber Rolfzen and Meghan Haggerty, Nora responded with a kill to force extra points in the set.

With set-point for the Huskers, Kadie Roflzen and Haggerty came up with a double block to give Ne-braska a 2-1 set lead.

In the fourth set, the Gophers jumped out to 24-14 on a shot from Dixon.

Game 4 concluded on one of Wittman’s 6 kills in the set. Nora contributed 4 kills and 3 blocks in Game 4.

The final set began with Kadie Rolfzen firing off three consecutive kills, but the Gophers responded by notching three consecutive points of their own.

The Huskers started to build a lead, but the Gophers started to cut into it at 13-10 on a double stuff block.

Three points later, Robinson notched the game-winning kill.

Robinson led the Huskers with 23 kills and 18 digs. Pollmiller paced the attack with 61 assists.

The Gophers were led by Wit-tman with 19 kills. Nora also was a major contributor to the attack with 18 kills and 6 block assists in the match.

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The top-ranked Nebraska bowling team finished second out of 14 teams at the Crusader Classic in Valparaiso, Ind., this weekend, and Arkansas State took home first.

“It was the first tournament of the year,” Nebraska coach Bill Straub said. “The girls came off a month of scrimmaging just themselves, so this was a chance to see someone in a different colored jersey. I think the result was better than anticipated.”

The three-day tournament was also the first for true fresh-man Briana Zabierek along with red-shirt freshmen Alexandra Mosquera and April Campbell, who finished fifth in the individual standings with an av-erage score of 203. Junior Liz Kuhlkin earned a second place individual rank-ing and all-tournament honors with an average score at 206.

“I think I did really well for my first time,” Campbell said. “I was really ner-vous going into it, but everyone said I didn’t show it. Actually being in the tournament was a lot to handle emo-tionally, but as the season progresses, I think it’ll get easier.”

Nervous or not, Campbell’s per-formance helped the Huskers reach the championship match against the Ar-kansas State Red Wolves and their head coach Justin Kostick, a UNL alumni.

The match began with the Huskers trailing 2-0 after the Red Wolves’ Game 1 victory with a score of 199-187 and another victory in Game 2 with a score

of 224-170. Nebraska stole game three with a score of 245-189. Arkansas State clinched the Crusader Classic title after a win in Game 4 with a score of 186-157 and a final Game 5 win with a score of 194-155.

“I think they did really well. It was our first time bowling as a team, not just myself but Alex (Mos-quera), too, and we pulled it out really well,” Campbell said.

Even with six freshmen on the roster, Campbell said the hopes of earning the National Championship title two years in a row have not diminished.

“I think we have a really good chance of defending,” Campbell said. “This was our first time out together, and we did really well.”

Straub said working to-ward the repeat title will come

from hard work and taking meets as they come.

The team chemistry has already contributed a lot to the success on the lanes, according to Campbell.

“We’re really close emotionally, too, not just as a team, but we’re really close like a family,” she said. “We’re behind each other a lot.”

While placing fifth overall was a nice accomplishment for Campbell, she said she was aiming higher going into the height of the season.

“I think I’m focusing on just prov-ing to myself that I can do this and ob-viously trying to make all-tournament team,” she said.

Straub said the team’s overall per-formance was a pleasant surprise and that more preparation is needed for the Big Red Invite to be hosted at the Sun Valley Lanes in Lincoln on Nov. 21-23.

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After accomplishing its season-long goal of a Big Ten regular sea-son title, the No. 18 Nebraska soc-cer team immediately set another goal for itself: winning the Big Ten Tournament.

The top-seeded Nebraska team took the field Sunday against No. 7 seed Iowa and defeated the dark horse team of the tournament 1-0 to claim the tournament title. For Nebraska, it was just as sweet to achieve another conference mile-stone.

“It’s a great feeling,” senior goalkeeper Emma Stevens said. “This team is determined to do so well. Our coaches told us to set

ourselves with a new goal, and we did it.”

Leading up to Sunday after-noon, the two teams were consis-tent in their path to the Big Ten championship.

The Huskers surrendered ear-ly goals in both of their matches before the tournament final.

In both the quarterfinal and semifinal of the tournament, the teams managed to bounce back to win. Nebraska beat Minnesota in the quarterfinal 4-1 af-ter allowing a goal in 39 seconds in and then went on to beat Indiana 3-1 after allowing a score in the eighth minute of the semi-final.

Iowa won both of its tournament matches 1-0 as the underdog. The Hawkeyes first defeated No. 2 seed Michigan and then the de-fending Big Ten Champions, No. 3 Penn State. The two wins were the

first tournament wins in program history for Iowa.

As the game began, both teams were desperately trying to get an early lead, and in the 29th minute, the Huskers’ aggressive-ness on offense paid off.

Freshman forward Jaycie Johnson took the ball into the

box, where she was fouled by one of the Hawkeye defenders to force a penalty kick op-portunity for the Huskers. Her team-mates knew they had the right play-er taking the shot.

“I trust her 100 percent with the penalty kicks,” sophomore for-ward Katie Kraeutner said. “Jaycie’s been playing great in her freshman year for

us.”Johnson grabbed the ball from

Iowa’s goalkeeper and set the ball up for one of the team’s few chances in the game. She took a

deep breath and chipped the ball into the right side of the net, scor-ing to put Nebraska on the board first.

With the championship game moving forward, the Huskers stayed tough defensively, keeping the Hawkeyes offense away from Stevens, who made 3 saves in the game.

In the final 30 minutes of the game Nebraska brought back a few midfielders in an effort to hold onto the shutout. The strat-egy ended up being effective for the Huskers, as they fought to the end to win the Big Ten Champion-ship.

After another celebration, the team knows there is still work to do.

“We’ll relax for a few days, tak-ing it all in as the Big Ten Champs times two,” Kraeutner said. “The focus definitely has to be on the NCAA Tournament now.”

This week Nebraska will continue its trek with the NCAA Tournament. After winning the Big Ten Tournament champion-ship, the team has set another goal for itself.

“The new goal is national

champs,” Stevens said. “This team is so determined and this week we’re ready to continue

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Nebraska men electrify crowd

in rout of FGCU

aNDrew barry | DNsophomore guard terran petteway shot 3 of 5 from the 3-point line and scored 17 points in nebraska’s season-opening win.

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Former Motley Crue drummer Tommy Lee was there. Pop duo Karmin sang the national anthem. And a Morgan Freeman-like voice belted out of the PA system during the pre-game warm-up video.

The stars were present off the court during Nebraska men’s bas-ketball first game of the season. But before the game, coach Tim Miles wanted his team to know the stars weren’t the only ones present in the Pinnacle Bank Are-na on Friday night.

“I told our guys, ‘Listen, there’s rock and roll stars out there. But you are the show to-night. But you’re only the show if you play,’” he said. “

S o p h o m o r e guard Shavon Shields shone in the Huskers’ sea-son opener, record-ing a team-high 28 points, six re-bounds and three assists to lead Ne-braska to a 79-55 win against Florida Gulf Coast.

The lively atmosphere brought on by the 15,119 fans in attendance aided the team in its electrifying debut performance, Shields said.

“It was a great team effort and a great way to start the open-ing of a new arena,” the team captain said after the game. “We were feeding off the fans and the energy in the place. That kind of catapulted us.”

The Eagles came into the sea-son opener as a threat after fin-ishing last season in the NCAA Tournament’s Sweet 16. But they didn’t look like a March Madness contender, nor did they live up to their moniker, “Dunk City,” on Friday.

Florida Gulf Coast posed no threat to Nebraska, as the Husk-ers started the game with three straight 3-pointers to leap to a 9-4 lead. The home team main-tained its lead throughout thanks to the defense, which allowed the Eagles to score just 36.4 percent of its shots (8 for 22) in the first half while also forcing six turnovers.

The Huskers’ physical play led

them to a 39-27 lead at halftime, and Miles noticed it.

“I thought our guys were sound defensively,” the Nebraska coach said after the game.

Nebraska’s intimidation on defense continued in the second half, giving the Eagle players and its coach Joe Dooley fits the rest of the game.

“We turned it over six times in the first six minutes in the second half,” Dooley said. “We put our-selves in harm’s way quite a bit. They showed up and punched us in the head.”

The Huskers guarded the basket, allowing zero dunks on the night, but that was not the only factor contributing to their 12-point advantage at halftime.

In the second period, Shields, as he did in the first half, contin-ued to light up the scoring stat sheet.

The sophomore guard found the hoop with ease, adding a pair of scores to extend Nebraska’s lead to 45-29 early in the second half. Shields went on to duplicate his point total in the first half to finish one shy of his career-high.

Beside Shields’ team-high double-digit performance, redshirt sopho-more forward Ter-ran Petteway re-corded 17 points in his Husker de-but, with 9 com-ing from behind the arc. Freshman guard Tai Webster and redshirt soph-omore forward

Walter Pitchford also impressed fans with 9 points and 7 points, respectively.

Nebraska finished the game shooting 52.1 percent from the floor while also going 24 for 31 at the free throw line.

Miles knew his team was good, but even he didn’t expect the explosive offensive showing from his players in their premiere at the new arena.

“I thought we were just sound,” he said. “We haven’t al-ways shown that in practice. We probably played better than we practiced consistently, so that was good for us.”

The Huskers used style and flare to take down the Eagles, leaving their fans and their coach Miles vitalized for the rest of the season.

“I’ll probably just remember the look on their faces as they came back to the huddle,” he said. “It was like unbridled joy. The crowd was great. It was a fun night.”

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file pHoto by Jake craNDall | DNFreshman forward Jaycie Johnson scored the lone goal of the Huskers’ win against iowa on a penalty kick, adding to her two goals against indiana in the semifinals.

No. 18 Nebraska rallies to beat Indiana on Friday, shuts out Iowa on Sunday to claim title

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the fans and the energy in the place.”

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With just more than 10 minutes remaining in a 10-10 tie between Nebraska and Michigan on Sat-urday, Jordan Westerkamp stood alone, waiting for a punt.

Westerkamp, who snagged the game-winning touchdown catch last week against North-western, had never dropped a punt. That was until Saturday’s 17-13 Nebraska win against Michigan.

The ball fell through the freshman’s arms, giving Michi-gan field position from the Ne-braska 26-yard line with a chance to punch in the go-ahead touch-down.

As Westerkamp walked to the sideline, his teammates stood by him.

That was the message Ne-braska coach Bo Pelini gave his team during the week, he said.

“We talked all week that we needed to stay together,” Pelini said. “We needed to go shoulder to shoulder and lean on each oth-er and play for each other. That’s what a good football team does, and that’s what they did.”

That’s exactly what hap-pened, said redshirt freshman quarterback Tommy Armstrong Jr., who went 11 for 19 on Satur-day with one touchdown.

“We told (Westerkamp), ‘Hey, don’t worry about it. Our defense has got a good stop, like they did last week,’” Armstrong said.

And they did. Michigan looked to running

back Derrick Green on the first and second downs. Nebraska’s defense stuffed him each time, forcing quarterback Devin Gard-ner and the Wolverine offense to third and 11.

With no options open, Gard-ner ran for 4 yards, before defen-sive back Stanley Jean-Baptiste tackled the quarterback.

Faced with fourth and 7, Michigan’s Brendan Gibbons made a 40-yard field goal, giving the Wolverines a 13-10 lead with just more than eight minutes to play.

Still, there wasn’t a sense of concern on the sideline, Pelini said.

“No one panicked,” Pelini said. “Everybody just felt that as long as there was time on the clock, there was a chance to win the football game. We made some plays down the stretch.”

Armstrong led Nebraska’s of-fense, which struggled through the second and third quarters, down into Michigan territory.

“We kept driving down, and as we kept driving down and get-ting closer and closer, the crowd kept getting quieter and quieter, and that’s just a momentum for us,” Armstrong said. “That was our statement. We wanted to come in here and quiet 110,000 fans, and that’s what we did.”

Eventually, Nebraska faced fourth down with 2 yards to go from the Michigan 31-yard line, sparking, momentarily, the crowd of 112,204.

Pelini thought a field goal was a possibility, he said, but was confident the offense would convert.

Armstrong, on the other hand, said he was positive Pelini would call on him to go for it.

“I wasn’t even aware that it was fourth down, because we were driving down the field so quick and all the momentum was on our side going down the field,” Armstrong said.

Armstrong took the snap, dropped back and found Ken-ny Bell to his left. Bell stepped down the sideline for 26 yards to the Michigan 5-yard line.

Three plays later, the redshirt freshman quarterback threw a short pass to Ameer Abdullah, who scampered in for a 5-yard touchdown.

“He didn’t panic. He kept his wits about him,” Pelini said. “That was a big-time call by coach (Tim) Beck.”

The touchdown and Pat Smith’s PAT sealed the 17-13 win for Nebraska, but as Armstrong

said, it didn’t happen without the statement the defense made.

“It was a team win,” Arm-strong said. “The defense got us some stops, we needed some stops and the offense started to capitalize at the right moment.”

The Husker defense kept the Big House quiet for most of the game, containing Gardner and limiting the Wolverines to just one touchdown in the game.

“That was the biggest thing coach wanted us to do, was just get after (Gardner),” defensive end Randy Gregory said.

By shutting down Gard-

ner, Nebraska’s defense helped Armstrong become the first non-Michigan quarterback in three years to win at Michigan Sta-dium.

“He made some big time throws, managed it well,” Pelini said. “You’re just seeing a kid who’s growing, coming of age. He doesn’t get rattled. He just stays the course. We’re not afraid to put the ball in his hands to win a football game. He’s got that ‘it’ factor.”

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morGaN spieHs | DNnebraska sophomore defensive end randy Gregory had 4 tackles, including 3 sacks of michigan quarterback devin Gardner for 14 yards, and a quarterback hurry.

nebraska defense stops run game, offense scores late to win at michigan

NEBRASKA VS. MICHIGAN STATS

Total offenseRushes – yardsPassing yardsCompletions – attemptsFirst downsThird down conversionsTime of possession

NEBRASKA MICHIGAN

27343 – 128

14512 – 23

156 of 1627:16

17536 – -21

19618 – 27

133 of 1532:44

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morGaN spieHs | DNnebraska senior defensive tackle thad randle wraps up michigan quarterback devin Gardner for a sack in the first quarter.

morGaN spieHs | DNJunior running back ameer abdullah stretches for a 1st-quarter touchdown.

morGaN spieHs | DNJunior receiver kenny bell eludes michigan defensive back dymonte thomas on a 4th-quarter play that converted a 4th and 2 and took nebraska to the michigan 5-yard line.

STUFFEDNebraska 17, micHiGaN 13

Husker deFense stiFles Wolverines’ Ground Game

Nebraska DefeNsive liNethe nebraska defensive line held

michigan to -21 rushing yards for the game on saturday, the second straight

week a team has held michigan to negative yardage. the d-line also recorded seven sacks and had 15 tackles for loss, each season highs.

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Game ballsameer abDullaH

nebraska’s junior running back came into saturday’s game against michigan with one mission: silence the Big House. running for 105 yards on 27 carries, including one touchdown, Abdullah did just that. with a string of injuries on the Husker offense, Abdullah was the work-horse for nebraska. Abdullah helped seal the 17-13 win against michi-gan by maneuvering in for a 5-yard touchdown pass from tommy Armstrong Jr. late in the fourth quarter.

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raNDy GreGorythe sophomore defensive end recorded a career-high three sacks for 14 yards lost and a quarterback hurry on michigan quarterback devin gardner as the nu defense forced nine incompletions. with less than two minutes left to play, gregory made a crucial sack on third down to prevent any chance of a wolverine comeback and helped secure nebraska’s 4-point victory.

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-21 the nebraska defense held michigan to -21 yards rushing, sacking Wolverine quarterback devin Gardner seven times for 43 yards. michigan’s leading rusher, derrick Green, ended the game with 11 yards rushing as the Huskers limited the Wolverines to 175 total yards.

ThrEE michigan went 3 for 15 on third down as nebraska remained no. 3 in the country in third-down defense. the Huskers are allowing a 27 percent success rate on third downs this season.

26on fourth and 2 from the michigan 31-yard line, trailing 13-10, nebraska got 26 yards on a pass from tommy armstrong Jr. to kenny bell. the Huskers got first and goal on the Wolverine 5-yard line and punched in the game-winning touchdown with 2:03 left. For the second straight week, nebraska converted a fourth down on the way to a game-winning score.

after gaining only 60 yards in the first half, michigan had 92 yards in the third quarter, scoring a game-tying touchdown with a 75-yard drive to open the second half.

9219nebraska’s win ended michigan’s 19-game home winning streak and handed brady Hoke his first defeat at the big House as michigan’s coach. the Wolverines last loss in ann arbor was 48-28 to Wisconsin on nov. 20, 2010.