THURSDAY, DEC. 13, 2007 { www.unk.edu/theantelope/ { VOL. 106 NO. 14 University of Nebraska at Kearney Run With It INDEX You can't stop their beat NEWS 1, 2 ET CETERA 3 UNK's Nebraskats razzle dazzle their holiday audience Kristen Brockman director. This year the Nebraskats FEATURES 4, 5, 8 Guest Writer are celebrating their 40th SPORTS anniversary. 6, 7 Participation in the ensemble is decided through competitive he Nebraskats Show audition each spring. Participants Choir showcased their also receive college credit for song and dance talents performing. “The number varies, during their holiday concert T but anywhere from 20 to 50 in the Fine Arts Recital Hall students audition,” Dr. White of the Fine Arts Building on said. Wednesday, Dec. 5. The Nebraskats perform two The 12-voice ensemble home concerts each year. They performed a energetic mix of also perform tour shows and show tunes, jazz standards and “gigs.” Gigs are performances holiday classics; including “You that are booked upon request. Can’t Stop the Beat” from the These range from high school Broadway hit musical “Hairspray,” performances to company 4 “All I Want for Christmas is You” parties. Their most recent tour by Mariah Carey and “Silent Sports Marketing was to high schools in Geneva, Night” by Boys II Men. Clay Center and Grand Island. Dr. Andrew White co- They will perform at the NP directed the group last year, but Dodge Reality's company party is in his first year as full-time on Thurs., Dec. 20. “These tours help us recruit from within the state. It also is an opportunity for outreach,” Dr. White said. The student participants not only sing and dance, but are also involved behind-the- scenes. Three of the numbers performed in the concert were choreographed by students. Nebraskats member Alex Ritter, 5 a music and performing arts Essay contest winner major from Columbus created the special arrangement of “Silent Night” that the Men’s Photos by Kristen Brockman Ensemble performed for the Top: Nebraskats members Clifford Holman, left, and Katherine Bauer, show. center, show off their best dancing during the performance of "Brazilian Noel." Above: The Nebraskats Women's Ensemble; Rutheah Rodehorst, Michelle Above: The Nebraskats end with flair after a lively rendition of "You Can't Conley, Darci Boyer, Katherine Bauer and Brittany Davidson, show the Stop the Beat" from the Broadway hit muscial "Hairspray." The show choir audience some love as they sing the Mariah Carey hit "All I Want for performed a mix of energetic jazz and show tunes and holiday classics. Christmas is You." UNK reacts to Omaha tragedy Garrett Ritonya vigilant of your surroundings.” call someone to come and pick 6 Guest Writer With this mounting me up. You can never be too December violence, just how certain.” Loper Basketball Dec. 5, 2007 will be a day safe do students feel during this Any student can also call that lives in infamy for Omaha, holiday season? The campus Public Safety officers here on Neb., the day when eight shootings at Virginia Tech are campus who offer a program innocent people lost their lives in still on some students’ minds. called Safe Walk, where an a shower of bullets that became “No, I don‘t feel safe, officer in uniform will escort you the focus of national news. with the shooting at Virginia on campus from one location The tragedy at the Tech, Westroads, the Colorado to the other. The service can be Westroads Mall in Omaha has High School shooting, plus all used by anyone on campus and been felt across the entire state. the copycats, I don’t,” Eugene is free of charge. The number is The holiday shooting spree left Bichlmeier, a junior broadcasting 308-627-4811. people shocked and vulnerable major from Columbus, Neb., Courtesy photo by Eric Gregory of thinking that, “If it can happen said. “You could be absolutely the Lincoln Journal Star there, it can happen anywhere.” anywhere and lose your life to Right: An Omaha Police Officer Surprisingly, this isn’t the only act selfish, sick people who choose stands outside his patrol car briefly 8 of violence in the headlines. Five not to help themselves.” while manning one of the entrances people are dead and four more According to television to the Von Maur store at the We- stroads shopping mall in Omaha the Deck the halls injured after a shooter fired on a reports, malls across America are increasing security this season. morning after a rampage that killed missionary and a church Sunday eight people. morning in Colorado, and “Despite of the recent authorities reported an unknown activities, I would still rather do assailant shot in Odessa, Neb., a my holiday shopping in a mall,” town ten miles west of Kearney, Robbie Heinzen, a sophomore Dec. 5. musical theater and psychology WEATHER Students and staff were major from North Platte, Neb. notified about the reported said. “Shopping online is just so shooting in Odessa within inconvenient and troublesome. hours. Barbara Johnson, Vice You can’t be afraid of something FRIDAY Chancellor for Business and you have no control over.” Finance, said in a press release As for the acts of violence in Partly Cloudy on Dec. 6 alerting the campus and around the Kearney area, it High 31 that the shooting in Odessa was might make students look over Low 13 being investigated. their shoulder when walking on University officials did not campus alone. There might just SATURDAY have any information to indicate be a lost sense of security despite there was a danger to the campus nothing actually happening Partly Cloudy community but decided to put on campus grounds to warrant High 30 out an an e-mail alert and signs suspicious behavior. Low 14 were posted on residence hall Public Safety, however, doors. Johnson said, “Given the warns every student to always be SUNDAY widely publicized events that aware of his or her surroundings whenever walking alone. Partly Cloudy occurred in Omaha yesterday “I never walk alone on High 37 coupled with other well-known campus at night,” Stephanie Low 20 recent events around the nation Shank, a sophomore elementary Courtesy photo by Eric Gregory of the Lincoln Journal Star involving violence, we thought Above: Nadine Cooper talks with her 3-year old daughter, Emma, at the close doors to Von Maur inside the education major from Bellevue, we thought that we should notify Westroads Mall in Omaha on Saturday morning, Dec. 8. Cooper helped put up the paper snowflakes to represent members of our campus to be Neb. said. “If I have to, I will the people who died their last Wednesday. 2 THURSDAY, DEC. 13, 2007 Layout by Janee Mlinar News A variety of choices for Japanese students Students decide to go home, stay in the states or go to graduate school Koji Kuwahara school in Japan. Manaka come school have to think about their language studies. Japanese university in general is Antelope Staff from Saitama Japan, and the specific goal in life. To enter the United Nations, difficult to enter but easier to get Chemistry major who will Yusaku Wakabayashi plans prospective employees have to graduation. Therefore, sometimes graduate in December. He said, to go to American graduate master the at least three different Japanese students neglect their Graduation is a really big “I have to go to a Japanese school. Wakabayashi, an languages, such as English, study and lose their purpose or turning point for Japanese graduate school because I International Studies major French, Chinese, Spanish, goals for the future. student, and they have several majored in biology at Kearney. I want to be a member from Hiroshima, Japan, will Arabic and Russian. America In contrast, Japanese choices after they receive their Japanese science departments or of the United Nations graduate in December. He said, has a great environment to study students feel American university UNK degree. companies are really conservative “I want to be a member of the foreign language; therefore, he is easy to enter but difficult to Some students go back to and more closed. My goal is to be United Nations—to study more said, going to American graduate earn the degree. This is a really Japan and find employment a researcher in Japanese biology about comparative politics. school is the best way to achieve important consideration for at Japanese companies. department; therefore, I have to Japanese graduate schools do his goal. international students because Other students stay and find go to Japanese graduate school.” not have enough study programs Atsushi Ayabe, a UNK many feel most success is gained employment in United States. Japanese science Yusaku Wakabayashi and worldwide connections. student plans to get a job with through constant effort, and an On occasion, students may go on departments require the Graduating Senior American graduate school is an asset management company. American university such as to a graduate school in United experience and study in a the best place to study and Ayabe is from Chiba, Japan, UNK teaches the importance of States or Japan. Japanese university or graduate accomplish my dream.” and is an accounting major who effort for Japanese students. Japanese students who school. Science departments Japan is one of the biggest will graduate in December. He Japanese students set their leave this campus have learned are also conservative, and stick developing nation in the world; said, “I can study a lot of things goals clearly and make an effort a variety of lessons in Kearney to their Japanese science style, American campus life because however, just the chosen few in United States.