Top: Roubal stands next to a Night
Before Lounge logo at the bar.
Right: Roubal puts on makeup in
the dressing room before taking
the stage Tuesday night. Bottom
right: Roubal looks over notes in
the Love Library Auditorium before
her class Thursday afternoon.
Dancer
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But she does have a line.
Roubal has a policy of “I can come
into your space, but you can’t come
into mine,” which most crowd mem
bers obey, but some of the comments
she gets cross the line of vulgarity.
“They say the weirdest things,” she
said. “And I think, ‘Did your mom
forget to teach you manners?’”
The oddest part of her job wasn’t
fielding shouts from rowdy crowd
members, she said; it was watching
the other dancers in the dressing room.
Roubal is one of the younger danc
ers at The Night Before, she said, and
different from the rest.
“Other women are covering up
pimples on their butts, and a lot of
them have fake breasts and are trying
to cover up scars,” she said.
The Night Before has a lot of regu
lars, she said, who are pretty reliable
tippers. Some of them are too regular.
“A lot don’t even pay attention,”
she said. “They sit in the back watch
ing TV, oblivious that there are women
onstage takingtheir clothes off.”
The crowd is a mixed batch, from
college students—some of them are
in her classes—to businessmen. But
there’s one regular who likes Roubal
for more than her looks — her boy
friend Dale Oliverio, a senior psy
chology major at UNL.
Oliverio said he respected Roubal
because she managed her j ob and stud
ies.
“She always comes home to me,”
he said. “She always has interesting
stories to tell about people who want
to whisk her off to Bermuda.”
Roubal says she won’t turn danc
ing into a career.
She might perform for a while after
college, but she wants to pursue her
career in broadcast marketing or pub
lic relations. She also has a Spanish
minor, and might try to land a job at a
Spanish television station.
But topless dancing won’t show up
on her resume—at least not yet She
used to be concerned her job would
come back and ruin her career, but
those fears have ceased.
“If our president can smoke pot, I
Will haunt me,” Ihe saidL^^*^
“It’s a very amusing job. I will
never regret it.”
Photos by Gerik Parmele