Matt Woody DN creates new site on the Internet The Daily Nebraskan is online! It brings me great joy to announce that the Daily Nebraskan can now be read on the World Wide Web. Being online is something we’ve wanted to do for quite a while, and this semester we finally tnade the plunge. We still haven’t hit the bottom. Then again, maybe we never will. Because there arc limitless possibili ties. We can’t pronvse we’ll deliver that, but we’re hoping to offer a num ber of services beyond what is avail able in the printed Daily Nebraskan. It’s my duty, as an online editor and employee of the Daily Nebras kan, to shamelessly promote this site. So I’ve created a few catchy slo gans to help lure readers in. Look out Madison Avenue! The Daily Nebraskan Online: You won’t get newsprint on your fingers!! The Daily Nebraskan Online: It’s not just for breakfast anymore!! The Daily Nebraskan Online: You wantcha pornography? We gotcha pomogrupny:: Stop by and read the Daily Ne braskan Online at . By the way, there isn’t actually any pornography in the Daily Ne braskan Online. But you know what they say, sex sells. In just three days, the Daily Ne braskan Online has been read by any where from three to 400,000 people. We’re still working on that estimate. After you read the Daily Nebras kan Online (which, by the way, is Nebraska’s second online newspa per, and the first in either Lincoln or Omaha), feel free to look at other online news sources. One of my favorites is CNN Inter active, located at . This place is chock full of news — everything one could want, includ ing Elsa Klensch’s style reports. Being the news dork I am, I can’t live without my CNN. And CNN Interactive just makes life a little easier. Also check out C NN s otten-part ner in coverage, USA TODAY. It’s not quite as visually attractive as the newspaper, but it’s by no means bad. It’s located at . There are, of course, dozens of newspapers across this great land that have established online versions. Two of the best are NandO (The News & Observer from Raleigh, N.C.) at and the Mercury Center (the San Jose Mer cury News) at . These two were online newspaper pioneers and remain at the top of the heap. . I want to meet them there. Cyberscape is a weekly column focus ing on computers, with a heavy emphasis on the Internet. Send ideas, questions or comments to Matt Woody at i I Rockin’ role strikes chord in lead actor ! I By Paula Lavigne Senior Reporter It doesn’t take a pinball wizard to make i “Tommy" come alive. For actor Michael Seelbach, it was simply a matter of finding out “Who” he was. Seelbach, the 18-year-old star of the The Who’s touring rock-opera “Tommy," will pol ish his pinball magic at the Lied Center for Performing Arts Friday night. The brainchild of The Who leader Pete Townshend, “Tommy” tells the story of a young boy’s life from age 4 to 20. He witnesses his father’s murder and the shock turns him into a oeat, Dima mute. He develops a passion for pinball, and be comes the proverbial “Pinball Wizard," and thus slowly eases himself back to normalcy. “Tommy" was made into a full-length fea ture film in 1975. It premiered on Broadway in 1993 and took away five Tony Awards, includ ing Best Original Score and Best Director. But for Seelbach, The Who wasn’t talking about his generation. i “I really don’t know much about The Who at all,” he said. “1 knew the Broadway recording and listened to a couple of earlier albums.” And after he found out who The Who was? “Uh, it’s interesting,” he said, laughing. Seelbach personally likes acoustic guitar and performers such as Simon and Garfunkel and i Joni Mitchell. Pinball wasn’t his game either, Seelbach said, but he could identify with Tommy’s struggle. “I was always the weird theater kid in high school," he said. And “Tommy” is a stage everybody goes through at some point, he said. “I think it’s a teenage thing,” he said. “A lot of teens are able to identify with the outcast kid who becomes well-liked and survives.” Seelbach said he was chosen for the role because he could make the touring Tommy more likable than the Broadway Tommy. “He lets the audience experience witfr him,” he said. “A lot of Broadway performances were a little cold.” On Broadway, the music and the pyrotech nics stole the show, he said. The touring produc tion doesn’t have those effects and has to rely on the character’s charisma. i ’ \ Courtesy of Big League Theatricals Michael Seelbach plays the title role in The Who’s “Tommy,” running at the Lied Center for Performing Arts this weekend. “It feels a lot sexier,” he said. Tommy, after being mute for much of his childhood, has to draw the audience into his recovery, Seelbach said. “When he wakes up, he’s kind of being first bom into sight and sound,” he said. “He realizes how incredible it is to be normal, how wonderful life is.” Tommy strives to convince people to not take their lives for granted, he said. And people who haven’t heard The Who or dislike classic rock shouldn’t shy away from its rock-opera billing, he said. “It has a lot of the rock concert feel,” he said, “but the experience as a regular Broadway mu sical is something for everybody.” And Seelbach, being new to The Who, learned from that experience. “It’s really fast-paced, really striking whether you know the music or not.” “Tommy” opens at 8 p.m. Friday, with addi tional performances at 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. on Saturday and at 2 p.m. on Sunday. Tickets are $34, $30 and $26 and half price for students. ‘Oleanna’ explores sexual harrasment on campus By Brian Priesman Theater Critic Theatrix opened its 1995 season with a bang Wednesday night with David Mamet’s contro versial and thought-provoking drama “Oleanna.” Dealing with sexual harass ment, “Oleanna” doesn’t shy from a difficult topic, this time, the harass ment takes place on a col lege campus between a pro lessor ana ms student, mak ing the story all the more relevant in a campus setting. Director Amy K. Rohr has assembled a top-notch cast wmi jasun i. isjcuaius as John, the accused professor, and Colene Byrd as i* Carol, the accuser. The fast-moving play leaves the audience gasping as it grinds to a halt in a violent conclusion. In the play, John attempts to help Carol improve her grade, but their inability to commu nicate leads Carol to believe she has been ha rassed. Later, Carol, and a mysterious group that she represents, is prepared to recant the charges, if John removes certain books from the curricu lum and the university. Richards does an outstanding job as John. He brings a sense of holier-than-thou maturity to the role, which is just what John needs. Byrd brings a sense of confusion and bewil derment to Carol, which draws sympathy from the audience. As the play draws to its conclu sion, Byrd brings power and confidence toCarol, power taken from John. The performance space is particularly effec tive. The decision to use a classroom brings a sense of realism that is often lacking on a Play: “Oleanna” Company: UNL theatrix Director: Amy K. Rohr Grade: A Five Words: Thought-provoking play examines harassment _ conventional stage. And the closeness of the audience forces die actors and the audience to work together. The emotional rollercoaster that is“01eanna” runs Oct. 5,6,7 at 8 p.m., with 2 p.m. shows on Oct. 7 and 8, in Studio 221 in the Temple Building at 12th and R streets. Leaving the audience wondering just who’s harassing whom, it is definitely not to be missed.