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BySarahFox Staffwnter~ ■ The teen-age girls raised their hands and closed their eyes as they sang along with the band in Pershing Municipal Auditorium. But the girls weren’t at Pershing for the Backstreet Boys or the Spice Girls. They sang: “I could never quite express the beauty of Your holiness; You’re the Holy One.” More than 6,000 teen-agers and adults filled Pershing on Monday night for the Counter the Culture youth event. The concert was sponsored by the Dallas-based Josh McDowell Ministry and the band SONICFLOOd. The youth event asked teens to make decisions based on values from God instead of their emotions. Josh McDowell asked teens from the audience what made things right or wrong. “Why is lying wrong?” he asked. “Thou shalt not lie,” a teen replied. McDowell asked teens why pre cepts such as not lying are in the Bible. “You shall not lie because the per son and character and nature of God is truth,” McDowell said. “Killing is wrong because God is life.” McDowell said he thought some people think that God is a “cosmic killjoy.” However, he said God’s commands protect people. McDowell told about a teen-age boy and his girlfriend who, more than nine years ago, climbed over a neigh bor’s fence to use a swimming pool on a Saturday night. The boy jumped off the diving board in the dark and broke his neck because he didn’t see the pool was almost empty. “Those neighbors did not (post) the precept ‘No trespassing’ to take the fun out of Greg’s life,” McDowell said. Chelsey Schlegel, a junior adver tising major, said she brought a group of seventh- and eight-grade girls with her to the concert. Shlegel works with the girls in City Impact, a Lincoln-based club for urban youth in central Lincoln. She said some of the girls don’t see something as wrong if it helps them. “Lying is a huge one with my kids,” she said. “Lying is a way of sur vival at times. It just saves their butt. They’ve just never been taught that’s wrong.” Josh Fernandez, 13, came to the concert with City Impact. Fie and Jarvis Long, 13, said they face pres sure to join gangs. “We have friends who have been in and out of prison,” Fernandez said. “They told us we shouldn’t be doing it because they know how it is.” Fernandez also said he was pres sured to be sexually active. “It’s not just the boys. The girls try « Lying is a huge one with my kids. Lying is a way of survival at times. It just saves their butt. They've just never been taught that's wrong." Chelsey Schlegel urban youth worker to push us into sex,” he said. Long said he faced similar pres sures. “I’m saving myself for marriage,” Long said. To encourage teens, about 175 UNL students came to talk to them afterwards, said Rick Pratte, University of Nebraska-Lincoln direc tor of Campus Crusade for Christ. “A lot of these students already have a good understanding of their faith and can talk to others about that,” Pratte said. The Counter the Culture youth event was brought to Lincoln through Mission Nebraska, which was founded by University of Nebraska Receivers Coach Ron Brown and Stan Parker. Parker said he thought teens would be interested in how to make good decisions. v “I think we’re all looking for answers in our lives,” he said. Planet proven to exist outside of Earth s solar system ■ Researchers found the planet is 60 percent larger than Jupiter but has 63 percent less mass. Daily Californian University of Califomia-Berkeley BERKELEY, Calif. (U-WIRE) - Scientists from the University of California-Berkeley and other research institutions across the nation have observed a planet orbiting a nearby star, providing the first indis putable evidence thr* a planet exists outside our solar system. “For the first time in human histo ry, we have a confirmed planet around another star,” said UC Berkeley astronomy professor Geoffery Marcy,_whose group has also found indirect evidence of 18 other planets. The team of researchers measured the size of the planet and found it to be 60 percent larger than Jupiter, the biggest planet in Earth’s solar system. “The huge breakthrough here is that for the first time we have mea sured the size of the planet,’’ Marcy said. Despite the large volume of the newly-discovered planet, which is a gas giant, it has a very low density and has 63 percent less mass than Jupiter. Researchers found direct proof of the planet on Nov. 7 when they recorded a 1.7 percent reduction in the amount of light emitted by the star that the planet orbits. The reduction was the first con clusive proof of the existence of plan ets outside Earth’s solar system. Scientists were able to measure the size of the planet by examining the amount of starlight the planet blocked when it moved in front of the star. The amount of light reduction can be interpreted to find the size of the planet. Marcy compared the researchers’ technique to a bug flying in front of a light source, saying that the bug reduces the amount of light let off by the lamp. “If you have a light bulb serving as a star and then a bug flies across, the room would dim a little bit,” Marcy said. “You could determine the size of the bug because the bigger the bug, the more the room would dim. We know its cross-sectional area because the bigger the area, the more light it blocks.” preg Henry, an astronomer in Tennessee who worked on the project, 66 For the first time in human history, we have a confirmed planet around another star.” Geoffery Marcy UC Berkeley astronomy professor said after scientists received indirect evidence of the star’s existence, he observed the star to see if any changes in its brightness occurred. “The amount of dimming of the star’s light during the transit also gives us the first-ever measure of the size and density of an extrasolar plan et,” Henry said in a statement. “We’ve essentially seen the shadow of the planet and used it to measure the planet’s size.” The planet was found to orbit star HD209458, which is part of the Pegasus constellation and a part of our galaxy. It is about 150 light years away, Marcy said. 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