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Extraordinarist Craig Karges tapes his eyes shut to begin his routine of reading people's minds and other mind- related tricks at
the Nebraska Union Auditorium Thursday night
Performer uses senses to stun crowd
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BYMARCSALEME .
• Extraordinary is the best way
to describe the mind-blowing
stunts pulled off by Craig Karges
Thursday night in the Nebraska
Union auditorium.
“I’m not a psychic, I’m an
entertainer,” Karges said.
But he claimed that a lot of
what he did was based on
extrasensory perception.
The University Program
Council sponsored die event
Karges is an extraordinarist,
not to be confused with an illu
sionist. Illusionists usually have
big props, but Karges said he
was different
• • “The people are the show,”
he said of his own performance.
The show began with the
reading of an audience mem
ber’s mind wherein Karges cor
“I'm not a psychic, I’m
an entertainer,”
Craig Karges
extraordinarist
rectly guessed a word the audi
ence member thought of. He
went on to correctly guess the
serial number on a random dol
lar bill.
When he stepped off stage to
concentrate on blocking over a
block of wood, the auditorium
was absolutely silent until the
block leaned backward and fell.
A student from the audience
helped Karges levitate a table to
waist-height using only their
fingertips.
"It was just baffling,” said
Spencer Pahlke, a UNL fresh
man.
Karges has been doing these
extraordinary things for almost
twenty years, he said.
He was inspired by his uncle,
who also did extraordinary
things on stage. He worked with
his uncle for about a year, learn
ing the basics of entertaining.
Karges was voted the best
entertainer on the college cir
cuit for 11 consecutive years and
has appeared on national televi
sion more than 31 times, said
Carly Wendt, a UPC spokesper
son.
The crowd seemed
impressed with the entertainer's
hijinks.
Ryan Wilkins, a freshman
marketing major said of the
show: "It was like a party in my
cerebellum, and everyone’s
invited." •
Student makes grasshoppers research topic
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lot of time studying grasshopper
literature and attending lab
meetings to present his ideas.
“When he came to the sec
ond year of the project, he knew
what he was doing and why,"
Joem said.
Dietz said the experience
was a good preparation for post
graduate life.
“In research, things don't
always work out the way you
want them to,” Dietz said.
Last year, when preparing
for his field work, Dietz had to
work around the effects of a dry
spring, a hot summer and the
lack of equipment available
specifically for studying
grasshoppers.
I couldn t buy the type of
cages I needed, so I had to build
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Using a wire mesh with
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keep grasshoppers from getting
out, Dietz spent the month of
June assembling grasshopper
huts.
“Spiders have more flexible
.bodies and they can fit through
much smaller spaces," Dietz
said. “Grasshoppers have a
much stiffer exoskeleton and
can't get through those spaces.”
Commenting on the chal
lenges of Dietz’s research, Joem
said he wished all undergradu
ates could do hands-on
research.
“But it is a lot of work. A stu
dent won’t succeed unless he is
self motivated," Joem said.
Looking back on the sum
mer spent immersed in the ecol
ogy of the prairie, Dietz said he
learned a lot
Though originally excited to
work in a remote area where
vehicles weren't allowed, Dietz
said after hauling dozens of
fence posts on his back, he
began to rethink his hilltop loca
tion.
When asked if he had any
advice to give other undergrad
uates considering ecological
research, Dietz responded: “Do
research in a valley.”
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university, but his supervisors
were aware that he was doing
consulting work. Buntain said
Reinhard eventually did obtain
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testing. Buntain said Reinhard
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on remains.
Reinhard faced investigations
in 1998 for allegations of mishan
dling American Indian remains.
University-hired attorney Robert
Grimit found no credible evi
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. Riding In said there was no
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defense mode,” he said.
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