The beloved Husker football mascot since 1974, Herbie Husker has finally been granted tenure, a University of Nebraska-Lincoln press release said Wednesday. Following the publication of his highly acclaimed study, “Husker Fandom: Yes, We Really Are the Best,” professor Husker has been accepted as a tenured member of UNL College of Team Spirit and Hype. […] Read more
Lincoln Calling 2014 has come and gone, and what a festival it was. Stellar and unique performances filled every night of the six day music festival, and after the dust has settled from audiences rushing from music venue to music venue, all we have left is to reminisce about how much fun we had and, […] Read more
Winter time is coming up, meaning cold weather and snow are on their way. Don’t let winter chills get you down: here are five surefire ways to keep warm this winter. 5. Influenza type A H1N1 This cutie is sure to keep you warm this winter. It’ll give you the swine flu and send your […] Read more
Thursday night of Lincoln Calling 2014 saw local favorite Universe Contest take the stage at Duffy’s Tavern along with the energetic and manic Gloom Ballon, electro-disco punk talent Hank and Cupcake and Chicago garage rock exports White Mystery. Take a scroll through some of our favorite moments of the night. Gloom Balloon Hank […] Read more
For the second night of Lincoln Calling 2014 Seeds went to the Bourbon to for the X-Rated Women in Music Showcase featuring talented acts like All Young Girls Are Machine Guns, GloWorm, and Manic Pixie Dream Girls. For those of you who missed out on this awesome show, here are some photos we took. […] Read more
Homegrown Film Festival Lincoln Calling’s opening event, the Homegrown Film Festival, consists of short films, music videos, and documentaries. This event functions as great exposure for many up and coming Nebraska artists. The majority of films in the festival were music videos. Many of them were beautifully shot, designed, and directed. “Dirty Clean,” by […] Read more
A local mirror was shocked and horrified to the core this morning at 4:32 a.m. by a god-awful sight that stood before it for a full twelve minutes. “Jesus Christ Almighty, it was horrible,” the mirror and biology major at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln said, its reflexive surface quivering with terror. “I don’t quite know […] Read more
After years of worrying if the University of Nebraska-Lincoln could could reach his bold declaration of 30,0000 students by 2020, Chancellor Harvey Perlman has shocked the school with an amendment to his earlier announcement. “I think we will have succeeded as a Big 10 university if we have 30 students smiling,” Perlman said in a […] Read more
In response to a rapid and growing decline in the population of WWII veterans across the globe, conservationists are now leading the charge to implement long-term, sustainable strategies in order to preserve the struggling group of humans who bravely served in one of the greatest military conflicts in history. “These veterans are a very important […] Read more
You can’t tell by looking at him, but local cyclist Darren Fitzgerald has competed in bike races, rides more than 20 miles a day and has two DUIs. The University of Nebraska-Lincoln accounting graduate first discovered his love of biking shortly after he turned 21 during his junior year. “I had been out at the […] Read more
