Undergraduate Communications major Joseph Wells attended his COMM 207 class on Monday afternoon, an action Wells had not done since realizing attendance was not mandatory on the first day of class. The action occurred over a misunderstanding of the syllabus on Wells’ part. Believing that the classes exam was scheduled for Monday, Wells decided it […] Read more
Story by Mitch McCann Following investigations into the New Orleans Saints’ allegations of “bounty hunting” among NFL players, in which players or staff offer large sums of money for questionable hits on opposing players, league officials have uncovered numerous instances of severe full-body tackling of individuals occurring nearly every Sunday during the 2011-2012 season. Officials […] Read more
Story by Matt Sueper The ballots have been cast and it has been determined that, in the Association of Students of University of Nebraska presidential election, the IMPACT party won and the general student body lost. 17% of the student body has spoken, and another year of political drudgery and pointlessness will be carried out […] Read more
News outlets were flooded last week when a video entitled “KONY 2012” made rounds on nearly every social media platform in the space of 48 hours. Since its first appearance, it has garnered over 20 million hits. The video is sponsored by Invisible Children, a charitable organization fighting the abduction and militarization of Ugandan children. […] Read more
Newly-elected ASUN President Eric Kamler announced yesterday that he would be rounding up all of UNL’s gay students by the end of April, a move that he said he doesn’t “necessarily agree with” but one most of his supporters urged him to do. “I personally don’t have anything against the gays but most of my […] Read more
Council Bluffs, Iowa resident Pat Helwig, who didn’t believe that chemotherapy could cure him, died of testicular cancer yesterday, just three months after being diagnosed. Helwig, who believed that all medical approaches to life should be natural and that everything else was “pseudoscience,” stated that all he needed to do to cure his cancer was […] Read more
So it’s about that time again. Apple has finally taken that next big step. Toward what? Who knows. Some call it total world domination, but that isn’t for me to say. Sometimes I don’t know see what the hype is about. Every year we crank out the newest iDoodad, which inevitably does the same thing […] Read more
Patrons at the Lincoln Art Fair came away much happier than one would assume coming from an art fair. Patrons seemed to be smiling uncontrollably and beaming with delight as they left the middle school gymnasium on Saturday afternoon. Many patrons said they felt that the art fair confirmed that their decision to give up […] Read more
Local news sources reported earlier this week that Karen Shiff, a sophomore chemistry major at UNL, who spent all day Monday expelling blood from a gaping hole on her side in the University Health Center lobby has been officially released. Shiff, a long time resident of Lincoln, was ejected from the Health Center with ointment […] Read more
New grandparents David and Doris Trimmel were on the scene at Bryan LGH when their daughter Trisha had a son of her very own this past Sunday. The entire Trimmel family came out to see the birth of the newest edition to their family, but not all members of the Trimmel family could agree that […] Read more
