“The Revenant” is the hot new award season contender sweeping the country. This period piece stars Leonardo DiCaprio as frontiersman Hugh Glass, who goes on a warpath of revenge after being left for dead in a shallow grave. Tom Hardy, of “Batman” and “Mad Max” fame, plays John Fitzgerald, a scalping survivor who kills DiCaprio’s […] Read more
The DailyER announced a plan this week to save both the students of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln money as well as the College Readership Program, which is a point of controversy every year. “We’re excited to add some actual value to our newspaper,” said Colin Loberg, Editor-in-Chief of The DailyER. “We’re all big fans of […] Read more
Any successful college student knows the importance of arriving to class on time. But in recent weeks, even the most studious of scholars have been filing in late to Professor Darryl Fisher’s Intro to Psychology lecture at the Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center. “No one shows up on time to Fisher’s class anymore, because […] Read more
Seated atop a creaky swivel chair surrounded by discarded Hot Pocket crisping sleeves and dog-eared back issues of Maxim, local man Kevin Lindschmidt, 26, glumly resolved that he’d spend yet another year of his colorless, unexciting, rapidly passing life feeling endlessly sorry for himself in his drab studio apartment and not doing anything to improve […] Read more
Area weatherman and television personality Dan Summers was fired from the KLNK newscast this past week after a team of industry insiders discovered a pattern of deliberate misinformation in Summers’ reporting. Since at least 2011, Summers reported lower-than-true temperatures every Tuesday morning in the months of January and February in order to lower the price […] Read more
In a recent survey of all Americans from coast to coast, Lincoln, Nebraska, received the distinguished title of, “best place to settle.” The sleepy Midwest city earned its reputation from the thousands of local denizens who look forward to the same everyday monotony they’ve come to know and love. “Every day I wake up and […] Read more
After sprinting across the University of Nebraska-Lincoln campus and arriving at Burnett Hall three minutes after her philosophy class’s start time, sophomore accounting major Julia Jacobsen was dismayed to see that, once again, the only open seats were those directly behind Lil’ Red, the Nebraska Cornhuskers’ 8-foot inflatable mascot. Begrudgingly, Jacobsen took her seat at […] Read more
Rick Hartley doesn’t have much time for political correctness, or as he calls it, “being a liberal pussy”. According to sources, the area libertarian has a lengthy history of loudly listing off political issues to anyone within earshot, utilizing just enough lengthy words as to appear not entirely batshit. According to witnesses, this past Friday […] Read more
The Nebraska athletic department unveiled a plan Tuesday to move the university’s football team to a brand-new stadium in Los Angeles for the upcoming 2016 season. “We’ve been following recent team moves in the NFL and the athletic department realized if we’re going to provide a professional-quality experience for our student-athletes, we just can’t stay […] Read more
Dating is hard for everyone, even our beloved icons. We all know about the dating sites, the casual hookup apps and the televised contests that try to answer the age old question of “who can do it better?” However, at some point it takes an effort that is a little more localized. Lincoln country music […] Read more
