Saturday, September 6, 2008

University of Nebraska

Nebraska Ditches Land Lines

Uses saved money to pay for wireless Internet. more >>

Joe Who? Students, Apathy, and Opinion Over Obama VP Choice

Some students care; others don't. more >>

Nebraska Police Get New Segways

Along with new cameras, the electric-powered two-wheelers are the newest additions to the school's security arsenal. more >>

Nebraska Wrestlers Dismissed After Appearing on Porn Site

School officials say the two athletes violated NCAA rules. more >>

Severe Storm Shutters Nebraska School

Officials from the University of Nebraska-Kearney closed down campus on Friday after high winds and a series of tornadoes damaged the roofs of several school buildings Thursday night. more >>

Nebraska Bans 'Live Free or Neihardt' Game

The game was a casualty of shootings on other campuses. more >>

Books Are Expensive, Especially for Wannabe Lawyers

At the University of Nebraska, business law students take the largest hit—with one new required textbook costing $170, more >>

CSI: Nebraska

The University of Nebraska-Lincoln's Department of Agronomy and Horticulture is trying to lure students into learning. more >>

Nebraska Student Athletes Are Better Than You

Jocks on scholarship at the University of Nebraska get to skip long lines at the bookstore. more >>

Winter Weather a Literal Pain in the Butt

Iowa, Nebraska, Oklahoma, and Wisconsin feel the freeze. more >>

A Morbid Protesting Trend?

More than 1,000 miles from the massive antiwar protest on Washington, D.C.'s National Mall, around 30 University of Nebraska students staged their own die-in protest—lyingstill on the ground—as football fans streamed into the much-hyped, nationally televised Nebraska-University of Southern California game Saturday. more >>

A Flashback in Nebraska

Remember flash mobs—that trend circa 2003 in which hordes of people gather in public, do something absurd, then vanish as quickly as they appeared? The Daily Nebraskan recently infiltrated the Lincoln Underground Flash Mob and writes all about it.. more >>

Nowhere Is Safe: Lawyers Invade the Final Frontier

The next time a Klingon slips and falls on Vulcan property, University of Nebraska alumni will be there to handle the lawsuit. Nebraska's law school is scheduled to receive $2 million in federal funding for a space and telecommunications law degree program, the Daily Nebraskan reports. more >>

Trail Mix

*The Cornell University Police Department recovered its replica of the Sleeping Ariadne statue from an unnamed, off-campus fraternity house, according to the Cornell Daily Sun. Estimated value of a goddess of fertility statue: $20,000. more >>

Trail Mix

A discrimination suit on behalf of minority students seeking higher education in Alabama has finally been settled--after 25 years, the Crimson White reports . Nebraska, the birthplace of the Reuben sandwich, still has good Reubens, the Daily Nebraskan reports. more >>

Trying to Bring Nightlife to Under-21 Students

Breaking the law shouldn't be the only way for underage students to have a good time, University of Nebraska-Lincoln administrators have decided. They have begun studying ways to make nightlife fun for the underage set--including ideas stolen from other campuses, like cosmic bowling and casino nights, the Daily Nebraskan reports. more >>

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