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Nebraska First Lady to be recognizedCitation for Alumni Achievement to be awarded at commencement
She's a member of Read Aloud Nebraska, taking time out of her busy schedule to travel the state reading to school groups.
She's a member of the Social Sciences Advisory Board of Metro Community College.
She's a former president of Big Brothers Big Sisters and the Fremont Area United Way.…
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Construction all around: What's going up on campus
During the summer, it seemed as if the construction contractors on campus outnumbered students many times. But all their hard work toiling through the hot weather has not been fruitless. Three separate projects will be finishing up just in time for the start of fall classes, as well as several smaller renovations throughout campus.…
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Review: 'Pineapple Express'
I knew what to expect walking into the Dundee Theatre to see "Pineapple Express" at 12:01 a.m. Aug. 6, when it premiered in Omaha.
I will almost always get a cheap laugh or two out of typically overused stoner axioms and am generally mostly forgiving of plot lapses as long as everything else zips along.…
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Preseason football kickoff: Mavs polled at No. 2 in MIAA
KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Several members of UNO's sports community represented the university in Kansas City on Aug. 4, during the Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Association's Media Day.
New comers to the conference, the coaches' preseason poll pegged UNO's football team as No.…
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Involvement key to success
Sometimes, it's the really obvious things that college students forget about being successful.
With so much going on, it's easy to talk yourself into forgetting, for example, that the No. 1 way to do well in a class is actually attending it. Studying comes in a close second.…
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'Take a Peek at the Greeks:' Getting to know the community
If all you know about Greek life is what you've seen in low-budget going-to-college teen movies, you should take a closer look.
UNO's Greek community is divided into four councils - the Interfraternity Council, the Panhellenic Council, the National Pan-Hellenic Council and the Multicultural Greek Council.…
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Joining the MIAA: Stepping forward, while looking back
KANSAS CITY, Mo. - With the summer coming to a close, it's finally official: the North Central Conference is no more.
After 57 years of action, including dozens of team national titles and hundreds of individual nationals, the conference gave way after larger programs - such as Northern Colorado, North Dakota State and South Dakota State - made the transition to Division I athletics.…
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