While Nebraska football finished its 2021 campaign with a disappointing, yet predictable collapse against Iowa, the Huskers’ loyal fanbase did…
Editor’s note: This story contains intense and personal discussions of eating disorders.
Tradition means a lot of things to a lot of different people. For some, their family traditions are elaborate, complicated affairs, complete w…
The Husker and Hawkeye game this Friday at Memorial Stadium marked the end of the 2021 Nebraska football season and, along with it, the colleg…
Winter break is just over two weeks away. Yes, one of those weeks is finals, but then comes a month of “you” time. Winter break is a weight of…
Changing your views of the world is a natural part of growing up as you become more educated and explore your individuality.
Current events were always my favorite part of class. In high school, I had a history teacher named Mr. Maurer, who always took at least ten m…
Sometimes I think about how 2019 Emma would feel about her 2021 self.
Every child raised in the American school system learns some variation of the story of the first Thanksgiving. While most Americans do not kno…
There’s something about superheroes that inspires us.
It seems “push it back” is the motto of the world’s most powerful nations once again, because why use your power to create meaningful change?
Monday of this week, Governor Ricketts proclaimed the month of November as Adoption Awareness Month, urging Nebraskans to consider fostering o…
I was in high school when Colin Kaepernick began kneeling.
I love Christmas.
Editor’s note: This article contains mentions of animal cruelty.
Dear readers,
Did you hear? Last Tuesday was Election Day. If you’re not a regular national news consumer, you probably missed it. Odd-year elections are mu…
Over the last couple of weekends, the University of Nebraska-Lincoln campus has been bustling and vibrant as masses of Husker fans and guest f…
When Mark Zuckerberg announced that Facebook was rebranding its corporate name to Meta and focusing on the metaverse, a virtual reality space …
During the night of the 2016 election, I was at practice for my high school’s one-act play. When the news anchors began to announce the victor…
I recently read Nick Finan’s piece on how unionization creates a fairer workplace. I couldn't agree more! As a member of Unionize UNL, I want …
Recently, I heard of a rumor that my hometown public high school’s new principal wanted to add a rule enforcing only natural hair colors. No “…
Over fall break, I travelled to beautiful Branson, Missouri. My days were spent reading by the lakeside, wandering through a historic downtown…
Jack-booted thugs busting down doors, mad scientists injecting unwilling citizens with drugs: this is what some no doubt think when the term ‘…
With “vaccine passports” popping up in American cities like New York City and San Francisco, the long-awaited proof-of-vaccination requirement…
Megan Fox’s popularity is on the rise again, and her cringy relationship with Machine Gun Kelly is adding another level to her hot-girl reputa…
Throughout my time at the Daily Nebraskan opinion section, I have been rather critical of the media. Just last week, I criticized them for spe…
I do not recall precisely when, but I am sure I was several years short of a decade old when I first heard the phrase "time is money." Since t…
During the past few years of college, I’ve learned to love saying “no.”
I can’t talk to my dad about politics. Every discussion turns into a debate about COVID-19, about my “indoctrination” and the current fate of …
With more than 16 months remaining in his second term as Nebraska governor, Pete Ricketts took a trip to Texas this month to discuss the press…
Just as the Black Death increased the bargaining power of Europe’s peasantry, so too has COVID-19 increased the bargaining power of the Americ…
Editor’s Note: This letter contains details about addiction.
On the evening of Oct. 7, members of the Lincoln community gathered in two separate venues only blocks away from each other. Both groups settl…
We need to continue creating a more diverse space that is safe for Black Americans on the University of Nebraska-Lincoln campus. Almost 75% of…
Today is National Coming Out Day.
From a young age, I have had to answer the million-dollar question that adults, for some reason, find amusing to ask children: what they want …
I hate social media. There is too much puffery, too many selfies and far too much meaningless content, and it all takes up way too much of our…
The death penalty is a barbaric vestige of a cruel past and has no place in modern society; we should abolish it once and for all. In the past…
Last week, the University of Minnesota became the third Big Ten school to declare its intention to disinvest in fossil fuels. Pressure from st…
Iowa is not only our biggest competitor on the football field but also in the stands. As of this fall, Kinnick Stadium is selling beer and win…
After more than 150 years since its founding, the city of Lincoln will finally have a symbol that represents the entire city — not just its hi…
A couple of months ago, I was honored to attend a historical meeting between the Omaha Tribe Council and some members of the UNL faculty. Bein…
While college tuition itself is already an exorbitant expense, universities often have “hidden” fees such as textbooks, housing and parking. S…
Why should Governor Pete Ricketts get to tell you or I that we can’t get high? Short answer, he shouldn’t.
It’s finally fall in Lincoln, and that means cooler temperatures, Husker football and drama at the state capitol. At least, in fall 2021, that is.
These days are strange times in the reality of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Since their arrival in Omaha in 2019, electric scooters have quickly spread across the Cornhusker State almost as fast as a particular illness…
This semester, I’m enrolled in a total of eight classes. I’m pretty much on my laptop all day, reading textbooks and completing classwork on C…
In my freshman year of college, few things brought me more joy than Selleck Dining Hall’s Thursday smoothie bar.
Three weeks ago, the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s campus was the busiest it has been in a long time. Every corner was swarming with cars a…
It usually starts with a text.
Over the past few weeks, I have had plenty of opportunities to answer one of the most asked questions of late August and early September: What…
To the DN Editor,
A little over a month before my fourth birthday, the United States of America invaded the landlocked and impoverished nation of Afghanistan. A…
Sexual assault on campus is a nationwide issue, and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln must do a better job at ensuring the safety of its stud…
I’d like to think of this era as the twilight phase of COVID-19. No, not the “Twilight” phase, sparkling Robert Pattinson not included. I mean…
As University of Nebraska-Lincoln students, we are lucky to call ourselves Huskers and be a part of this amazing tradition and community. Some…
The Republican party has, since the end of the Progressive Era, been a reactionary force in American politics, but not since the days of forme…
Not many would have guessed that an obscure academic framework would be the main rallying cry at Trump’s first post-presidency event, but that…
One of the first articles I wrote for The Daily Nebraskan was a plea to professors to ask students their pronouns on the first day of class to…
How are you celebrating Pride Month this year? Are you putting a little rainbow circle around your Twitter profile picture? Attending an in-pe…
Dear reader,
When my mom called me on March 12, 2020, and told me she had booked my flight home to Maryland, I felt like I was jumping off a cliff into a d…
Sudden life-altering events and changes of future plans can cause many, including myself, to become stressed and anxious. The impact of COVID-…
This time last year, graduating University of Nebraska-Lincoln seniors and their loved ones were navigating not only the beginning of a pandem…
I’m scared.