“I kind of went out and played a little harder today.” Nebraska defensive tackle Jared Crick after his record-setting game last week against Baylor...

Impeachment usually falls through To Mr. Gary Brakhage: As for “big business” taking over, Russell Stover Candies, Ace Hardware, and Foote Davis are all quite large companies, as I have heard and consume their products in my home state of Iowa...

It seems the university has pockets of people all over campus and lacks a unified student body. For example, Greek vs. non-Greek; honors vs. non-honors; athletic vs. non-athletic; musical vs. non-musical. Not even Husker football is a true unifier, for as...

Hallo. Hello. Hola. If you knew all three of those languages you’re doing well. What about this one? int main() { printf(“hello, world”); return 0; }...

It costs a lot to punish the law-breakers of society. Our taxes pay for the police who do investigations and make arrests, court officials who administer trials in a just manner, and corrections facilities and staff who oversee the incarceration of those ...

Last Sunday, we here at the Daily Nebraskan were all abuzz with the prospect of some big breaking news. Some really BIG breaking news....

Study of climate change is science  ...

For more than several years now, I’ve had the recurring misfortune of hearing time and again from various sources one of the most inaccurate bits of foreign policy analysis currently plaguing our population’s commonsense: the nuclear standoff ...

In regards to the flawed No Child Left Behind system, I would like to point out the feelings of the students in which the program is affecting. It should be no secret that the No Child Left Behind program is not a popular system. Although No Child Left Be...

This Saturday was supposed to be the day of the Afghanistan presidential election run-off. In it, Afghans would have had a second chance – after the first elections were widely discredited as fraudulent – to select their national leader, choos...

Last week I invited Shannon Cameron, a grad student in theater, to my School and Society class in the College of Education and Human Services. Tables and chairs were pushed back against the walls leaving an open area for the active participation of my stu...

He is the one. He is husband material, the yin to your yang, the pea to your pod, the love of your life. That’s all I’ve got for gushy metaphors. Everything in your relationship is going smoothly, and then a big speed bump hits this made-for-t...

This week, the House of Representatives is projected to begin floor debate and/or vote on a massive health care reform bill. The Senate will begin floor debate in a few weeks. This is an enormous step forward for our country, and while the bills could be ...

For over 10 years, the 475-RIDE program has given countless rides, protecting students from potentially dangerous situations. When Molly Schmitz and Brett Stohs co-founded the program, they were excited by the opportunity to provide a lasting service that...

ASUN’s 475-RIDE program, which was set up as a free cab system for students stranded without a ride, is in dire straits according to a recent conversation between the Daily Nebraskan Editorial Board and ASUN executives Megan Collins and Brian Coburn...

I’m embarrassed to describe the horror I felt when I realized my phone was broken. I didn’t want to accept it. I hopelessly turned it on and off hoping it would work. Nothing worked, and I seriously wanted to cry....

Climate plan sends air of unease across Rust Belt, the Oct. 12 Associated Press headline read. Only the day before, an op-ed co-written by Sens. John Kerry, D-Mass., and Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., appeared in the New York Times boasting the ridiculously sapp...

Most fraternities and sororities put a good deal of effort into their various philanthropic events, and they raise a lot of money that goes to some really great causes. Yet to be honest, I have never been a huge fan of greek philanthropies....

As surprised as I was to see the Daily Nebraskan publish a column on anthropogenic climate change without any consultation from UNL’s own Department of Applied Climate Science, I was even more surprised to see the page on which it was published &mda...

A full month before Halloween, surfing the Internet for wigs, noting the endless supply of Michael Jackson numbers, I wondered who would pay $39.95 to look like Billy Mays or $29.95 to shake acrylic polyester Farrah Fawcett locks....