Ballard’s personal weed experience doesn’t apply to everyone In response to Noah Ballard’s Nov. 9 Article Drugs, Alcohol don’t boost creativity While I won’t disagree with you about the effects of drinking on academics and l...

The sky was tinged with pink and beginning to lighten when we arrived at the lake. Not long after we packed ourselves on top of the lookout, a golden glow peaked above the trees across the water....

I ’m pretty excited. I’ve got a new book coming out. Yeah, I wrote it in like one day (Legal notice: Kyle did not write the majority of his book. It is a ghostwritten memoir). It’s 500 pages. It’s also the single greatest book ever...

Certainly, the question of human embryonic stem cell (hESC) research and the other issues that come with it comprise one of the most compelling questions of our time. It is yet another example of when science seems to clash with ethics and when we must de...

Earlier this week, the global civil society organization Transparency International released a study on the least corrupt nations of North America. ...

When I was accepted into UNL, I was so proud of myself. This was it. I was defying the stereotypes of the circumstances I was born into. I was headed for college, and I was going to be part of an elite group of intellectuals. The only thing in the way of ...

I had to come back to reality on Monday. School. Work. More school. I couldn’t drive around the countryside with reckless abandon, and I had to weave around the masses of people on campus. I missed being out deer hunting, and, as I write, I’m ...

Lying on the paper sheet with fluorescent lights shining down on you, the doctor starts to examine you. Her hands are cold. So are the medical instruments she’s using....

“ I t gives an unnecessary advantage to the terrorists, and why would you want to give an advantage to the terrorists, and it poses risks for New York,” said Rudy Giuliani in an interview for CNN’s “State of the Union” this p...

“ In my impression, black people, especially Africans, are not clean enough... To be frank, I just feel black people are too black. Definitely, I wouldn’t consider having a black guy as my boyfriend even if he were rich.”...

Late last month, the Daily Nebraskan first reported on the overuse of the 475-RIDE program amongst University of Nebraska-Lincoln students. ...

Time, once you get past the benevolent mask of Father Time and the atomic precision of modern time, is a tricky thing and, I submit, a fascinating study. ...

“Draw us to you, O Lord, as we draw close to one another,” prayed Chaplain Michael Lembke at the Ft. Hood memorial service on Nov. 10, 2009. In our hardest times, we as an American people draw together to pray with families, friends and loved ...

U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder announced Nov. 13 that the alleged mastermind of the 9/11 terrorist attacks will be brought to New York for his trial....

So maybe Anita Dunn had it wrong after all. Recently, Dunn, the interim White House Communications Director, described Fox News as “an arm of the Republican Party.”...

T wo weeks ago today, it was election season across numerous regions of the country. New Jersey and Virginia had governors’ races; New York and California had special elections for House seats; cities nationwide held mayoral and city council electio...

Downplaying Fort Hood shooter’s religion is irresponsible This country has taken political correctness to a ridiculous extreme, and it sticks out like a sore thumb in the staff editorial from Nov. 9 titled “Shooter’s faith masks bigger i...

Last Friday, Nebraska Sen. Mike Johanns held a town hall to discuss the health care bill that recently passed through the U.S. House of Representatives now making its way into Senate. While Johanns is largely against the bill – which we endorsed in ...

Most of us have at one time or another been the victim of a joke gone too far, but a video I stumbled upon last week takes the cake. In the video, made by Collegehumor.com, a man plays a joke on his friend in which he sets up an opportunity for him to go ...

Perhaps this paper anniversary, the traditional gift to celebrate the first-year, UNL could send Ayers another invitation to speak on campus. Maybe administrators could ditch their mullet-decision, that bad haircut from last year, and move forward in the ...