by Kelly K. Walsh in News
A suspected drug overdose may be the cause behind the death of a 21-year-old Creighton student found June 8 in his dorm room.
Jonathan Colby's body was found around 9 a.m. in his dorm room in Opus Hall, located on Creighton's campus.
Colby was a native of Hartland, Wis.
by Scott Stewart in News
The University of Nebraska system began implementing plans to cover budget shortfalls last week after the Board of Regents approved the university-wide budget on June 12.
Plans were announced at UNL and UNMC, while it still remained unknown Friday how UNO and UNK would address an overall NU systemwide budget shortfall of $8.
by Mike Bell in News
A group of UNO students representing the Gender and Sexual Orientation student agency took part in the 24th annual Nebraska Pride Parade on Saturday. They are shown marching past the Old Market.
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The UNO choir - Mary Kate Gilreath, Rachel Wardian, CJ Harden, Jason St. Claire, Trevor Kern, Thomas Olsen and Gregory Perdue - perform before Shakespeare on the Green Saturday. See pg. 6 for more.
by Scott Stewart in News
The University of Nebraska Board of Regents honored two Omaha philanthropists with its most prestigious award, the Regents Medal, at a ceremony at UNMC on June 11.
Ruth and Bill Scott - whose gifts have funded more than a dozen projects across the NU system - were awarded the medal, which was established to recognize individuals whose service to the university has provided "exceptional benefits in furtherance of the goals and missions of the institution.
by Scott Stewart in News
Friday, June 5
8:06 p.m. A student reported the theft of personal property from University Village. The incident occurred between 7:30 p.m. and 7:50 p.m.
Saturday, June 6
1:40 a.m. Campus Security was dispatched to a noise complaint at University Village.
by Michael Dale-Stein in News
IOWA CITY, Iowa, June 19 (UWIRE) - A car pulled up to a police checkpoint in Tehran, Iran. Machine guns pointed at the faces of the family within.
Inside the vehicle, one Iranian-American University of Iowa student was directly confronted with the reverberations of the June 12 Iranian presidential election.
by Andrea Ciurej in News
The "father of the Internet" spoke to a sold-out Scott Conference Center on June 15, to address UNO students, faculty, staff and local business professionals about "The Future of the Internet."
In an hour-long presentation, which was hosted by the Peter Kiewit Institute in cooperation with the Gallup Organization, Vint Cerf spoke about the evolution of the Internet from the ARPAnet, as well as the problems associated with the World Wide Web.
Web Update
by Scott Stewart in News
UNO is planning on eliminating the equivalent of 30 full-time positions as part of a worst-case scenario to cover its $2.2 million share of the university system's budget shortfall.
