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  • Photo by Wendy van Vlerken - For the last time in his college career graduating senior Wes Thoene, an organizational communication major from Hartington, gives out free hugs in front of the Nebraskan Student Union on Monday. Thoene and several friends gave out free hugs during the semester after seeing a YouTube video of Juan Mann's Free Hugs campaign. The idea was to make others feel more connectected to society as a whole. "We are becoming socially disconnected," Thoene said. "For me, the biggest thing is if I can just brighten someone's day with a small gesture." Thone, shy as a freshman, was part of the Honors Program, active in Mortar Board and an RA.

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  • Amazon Kindle Fire

    Laptops, textbooks, no more?

    Tablets take over, showing tremendous growth in 2011, with projected 377 million to be sold by 2016.  By Brooke Almstrom iPads, Nooks, Kindles… Oh my! Throughout the spring semester, everywhere you went, students found multiple uses for these mini computers Returning your textbooks at the end of the semester could eventually become a thing of the [...]

  • The Avengers

    Blockbusters Signal Summer

      Start prepping for a summer at the movies By Adrianna Tarin Holy Hamlet, Batman! It’s been an entire year since I started waiting for “Thor” to finally come out in theaters. I can remember it just like it was yesterday. It was a beautiful day in May. The birds were chirping. Well, they probably were. I [...]

  • Photos by Amanda Arnold - Members of Owls in the Outfield work together to come short of an out at second base on April 22. The Rally Around Rebecca softball tournament ran all weekend and had a great turnout from UNK’s sororities and fraternities. The Rally Around Rebecca softball tournament was held at the softball fields on campus for senior Rebecca Jacobson, whose medical bills have been adding up.

    ‘Rally Around Rebecca’ softball tournament big hit

    AOII, FSO team up to help By Jay Omar When Rebecca Jacobson was a junior at North Platte high school, she had her first sign of illness. Now four years into college, her life has changed. A charity softball event “Rally Around Rebecca” took place at the UNK softball fields on April 21-22 for the [...]

  • Courtesy photo - Former slave Eliza Galloway was the only black woman in the city of Kearney from the late 1880s to the early 1930s. She was a freed slave who first ran her own catering business, then was the cook and chief of staff at the now historic Frank House while she lived at 517 West 28th, near Harmon Park. At the time of her death in 1936, Galloway was still the only African-American resident in Kearney.

    Two women, similar advice

    Hill, Johnson both say look to past By Adam McLaughlin Barbara Johnson and Toni Hill arrived at UNK from opposite areas of the country. Johnson grew up in Georgia, and Hill was born and raised in Omaha. What meshes these two African-American women together is their passion for education. Johnson and Hill shared the same [...]

  • Sports (more)

  • Goodin eyes road to NFL glory

    By Arthur Hobbs How many children out there will tell you that when they grow up they’re going to the NFL, NBA or MLB? If you took a survey that number would be huge. Keep that survey for 15 years

    April 27, 2012 | 0 comments | View Post

  • Osborn goes down in history

    Track senior brings home national Division II championship in hurdles By Arthur Hobbs Senior Allen Osborn credits discipline and focus as key factors in allowing him to outperform his track competition this season. “My will to win drives me to

    April 19, 2012 | 0 comments | View Post

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  • Photo by Yena Oh - Saxophonist Matt Corey from Canton, Ohio, had his own style of pop and jazz blended concert in the Nebraskan Student Union at UNK on Friday. He played famous pop music such as Michael Jackson, T.I., Rihanna and Usher with his saxophone and his own instrument that makes electronic sounds.

    Corey may not rap, but can play that sax

    By Brianne Wetovick If Kenny G and The Situation had a baby, that baby would be Matt Corey. The performer with “two turntables and a saxophone” entertained an audience with swag and talent on April 20 in the Nebraskan Student

    April 25, 2012 | 0 comments | View Post