The Antelope

The Antelope takes home Best Overall at Golden Leaf Awards

Lily Roby • April 12, 2024

robyl@lopers.unk.edu The Antelope received 36 honors at the recent Golden Leaf Awards put on by the Northern Plains Collegiate Media Association. The event, hosted at Wayne State College on March 23,...

Campus alert system should be utilized more often

Antelope Staff • September 8, 2023

On Aug. 22, the Kearney Police Department investigated a report regarding a potential threat to Kearney schools and UNK. Students received an email the following day which deemed that there was no credible...

New generation of Lopers take over The Antelope staff

Antelope Staff • August 21, 2023

Last May, five prominent figures from The Antelope team walked across the stage to receive their diplomas. As inevitable as it was, losing our graduating members still seemed hard to imagine. Getting used...

Comm students persevere, thrive despite mid-year move

Antelope Staff • May 17, 2023

News is our business, so The Antelope staff is familiar with constant changes in the world. Yet, as we reflect on the year, some major things have happened on a firsthand level — within our newspaper...

The Antelope nab best overall again at Golden Leaf Awards

Jada High • May 17, 2023

Once again, UNK students saw major success at the 2022-23 Northern Plains Collegiate Media Association Golden Leaf Awards. Students placed first in five of the nine main categories and in 19 of the 36...

The Antelope lands 7th in Best of Show at MediaFest

ALEXIS BERNTHAL • November 30, 2022

bernthala@lopers.unk.edu With travel, tough competition and miscommunication, UNK’s newspaper, The Antelope, took seventh place at the fall National College Media Awards convention. MediaFest22...

New location won’t stop The Antelope’s rise to success

November 30, 2022

This semester, we dove into campus safety, tackled cafeteria and dorm rumors, shared Student Senate meetings with the rest of campus and pushed for renovation and construction plans. And it paid...

The Antelope makes its mark at MediaFest, the US Capitol

November 16, 2022

MALLORY BRUNING ANTELOPE STAFF I woke up, crawled out of my hotel bed and glimpsed through my window to admire the streets of Washington, D.C. I probably spent ten minutes staring out the window,...

We advocate for UNK students and First Amendment rights

February 10, 2022

The Antelope succeeds when readers comment on a story, when visitors leave with a paper in hand and when students point at the photo spread saying, “That’s me!”. The Antelope is published for...

End of Semester Column

CASSIE BROWN • April 26, 2021

Writing for “The Antelope” this semester was different for me than it has been the past two semesters in which I had written. I joined the spring semester of my freshman year and have enjoyed writing articles for a little extra spending money. But this time it’s different. This time I have to write because I am a member of the class JMC 350, which also means I don’t get paid for writing this semester. That’s O.K., though, because I still gained experience in my field of interest while checking off one of the boxes on my degree audit.

The Antelope reflects student experience amidst pandemic

November 18, 2020

This is the final issue of The Antelope newspaper for the semester. We did it. We’ll do it again.

A pandemic is a different battlefield, protect others

November 12, 2020

On this Veteran’s Day, now is as good a time as ever to honor the people making sacrifices for this country. But after seeing the COVID-19 numbers spike from 19 to 47 student cases this week, it looks...