Dear Almost Graduates, Your time has come. May is just around the corner. Graduation: that special day where you don a $50 sheet for six hours and wait for some guy you’ve never met to call your name. That $7 piece of paper is all you need for your mom and dad to announce to [...]
When dark bumps began to appear on Megan Britt’s scalp in the spring of 2008, the 18-year-old high school senior and tanning addict began to rethink one of her favorite hobbies. Britt’s mother, a cosmetologist, was cutting her daughter’s hair when she noticed black spots developing on her scalp. Britt never received medical treatment or [...]
A Japanese man with shaggy black hair strides into a full classroom. “FREEZE!” he yells. With this shout, Yoshinori Kamo begins the first day of his Introduction to Sociology course. “People probably find it shocking,” he explained, looking a little pleased with himself. “People go, ‘What’s going on?’” He glanced confusedly around his office, mimicking [...]
Melissa, a blonde with pierced nipples and hair down to her lower back, was grinding on top of me. “You don’t have a dick to work with, you know? I just don’t know how to dance for girls,” she said. Two guy friends and I had gotten a private room with Melissa for $300 an [...]
Action figures, over-sized checkers, Hot Wheels, My Little Ponies and wooden blocks — it sounds like the makings of any child’s toy box. But these toys and about a hundred more once adorned the hood, roof and trunk of Meghan Scuderi’s car. Scuderi, a sculpture senior, first introduced her splatter-painted masterpiece to the public at [...]
Compiled by Jordan DeFrank In 1960, Dr. George Mickey, dean of the Graduate School, was accused of murdering a UNO professor, Margaret McMillan, and dumping her body off River Road just outside campus. Mickey was cleared and released because of “tampered evidence,” despite McMillan’s bloodstains and fingerprints in Mickey’s car, as well as a faulty [...]
It’s 8:00 a.m., and Brittany Ainsworth awakes to the voice of her three-year-old daughter Natalie, instead of an alarm clock. After cooking breakfast with Natalie, who loves to help make scrambled eggs, Ainsworth and Cameron, her husband of ten months, drive Natalie from their on-campus apartment across town to daycare, then come all the way [...]
Nearly two years ago, Cydnie Clark hit rock bottom. She was battling an addiction to crack cocaine that would quickly change the course of her life. On April 30, 2007, her four-month-old son inhaled enough smoke to cause cardiac arrest. Clark was charged with negligent homicide and essentially blamed for her son’s death. “There was [...]
