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Midnight Mojo series hosts clean nights of fun

Gaggles of students, their friends and some family members flocked to the campus recreation Mecca for HPER After Dark, an event hosted by Midnight Mojo on Jan. 20. The multi-million dollar facility was put to good use, as almost the entire sprawling complex was alive and bustling with a variety of activities for attendees to peruse.

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Museum exhibit brings costumes to Durham worn by Hollywood’s finest

The Durham Western Heritage Museum is currently hosting "Cut! Costume and the Cinema," an exhibit featuring costumes worn by more than 30 actors in 27 different films.

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Freshman looking for ways to ‘make putts’

When a guy hasn't scored a goal in a while, some critics might say he's gripping the stick a little too tightly.  UNO Head Coach Dean Blais said he looks at the lack of scoring from some of his freshman a little differently.

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‘Little things’ bury Mavs

If playing future Summit League foes is meant to serve as a measuring stick for the UNO Men's Basketball team, Tuesday's loss against Western Illinois might be a little deceiving.  The Mavs lost 81-70 but it would be difficult to walk away from the game believing there's an 11-point difference between the two teams.

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SOPA: Like swatting a fly with a sledgehammer

Last Wednesday, more than 10,000 web sites, including Wikipedia, Google, Craigslist and Wordpress, went black or blacked out portions of their content in protest of the Stop Online Piracy Act a law intended to put a stop to online software and media piracy.  The act of mass protest caused most of the bill's sponsors and supporters to rethink their position.  The bill has since been delayed in the House of Representatives, and its evil twin PIPA, the Protect IP Act, has met a similar fate in the Senate. 

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Dr. Pepper gives away a chance of a lifetime

UNO Sophomore Will Gottner was casually browsing the internet for scholarships when he chanced upon one that would garner him life-changing results.

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UNO selected to host scholarship winners from Brazil

Last year, Brazil's Ministry of Education acted upon an apparent need to increase the number of their country's students studying abroad in science, technology, engineering and math (also known as the STEM fields). With one of the world's fastest-growing economies, Brazil sees support for STEM fields as critical to sustaining its development.  UNO is one the first U.S. universities to host students who have earned these scholarships through the Science without Borders initiative.

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Sports

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UNO earns 2 conference points at Mankato

Nothing on the road is ever easy in the WCHA.  That was certainly proven this weekend when UNO skated into Mankato, Minn. and had to play two overtime games en route to a series split.

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Women’s basketball bitten by Bulldogs

In a season of change, success at home was the constant.  In eight home games at the Sapp Fieldhouse, only one opponent had come in and stolen a win away from the UNO women's basketball team.

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Entertainment

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‘Beauty and the Beast’ hardly different in 3D

I was a child during Disney's second golden age of animation, the late 1980s to mid-1990s. "The Little Mermaid," "Aladdin" and "The Lion King" were all repeatedly played until the VHS tape broke, but my favorite of all time, the one that led me to dress as the lead princess for four straight Halloweens, was "Beauty and the Beast."

Music

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Lydia Loveless flawlessly mixes country and punk

The trio known as Lydia Loveless took over the Waiting Room Lounge Tuesday, Jan. 17 to play a unique mix of country and punk. Tickets were $8 and the doors opened at 9 p.m. Gerald Lee Jr. opened the show for Lydia Loveless.

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