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New website lets you 'bet' on grades

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 04:00:00 GMT

Think you can score an easy A or two this semester? Why don't you put your money where your mouth is with Ultrinsic.com, a website where you gamble on your grades.

AU recently joined the table, along with Howard University, George Washington University and Georgetown University, to be one of 36 schools that participate in this monetary motivation.

Scholarship honors memory of UNO student killed in hit-and-run

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 04:00:00 GMT

On May 21, three months after his death, friends and family members gathered to remember Scott Limbeck and to take up a collection that would fund a scholarship in his memory. Limbeck, who would've graduated in May, was a senior UNO student who died from injuries sustained from a hit-and-run accident.

University officials violated open records law on Palin's speaking contract

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 04:00:00 GMT

California State University officials violated the state's open records laws when they refused to release the contract and other documents related to former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's recent fundraising appearance at a Cal State campus, a judge has ruled.

September Calendar of Events

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 04:00:00 GMT

Sept. 1: "Wake Up Laughing, and Wise Up Loving" with Cosmic Comic Swami Beyondananda at the OM Center, 7:30 p.m., tickets $20 in advance, $25 day of show.

Sept. 2: loom's Annual Outdoor Multicultural Dance & Art Festival at Joslyn's Sculpture Garden at the Joslyn Art Museum.

Mavericks shoot for third straight MIAA championship

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 04:00:00 GMT

Despite losing two seniors this year, UNO head golf coach Tim Nelson still believes he is going to have a solid team. The return of six letter winners from last year, and two new additions, will make for a very competitive season.

"I can't say we are going to win the conference," said Nelson.

Mavs look to regain Victory Bell from Lopers

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 04:00:00 GMT

When the Mavs left Kearney last year and took a 31-28 loss with them back to Omaha, they must have felt they left some opportunities out on the field.

From the first drive of the game, when a UNO snap sailed over punter Jason Schlautman's head, to a late fourth quarter interception, which gave UNK possession on the Mavs' 1-yard line, mistakes plagued UNO the entire game.

A closer look at the sport of cheerleading

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 04:00:00 GMT

heerleading is a physical activity, sometimes a competitive sport, using organized routines, usually ranging from one to three minutes, which contain the components of tumbling, dance, jumps, cheers and stunting to direct spectators of events to cheer on sports teams at games or to participate in competitions.

Thoughts on non-violent protest

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 04:00:00 GMT

Aug. 28 was the forty-seventh anniversary of the day the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King gave his famous "I Have a Dream" speech on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. The speech marked the climax of the civil rights march on Washington and is one of the most eloquent, impassioned and beloved speeches in American history.