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In 2001, on eve of UNL student paper's 100th ann'y, I asked @kerreybob why, as a busy US Senator, he always returned calls to the @DailyNeb
Natural career progression
Gateway ➡️Lincoln paper ➡️Omaha paper ➡️ Stanford Law ➡️long legal career ➡️California Superior Court Judge.
Thanks Judge Ulmer!! — the first of many Gateway greats to be put on our newsroom map!!!
An OG (Original Gateway) hellraiser stopped by the newsroom today. Dick Ulmer went from the Gateway to the LJS to @owhnews to Stanford Law and to a legal career that landed him on California’s Superior Court. Judge is the first Gateway great on our alumni map. Many more to come💪
Gateway journalists digging for answers on what, if anything, UNO is doing about a frat member’s rape comment made on the phone of a freshman woman who didn’t know her phone was being used. She just happened to be a sex assault survivor and called the video triggering.⬇️
A UNO fraternity member could be heard loud & clear when he asked on video “what if we raped a b——” But UNO officials have been less than clear abt what they’re investigating. At the outset, a source said they didn’t probe the rape comment. unothegateway.com/news/initi…
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A UNO professor said rape culture in the US, and at fraternities in particular, cultivates what played out at UNO on Oct. 2: a fraternity member openly asking what would happen if they “raped a b—“ on camera. unothegateway.com/news/profe…
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First a UNO fraternity in controversy. Now the latest twist in the bizarre case of the on-campus behavior of a former police chief….
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EXCLUSIVE: in the wake of the Cornell 7 case, a UNO fraternity
member decided to use an unwitting female freshman student’s cell phone to ask what would happen if they raped a b—-h on camera. At a yoga party. UNO and the fraternity are investigating. unothegateway.com/news/exclu…
Back in 2009, refs were right to put a second back on the clock for Texas. Tonight, they were just dead wrong to put a second back on for Michigan. What a joke.
Congrats to the staff — inc new editor Dayanara Marroquin & summer editors Jacob Lesley & Ann McKnight — on a back to school edition chockfull of quintessential college fare, from a former Regent getting sentenced to a volleyballer overcoming cancer to an ex-police chief in trub
Old English font, new school year, same entertaining, engaging news!! The ONLY indy news outlet covering all things UNO. For students by students. Get yours at unothegateway.com or at one of 13 newsstands on campus, north and south. Happy New School Year, Mavs📢🚨🙌🫡
As it has throughout, the Gateway captures the sentencing of a former NU Regent and Douglas County prosecutor in
a sordid case.
The former prosecutor and NU regent representing UNO’s district was sentenced to prison for a 2025 drunk-driving crash that devastated an Omaha family. Gateway editor Dayanara Marroquin was in the courtroom as Elizabeth O’Connor learned her fate.
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Quick work by the Gateway’s Ann McKnight on the latest as NU Regents deal with governor- and legislature-inflicted cuts
UNO NEWS OUT OF LATEST REGENTS MEETING: Programs are being cut; future budget request going up while Pillen demands 5% cut in spending per month. Read here: unothegateway.com/news/nu-bo…
This is a doozy ⬇️
It was a regular summer class at the Community Engagement Center, smack dab in the middle of UNO’s campus. This wasn’t the kind of engagement anyone wanted.
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The only Omaha outlet to interview the latest college athlete to take on the NCAA and win. Read the story of a kid from the Congo who just wanted to hoop until the NCAA snatched his eligibility simply because he got hurt his senior year.
ICYMI: Our sports editor, Jacob Lesley, had an exclusive interview with the latest college athlete to take on the NCAA and win: UNO’s Isaac Ondekane. Isaac talked about a devastating injury and his fight with a governing body who fought his return. unothegateway.com/online_fea…
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Will Cooper's hoops journey has taken him from doctor visits to the Air Force Academy to Nebraska's scout team, where he emulated shooters like Jake Davis, Fletcher Loyer and Tyler Nickel.
After developing behind the scenes, he's ready to earn minutes. on3.com/sites/inside-nebrask…
A 4.5% increase — 12.75% over 3 years — is ‘modest,’ according to NU’s president.
NU president Jeffrey Gold calls the 4.5% tuition increase for the coming school year “modest.” What he didn’t mention: With it, UNO students will have seen a 12.75% in 3 years. Read here:
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UNO’s turning point chapter indeed reached a turning point this spring
Here’s the story on drama within UNO’s Turning Point USA chapter
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You’d think Jack Smith’s memo (that Pam Bondi inadvertently released) finding that Trump stole & kept 100s of classified docs after leaving office to enrich himself - would be more than a blip in the news cycle.
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Last half of season highlights (11 games)
11ppg
3pt 44% (29-66)
Season FT
87.5% (28-32)
@ops_vikinghoops
@CentralDutchMBB
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💨We run to all the smoke, in @fortnite and the bracket #EpicPartner
Take down your rivals in Showdown. Settle the score. Season 2. March 19th. @Fortnite #EpicPartner
Others have had cursory stories on UNO closing its 40+ yo child care center. The Gateway’s Dayanara Marroquin tackled it all, exposing the short notice given, the big-$ grants received, the impact on professors and students & the strange note referring families to a…food bank🤷♂️