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Doing Time On Death Row: Creighton University Theater Gives Life to ‘Dead Man...
I don’t go to a lot of theater, but I go to enough to have a good sense for what good theater looks and sounds like, and one of the better amateur productions I’ve ever seen was the Creighton...
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Nick and Brook Hudson, Their YP Match Made in Heaven Yields a Bevy of...
Every city has its dynamic young professionals who help shape or in some cases help reset the creative-cultural-style bar, and that is most definitely the case with Nick and Brook Hudson of Omaha....
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Walter Reed: From Out of the Past – Former Hidden Child Survives Holocaust to...
About nine years ago I was given the opportunity to meet and profile Walter Reed, whose story of escaping the Final Solution as a Hidden Child in his native Belgium and then going on to fight the...
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Entrepreneur, Strategist and Nation Builder Taylor Keen
Fascinating profile subjects abound everywhere I turn. Often times though I feel constrained to impart just how compelling a person’s story is by the limited space editors grant me. The subject of...
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Omaha Hoops Legend John C. Johnson: Fierce Determination Tested by Repeated...
John C. Johnson I take no joy in posting the following story I wrote six years ago or so about Omaha hoops legend John C. Johnson, who saw his life unravel a little more than a decade after...
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Gender Equity in Sports Has Come a Long Way, Baby; Title IX...
Title IX. This often contentious 1972 federal education act is getting more attention then usual these days because the media is taking a reflective look back on the impact it’s had over its 40 year...
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Masterful: Omaha Liberty Elementary School’s Luisa Palomo Displays a Talent...
You don’t think of a master teacher as someone in her 30s but that’s exactly what Luisa Palomo of Omaha is. The kindergarten instructor at Liberty Elementary School has mastered the art and craft that...
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Institute for Latin American Concern at Creighton has Dominican Focus
Like a lot of institutions for higher learning Creighton University in Omaha, Neb. offers students, faculty, and staff various international outreach opportuntiees that follow under service learning...
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Home is Where the Heart Is for Activist Attorney Rita Melgares
In the collective public consciousness attorneys tend to fall into extreme categories: either as public defenders or prosecutors, or as those who fight for the little guy and those that represent the...
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Creighton College of Business Anchored in Pioneering Entrepreneurial Spirit...
What follows is a historical narrative I was commissioned to write for the Creighton University College of Businesss. The gist of the assignment was to articulate how the enterpreneurial focus...
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Ex-Reporter Eileen Wirth Pens Book on Nebraska Women in Journalism and their...
Women journalists cover anything and everything today. They work in all facets of media. But there was a time, and not so long ago at that, when they were restricted to a narrow range of reporting...
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Doing Time On Death Row: Creighton University Theater Gives Life to ‘Dead Man...
I don’t go to a lot of theater, but I go to enough to have a good sense for what good theater looks and sounds like, and one of the better amateur productions I’ve ever seen was the Creighton...
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Doug McDermott’s Magic Carpet Ride to College Basketball Immortality: The...
NOTE: Now that Doug McDermott’s NBA life has offcially begun as the 11th round pick of the Denver Nuggets, who immediately dealt him to the player’s first choice, the Chicago Bulls, I thought it made...
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High-flying McNary big part of Creighton volleyball success; Senior outside...
I have long followed the athletic programs of the major universities in my home state of Neb. Thus, I have noted with interest the emergence of African-Americans in collegiate volleyball yet their...
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JOHN C. JOHNSON: Standing Tall
None of us is perfect. We all have flaws and defects. We all make mistakes. We all carry baggage. Fairly or unfairly, those who enter the public eye risk having their imperfections revealed to the...
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What if Creighton’s hoops destiny team is not the men, but the women?
What if Creighton’s hoops destiny team is not the men, but the women? ©by Leo Adam Biga Wouldn’t it be weird if the local college hoops team of destiny this year wasn’t the men’s squad as we all...
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A case of cognitive athletic dissonance
A case of cognitive athletic dissonance ©by Leo Adam Biga Like a lot of you out there who root for the athletic programs of all three in-state universities competing at the Division I level, I’m...
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