Annual Luau sells out

   The Hawaii club’s sold-out luau packed the Kiewit Fitness Center’s gym on Saturday night welcom-ing students, faculty and community members to learn and celebrate their culture with Hawaiian food, dancing and vendors.     An entrance line wove through the stairwell and back up the KFC spine, where attendees could catch a sneak peak […]

SLIC helps students achieve financial literacy with program

Students come to Creighton to pursue a wide variety of different majors and interests, but this focus can often leave financial planning skills neglected or undeveloped entirely.  The Student Leadership and Involvement Center is helping combat this problem with their event, The Finances of Life, designed to help students investigate what financial literacy means for […]

Dubliner Pub hosts Dance Marathon fundraising event

 Creighton students gathered on Wednesday, March 23, at the Dubliner Pub for a fundraiser event for Dance Marathon, an on-campus philanthropy event and organization that raises money for the Omaha Children’s hospital.  The social fundraiser was held in the evening to allow people to come and contribute. Seth Miller, executive director of Dance Marathon, said […]

Isabel Wilkerson addresses U.S. Caste System

Renowned author Isabel Wilkerson was hosted by Creighton in a Zoom event last Wednesday for the final installment of the Presidential Lecture Series and discussed the history and impacts of race and class in the United States.  The speakers presented both in-person and through Zoom.  Wilkerson discussed the themes of her newest book, “Caste: The […]

Creighton discusses clerical sexual abuse

Restorative justice, clerical sexual abuse, and the Catholic Church were the topics of the 22nd annual Lawler lecture on Thursday, March 24.  Stephen Pope, a professor of theological ethics at Boston College, stated that his name was ironic as he lectured over the prospects and pitfalls of using restorative justice to address the ongoing issue […]

Remembering Mary Kate: Memorial for Phelan sees large turnout from students

As students, family and people close to Mary Kate Phelan continued to trickle in, the Rev. Daniel Hendrickson, S.J., began his speech at the packed memorial service for Phelan on Monday. Campus Ministry ushered in people arriving just before the service, seating them wherever there was an open seat allowing strangers to synthesize a shared […]