Christmas at Creighton: Festivities before finals

The Creighton campus just got a little bit brighter after the 24th annual Christmas at Creighton Tuesday evening in front of St. John’s Church. The event, sponsored by Inter Residence Hall Government, featured an outdoor lighting ceremony and a Sodexo-catered dinner with music and visits from Santa. “Christmas at Creighton was one of IRGH’s first […]

Former exec shows plight of Hollywood homeless

Ways to give during the holiday season are everywhere. But does anyone actually donate to the Salvation Army Bell Ringers that haunt the front of grocery stores? Mark Horvath is trying something new: Using social media outlets, like Twitter and Facebook, to show the plight of the homeless in Hollywood, usually thought of as the […]

Health care debate needs time

The health care debate has now moved from the House of Representatives to the Senate. As the Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid struggles to find the 60 votes necessary to bring the bill to the floor, Nebraska Senator Ben Nelson and other moderate Democrats are put in a powerful position. Politics as usual threatens to […]

Dundee restaurant boasts big taste

It’s a familiar assumption that food served at a bar is usually below par. Most of us associate the bar menu with bland appetizers, greasy onion rings and stale breads or chips. And at most bars, if you’re bold enough to try the soup, maybe you’ve had one too many to drink. This assumption may […]

Adjuncts would be better off at fast food joints

Imagine spending eight or nine years of exhausting work to get a Ph.D. and then earning a salary that makes you eligible for food stamps, receiving no benefits and having no job security past the current semester. This heartbreaking scene doesn’t come from Pol Pot’s purges of Cambodia’s intelligentsia. It is the reality of what […]

Pharmacy professor ‘warm, welcoming’

You know more than you think you know. That was Dr. Robert Garis’ favorite thing to tell his students before their exams. It’s also the phrase that’s repeated most often on the wall of his memorial Facebook group, which was created to honor the beloved teacher, colleague and researcher who died of cancer on Nov. […]