Faculty looks for core cure

Dean Robert Lueger and Natalie German, Arts & Sciences senior and president of the Arts & Sciences Student Senate, spoke to a sparse audience of students and faculty on Tuesday, Nov. 18. Few paid attention to this “fireside” chat. Less than 25 students attended. Yet Lueger and German touched on the future of our university’s […]

Artists show ‘Spirit of Nature’

This fall’s Bachelor of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition, The Nature of Spirit, The Spirit of Nature, will feature two Creighton seniors, Halley Gallagher and Leroy Janis, both BFA candidates in studio art. They will be displaying their work at the Lied Art Gallery beginning Dec. 6 2008. Although both artists differ greatly in inspiration and […]

Holocaust lecture sheds personal light on suffering

Picture this: you are brought to an unknown place where you are immediately separated from the rest of your family and stripped off your clothing and every possession. Your head is shaved and a tattoo is engraved on your skin for identification. What I have just described is the torture experienced during the Holocaust. It […]

Westroads ‘Raves’ about new movie theater

In December 1997, as Omaha’s rave party scene was declining, Westroads Mall said goodbye to its on-site movie theater. Roughly 10 years later, movies return to Westroads in an all-digital format with Rave Motion Pictures. No film enters this state-of-the-art digital multi-plex. What used to be yards and canisters of film is now concentrated into […]

Rivalry rekindled

From teammates to rivals, their friendship perseveres. Many see the Creighton versus Nebraska matchup as a yearly clash of in-state rivals. For Creighton junior guard Chevelle Herring and Nebraska junior Yvonne Turner, it’s more than that. It’s a reunion. Herring and Turner both attended Bellevue East. Because Herring is a year older, they were teammates […]

Mock trial team exercises quick-thinking skills

Sometimes it’s the star-struck murder-witness janitor who is called to the stand. Other times it’s the very serious death investigator. No matter the role, one thing’s for sure: mock trial is certainly all about getting into a character. This past Friday, Creighton was home to 26 mock trial teams from around the U.S. The Creighton […]