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T his year’s March Madness has been an up-and-down season for many teams and fans. There have been many upsets in this year’s college basketball tournaments that no one could have predicted. March Madness started off with its first four on March 15-16 with the two Midwest and two South 16th seeds playing against each other. Meanwhile, the two Western Conference and two Eastern Conference 11th seeds played each other to gain their deserved positions. With all of the spots chosen after the first four kicked things off, the teams were flying, busing and driving all across the country to reach their destinations. They were to either prevail and continue their journey or cut their season short and reflect on where they went wrong. For Rutgers, Bryant, Wyoming and Texas A&M, this was just a taste of what the truth is. These teams were given a chance at the tournament, but fell short at the first four.
The other major upset was the reigning champion Gonzaga being beaten by Arkansas 68-74 in the Sweet Sixteen. Then Arkansas, the fourth seed, was beaten by second seed, Duke.Then, a team that came out swinging was Miami (FL). They came into the tournament as seed 10. They beat seed 7 USC, then just two days later, they beat the second seed Auburn with a margin of 18 points, 79-61. Then they played another team that was doing surprisingly well, Iowa State. Miami came out on top, putting up 70 points compared to Iowa State’s 56. Then with just one day’s rest, Miami got back up and got shut down by the Kansas Jayhawks in a loss that ended 76-50. Despite having all this drama, the biggest
One of the first upsets that happened was the game between North Carolina and Baylor. North Carolina is the underdog, as Baylor was the runner up last year and is also the number one seed in the Eastern Conference. North Carolina beat Baylor 93-86.
The rollercoaster that was this year’s March Madness
2 Editor–in–Chief Juliet Bromme Assistant Editor Hannah Drewieck Layout Editor Chrisheline Kalawo Assistant Layout Editor Justin Anderson Lead Photographer Joseph Lee Assistant Photographer Jacob Sanchez Distributor Spencer Trana EditorNEWS Maria Kercher Lincoln News TJ Pittenger Technology News Charles Metz Politics Andrew Schwartz EditorENTERTAINMENT Annika Cambigue Sports Gabriel Sanders Pop Culture Annelise Jacobs Comedy Caleb Schaber EditorLIFESTYLE Kelina Rodgers Outlook Hannah Olin Book Briefings Sierra Lastine Health & Fitness Nicole Hardt Nebraska Talk Evan Majors bracket breaker was, in fact, none of these teams. It was none other than Saint Peter Peacocks. They are the first team to reach the Elite 8 as a 15th seed. They had to go through second seed Kentucky, seventh seed Murray State andWhoPurdue.will be the next NCAA Men’s Champion? Will it be the number one seed Kansas or will it be the underdog, eighth seed North Carolina from the shadows?
Update: Congratulations Kansas Jayhawks! Gabriel Sanders is a sophomore English major from Apopka, Fla.
The original clock tower was built into the administration building where most classes took place. This clock was also a gift from the class of 1922. According to Union’s website, the class decided to build the steel tower when the administration building was given a destruction date. For a fun Easter egg, the inscription beneath the tower bears the school
What was Union like 50 years ago?
motto, complete with a spelling error.
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nion College officially opened for classes in 1891. We are just past celebrating 130 years of operation. Fifty years ago, Union was very different. Here are some dates that you might recognize. These years, 1971-1972, were near the end of the Vietnam war. Walt Disney World in Orlando had just opened. The Watergate scandal happened just after the school year ended in June 1972. Now that you recognize where in time we are, let’s talk about Union things.
Half a century has passed; let’s return to 1971-1972
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The clock tower was funded by the class of 1922 at their 50th anniversary. The 100-foot tall monument in front campus was built in the beginning of the school year and received a full page in the yearbook. When first built, the tower was installed with a carillion that would play after church services and on special occasions. The carillon is now officially abandoned in its dysfunctional retirement, while the clock continues to keep endless time.
Clubs come and go, but there were some fun ones back in the day that probably wouldn’t make it today. Clubs that withstood the test of time include the International Club and the Pre-Med Club. Some that were lost in the past fifty years include the two glee clubs, the flying club, home economics club and the men’s club called Sigma Iota Kappa. That’s not to mention the 10 or so small music groups formed by students!
The Nursing Program at the time was very different from the sophisticated department that it is now. The main classes met in the old administration building with the old clock tower. After the freshman year, the students had their “white coat ceremony,” except for them, it was a capping ceremony. They received pristine white nursing caps and ceramic oil lamps. Clinicals were not in local hospitals. For the last two years of their education, the nursing students traveled to Colorado where they worked and studied at the Boulder Memorial Hospital, coming back to Union to walk across the stage.
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Clock Tower 1972 Annelise Jacobs is a junior communication major from Peru, Maine.
Harvard Summer School shares that sleep is an important factor in memory consolidation. Studies have shown that sleeping after learning material is correlated with better performance.Creatinghealthy sleep habits may require some compromises – for some it could include staying ahead in schoolwork, avoiding distractions, leaving social events early or skipping a late study session. Luckily, there is a very high chance that shifting your daily schedule to better accommodate rest will have a positive impact on your life. You’ll never know if you never try, so consider giving sleep a chance!
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Theactivities.National Sleep Institute states that, on average, young adults should be getting seven to nine hours of sleep every night. It is critical that this rest is consistent throughout the week. The idea of “catching up” on sleep over the weekends is simply not an effective method in combating inadequate rest. Creating a schedule that routinely prioritizes sleep may seem like a big undertaking, but the rewards far outweigh the cost.
According to the CDC, staying awake for over 18 hours can have the same effect as having a blood alcohol content (BAC) of 0.05. Staying awake for 24 hours can be equated College students –please sleep
Nicole Hardt is a sophomore biomedical science major from Apopka, Fla.
Why you should prioritize rest ©RTE.com to a BAC of 0.10…and the legal limit is 0.08. The AAA reports that drivers running on less than five hours of sleep are five times more likely to be involved in a crash. Additionally, consistently lacking in sleep can severely affect personal health. Other than the symptoms previously mentioned, chronic sleep deprivation has also been linked to weight gain, obesity, cardiovascular disease, diabetes and mental health disorders.
For the students that claim that they’re okay with sacrificing their sleep if that means staying up studying to get better grades, there is evidence that being well rested can contribute to better academic performance.
I f you frequently experience fatigue during the day, irritability, stress, difficulty focusing and brain fog, you may be one of the many thousands of individuals who are experiencing symptoms of sleep deprivation. According to the National Sleep Foundation, between 70 to 96 percent of college students sleep less than what is recommended by health professionals. It can be incredibly challenging to manage homework, exams, extracurriculars, jobs and relationships, so it’s unsurprising that many students end up compromising their sleep to fulfill all their obligations. Despite all the busyness of school, it’s worth reflecting on whether or not these sacrificed hours of sleep are significant enough to take precedence over other
As a sign of respect to the champion, the losers will then be referred to by their last or middle name only until their graduation. The competition shall, of course, be overseen by a neutral party in order to maintain fairness. This third group will be made up of the Calebs, as they are another large group on campus with a whopping eight of them. When, where and if this competition shall take place is entirely up to the individuals involved. Do they feel like they have what it takes to take on others who share their name? Would they lose a sense of themselves along with their name if they turn out to not be the best in their group? Are they perhaps preparing for this showdown even as we speak? Who can know but those 10 and 15 individuals who answer to the same name. ©NPR Caleb Schaber is a freshman communication major from Lincoln, Neb.
The DanielHannah/showdown 25 enter, but only two may leave L ast year, the residents of Nebraska got to witness a battle of the ages. A legendary showdown known as the “Josh Fight” took place at AirPark in Lincoln. This duel was conceived by Josh Swain as a means to lower the vast population of other Josh Swains across the U.S. The winner of this fight would be crowned the rightful Josh Swain and would be permitted to keep the name, while the losers would be forced to change theirs out of respect for the new, alpha Josh. Here on campus, we have our own problem with many individuals sharing the same name. It’s time we hold our own version of the “Josh Fight.”
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One needs only to search the names Hannah or Daniel in the Peanut Gallery to discover that we are being overrun with samenamed individuals. There are ten different students named Daniel on campus, and even more staggering are the fifteen Hannahs. Something needs to be done.
As we all know, trial by combat has never failed to be the best way to settle any dispute; however, a campus-wide, gladiatorial battle between the two groups might be frowned upon. Rather, the worthiness to bear these names can be proven in a gauntlet of strength, agility and perception-based games. Whoever proves themselves worthy by making it through in that fastest time possible will be crowned the one true Daniel or Hannah.
In the first chapter of the book, Truman introduces the reader to the concept of the social imaginary. He defines it as “The way people think about the world” (p. 37). He breaks down how this has changed in three parts. The first is entitled the architecture of the revolution which involved reimagining ourselves and our culture. He talks about Hegel and his focus on the individual’s struggle for identity in society. The next section talks about Western culture and the
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Sierra Lastine is a junior English and foreign language major from Grand Junction, Colo.
The other sections of the book talk about the foundations of the revolution through Jean Jacques Rousseau, Nietzche, Marx and Darwin. Another fascinating chapter covers the sexualization of the self involving Sigmund Freud and Supreme Court cases. The last section covers the present in which the revolution of thinking on the self has triumphed and how Western culture has increasingly turned to the erotic and theraputic, as well as the emergence of the LGBTQ+ community.
removal of traditional value structures. One part of particular interest to myself is his subheading on deathworks. He explained these works as “an attack on established cultural art forms in a manner designed to undo the deeper moral structure of society.”
This book lets the reader see that the past was drastically different from where they are now. People thought very differently about issues. Truman examines society’s evolution of thought on the self like one could examine the rise of technological communication at Union. You could look at the journey and change from intercoms to the blue and orange plugs in the dorm wall for the internet to uGroups. These trail marks along the path of the past still remain, but few notice them or even care. Truman, however, makes the reader realize the importance in understanding the origins of these arguments over selfhood if we are going to participate in the conversation today.
“The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self” How did we get to where we are today? T his is one of the most complex books I will write about this year. “The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self” is a very philosophical read by Dr. Carl R. Truman, a professor of biblical and religious studies at Grove City College. The book examines the idea of self as “the product of a much wider cultural phenomenon that has shaped the intuitions of those who are blissfully unaware of its various intellectual origins and metaphysical assumptions” (p. 39). Truman is concerned with helping the reader understand where his presumptions about the world come from and how they are different from past perspectives.
Truman explains the piece saying “Its power lies not in any argument it proposes, but rather in the way the clean is subverted by the vile” (p. 97). Deathworks and a lot of modern art in general has been somewhat confusing and distasteful to me. Truman’s explanation of them though allows me to understand, but not really appreciate, these works.
I would highly recommend this book for anyone interested in philosophy, ethics or history. It is anything but a light read, but the payoff is amazing. ©Amazon
One example he gave was Andres Serrano’s “Piss Christ,” a crucifix submerged in urine.
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ebraska has recently introduced a bill that is attempting to bring reforms to the Nebraska prison system. It was introduced to the Nebraska Judicial Committee. Bill LB920 was introduced in 2020 and was put on pause for the time due to COVID-19. As of Jan. 21, LB920 was brought up again by Senators Steve Lathrop and Suzanne Geist. The debate has continued.
Lathrop said, “We aren’t just in an overcrowding emergency, even if we built additional capacity and closed a dilapidated penitentiary, we will not be out of the overcrowding emergency. We will not have addressed overcrowding, we will have built additional capacity as we have tried to no avail.” Along with that, Geist said, “I contend that instead of changing sentencing, changing penalties, that we focus at a time when we have money coming into the state, we focus on that, so we can help our inmates actually get better and what better means is you don’t return to prison.”
The bill, if it passes, would focus corrections resources on violent and highrisk individuals, address significant regional differences across the state, minimize barriers to successful reentry, expand community-based services to increase treatment placement options and support law enforcement collaboration. It would also ensure the sustainability of criminal
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justice reforms. It would specifically include streamlining the parole process, improving reentry and modifying drug possession penalties to establish weight-based thresholds for misdemeanor possession of substances other than marijuana. In total there are 21 different specific improvements that the bill proposes.Thisdebate will probably go on for a long time. It will be the start of something that could become national. The hope is that the quality of life improves for prisoners in order for them to still feel they are human. Lathrop stated that “This isn’t ‘we feel sorry for people in prison.’ This is about what direction the State is going to take with respect to corrections. Are we going to try and build 200 beds a year and seemingly staff them? Or, will we be able to identify those people who we want in prison and how long they need to remain in prison to effectively accomplish public safety?”
Bill that could bring change to the prisonNebraskasystem
The bill is being debated in order to bring changes to inmates’ sentencing, release, reentry and supervision after release. The bill’s intention is to bring more changes to the system through education and rehabilitation training. Part of the reason why the bill was introduced was because of overpopulation in prisons. Additionally, it would aid the release process to support the transition from prison into the rest of the community.
©Joseph Lee TJ Pittenger is a junior theology major from Gilson, Ill.
Throughout your day, the choices you make either push you closer toward your goals or deter you from them. It can be as big as not studying and failing a class or as small as going to bed at 3:00 a.m. and being tired the next day. Either way, our seemingly small, everyday choices are powerful and can have a bigger impact on our lives than we realize. Priorities College teaches you what your priorities are. We make time for the things that are important to us, whether it be grades, Netflix, friends, sports, family or gaming. College has a way of bringing to light the things that we deem as priorities in our lives, whether we recognize them or not. It is up to us to reflect on what we are prioritizing and decide whether or not it is something we want to focus our attentionCollegeon.is a true learning experience in all senses of the word. Sometimes, the lessons life teaches us are a lot harder than those in the classroom. However, they are no less important or impactful on our future. I hope that you continue to learn not only from college itself but from what you can take away from the experience as a whole.
C ollege has definitely been a learning experience - more than just academically. In fact, I think I have learned more about life during my three years in college than any other period of my life. I am sure many of you can say the same. As I reflected on all that I have learned thus far, I started to compile a list of all the lessons that college has taught me. While there are many, these are the ones that stood out to me the most: You reap what you sow The amount of effort you put into something is likely the amount you will get out of it. If you want to do well on an assignment or project, you have to put effort into it to get the grade. Or, if you want to make money, you have to put in the hours. The results of life are often dependent on how much you are willing to put into it.
Valuable lessons I have learned from college so far
It never hurts to ask
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Over the past three years, I have learned the value of simply asking, whether it be for help, an accommodation or extension or anything really. The worst that can happen is that they say no. So, why not ask? There is always the chance that the answer will be a yes! Every choice matters
Hannah Olin is a junior History Education major from Princeton, IL.
The end of his career came in a way that people on both sides of the aisle are calling “sad.” Fortenberry was convicted on three felony counts for lying to federal investigators about illegal campaign contributions from a foreign billionaire. It is law that foreign nationals cannot donate to candidates running for federal office in the United States, and it is also illegal to disguise the identity of a donor through third-party contributions. Fortenberry kept his story straight and clear through the
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whole trial, saying that he had no idea what was happening, and he had no idea that he received any illegal campaign money.
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During the trial, Fortenberry’s team was saying that the FBI set him up, “asking the unnamed fundraiser host to feed Fortenberry information about the donation.”
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Within 90 days, the state of Nebraska will hold a special election to replace Fortenberry.
Jeff Fortenberry forced to resign after controversial campaign funding resignsrepresentativeNebraska
fter 17 years, Jeff Fortenberry’s (NE - 1) career is coming to a close. To begin his career, Fortenbrery was a policy analyst for the Senate Subcommittee on Intergovernmental Relations. Fortenberry would later become a member of the Lincoln City Council from 1997 to 2001. He then would return to Washington by getting elected to the House of Representatives in 2004, replacing the retiring Doug Bereuter. During his last term in Washington, Fortenberry served on the House Committee on Appropriations, being the Ranking Member on the Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration and Related Agencies. He also was on the Subcommittee on State, Foreign Operations and Related Programs.
While Fortenberry plans to appeal, leaders in Washington told him he needs to do so as a private citizen, citing that people have “lost all faith and confidence” in his office.
The Nebraska Democratic and Republican parties will nominate their candidates to run for Fortenberry’s seat until January. While neither side has announced their candidates, many expect it to be State Senators Mike Flood (R - D. 19) and Patty Pansing Brooks (D. 28). While it will be a tight race, each will have big shoes to fill in Fortenberry’s vacancy.Thespecial election will take place on June 28, 2022.
When the FBI questioned Fortenberry, his intentions were to help them. Fortenberry told them everything he knew and said he was shocked when the charges came back against him. “I felt so personally betrayed. We thought we were trying to help.”
Andrew Schwartz is a junior adminstrationbusinessmajor from Lincoln, Neb.
10 extremities will begin to feel like they’ll snap off like icicles, or the wind will blow you right off your bike or skateboard. In fact the other day my friend witnessed me nearly experience the Theselatter. are just a few tough lessons mother nature has decided to teach me the hard way, but I’m sure after a few more winters here I’ll revisit this even more, since this was a ‘mild winter.’
Arctic punishment Lessons learned from a North Carolinian’s first winter in Nebraska I have lived all over the place including the midwest, New England and the southeast. Out of everywhere I’ve lived, I thought that the state of Maine had the worst winters. Never have I been more wrong. Nebraska’s winter is pure brutality. Yet, I’ve been told that this past winter has been mild compared to the last few years! Maybe I’ve just gone soft from living in North Carolina for the past year, but here are some lessons I learned from my first winter in Nebraska: Your weather app is a liar Typically I’d use the weather app on my phone to help me decide how I should dress for the day. This, of course, was a mistake considering there’d be times my app would say it’d be in the 60s and later I would walk to class and realize the harsh reality that it was actually in the 40s with wind, and I’d be suffering in shorts. Wind is a killer, and hats are your best friend
If you’re like me and wear your hair long, going outside with your hair down is out or you’ll be blinded by a curtain of hair. My friend and I actually talked about this problem the other day. We both agreed that beanies are the best thing to keep your hair out of your face. Hair ties just don’t cut it. Your hair will eventually just fall out of the tie, and your hair will eventually begin to break if you wear it up too much. Exercising outside is a mistake Since I don’t have a car, I’ll usually take my bike if I need to go somewhere and my friends who have cars aren’t available. More recently, I’ve picked up skateboarding too. Doing any of these activities is not a good idea in the cold and wind. Either your ©Joseph Lee
Just when you thought the cold was bad enough, its evil cousin comes through in the form of wind. Not just your typical wind, nearly hurricane force winds. You better make sure your papers are put away and anything else that could possibly blow away, because it will. You yourself might even blow away.
Evan Majors is a freshman business administration major from Winston Salem, N.C.
11 S hort videos. Scrolling. Hilarious and not-so-hilarious challenges. This just scratches the surface of what many know as TikTok, a popular social network that reached the 1 billion users mark last year. The platform is used by teens and young adults around the world.
Meta has taken heat from anti-social media activists for knowingly targeting young people on Instagram. Now it’s trying TikTok under fire Meta’s scheme to get rid of serious competition ©RTE.com to use this campaign to deflect its troubles ontoTheTikTok.campaign also involves highlighting dangerous trends and other such issues, trying to pressure congresspersons to take legislative action. One such example was the “devious licks” challenge, which PBS says “encouraged students to record themselves stealing or vandalizing school property, then posting the video online.” Opposition actually led for calls to have TikTok executives testify in a Senate subcommittee. But investigations revealed that the trend initially started, ironically, on Facebook. This was similar to the “Slap a Teacher” challenge, however this one actually never existed on TikTok. It was also from LettersFacebook.totheeditor have been sent to the Denver Post, the Des Moines Register and others. Op-eds have been submitted. Because of the nature of the campaign, the firm has been extremely effective in promoting antiTikTok sentiment without actually putting its name behind it. However, that could all change very rapidly as the truth begins to come out about Meta’s lobbying practices.
Charles Metz is a freshman theology major from Center, N.D.
However, not everyone is happy about the growth of this upstart in the social media block. Meta (formerly Facebook), in particular, is concerned about the revenue and user share that it’s stealing. Teens spend two to three times more time on TikTok than Instagram, which is owned by Meta. And recently, their plot to take down the “clock app” has been unveiled.
The Washington Post reported in a recent article that “Facebook parent company Meta is paying one of the biggest Republican consulting firms in the country to orchestrate a nationwide campaign seeking to turn the public against TikTok.” The firm, Targeted Victory, has directed their employees to “undermine TikTok through a nationwide media and lobbying campaign portraying the fast-growing app, owned by the Beijingbased company ByteDance, as a danger to American children and society….”
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where the average member was retired. One of the church members asked Pastor Roscoe not to come to their home because neighbors had expressed their fears about receiving a black person into their neighborhood. I was angry when I heard that story. Roscoe understood my anger, disappointment and hurt. Roscoe overcame despite the odds against him because of what he called a “relentless, loving God.” God had never stopped believing in him, no matter the injustices he and his family experienced.
– Isaiah 56:1 During our final meeting, I was feeling overwhelmed, and Roscoe challenged me one last time saying, “God still believes in you, but do you believe God?“
Santi Fernandez is a life coach at Student Success.
“Everyone has a story,” he said. He started by sharing his experience as a young black man, in times, eras and places where he did not “fit in.” He continued by telling me about his home and how he was raised by a single parent. His childhood was also impoverished. When Roscoe finished college with a theology degree, he was not offered a “real job.” He ended up working as an attendant at a hospital, transporting sick patients in gurneys and cleaning up after them. He recalled having an interaction with a physician.Hopingto get reassured while cleaning a soiled patient, the respected doctor asked him, “Young man, have you ever thought aboutRoscoecollege?”told him, “Sir, I have a college degree.” He was devastated but continued believing God. Roscoe prayed with and encouraged hospital patients. Soon, his reputation took off, and he was offered a job as a pastor. Roscoe was placed in a church where he felt he did not fit in. He was a young black man in an all-white church
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he whole corporate experience was foreign to me. Growing up in a single-parent household impoverished most of my childhood, I felt all odds were against me. I didn’t fit in, but Roscoe assured me I belonged. To my surprise, Roscoe was the chief executive vice president. When the interview began, Roscoe assured me in the presence of all the other executives saying, “Don’t worry. You are among friends.” I never forgot those words. My theological perceptions shifted. Jesus calling his disciples “friends” may have been in Roscoe’s devotional that morning, and I benefited from this. In our meetings, Roscoe shared personal stories with me. It became evident why he took interest in me.
Roscoe left a lasting impression on my life. Our conversations focused on values, mission and justice – places many fear to go. His efforts on justice and the spiritual integrity of our denomination empowered me to continue that legacy. There are conversations in our community we must all engage with and do better. He instilled in me to seek virtue and principle over money and title.
“This is what the LORD says: “Maintain justice and do right, for My salvation is coming soon, and My righteousness will be revealed.”
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annah Petrie was sitting in her dorm room on Feb. 21, 2022, when a strange woman opened her door.
“There wasn’t a knock. There wasn’t anything,” said Petrie, a residential assistant in Rees Hall. “She just came on in.”
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“Where they go and how many to add comes down to money ... I usually get to put in two brand new ones a year.” But, like anything else, cameras get old and need to be replaced. These replacement cameras come from the same budget as the new cameras. “It’s a balance between, ‘I’m going to put a new one here,’ or ‘I’m going to replace this one,’” said Sauder.Although the camera footage showed the woman wearing dark scrubs and an N-95 mask, they did not show many details. Emily Patterson, associate dean of women, said, “If I had been staring at the camera when the woman walked through the back door, I don’t know that it would have raised a red flag to me because you can’t see the detail as clearly as I think we should be able to.”
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Some of the cameras in Rees Hall were installed more than eight years ago, and they are not always in working order.
Rees Hall, like all residence halls on campus, has a security camera system that watches the doors, common areas and perimeter of the building. The incident on The camera dilemma Rees Hall intruder caught on camera
Feb. 21 is a reminder that these systems are limited in their efficiency.
“Cameras are something that my department is always thinking about,” said Campus Safety Director Dustin Sauder.
The woman asked Petrie if she had keys for her. Petrie said no, and the intruder left. Later, Petrie remembered she had seen that same woman in the dorm during the fall semester, and she reported the incident to the deans the next day. The deans, campus safety and the Lincoln Police Department searched the dorm and ensured that the woman was no longer in the building. They then informed the Union community about the issue via email complete with pictures taken from the Rees Hall security cameras. These lowresolution photographs quickly became a topic of conversation around campus, with students and staff coming forward to allege they had seen the woman in other buildings.
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Annika Cambigue is a junior communication major from Dayton, Ohio. are segments of the day the intruder entered where there is no camera footage at all due to technical problems. At the time, the cameras were in disrepair, but they have since been fixed. The camera dilemma is still ongoing, but Campus Safety and the deans are working to update the system as best they can. In the meantime, however, they are urging students and staff to report any missing ID cards and to stay alert. “That’s really easy to forget about because you’re busy. You’re thinking about homework or whatever,” said Sauder. “But paying attention to what’s going on around you really does help.” To report an incident to Campus Safety, call 402-486-2911.
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