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Inspiration, construction, tragedy and conflict dotted
the faces of the UNL campus this year.
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Although crime in the city was slow, Lincoln police and
courts still had plenty to do.
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UNL Chancellor James Moeser says students are
insensitive and uneducated on cultural issues.
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Championships weren't as plentiful this year for
Nebraska teams, but that didn't stop programs from
having success.
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There were good movies this year, avoiding the bombs
was the tricky part.
Cover Photo by Jay Calderon/DN
All arrows point to success
I got lost on campus not long ago.
With all the construction taking
place, trying to get from Nebraska
Union to Avery Hall can be a
challenge these days, and as I wound
my way through the maze, hitting
obstacle after obstacle, I had to stop
and smile for a minute.
It’s been almost five years now
since I first stepped foot onto this
campus. Five years since I first got
lost trying to find my way to Avery
Hall. Five years since I first pulled
out that map of City Campus I had
cut out of the Daily Nebraskan,
trying not to look like the lost
freshman I really was.
This year, it seemed like I was
lucky to even step foot off campus
on any given day. I know Avery Hall
like the back of my .hand. Down here
at the DN — in theory, anyway — I
ran the place.
Much has changed since Aug. 24,
1992.
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I sat through my last class at the
University of Nebraska-Lincoln on
Thursday. I jotted down a few of the
professor’s main points, but mostly I
listened to what he had to say, trying
to put the semester in focus, to put it
all together, to see the bigger
picture.
That’s quite a contrast to the first
class I took my freshman year —
Western Civilization — when I
struggled to write down everything
the professor said. At the end of her
45-minute lecture, I had more than
five pages of notes, and I didn’t
understand a word of them.
Maybe I’ve gotten more confident
since then. Maybe I’ve just learned
how to take better notes. Possibly ...
but I suspect there’s something more
to it than that.
College is all about learning, and
some of the most important lessons
learned are the ones that are never
formally taught.
All you have to do is think.
Doug Kouma
I have a friend who came into my
office nearly every week this year.
Sometimes she’d say hi, sometimes
I’d be on the phone and she’d just
smile. But she always picked up a
piece of chalk and wrote one word
on the chalkboard near my door:
Think.
And I did. I’ve done a lot of
thinking in my five years at UNL. I
haven’t crane to many conclusions,
but I’ve made a few small realiza
tions.
Where my future is concerned,
I’ve done just about everything I
could to prepare myself for a career
in journalism.
I worked hard in my classes, I
landed two pretty decent newspaper
internships, and I dedicated three
years of my college experience to the
Daily Nebraskan.
Professors like Daryl Frazell,
Mike Stricklin, Bud Pagel, Charlyne
Berens, Larry Walklin and the rest
of the J-school faculty instilled in
me a love and excitement for this
business, and I can’t wait to get out
there and get my feet wet.
Still, I get flustered when a friend
says something like: “I’ll watch for
your name in The New York Times
someday.” Nevermind the unlikeli
hood of the event. I’m just not sure
that’s the direction I ultimately want
my life to take.
Because for everything those
journalism professors did for me,
they had some pretty good competi
tion along the way.
Like Kevin Smith and Robert
Sittig, whose political science
classes cut through the rhetoric and
snarl of modem government and
showed me how frustratingly fun
politics, in its purest — or dirtiest
— form, can be.
Like Manfred and Evelyn
Jacobson and Robert Shirer, who
struggled with me through years of
German class, always offering
encouragement, and never letting
my interest wane, even when my
ability did.
Like Warren Embree, Michael
Hoff and guest professor Ann Perry,
whose knowledge and love of art
and literature brought to life a time
gone by like no “regular” history
class could.
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professors thank you, nor did I ever
tell them how their classes sparked
my interest. My grades in some
cases sure didn’t reflect that, and it’s
likely that most of those professors
have forgotten I was their student.
But I haven’t. And I won’t.
I’ll keep those sparks alive. I’ll
keep learning, even if I’m not in
school. It’s a pretty good bet that one
day I’ll take one of those sparks and
kindle it into a fire, and my life will
take a new turn.
A lot has changed since Aug. 24,
1992.
Five years later, I stitt find myself
wandering around this campus, soon
to wander off for good. And five
years later, I’m still getting lost.
But I’ve long since thrown the
map away.
Kouma is a graduating news
editorial senior and was the 1996
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