By: Brad Gilligan

As the semester winds down, speeds up and generally spins out of control, the simple act of crossing off items on a list has the cathartic effect of returning order to my life. In 2009, at the height of Facebook's '25 Random Things About Me and rdquo; ...

By: Molly Hefner

I admit I am not someone who runs around this earth worrying about every little thing that would maim, kill or demolish the world around me. I am, however, someone who respects nature, who revels in its beauty, and admires the simplicity of it. For this r...

By: The Prairie Wolf

This article appeared in the 2010 April Fool's Edition of The Reveille. and nbsp; I am abject, miserable and forlorn. Not even tears running down my stony face drew any onlookers (only a very confused first-year). I am the Nebraska Wesleyan University...

By: Eric Himmelberger

This article appeared in the 2010 April Fool's Edition of The Reveille. I have a humble suggestion for the future of our world. Ethnic divisiveness and bitterness serve no real purpose when we all realize that there is a solution to almost all of the w...

By: Molly Hefner

This article appeared in the 2010 April Fool's Edition of The Reveille. and nbsp; OMGeeee. So, the other noche I was getting ready for a crazy night out with the girls and some guys and, like, um I was getting ready, right? So, anyway, there I was in m...

By: Brad Gilligan

I wanted to preface my words explaining I am not a political science major and mdash;until I realized that caveat perpetuates the very attitude I am calling to question. We hold a remarkably low standard for our own political accountability. In light o...

By: Molly Hefner

Since starting my education at Nebraska Wesleyan University in the fall of 2007, I have lost over sixty pounds. Did your jaw drop? Please, close your mouth and continue reading. I figured it was inevitable that I would write some sort of article about the...

By: Brad Gilligan

All year I have issued challenges that call for action and ndash; from students and faculty, both. I was first spurred by a desire to continue discussion about Visions and amp; Ventures. It strikes me as hypocritical that Nebraska Wesleyan University ad...

By: Kim Garvey

I work in two retail settings and have been in and out of various customer service venues since my sixteenth birthday. In those years that I have worked there has been one consistent theme when customers come through my line to check out: if something is ...

By: Molly Hefner

It is currently 11:15 p.m. on a Saturday evening. I have just spent the entire day (well, since about 12:30 after I got up) working on two papers simultaneously and ndash; both from scratch. Tomorrow will be spent in like fashion and ndash; finish those...

By: Brad Gilligan

Your alarm clock sounds, but outside the howling winds pound, reminding you that as soon as you forfeit your warm covers a sub-zero day awaits. 'Do I really need to go to class? It's not as though we're actually doing anything and hellip; and rdquo; The ...

Have you ever been sitting in a class and ndash; pretty well absorbed by the lecture or discussion and ndash; and you see movement in your peripheral or hear a faint clicking sound, only to turn your head and realize the idiot next to you thinks their t...

By: Brad Gilligan

Nebraska Wesleyan University housing. A loaded subject, from my experience. Luckily, I obtained one of the few spots in the Townhouses this semester and ndash; and let me tell you, especially after more than a year in Centennial, it has been (by far) th...

By: Molly Hefner

I was sitting in class one day last semester when my professor handed each of the students a slip of paper with a term or concept pertaining to the class subject. Our assignment was to define our given term and present it during the next class period. Ne...

By: Brad Gilligan

I understand that the world has bureaucracy and ndash;that there is often a chain of command and that people must play games to curry favor. That doesn't mean I always like it. Nebraska Wesleyan University even offers a class, Communication 225, which a...

By: Molly Hefner

Before reading this article, I suggest you hop online and check out the April Fool's article about Miley Cyrus on www.thereveillenwu.com -trust me, you'll better understand what I'm talking about. If you have read that ridiculous article, you best jump t...

Nebraska Wesleyan University students are sometimes as quiet as a mischief of mice. When Eric Etheridge and Dr. Singleton spoke to an audience from NWU and the neighboring community on Nov. 12, they shared stories from a significant period in U.S. civil ...

By: Molly Hefner

How often does it happen that someone who you thought genuinely liked you shows you a side of themselves that isn't so great? Too often. And what do we do when we're confronted with this sort of behavior from someone we trust, someone we've had somethin...

By: Brad Gilligan

We are being robbed. The New York Times reports that textbook costs have nearly tripled from 1986 to 2004, rising about six percent each year. The average college student ultimately spends between $700 and $1000 per year on course texts. Coupled with the...

By: Molly Hefner

How many times have you woken up feeling groggy, maybe you have a headache, maybe your nose is stuffy or maybe you have a sore throat? In the midst of this ridiculous Pig Flu (fine, H1N1) pandemic it's not uncommon for people to automatically assume they...