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Native Daughters, Christina Devries, Jordan Pascale, Shannon Smith, Katie Stearns, Carson Vaughan, Molly Young, Clay Lomneth, Alan Eno, Astrid Munn, Matt Buxton, Judi M. Gaiashkibos, Shannon Smith, Hannah Peterson, Elizabeth Gamez, Maggie Liggett, Katie Stearns, Natasha Richardson, Johnna Hjersman, Krista Vogel, Elizabeth Gasaway, Charlie Pfister, Matt Buxton, Anthony Troester, Christine Lesiak, Scott Winter, John Wunder, Joe Starita, Princella Parker, Nancy Kelsey

College of Journalism and Mass Communications: Student Media

For almost two years, Nebraska’s College of Journalism and Mass Communications has benefited from this perfect storm, riding a project wave dedicated to a singular idea: You can’t really understand American history without understanding Native American history. And you can’t understand Native American history without understanding the critical role Native women have played in defining, enriching and protecting that history. Underwritten by a $125,000 Carnegie Foundation grant, this journalism project is intended to substantially raise the profile of Native Daughters. To that end, the college enrolled two dozen of its best and brightest students – reporters, photographers, videographers, Web masters, …

Displaced: Stories Of Struggle In South Africa, Sarah Bryant, Shannon Lauber, Christina Devries, Jenna Gibson, Logan Meier, Anna Mostek, Kate Veik, Chris Slaughter, Vanessa Skocz, Chelsey Manhart, Bruce Thorson, Charlie Mitchell

College of Journalism and Mass Communications: Student Media

In June 2008, a group from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln — two advisers, seven student photographers, two student reporters and one student videographer — traveled to South Africa for 18 days. Their project, which had been in the making for the previous six months, focused on documenting immigration issues in South Africa. Howard Buffett, a documentary photographer, funded the trip, which was a partnership involving UNL, Arizona State University and the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg. The group arrived in South Africa amidst the aftermath of xenophobic violence that tore through the country in the several weeks leading up …

2010 Kazakhstan Visual Journalism Class, College Of Journalism & Mass Communications, University Of Nebraska-Lincoln

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Photojournalism students at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln College of Journalism and Mass Communications went to Kazakhstan for 16 days in May 2010.

Thanks to an endowed gift from three of the nation's leading photographers, the students were able to document an emerging country in which there is great human need.

The photographers, Howard Buffett, Thomas Mangelsen and Joel Sartore, created a photojournalism fund to enable students to travel abroad to witness the world firsthand and report on what they see. Buffett is a photographer of scenes in the developing world, Mangelsen is a nature photographer and Sartore is a contract …

2010 Special Olympics, College Of Journalism & Mass Communications, University Of Nebraska-Lincoln

College of Journalism and Mass Communications: Student Media

A multimedia website, a nightly television broadcast and two new courses were created by the College of Journalism and Mass Communications for students to cover and promote the Special Olympics 2010 USA National Games in Lincoln.

Fifty students in two Journalism and Mass Communications classes joined forces with the games' media professionals to produce a website (http://cojmc.unl.edu/specialolympics) to tell the stories of the athletes and of competitions in text, photos and videos.

About 3,000 people with intellectual disabilities competed in 13 sports venues across Lincoln. The games, which were the largest multi-sport event in the state's history, attracted 15,000 family …

On The Road Again: Photo Students Search For The "Real" Nebraska, Bruce Thorson

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"Migrant Mother," a photograph by Dorothea Lange that showed a mother struggling to survive with her three children in a lean-to in a migrant camp, became the iconic picture that symbolized the Great Depression in the 1930s. Today, our nation's economy has fallen to a historic level not seen since that traumatic period. Financial and housing markets and automakers have crumbled; unemployment has soared. This national recession has touched every American, including those who live in Nebraska.

The objective of this project is to produce photographs, audio slideshows and video that document how this economic upheaval has affected Nebraskans. We …

Kosovo's Hope: Stories Of Renewal And Despair In An Independent Nation, Clay Lomneth, Michael Mason-D'Croz, Lindsay Demarco, Karen Schmidt, Vanessa Skocz, Shannon Smith, Kate Veik, Joel Gehringer, Bruce Thorson, Scott Winter

College of Journalism and Mass Communications: Student Media

During spring break of 2008, five photojournalists, one reporter, one videographer and two faculty members spent eight days in the newly independent state of Kosovo. The purpose of the trip was to document issues of poverty. What greeted them was a town with litter everywhere; roads pocked with potholes; power outages because the power plant is archaic; and residents who are dying from the pollution because they live near the power plant. But what the journalists discovered was Kosovo's people have big smiles, warm hearts and plates of great, great food. … And they love Americans.

Nightmares In The Ethanol Dream, Cassie Fleming

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Although President George W. Bush, Congress, and Midwest politicians all champion corn ethanol, some economists, scientists and even a few farmers benefiting from the grain-alcohol nudge say that view is an intoxicated, rose-tinted illusion.

Honing In On The Homeland, Cassie Fleming

College of Journalism and Mass Communications: Student Media

In 2006, Americans consumed 20.7 million barrels of oil a day, making the United States the world’s top energy user.

Infrastructure Impacts, Carolyn Johnsen

College of Journalism and Mass Communications: Student Media

As federal pressure increases to meet ethanol mandates and as new ethanol plants are built across the country, how will all this ethanol be moved around — from factory to distributor to vehicle? Here’s a sampling of the infrastructure issues.

Contributors To Ethanol: Salvation Or Damnation?

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Reporters, Photographers, Graphics, Documentary, Editors, Designers, Faculty

Introduction To Ethanol: Salvation Or Damnation?, Joe Starita

College of Journalism and Mass Communications: Student Media

For nine months, a team of UNL student journalists — six print and four broadcasting — went looking for the answers to these questions. The students read hundreds of pages of background material, interviewed scores of scientists, researchers, professors and energy experts by phone and e-mail, grilled a number of ethanol advocates in person, participated in an energy symposium at Stanford University, traveled to Berkeley, Chicago and Kansas City, and visited ethanol plants, rural communities and cattle country to try to get to the bottom of this elusive, complex issue. The results of their months-long research can be found in …

Running On Empty: Food Vs. Fuel, Mimi Abebe

College of Journalism and Mass Communications: Student Media

The recent boom in the ethanol industry has resulted in a greater demand for corn, which, in turn, has led to a strain on the supply, triggering higher prices.

History Of Ethanol, Mimi Abebe

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Ethanol has become a hot topic today, but its controversial history actually dates back to the 1800s.

Ethanol: Salvation Or Damnation?, Mimi Abebe, Melissa Drozda, Cassie Fleming, Lucas Jameson, Aaron E. Price, Kate Veik, Kosuke Koiwai, Alex Hauter, Penny Costello, Stephanie Jacobs, Amanda Soukup, Emily Anderson, Michaela Vander Weil, Shannon Smith, Scott Koperski, Mallory Wittstruck, Carolyn Johnsen, Joe Starita, Perry Stoner, Michael Farrell, Marilyn Hahn

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Contents:
Opening Essay BY JOE STARITA

Running on Empty: Food vs. Fuel BY MIMI ABEBE
The recent boom in the ethanol industry has resulted in a greater demand for corn, which, in turn, has led to a strain on the supply, triggering higher prices

Nightmares in the Ethanol Dream BY CASSIE FLEMING
Politicians are quick to endorse the benefits of ethanol production. Others say that view is an illusion.

Follow the Maize BY MIMI ABEBE
The step-by-step stages of ethanol production

History of Ethanol BY MIMI ABEBE
Ethanol’s controversial history dates back to the 1800s

Precise Portions BY CASSIE FLEMING …

Follow The Maize, Mimi Abebe

College of Journalism and Mass Communications: Student Media

From kernel to car fuel: the step-by-step stages of ethanol production.

Ethanol And The Elements, Melissa Drozda, Carolyn Johnsen

College of Journalism and Mass Communications: Student Media

Using ethanol in place of gasoline helps to reduce carbon dioxide emissions, but this solution may contribute to the problems.

Precise Portions, Cassie Fleming

College of Journalism and Mass Communications: Student Media

Precision farming assists farmers in meeting government mandates for increased corn-ethanol production.

Sweet Ideas: Alternative Biofuels, Lucas Jameson

College of Journalism and Mass Communications: Student Media

Scientists and farmers alike promote research of alternative energy crops, but without necessary funds the search to find a cost-effective method continues.

New Deal Or No Deal, Lucas Jameson

College of Journalism and Mass Communications: Student Media

Minden’s city officials hope their ethanol plant will spark long-term economic growth.

Increased Corn Production Can Pollute Water, Aaron E. Price

College of Journalism and Mass Communications: Student Media

As farmers raise more corn for ethanol, they’re likely to use more nitrogen fertilizer and other chemicals that can pollute water.

Unlimited Resource Or Looming Roadblock?, Aaron E. Price

College of Journalism and Mass Communications: Student Media

Conflicting needs for water put pressure on state’s water supply.

Corn Monoculture: No Friend Of Biodiversity, Aaron E. Price

College of Journalism and Mass Communications: Student Media

Federal mandates for corn ethanol, which encourage farmers to plant more corn, may threaten the biodiversity of grasslands.

Subsidies Support Ethanol, Aaron E. Price, Carolyn Johnsen

College of Journalism and Mass Communications: Student Media

The ethanol industry receives subsidies from every level of government.

Fabric As A Narrative: Constructing A Global Quilting Tradition, Evan Bland, Laura Chapman, Ashley Ermel, Takako Iwatani, Tanna Kimmerling, Linsey Marshall, Audrey Pribnow, Antona Beckman, Metta Cederdahl, Madeline Donovan, Sara Lackey, Kristin Limoges, Alicia Roth, Maika Bauerle, Michaela Stevens, K. J. Hascall, Katie Nieland, Shannon Smith, Kirk Fellhoelter, Jill Havekost, Rick Alloway, Nancy Anderson, Timothy G. Anderson, Charlyne Berens, Stacy James, Marilyn Hahn, Anna Mostek, Bruce Thorson

College of Journalism and Mass Communications: Student Media

OVERVIEW – The tradition of quilting is engaging people of all ages, genders and classes around the globe
CULTURE – Quilting empowers women and provides them an outlet for expression
MUSEUMS – Museum exhibitions and academics have shown quilting in a different light
THE WHITNEY – The exhibition that changed it all
IQSC – A strong quilting tradition prompts a couple to let their 900-quilt collection establish a museum
AQSG – High standards in quilt-related studies
DOCUMENTATION – Preserving and cataloging quilts make sure information is not lost for future generations
ART QUILTS – As the perception of quilting changes, …

Renovating The Republic: Unified Germany Confronts Its History – Both Deep And Recent – As It Defines Itself For The 21st Century, Katie Backman, Joel Gehringer, Kyle Harpster, Katelyn Kerkhove, Tiffany Lee, Hilary Stohs-Krause, Teresa Prince, Matt Eichinger, Emily Ingram, Tanna Kimmerling, Heather Price, Ewelina Skaza, Brady Jones, Nels Sorensen Jr., Stephanie Sparks, Rachel Anderson, Megan Carrick, Justin Petersen, Chris Welch, Timothy G. Anderson, Charlyne Berens, Nancy Anderson, Frauke Hachtmann, Bernard Mccoy, Michael Farrell, Bruce Thorson, Mr Hahn

College of Journalism and Mass Communications: Student Media

Germany and America go way back.

German soldiers fought in the American Revolutionary War, and German settlers already had begun finding their way to America before the colonies became a nation. By the 1850s, many Germans had settled in the Midwest, and they followed the frontier west to the Great Plains. Germans were the largest group of immigrants arriving in Nebraska between 1854 and 1894, and by 1900, almost 20 percent of the state was first- and second-generation Germans.

For the past year, a group of University of Nebraska-Lincoln journalism students has closely examined this foreign country that, perhaps more …

Platte River Odyssey, Derek Drost, Toru Fujioka, Kimberly Hansen, Steve Hermann, Art Hovey, Nate Jenkins, Algis J. Laukaitis, Yangyoung Lee, Joyita Mallik, Sarah Mccammon, Andrew Moseman, Kristine Nemec, Olga Pierce, Max Post Van Der Berg, Rachael Seravalli, Jason Wiest

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Contents

4 | Nebraska’s Liquid Labyrinth
UNL and the Lincoln Journal Star join in an in-depth report on drought and the Platte River.
CAROLYN JOHNSEN

6 | Searching for the Source
With below-normal snowpack in the Colorado Rockies, the Platte River suffers from a lack of source waters.
ALGIS J. LAUKAITIS

8 | Product of Connections
No matter where the water comes from, watersheds are the link between land and water. And watersheds collect more than just surface water.
MAX POST VAN DER BURG

10 | Wrestling for Resources
The West finds itself in a battle for water after years …

The Cost Of Our Counties, Katherine Mayse, Brian A. Hernandez, Mark Mahoney, Meredith Grunke, Michele Brown, Jessica Donovan, Danielle Welty, John Bender

College of Journalism and Mass Communications: Student Media

This series of 15 stories examines County government in Nebraska -- how it came to be as it is, what it does. what it costs, and what it means to the people who live in central and western Nebraska. The stories were reported and written by students in the Depth Reporting class at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln College of Journalism and Mass Communications. Cooperating in publication of the 15-part series were the Kearney Hub, North Platte Telegraph, and Scottsbluff Star-Herald.

Contents
Series looks at questions of state's county structure
Despite job's big changes, career lawman still is …

One Big Family, One Big House: An In-Depth Look At Lincoln's Clinton Elementary School, Brent Atema, David Bennett, Nicholas Berry, Joel Gehringer, Sean Hagewood, Steve Hermann, Yangkyoung Lee, Benjamin Mccarthy, Craig Reier, Jeff Salem, Andrew Stewart, David Story, Amy Thompson, Whitney Turco, Jason Wiest, Mary Kay Quinlan, Nancy Anderson, Timothy G. Anderson, Bruce Thorson

College of Journalism and Mass Communications: Student Media

Lincoln’s Clinton neighborhood is a nondescript one in many ways, not unlike hundreds of other neighborhoods around the nation. Mature trees line streets with decades-old houses in varying states of repair. And the neighborhood elementary school, a stately, 1920s-era brick building, is right out of Central Casting. But within this very ordinariness is a story about a neighborhood where many families struggle with poverty, as they have for decades in this corner of Lincoln, and where the schoolhouse doors open to a refuge for some 400 children who collectively speak a dozen languages and rely on the teachers and staff …

Cold Blood: A Murder, A Book, A Legacy, Suzanna Adam, Chris Bainbridge, Amber Brozek, Michael Bruntz, Tom Gemelke, Kris Kolden, Van Jensen, Melissa Lee, Dustin Schilling, Michele Brown, Sara Connolly, Sara Gibony, Steve Hermann, Rob Hunter, Brian Lehrmann, Susan Gage, Jerry Sass

College of Journalism and Mass Communications: Student Media

This year [2005] marks the 40th anniversary of the publication of Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood, considered one of the 20th century’s great works of literature. It also was among the first books in which the reporting techniques of journalism were assembled with the flair of traditional fiction writing.

The book is set in the community of Holcomb in 1959, when four members of a prominent farming family were killed in a fruitless robbery. Herbert and Bonnie Clutter and their children Nancy, 16, and Kenyon, 15, were shot by Perry Smith and Richard Hickock. The book details the crime, …

U.S.A. & France: I Love You ~ Neither Do I, Dirk Chatelain, Patti Vannoy, Rachael Seravalli, Kevin Abourezk, Erin Hilsabeck, Laura Schreier, Alyssa Schukar

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The Reporting
The Relationship by Dirk Chatelain
The History by Patti Vannoy
The American Inparis by Dirk Chatelain
The Expats by Rachael Seravalli
The Native Love by Kevin Abourezk
The Parisian Wild West by Kevin Abourezk
The Montauban by Kevin Abourezk
The Tourists by Erin Hilsabeck
The Art Capital by Erin Hilsabeck
The Famous Book Store by Laura Schreier
The Images by Alyssa Schukar
The Pop Culture by Laura Schreier
The Small Screen by Rachael Seravalli
The Veil Debate by Patti Vannoy
The Immigrants by Dirk Chatelain
The Rights Of Women by Patti Vannoy
The European Leader by Erin Hilsabeck …