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|birth_date=1851-08-14
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The '''University of Nebraska–Lincoln''', often called '''UNL''', but also known as '''Nebraska''' or '''NU''', is the [[flagship]] institution of the [[University of Nebraska system]]. UNL was founded in 1869 as a [[land-grant university]] under the provisions of the [[Morrill Act]]. Its main campus is located in [[Lincoln, Nebraska|Lincoln]] a few blocks north of the [[Nebraska State Capitol]]. Nebraska is an international leader in scholarly research, having been a member of the [[Association of American Universities]] since 1909. It is listed as a Carnegie Research I/ Carnegie Research-Extensive institution.
[[Image:Doc Holliday in Prescott AZ 1879.jpg|thumb|Autographed photo of Holliday taken in 1879 in Prescott, Arizona]]
[[Image:HollidayLcollar2.jpg|thumb|Supposed photo of Holliday in Tombstone, AZ. 1882.]]
'''John Henry "Doc" Holliday''' ([[August 14]], [[1852]] &ndash; [[November 8]], [[1887]]) was an American [[dentistry|dentist]], [[gambling|gambler]], and [[gunfighter]] of the [[American Old West]] frontier who is usually remembered for his friendship with [[Wyatt Earp]] and the [[Gunfight at the O.K. Corral]].


Nebraska was the first institution in the [[Western United States|American West]] to grant a Ph.D. degree and was the first to establish an undergraduate psychology lab. The discipline of [[ecology]] was born at the university. Its scholarly press, the [[University of Nebraska Press]], is the second-largest state university press in the United States, and one of the largest university presses in the world. Its campus art gallery, the [[Sheldon Museum of Art]], has the world's foremost collection of 20th century North American art.
==Biography==
===Early life and education===
"Doc" Holliday was born in [[Griffin, Georgia]], to Henry Burroughs Holliday and Alice Jane Holliday ([[née]] McKey).<ref name="genealogy">[http://www.kansasheritage.org/families/holliday.html Kansas Heritage genealogy]</ref> His father served in both the [[Mexican-American War]] and the [[American Civil War|Civil War]].<ref>[http://www.itd.nps.gov/cwss/soldiers.cfm Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System of the National Parks Service.]</ref>


==Academics==
Holliday's mother died of [[tuberculosis]] on [[September 16]], [[1866]], when he was 15 years old.<ref name="genealogy"/> Three months later, his father married Rachel Martin. Shortly after the marriage, the family moved to [[Valdosta, Georgia]], where Holliday attended the Valdosta Institute. There he received a strong classical secondary education in rhetoric, grammar, mathematics, history, and languages &mdash; principally [[Latin]], but also [[French language|French]] and some [[ancient Greek]].<ref name="outlaws"/>
===Academic divisions===
The university offers more than 140 undergraduate majors and 275 programs of study through 10 colleges:
*[[College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources (University of Nebraska–Lincoln)|College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources]]
*[[College of Architecture (University of Nebraska–Lincoln)|College of Architecture]]
*[[College of Arts and Sciences (University of Nebraska–Lincoln)|College of Arts and Sciences]]
*[[College of Business Administration (University of Nebraska–Lincoln)|College of Business Administration]]
*[[College of Education and Human Sciences (University of Nebraska–Lincoln)|College of Education and Human Sciences]]
*[[College of Engineering (University of Nebraska–Lincoln)|College of Engineering]]
*[[Hixson-Lied College of Fine and Performing Arts]]
*[[Graduate Studies (University of Nebraska–Lincoln)|Graduate Studies]]
*[[College of Journalism and Mass Communications (University of Nebraska–Lincoln)|College of Journalism and Mass Communications]]
*[[College of Law (University of Nebraska–Lincoln)|College of Law]]


UNL also offers programs at its campus from other University of Nebraska institutions, including the [[University of Nebraska at Omaha]] College of Public Affairs and Community Service, the [[University of Nebraska Medical Center]] colleges of Dentistry and Nursing, and the [[Peter Kiewit Institute]] managed in partnership with the University of Nebraska at Omaha.
In 1870, the nineteen-year-old Holliday left home to begin dental school in [[Philadelphia]]. On [[March 1]], [[1872]], he received the degree of [[Doctor of Dental Surgery]] from the [[Pennsylvania College of Dental Surgery]].<ref name="genealogy"/> Later that year, he opened a dental office with Arthur C. Ford in [[Atlanta, Georgia|Atlanta]].<ref name="outlaws">[http://www.theoutlaws.com/outlaws5.htm "Doc Holliday," The Outlaws]</ref>


===Health===
==Campus==
[[Image:University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Hamilton Hall.jpg|thumb|right|Hamilton Hall]]
At birth, he had a [[cleft palate]] and partly cleft lip. At two months of age, this defect was repaired surgically by Holliday's uncle, J.S. Holliday, M.D., and a family cousin, the famous physician [[Crawford Long]]. The repair left no speech impediment, though speech therapy was needed, which was conducted by his mother.<ref>"Doc Holliday: A Family Portrait", Karen Holliday Tanner, University of Omaha Press, 1998, ISBN 0-8061-3036-9.</ref> However, the repair is visible in Holliday's upper lip-line in the one authentic adult portrait-photograph which survives, taken on the occasion of his graduation from dental school. However, a more recent Holliday biographer, Gary L. Roberts, argues that it is unlikely that an infant as young as two months would have undergone cleft palate surgery in that era, as most operations of this type were postponed until the child was around two years old. Roberts asserts that such an early procedure would have been sufficiently noteworthy as to merit mention in local and national media and medical journals. Thus, he considers it doubtful that Holliday had a cleft palate at all, and dismisses the claim that a surgical scar is visible in the graduation photograph. This portrait, taken at the age of 20, supports accounts that Holliday had ash-blond hair. In early adulthood, he stood about 5 feet 10 inches (178 cm) tall and weighed about 160 pounds (70 kg).<ref name="outlaws"/>
In 1869, the original University of Nebraska campus was laid out on four city blocks and comprised one building called University Hall. Currently, the university has two campuses, totaling {{convert|613|acre|km2}}: City Campus, which is just north of downtown Lincoln, and south of the [[Nebraska State Fair]] grounds, and East Campus, which is approximately two miles northeast of City Campus.


===Unions===
Shortly after beginning his dental practice, Holliday was diagnosed with [[tuberculosis]] (generally called "consumption" in that era). It is possible he contracted the disease from his mother, as tuberculosis was not known to be contagious until 1882. He was given only a few months to live, but thought moving to the drier and warmer [[southwestern United States]] might reduce the deterioration of his health.<ref name="genealogy"/><ref name="outlaws"/><ref name="skyways">[http://www.skyways.org/orgs/fordco/docholliday.html Ford County Historical Society, Dodge City, Kansas]</ref>
Nebraska City Union is the student union located on the southern part of City Campus. Many services are offered to the students including dining, computer labs, and other recreational activities, while the lower level of the union houses the University Bookstore. The City Union also provides space for student organizations as well as holding offices for the Daily Nebraskan and the student government. The Rotunda Gallery showcases various student artwork. In spring 2006, the student body voted to finance an expansion to the City Union including adding new space for the university Culture Center (formerly in a different building).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://newsroom.unl.edu/releases/2006/09/07/Perlman+announces+union+expansion%2C+international+study+progr|title=Perlman announces union expansion, international study program|date=2006-09-07|publisher=University of Nebraska–Lincoln|accessdate=2008-09-22}}</ref>


Nebraska East Union is located on East Campus and offers similar student services as the City Union. The Loft Gallery provides space for community and student artwork.
===Early travels===
In September 1873, he went to [[Dallas, Texas]], where he opened a dental office at 56 Elm Street, about four blocks east of the site of today's [[Dealey Plaza]].<ref name="Dallas">[http://www.dallasnews.com/s/dws/spe/2002/hiddenhistory/1850-1875/070002dnhhholliday.442f0048.html DallasNews.com: Hidden History of Dallas]</ref> He soon began gambling and realized this was a more profitable source of income. On May 12, 1874, Holliday and 12 others were indicted in Dallas for illegal gambling.<ref name="Dallas"/> He was arrested in Dallas in January 1875 after trading gunfire with a saloon-keeper, but no one was injured and he was found not guilty.<ref name="genealogy"/> He moved his offices to [[Denison, Texas]], and after being found guilty of, and fined for, "gaming" in Dallas, he decided to leave the state.<ref name="outlaws"/>


===University libraries===
In the years that followed, Holliday had many more such disagreements, fueled by a hot temper and an attitude that death by gun or knife was better than by tuberculosis. The alcohol Holliday used to control his cough may also have contributed. He would regulaly use the term; "I'm your Daisy." This was a reference to his impending death due to the turbuculosis Further, there was the practical matter that a professional gambler, working on his own at the edge of the law, had to be able to back up disputed points of play with at least a threat of force. Holliday continued traveling on the western mining frontier, where gambling was most likely to be lucrative and legal. Holliday was in [[Denver]], [[Cheyenne]], and [[Deadwood]] (site of the [[gold rush]] in the [[Dakota Territory]]) in the fall of 1876. It was possibly that winter, in Deadwood, that Holliday first heard of [[Wyatt Earp]], who was there at the time.
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The University Libraries are the only set of comprehensive research libraries in Nebraska. Three [[million]] volumes reside in UNL's two main libraries. The Don L. Love Memorial Library is the main library on campus and houses collections on [[social sciences]] and [[humanities]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.unl.edu/libr/about/|title= About UNL Libraries|publisher=University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries|accessdate=2008-09-22}}</ref> Other academic disciplines are housed in six branch locations on campus:
*Architecture Library
*C.Y. Thompson Library
*Engineering Library
*Geology Library
*Mathematics Library
*Music Library
The Marvin and Virginia Schmid Law Library serves the UNL College of Law.


===Museums===
By 1877, Holliday was in [[Fort Griffin]], Texas, where Wyatt Earp remembered first meeting him. They were initially introduced through mutual friend [[John Shanssey]]. The two began to form an unlikely friendship; Earp more even-tempered and controlled, Holliday more hot-headed and impulsive. This friendship was cemented in 1878 in [[Dodge City, Kansas]], where both Earp and Holliday had traveled to make money gambling with the cowboys who drove cattle from Texas. Holliday was still practicing dentistry on the side from his rooms in Dodge City, as indicated in an 1878 Dodge newspaper advertisement (he promised money back for less than complete customer satisfaction), but this is the last known time he attempted to practice. In an interview printed in a newspaper later in his life, he said that he only practiced dentistry "for about 5 years."{{Fact|date=June 2008}}
The [[University of Nebraska State Museum]] is located on campus in Morrill Hall. The museum holds several collections and exhibits particularly featuring [[natural history]] and famously houses [[mastadon]] bone [[fossils]]. Because of these fossils, and a large bronze mastadon statue located in front of the building, it is popularly known as "Elephant Hall."


The [[Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery]] and Sculpture Garden is home to more than 12,000 works of art in all media and is a comprehensive collection of [[American art]] with prominent holdings in 19th century landscape and [[still life]], [[American Impressionism]], early [[Modernism]], geometric abstraction, [[Abstract Expressionism]], [[pop art|pop]], [[minimalism]], and [[contemporary art]]. The museum has the largest collection of 20th Century North American art in the world; it includes works by such well known artists as [[Edward Hopper]], [[Andy Warhol]], [[Jackson Pollock]], [[Mary Cassatt]], [[Wayne Thiebaud]] and [[Georgia O'Keeffe]].
Holliday also met [[Big Nose Kate|Mary Katharine Horony]] ("Big Nose Kate") in Fort Griffin and began his long-time involvement with her. Horony also met Wyatt Earp there. Holliday once stated he considered Horony to be his intellectual equal.{{Fact|date=October 2008}}


The Great Plains Art Museum is home to the Christlieb Collection<ref name="UNL GPA Museum">
===Dedicated gambler, gunman reputation===
{{cite web |url= http://www.unl.edu/plains/gallery/gallery.html |title= Great Plains Art Museum |work= unl.edu |quote= The Great Plains Art Museum opened in 1981 after a generous donation from Dr. John and Elizabeth Christlieb of Bellevue, Nebraska. The Christlieb Collection… consists of approximately 170 bronze sculptures, 140 paintings and drawings, 100 other works on paper and several hundred photographs, and includes artwork by [[Albert Bierstadt]], [[William de la Montagne Cary]], [[Robert F. Gilder]], [[William Henry Jackson]], [[Frederic Remington]], [[Charles M. Russell]] and [[Olaf Wieghorst]]. The library donated by the Christliebs is an impressive 4,000 volumes, which consists of several Western novels and many other fiction and nonfiction books about the West and the Great Plains. }}</ref> which features American western art and Americana.
An incident in September 1878 had Earp, at the time a deputy city [[marshal]], surrounded by men who had "the drop" on him. Holliday, who currently owned a bar in the town and was dealing [[Faro (card game)|faro]] (as he did throughout his life), left the bar, approached from another angle to cover the group with a gun, and either shot or threatened to shoot one of these men. Earp afterward always credited Holliday with saving his life that day.{{Fact|date=June 2008}} Many other accounts of Holliday's involvement in gunfights, however, are sometimes exaggerated. He had several documented saloon altercations involving small shootings, where he was accounted as fast as [[Wild Bill Hickok]], though he was drunk and sometimes missed entirely.{{Fact|date=June 2008}}


The [[Lester_F._Larsen_Tractor_Museum|Lester F. Larsen Tractor Museum]] is located on the university's East Campus. It houses 40 historical tractors, an antique auto and various types of farm tools. In addition it documents Nebraska's tractor testing law examinations that to this day requires testing of all tractors to be sold in Nebraska, ensuring performance is as advertised.
One documented instance happened when Holliday was employed during a railroad dispute. On [[July 19]], [[1879]], Holliday and noted gunman [[John Joshua Webb]] were seated in a saloon in [[Las Vegas, New Mexico]] when a former [[U.S. Army]] [[Reconnaissance|scout]] named Mike Gordon began yelling loudly at one of the saloon girls. When Gordon stormed from the saloon, Holliday followed him. Gordon produced his pistol and fired one shot, missing. Holliday immediately drew his gun and killed Gordon. Holliday was placed on trial for the shooting but was acquitted, mostly based on the testimony of Webb.<ref>[http://www.legendsofamerica.com/WE-JJWebb.html Legends of America - John Joshua Webb]</ref>


===Tombstone, Arizona Territory===
===Performing arts venues===
*The [[Lied Center for Performing Arts]] is a [[performing arts]] venue used primarily for orchestra concerts and theatre performances. The [[Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center]] is a two screen theater located on the UNL City Campus. It features primarily [[arthouse]] and [[independent films]], and [[documentaries]]. The Howell Theatre, Studio Theatre, and Lab Theatre are home to the performances of the Johnny Carson School of Theatre and Film.
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Dodge was not a frontier town for long; by 1879, it had become too respectable for the kinds of people who had seen it through its early days. For many, it was time to move on to places not yet reached by the civilizing railroad, places money was to be made. Holliday, by this time, was as well known for his prowess as a gunfighter as for his gambling, though the latter was his trade and the former simply a reputation. Through his friendship with Wyatt and the other Earp brothers, especially [[Morgan Earp|Morgan]] and [[Virgil Earp|Virgil]], Holliday made his way to the silver-mining boom town of [[Tombstone, Arizona|Tombstone]], [[Arizona Territory]], in September 1880. The Earps had been there since December 1879. Some accounts state the Earps sent for Holliday when they realized the problems they faced in their feud with the Cowboy faction. In Tombstone, Holliday quickly became embroiled in the local politics and violence that led up to the famous [[Gunfight at the O.K. Corral]] in October 1881.


===Other points of interest===
The gunfight happened in the vacant lot and street immediately next to Fly's boarding house where Holliday had a room, the day after a late-night argument between Holliday and [[Ike Clanton]]. The Clantons and McLaurys collected in the lot before being confronted by the Earps, and Holliday likely thought they were there specifically to assassinate him.
*Architecture Hall, formerly the universities' library and now home of the universities' outstanding architecture program, is a proud landmark standing on the west edge of campus. It is also the oldest building on campus. This historic structure is linked to the old law building via a huge glass connecting space, known, understandably, as "The Link."


*The [[University of Nebraska Press]] is the second-largest public university press in the United States, and is among the largest publishers of scholarly titles in the world.<ref>http://www.nufoundation.org/Shop//showDivision.sp?cat=87</ref> It has a program for publishing original works and reprints of significant works about the West. The "Bison Books" imprint is a series of high quality trade paperback editions of significant titles.
It is known Holliday carried Virgil's [[Coach Gun]] into the fight; he was given the weapon just before the fight by Wyatt Earp, as Holliday was wearing a long coat which could conceal it. Virgil Earp took Holliday's walking stick: by not going conspicuously armed, Virgil was seeking to avoid panic in the citizenry of Tombstone, and in the Clantons and McLaurys.


* UNL is home of the Pershing Rifles National Headquarters. This is in recognition of General [[John J. Pershing]] (an 1893 NU law school graduate and former professor of Military Science and Tactics) who created "Company A," a competitive drill team, for the University of Nebraska's Cadet Corps in 1891. The drill team won the National Competitive Drills in 1892, changed its name to the "Varsity Rifles" when it became a recognized fraternal organization in 1893, and finally changed its name again to the "Pershing Rifles" in 1894. UNL rededicated the Military and Naval Science Building as the John J. Pershing Military and Naval Science Building on April 20, 2006.
The strategy failed: while Virgil held up the cane, one witness saw a man, almost certainly Holliday, poke a Cowboy in the chest with the shotgun then step back. Wyatt Earp and Tom Mclaury were the first men to fire, almost at the same time according to Wyatt's testimony. Shortly after, Holliday used the shotgun to kill Tom McLaury, the only man to sustain shotgun wounds &mdash; a fatal buckshot charge to the chest. This probably happened quite early in the fight, before Holliday fired a pistol, though scenarios in which the slight and tubercular Holliday held a pistol with one hand and a double-barreled shotgun in the other during the gunfight are postulated.
An inquest and arraignment hearing determined the gunfight was not a criminal act on the part of Holliday and the Earps. The situation in Tombstone soon grew worse when Virgil Earp was ambushed and permanently injured in December 1881. Then Morgan Earp was ambushed and killed in March 1882. After Morgan's murder, the Earps, their families, and Holliday fled town. In [[Tucson, Arizona|Tucson]], while Wyatt, Warren Earp, and Holliday were escorting the wounded Virgil Earp and his wife Allie to [[California]], they prevented another ambush and this could have been the possible start of the vendetta against Morgan's killers.


*The [[International Quilt Study Center]] is on East Campus and will be [[Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design|LEED]] certified.
===Earp Vendetta Ride===
{{main|Earp Vendetta Ride}}
The first victim of the vendetta was [[Frank Stilwell]], a former deputy of [[Johnny Behan]]'s. Stilwell was in Tucson to answer a stage-robbery charge but wound up dead on the tracks in the train yard near the Earps' train. What Stilwell was doing in the train yard has never been explained (he may have been waiting to pick up another man who was supposed to testify in his favor), but Wyatt Earp certainly thought Stilwell was there to do the Earps harm. In his biographies, Wyatt admitted to shooting Stilwell with a shotgun. However, Stilwell was found with two shotgun wounds and three bullet wounds. Holliday, who was with Wyatt that night and said Stilwell and Ike Clanton were waiting in the train yard to assassinate Virgil Earp, is likely the second shooter. Holliday never directly acknowledged his role in Stilwell's killing or those that followed.


*The Maxwell Arboretum located on East Campus is part of the [[Nebraska Statewide Arboretum]].
After the Earp families left for California and safety, Holliday, Wyatt, Wyatt's younger brother, [[Warren Earp|Warren]], and Wyatt's friends [[Sherman McMasters]], [[Jack Johnson (gunfighter)|Turkey Creek Jack Johnson]], and [[Texas Jack Vermillion]] rode on a vendetta for three weeks, during which [[Curly Bill Brocius]] and at least two other men thought to be responsible for Morgan's death were killed. Eventually, with warrants out for six of the vendetta posse (including Holliday) in the Arizona Territory for the killing of Stilwell, the group moved to [[New Mexico]], then [[Colorado]], in mid-April 1882. While in New Mexico, Wyatt Earp and Holliday had a minor argument and parted ways, going separately to different parts of Colorado.


== Sustainability ==
After the vendetta ride, neither Holliday nor any other member of the party ever returned to Arizona to live. In May 1882, Holliday was arrested in Denver for the Stilwell killing. Due to lack of evidence, Colorado refused to extradite him, although he spent the last two weeks of that month in jail while the issue was decided. He and Wyatt met again in June 1882 in [[Gunnison, Colorado|Gunnison]] after he was released. There is controversy regarding whether any of the Earp vendetta posse slipped briefly back to the Tombstone area to kill [[Johnny Ringo]] on [[July 13]], [[1882]]. Biographers of Ringo do not believe it is very likely. Several other known gunmen were also implicated in the death, including [[Franklin Leslie|"Buckskin" Frank Leslie]], little known gunman [[Lou Cooley]], and gambler [[Mike O'Rourke]]. Some believe, however, that Ringo's death was in fact a [[suicide]], as reported.
The University of Nebraska has adopted LEED certification for all new construction projects. UNL's Sustainable Food Project, started in 2005, is designed to serve meals on campus that feature local and sustainably produced foods. The university's motor pool includes vehicles fueled by soy biodiesel as well as gasohol (85% ethanol, 15% gasoline blend). The University of Nebraska received a grade of D+ on the College Sustainability Report Card 2008.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.endowmentinstitute.org/sustainability/CollegeSustainabilityReportCard2008.pdf|title=College Sustainability Report Card 2008|publisher=Sustainable Endowments Institute|pages=9|accessdate=2008-09-22}}</ref>


===Final illness===
==Athletics==
[[Image:USA ne lincoln memorialstadium.jpg|thumb|right|[[Memorial Stadium, Lincoln|Memorial Stadium]]]]
Holliday spent the rest of his life in Colorado. After a stay in [[Leadville, Colorado|Leadville]], he suffered from the effects of the high altitude; as a result of this and his increasing dependence on alcohol and [[laudanum]], often taken by consumptives to ease their symptoms, his health, and evidently his gambling skills, began to deteriorate badly.
[[Image:091407-USCNeb-HerbieHusker.jpg|thumb|right|University of Nebraska–Lincoln mascot [[Herbie Husker]]]]
[[Image:Nulilred.jpg|thumb|right|University of Nebraska mascot [[Lil' Red]]]]
{{main|Nebraska Cornhuskers}}
The school's sports teams are named the Nebraska [[Cornhuskers]] (or simply the Huskers). They compete in [[NCAA]] [[Division I]] (I-A for football) as members of the northern division of the [[Big 12 Conference]]. The Huskers have 21 [[varsity team]]s that compete in 14 different sports and claim all or part of 23 National Championships across 5 sports, most notably Volleyball, Football, and Gymnastics. In football, the Huskers have had 3 [[Heisman Trophy]] winners: [[Johnny Rodgers]], [[Mike Rozier]], and [[Eric Crouch]].


==Song==
In 1887, prematurely gray and badly ailing, Holliday made his way to the Hotel Glenwood near the hot springs of [[Glenwood Springs, Colorado]]. He hoped to take advantage of the reputed curative power of the waters, but the sulfurous fumes from the spring may have done his lungs more harm than good. As he lay dying, Holliday allegedly asked for a drink of whiskey. Amused, he looked at his bootless feet as he died &mdash; no one ever thought that he would die in bed, with his boots off. His reputed [[last words]] were, "Well I'll Be Damned. This is funny." Recent Holliday biographer Gary L. Roberts, however, considers it unlikely that Holliday, who had scarcely left his bed for two months, would have been able to speak coherently, if at all, on the day he died. Despite legend, Wyatt Earp was not present when Holliday died, and did not know of his death until months afterward. Though she later attested to attending him in his final days, it is also highly doubtful that [[Big Nose Kate]] was present at his death.
Notable among a number of songs commonly played and sung at various events such as [[commencement]] and [[convocation]], and athletic games are "Dear Old Nebraska U." and the University of Nebraska–Lincoln fight song.


==Student life==
Holliday's grave stone sits in [[Linwood]] cemetery, which overlooks Glenwood Springs. It is disputed whether he is actually buried in his marked grave, or even in the cemetery itself. He died in winter when the ground was frozen and was buried the same day in what was probably a temporary grave. This grave may not have been in the old cemetery, which was up a difficult road on the mountain. It is thus possible his body was never later relocated, but the truth is not known, since no exhumation has been attempted.
About 78 percent of UNL students are from Nebraska, while the rest are from all forty-nine other states and 114 foreign countries. On-campus students are also members of the UNL [[Residence Hall Association]], which serves as the governing body for the residence halls. Select senior honoraries include the Nebraska-only [[Society of Innocents]] and the Black Masque chapter of [[Mortar Board]].


===Residence Halls===
==Character==
Approximately 40% of the student body lives on-campus in 14 traditional [[residence hall]]s, and two on-campus apartment-style halls.
In an 1896 article, Wyatt Earp had this to say about Holliday, "Doc was a dentist whom necessity had made a gambler; a gentleman whom disease had made a frontier vagabond; a philosopher whom life had made a caustic wit; a long lean ash-blond fellow nearly dead with consumption, and at the same time the most skillful gambler and the nerviest, speediest, deadliest man with a gun that I ever knew."<ref>Myers, John Myers. ''Doc Holliday''. Boston: Little, Brown, 1955 (ISBN 0803257813), p. 207</ref>


There are 11 traditional residence halls on the City Campus:
In a newspaper interview, Holliday was once asked if his killings had ever gotten on his conscience. He is reported to have said, "I coughed that out with my lungs, years ago."
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*Abel
Big Nose Kate, his long-time companion, remembered Holliday's reaction after his role in the O.K. Corral gunfight. She reported that Holliday came back to his room, sat on the bed, wept and said, "that was awful — awful".
*Cather

*Harper
Virgil Earp, interviewed [[May 30]], [[1882]], in ''The Arizona Daily Star'' (two months after Virgil had fled Tombstone after Morgan Earp's death), summed up Holliday:
*Husker Hall

*Kauffman Center
<blockquote>There was something very peculiar about Doc. He was gentlemanly, a good dentist, a friendly man and yet, outside of us boys, I don't think he had a friend in the Territory. Tales were told that he had murdered men in different parts of the country; that he had robbed and committed all manner of crimes, and yet, when persons were asked how they knew it, they could only admit it was hearsay, and that nothing of the kind could really be traced to Doc's account. He was a slender, sickly fellow, but whenever a stage was robbed or a row started, and help was needed, Doc was one of the first to saddle his horse and report for duty.</blockquote>
*Pound

*Neihardt
=="Record" of violence==
*Sandoz
Wide ranging historical accounts have usually supported the belief Holliday was extremely fast with a pistol, but his accuracy was less than perfect. In three of his four known pistol fights, he shot one opponent (Billy Allen) in the arm, one (Charles White) across the scalp, and missed one man (a saloon keeper named Charles Austin) entirely. In an early incident in Tombstone in 1880, shortly after he arrived in town, a drunken Holliday managed to shoot Oriental Saloon owner Milt Joyce in the hand, and his bartender Parker in the toe (neither was the man Holliday originally quarreled with). For this, Holliday was fined for assault and battery. With the exception of Mike Gordon in 1879, there are no contemporary newspaper or legal records to match the many unnamed men whom Holliday is credited with shooting to death in popular folklore; the same is true for the several tales of knifings credited to Holliday by early biographers. All these colorful stories may be viewed with skepticism.
*Schramm

*Selleck
Publicly, Holliday could be as fierce as was needed for a gambling man to earn respect. In Tombstone in January 1882, he told Johnny Ringo (as recorded by diarist Parsons), "All I want of you is ten paces out in the street." He and Ringo were prevented from having the gunfight only by the Tombstone police (which did not include the Earps at the time), who arrested them both. Holliday's role in the deaths of Frank Stilwell and the other three men killed on the Earp vendetta ride remains uncertain, but he was present at the events. Holliday is probably the second shooter of Stilwell, he killed Tom McLaury, and either Holliday or Morgan Earp fired the second bullet that ended the life of Frank McLaury. Although Frank McLaury is sometimes erroneously stated to have been hit by three bullets (based on the next-day news accounts in Tombstone papers), at the coroner's inquest, Frank was found to actually have been hit only in the stomach and in the neck under the ear; therefore either Holliday or Morgan missed Frank.
*Smith

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Biographer Karen Holliday Tanner states that of Holliday's 17 known and recorded arrests, only one (1879, Mike Gordon in New Mexico) was for murder. Actually, Tanner is incorrect, since Holliday was arrested and jailed for murder in connection with both the O.K. Corral fight, and later for the murder of Frank Stilwell. However, in neither case was Holliday successfully charged (the Spicer hearing was an indictment hearing, but it did not recommend indictment; any Stilwell indictment was squashed by Colorado's refusal to extradite). Of the other arrests, Holliday pled guilty to two gambling charges, one charge of carrying a deadly weapon in the city (in connection with the argument with Ringo), and one misdemeanor assault and battery charge (his shooting of Joyce and Parker). The others were all dismissed or returned as "not guilty".

Whatever the facts, he had a deadly reputation and was a feared man.

==Mythology==
Claims have been made (on very thin circumstantial evidence) that Holliday was involved in the August 1881 death of [[Old Man Clanton]] (Ike and Billy Clanton's father) and four other cowboys in a canyon 100 miles (160 km) from Tombstone, while the cowboys were driving cattle from Mexico. However, Clanton's death in the so-called [[Guadalupe Canyon Massacre]] could just as well have been (and is usually assumed to be) a revenge-killing by angry Mexican cattle-owners who had recently been the target of rustlers (perhaps not the same men they later killed). Some have taken Holliday's use of a walking stick on the day of the O.K. Corral fight (which he traded Virgil for the shotgun), to be evidence that Holliday had been wounded, perhaps at the death of Old Man Clanton two months before. However, Holliday was known to use a walking stick as early as 1877, since in that year he was arrested for using it as a club on another gambler, in a fight. On that occasion, Holliday actually was wounded in the fight by gunfire, but there is no direct evidence that he was newly wounded in the fall of 1881. Actually the cane was typical; Holliday was physically frail through much of his adult life.

One of the better stories about Holliday might not have happened (though the tale has made it into at least one movie). According to the Stuart Lake biography of Wyatt Earp, ''Wyatt Earp: Frontier Marshal'', Holliday got into a fight with another gambler (Ed Bailley) in Fort Griffin and knifed the other man to death as the man was drawing a gun on Holliday. Held by the law and targeted for [[Lynching in the United States|lynching]], Holliday was rescued from death by Big Nose Kate, who procured horses, set fire to a building as a diversion, and then drew a gun on the sheriff to allow Holliday's escape.
The problem with this story is that no record of any such killing (or Bailey, the man supposedly killed) exists in news or legal accounts of the day. Additionally, Big Nose Kate, at the end of her life in 1940 (after the Lake biography of Earp had appeared in 1931), explicitly denied that the story was true and laughed at the idea of herself holding a gun on a sheriff. (Kate's refusal to embellish or even claim a part in a good story which centers around her, makes her simultaneous report of the action at the O.K. Corral gunfight, which she did claim to see, considerably more credible).

==Photo problems==
There are many supposed photos of Holliday, most of which do not match each other. The one clearly visibile adult portrait-photo known to be authentic is the March 1872 Pennsylvania School of Dental Surgery graduation photo taken when Holliday was 20. This photo shows a light-haired man with light and slightly asymmetrical eyes. It matches well with the other known authentic photo, a poor-quality (but signed) standing photo of Holliday taken in Prescott, Arizona Territory, in 1879, the year before he went to Tombstone.


Three traditional residence halls are on the East Campus:
The 1879 standing photo shows Holliday had not changed a great deal in seven years, though he sports a mustache and perhaps also an ''imperial'' beard (triangular bit of hair left below the middle of the lower lip, combined with a mustache). In the authentic 1879 photo, Holliday is also wearing a tie with a diamond stickpin, which he was known to have worn habitually and which was among his few possessions (minus the diamond) when he died. This stickpin is similar to the one Wyatt Earp was wearing in his own most well-known photo.
*Burr
*Fedde
*Love Memorial Co-op


And two on-campus apartment-style halls are located on the City Campus:
There are three photos most often printed (supposed) of Holliday, which were supposedly taken by C.S. Fly in Tombstone (but sometimes are said to be taken in Dallas). They clearly show the same man, but in three different poses and slightly different dress. This man shows several differences from Holliday in the two authentic photos, and therefore may not be him. The man in these later photos has much darker hair (though this could have been dyed with hair treatments of the time, but this seems very unlikely as he was described by Wyatt Earp as having "ash-blond" hair), a square jaw, more closely set eyes, a lower hairline, and possibly smaller ears. None of the three photos match each other exactly in certain details. For example, a cowlick and folded collar is present only in the oval inscribed photo, several different cravats are seen, and the shirt collar and vest change orientation between photos.
*Husker Courtyards
*Husker Village


===Student government===
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The governing body for UNL students is the of Students of the University of Nebraska (ASUN). Every year students vote for a president, two vice presidents, and a senate that is composed of representatives from each college. The president also acts as the student regent to the NU Board of Regents.
Image:DocHollidayCloseUp.jpg|March 1872 age 20
Image:Doc_Holliday_in_Prescott_AZ_(closeup).jpg|Prescott, Arizona, 1879 age 27
Image:HollidayLcollar2.jpg|Uncreased print of supposed 1882 Tombstone photo of "Doc Holliday", age 30. Left side of upturned detachable shirt collar toward camera, no cowlick.
Image:HollidayLcollar.jpg|Creased and darker-toned version of left Tombstone photo.
Image:Doc_Holliday.jpg|Most often reproduced "Doc Holliday" photo. Heavily retouched oval-inscribed portrait, with cowlick, folded down collar.
Image:HollidayandBowler.jpg|Photo of "Doc Holliday" with bowler (derby) hat and more open vest and coat. This is not a retouch or expanded field version of any of the photos above.
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===Student organizations===
The last of the three later supposed photos of Holliday&mdash;in which the subject has a more open overcoat, a more open vest (allowing the bowtie cords to be seen), an upturned shirt collar, and is holding a [[bowler hat]] (derby hat) &mdash;exists as a print in the Cochise County Courthouse Museum in Tombstone. Other sources for it are sought. It is evidently the same dark-haired man shown in the other two photos, but is yet another image (perhaps from the same photo session in which the upturned detachable shirt collar is worn, rather than the folded-down collar of the oval portrait).
UNL has 400 student organizations on campus that represent a variety of interests.{{Fact|date=April 2008}} Organizations are supported by Student Involvement.


===Greek houses===
Other, even more questionable photos exist as well.
UNL has a significant [[Fraternities and sororities|Greek population]], with about 5,200 students being members of 30 fraternities (28 chapters and two colonies) and 14 sororities. There are numerous events on campus throughout the year such as decorating "Greek Row" for the homecoming parade and various philanthropy events.


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==Public Memorials==
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[[Image:Holliday tombstone.jpg|thumb|left|400px|<font size=2>Grave of Doc Holliday in [[Glenwood Springs, Colorado]]</font size=2>]]
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On March 20, 2005, the 122nd anniversary of the killing of [[Frank Stilwell]] by Wyatt Earp (most likely with Holliday as the second gunman) a life-sized statue of Holliday (on the left) and Earp (see photo:<ref> {{cite web|url=http://www.trainweb.org/chris/opt0015.jpg |title=Photo of "Doc" Holliday and Wyatt Earp Statue in Tucson, Arizona in "Amtraking to Tucson's Old Pueblo Trolley." |accessdate=2007-09-08 |last=Guenzler |first=Chris }}</ref>) by the sculptor Dan Bates was dedicated<ref>{{cite news | first=Jamie | last=Manser | coauthors= | title=Downtown Tucsonan: March 2005 Issue | date=2005-03 | publisher= | url =http://www.downtowntucson.org/downtowntucsonan/mar05/lowdown.html | work =Downtown Tucsonan | pages = | accessdate = 2007-09-08 | language = }}</ref> by the [http://www.tucsonhistoricdepot.org Southern Arizona Transportation Museum] at the restored Historic Railroad Depot in [[Tucson, Arizona]], at the approximate site of the shooting on the train platform.<ref> {{cite web|url=http://www.downtowntucson.org/culture/history/ |title=Downtown Tucson Partnership - Culture - History |accessdate=2007-09-08 }}</ref>
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For a time in the 1970s and 1980s, in [[Valdosta, Georgia]], where he formerly resided, the Holliday Skate Palace, a since defunct [[roller skating]] rink, was named in his honor.
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* [[Alpha Chi Omega]]
* [[Alpha Delta Pi]]
* [[Alpha Omicron Pi]]
* [[Alpha Phi]]
* [[Alpha Xi Delta]]
* [[Chi Omega]]
* [[Delta Delta Delta]]
* [[Delta Gamma]]
* [[Gamma Phi Beta]]
* [[Kappa Alpha Theta]]
* [[Kappa Delta]]
* [[Kappa Kappa Gamma]]
* [[Phi Mu]]
* [[Pi Beta Phi]]
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* [[Acacia]]
* [[Alpha Gamma Nu]]
* [[Alpha Gamma Rho]]
* [[Alpha Gamma Sigma]]
* [[Alpha Phi Alpha]]
* [[Alpha Tau Omega]]
* [[Beta Sigma Psi]]
* [[Beta Theta Pi]]
* [[Chi Phi]]
* [[Delta Tau Delta]]
* [[Delta Upsilon]]
* [[FarmHouse]]
* [[Iota Phi Theta]]
* [[Kappa Alpha Psi]]
* [[Lambda Chi Alpha]]
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* [[Omega Psi Phi]]
* [[Phi Delta Theta]]
* [[Phi Gamma Delta]]
* [[Phi Kappa Theta]]
* [[Phi Kappa Psi]]
* [[Pi Kappa Alpha]]
* [[Pi Tau Sigma]]
* [[Sigma Alpha Epsilon]]
* [[Sigma Lambda Beta]]
* [[Sigma Chi]]
* [[Sigma Phi Epsilon]]
* [[Sigma Nu]]
* [[Tau Kappa Epsilon]]
* [[Triangle Fraternity|Triangle]]
* [[Theta Chi]]
* [[Theta Xi]]
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===Media===
The facial features on this statue of Holliday with Wyatt Earp are based on the set of supposed portrait photos and not on the two known authentic photos of him.
The ''[[Daily Nebraskan]]'', known to students as the "DN", is UNL's student newspaper. It was established in 1901 and is published every weekday during the fall and spring semesters and weekly during the summer.


UNL operates a [[list of broadcast station classes|Class A]] [[FM broadcasting|FM]] [[radio station]], [[KRNU]], which broadcasts on 90.3 FM and has a range of approximately {{convert|20|mi|km}}. The station plays mostly [[alternative music|alternative]] and [[modern rock]] as well as running sportscasts of Nebraska's home events, news, live public affairs broadcasts of campus speakers and forums.
==Popular culture==
The very different personal characteristics of Holliday and Earp have provided contrast which has inspired historical interest. Holliday was nationally known during his life as a gunman, whereas Wyatt Earp and the gunfight at O.K. Corral became a part of folklore only following Stuart Lake's biography of Earp after Earp's death. As this fight has become one of the most famous moments in the American West, numerous [[Western (genre)|Westerns]] have been made of it, and the Holliday character has been prominent in all of them. Not all films that feature Doc Holliday, or a character based on him, are biographical in nature.


In February 2008, The Publications Board recognized the ''[[Dailyer Nebraskan]]'' as an affiliated publication. The board also approved the printing costs of the first three issues of the satirical paper. <ref>[http://media.www.dailynebraskan.com/media/storage/paper857/news/2007/12/12/News/Dailyer.Nebraskan.Receives.Approval-3143119.shtml Dailyer Nebraskan receives approval - News<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
Actors who have played Holliday in name include:<ref>[http://www.imdb.com/find?s=char&q=Doc+Holliday&x=0&y=0 Doc Holliday characters at IMDB.com]</ref>
*[[Cesar Romero]] in ''[[Frontier Marshal (1939 film)|Frontier Marshal]]'', 1939, plays Doc Halliday, a surgeon, not a dentist, who is ambushed coming out of the Belle Union tavern after performing surgery on the bartender's son. Wyatt Earp single-handedly fights and wins a gunfight against Doc's killers at OK Corral. Doc's tombstone in Boot Hill, the last shot in the film, reads ''John Halliday 1848-1880''.
*[[Walter Huston]] in ''[[The Outlaw]]'', in 1943, a [[Howard Hughes film]].
*[[Victor Mature]] in ''[[My Darling Clementine]]'', in 1946, directed by [[John Ford]], with [[Henry Fonda]] as Wyatt Earp. Holliday is portrayed as an Eastern-born surgeon fleeing his fiancee because of his tuberculosis and dissolute lifestyle. Writer [[Alan Barra]]'s comment on this movie is that it shows Holliday as he might have been, if he had been a tough-guy from Boston: "Victor Mature looks about as tubercular as a [[Kodiak bear]]."
*[[Kirk Douglas]] in ''[[Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957 film)|Gunfight at the OK Corral]]'', in 1957, with [[Burt Lancaster]] as Earp.
*[[Douglas Fowley]] in "The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp" television series 1955-1961. As with many popular portrayals Fowley played Holliday as considerably older than the historical figure. Taking his cue from the popular Kirk Douglas portrayal, Fowley played Holliday as courtly, temperamental and dangerous. Unlike the Kirk Douglas Holliday, whose anger is often volcanic, Fowley's Holliday maintained a cool, gentlemanly Southern calm.
*[[Gerald Mohr]] and [[Peter Breck]] each played Holliday more than once in the 1957 television series ''[[Maverick (TV series)|Maverick]]''.
*[[Arthur Kennedy]] played Holliday opposite [[James Stewart (actor)|James Stewart]] as Earp in director [[John Ford]]'s ''[[Cheyenne Autumn]]''.
*[[Adam West]] played Doc Holliday on an episode of the TV series, [[Lawman (TV series)|Lawman]].
*Anthony Jacobs in the 1966 ''[[Doctor Who]]'' story ''[[The Gunfighters]]''.
*[[Jason Robards]] in ''[[Hour of the Gun]]'', a 1967 sequel to the 1957 movie, with [[James Garner]] as Earp. This is the first movie to fully delve into the vendetta that followed the gunfight; both films were directed by [[John Sturges]].
*[[Sam Gilman]] in the 1968 [[Star Trek]] episode "[[Spectre of the Gun (TOS episode)|Spectre of the Gun]]". Gilman, who plays Holliday as a physician, was 53 years old at the time he played this role. The real Holliday was 30 years old at the time of the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral.
*[[Stacy Keach]] in "[[Doc (movie)|Doc]]", in 1971, in which the Tombstone events are told from his perspective.
*[[Bill Fletcher (actor)|Bill Fletcher]] in two episodes of the TV series, ''[[Alias Smith and Jones]]'': "Which Way to the OK Corral?" in 1971 and "The Ten Days That Shook Kid Curry" in 1972.
*[[Dennis Hopper]] in ''Wild Times'', a 1980 television mini-series based on Brian Garfield's novel.
*[[Willie Nelson]] in the 1986 all-singer/actor TV remake of [[Stagecoach (movie)|Stagecoach]]. In addition to the alcoholic Doc Boone character of the original film, the remake adds a new "Doc Holliday", also a medical doctor, and a consumptive. Since Doc Boone in the original film is loosely based on Holliday, the remake now contains two characters based on Holliday.
*[[Val Kilmer]] in ''[[Tombstone (film)|Tombstone]]'', in 1993. Several historians believe Kilmer caught Holliday's cheerful mix of despair and courage.
*[[Dennis Quaid]] in ''[[Wyatt Earp (film)|Wyatt Earp]]'', in 1994, a detailed bio-epic of Wyatt Earp's life where Quaid plays an oft drunk Doc Holliday with a relationship with [[Big Nose Kate]].
*[[Randy Quaid]] in ''[[Purgatory (film)|Purgatory]]'', a 1999 TV film about dead outlaws in a town between Heaven and Hell.
*Though not actually appearing, he is referenced in [[Tremors 4: The Legend Begins]] when one character is trying to hire a gunfighter, another character suggests Doc Holliday, only to discover that he's dead.


==Songs==
==Notable alumni==
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*"Guns of Arizona", Written by David John and performed by David John and the Comstock Cowboys on the album "Legends of the West"


==References==
== References ==
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== External links ==
==Further reading==
* [http://www.unl.edu/ University of Nebraska-Lincoln]
*"Doc Holliday: A Family Portrait", Karen Holliday Tanner, University of Oklahoma Press, 1998, ISBN 978-0-8061-3320-1 .
* [http://www.huskers.com/ University of Nebraska-Lincoln Athletic Department]
*"Doc Holliday: The Life and Legend", Gary L. Roberts, John Wiley and Sons, Inc., 2006 ISBN 0-471-26291-9.
* [http://www.unl.edu/asun/ Association of Students of the University of Nebraska]
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*[http://www.theoutlaws.com/outlaws5.htm Detailed biography of Doc Holliday]
*[http://www.docholliday.info/timelineb.htm Doc Holliday: Information Repository]
*[http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=490 Find a grave homepage] more grave and cemetery photos
*[http://www.skyways.org/orgs/fordco/docholliday.html John Henry Holliday arrives in Dodge City] from ''Doc Holliday: A Family Portrait'', by Karen Holliday Tanner, 1998
*[http://www.kansasheritage.org/families/holliday.html John Henry Holliday family history]
*[http://www.tombstonetimes.com/stories/where.html "Where's Doc"] from ''Tombstone Times''


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The University of Nebraska–Lincoln, often called UNL, but also known as Nebraska or NU, is the flagship institution of the University of Nebraska system. UNL was founded in 1869 as a land-grant university under the provisions of the Morrill Act. Its main campus is located in Lincoln a few blocks north of the Nebraska State Capitol. Nebraska is an international leader in scholarly research, having been a member of the Association of American Universities since 1909. It is listed as a Carnegie Research I/ Carnegie Research-Extensive institution.

Nebraska was the first institution in the American West to grant a Ph.D. degree and was the first to establish an undergraduate psychology lab. The discipline of ecology was born at the university. Its scholarly press, the University of Nebraska Press, is the second-largest state university press in the United States, and one of the largest university presses in the world. Its campus art gallery, the Sheldon Museum of Art, has the world's foremost collection of 20th century North American art.

Academics

Academic divisions

The university offers more than 140 undergraduate majors and 275 programs of study through 10 colleges:

UNL also offers programs at its campus from other University of Nebraska institutions, including the University of Nebraska at Omaha College of Public Affairs and Community Service, the University of Nebraska Medical Center colleges of Dentistry and Nursing, and the Peter Kiewit Institute managed in partnership with the University of Nebraska at Omaha.

Campus

Hamilton Hall

In 1869, the original University of Nebraska campus was laid out on four city blocks and comprised one building called University Hall. Currently, the university has two campuses, totaling 613 acres (2.48 km2): City Campus, which is just north of downtown Lincoln, and south of the Nebraska State Fair grounds, and East Campus, which is approximately two miles northeast of City Campus.

Unions

Nebraska City Union is the student union located on the southern part of City Campus. Many services are offered to the students including dining, computer labs, and other recreational activities, while the lower level of the union houses the University Bookstore. The City Union also provides space for student organizations as well as holding offices for the Daily Nebraskan and the student government. The Rotunda Gallery showcases various student artwork. In spring 2006, the student body voted to finance an expansion to the City Union including adding new space for the university Culture Center (formerly in a different building).[2]

Nebraska East Union is located on East Campus and offers similar student services as the City Union. The Loft Gallery provides space for community and student artwork.

University libraries

The University Libraries are the only set of comprehensive research libraries in Nebraska. Three million volumes reside in UNL's two main libraries. The Don L. Love Memorial Library is the main library on campus and houses collections on social sciences and humanities.[3] Other academic disciplines are housed in six branch locations on campus:

  • Architecture Library
  • C.Y. Thompson Library
  • Engineering Library
  • Geology Library
  • Mathematics Library
  • Music Library

The Marvin and Virginia Schmid Law Library serves the UNL College of Law.

Museums

The University of Nebraska State Museum is located on campus in Morrill Hall. The museum holds several collections and exhibits particularly featuring natural history and famously houses mastadon bone fossils. Because of these fossils, and a large bronze mastadon statue located in front of the building, it is popularly known as "Elephant Hall."

The Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery and Sculpture Garden is home to more than 12,000 works of art in all media and is a comprehensive collection of American art with prominent holdings in 19th century landscape and still life, American Impressionism, early Modernism, geometric abstraction, Abstract Expressionism, pop, minimalism, and contemporary art. The museum has the largest collection of 20th Century North American art in the world; it includes works by such well known artists as Edward Hopper, Andy Warhol, Jackson Pollock, Mary Cassatt, Wayne Thiebaud and Georgia O'Keeffe.

The Great Plains Art Museum is home to the Christlieb Collection[4] which features American western art and Americana.

The Lester F. Larsen Tractor Museum is located on the university's East Campus. It houses 40 historical tractors, an antique auto and various types of farm tools. In addition it documents Nebraska's tractor testing law examinations that to this day requires testing of all tractors to be sold in Nebraska, ensuring performance is as advertised.

Performing arts venues

Other points of interest

  • Architecture Hall, formerly the universities' library and now home of the universities' outstanding architecture program, is a proud landmark standing on the west edge of campus. It is also the oldest building on campus. This historic structure is linked to the old law building via a huge glass connecting space, known, understandably, as "The Link."
  • The University of Nebraska Press is the second-largest public university press in the United States, and is among the largest publishers of scholarly titles in the world.[5] It has a program for publishing original works and reprints of significant works about the West. The "Bison Books" imprint is a series of high quality trade paperback editions of significant titles.
  • UNL is home of the Pershing Rifles National Headquarters. This is in recognition of General John J. Pershing (an 1893 NU law school graduate and former professor of Military Science and Tactics) who created "Company A," a competitive drill team, for the University of Nebraska's Cadet Corps in 1891. The drill team won the National Competitive Drills in 1892, changed its name to the "Varsity Rifles" when it became a recognized fraternal organization in 1893, and finally changed its name again to the "Pershing Rifles" in 1894. UNL rededicated the Military and Naval Science Building as the John J. Pershing Military and Naval Science Building on April 20, 2006.

Sustainability

The University of Nebraska has adopted LEED certification for all new construction projects. UNL's Sustainable Food Project, started in 2005, is designed to serve meals on campus that feature local and sustainably produced foods. The university's motor pool includes vehicles fueled by soy biodiesel as well as gasohol (85% ethanol, 15% gasoline blend). The University of Nebraska received a grade of D+ on the College Sustainability Report Card 2008.[6]

Athletics

Memorial Stadium
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Main article: Nebraska Cornhuskers

The school's sports teams are named the Nebraska Cornhuskers (or simply the Huskers). They compete in NCAA Division I (I-A for football) as members of the northern division of the Big 12 Conference. The Huskers have 21 varsity teams that compete in 14 different sports and claim all or part of 23 National Championships across 5 sports, most notably Volleyball, Football, and Gymnastics. In football, the Huskers have had 3 Heisman Trophy winners: Johnny Rodgers, Mike Rozier, and Eric Crouch.

Song

Notable among a number of songs commonly played and sung at various events such as commencement and convocation, and athletic games are "Dear Old Nebraska U." and the University of Nebraska–Lincoln fight song.

Student life

About 78 percent of UNL students are from Nebraska, while the rest are from all forty-nine other states and 114 foreign countries. On-campus students are also members of the UNL Residence Hall Association, which serves as the governing body for the residence halls. Select senior honoraries include the Nebraska-only Society of Innocents and the Black Masque chapter of Mortar Board.

Residence Halls

Approximately 40% of the student body lives on-campus in 14 traditional residence halls, and two on-campus apartment-style halls.

There are 11 traditional residence halls on the City Campus:

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Three traditional residence halls are on the East Campus:

  • Burr
  • Fedde
  • Love Memorial Co-op

And two on-campus apartment-style halls are located on the City Campus:

  • Husker Courtyards
  • Husker Village

Student government

The governing body for UNL students is the of Students of the University of Nebraska (ASUN). Every year students vote for a president, two vice presidents, and a senate that is composed of representatives from each college. The president also acts as the student regent to the NU Board of Regents.

Student organizations

UNL has 400 student organizations on campus that represent a variety of interests.[citation needed] Organizations are supported by Student Involvement.

Greek houses

UNL has a significant Greek population, with about 5,200 students being members of 30 fraternities (28 chapters and two colonies) and 14 sororities. There are numerous events on campus throughout the year such as decorating "Greek Row" for the homecoming parade and various philanthropy events.

Sororities Fraternities

Media

The Daily Nebraskan, known to students as the "DN", is UNL's student newspaper. It was established in 1901 and is published every weekday during the fall and spring semesters and weekly during the summer.

UNL operates a Class A FM radio station, KRNU, which broadcasts on 90.3 FM and has a range of approximately 20 miles (32 km). The station plays mostly alternative and modern rock as well as running sportscasts of Nebraska's home events, news, live public affairs broadcasts of campus speakers and forums.

In February 2008, The Publications Board recognized the Dailyer Nebraskan as an affiliated publication. The board also approved the printing costs of the first three issues of the satirical paper. [7]

Notable alumni

Main article: List of University of Nebraska–Lincoln people

References

  1. ^ "2006 NACUBO Endowment Study". National Association of College and University Business Officers.
  2. ^ "Perlman announces union expansion, international study program". University of Nebraska–Lincoln. 2006-09-07. Retrieved 2008-09-22.
  3. ^ "About UNL Libraries". University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries. Retrieved 2008-09-22.
  4. ^ "Great Plains Art Museum". unl.edu. The Great Plains Art Museum opened in 1981 after a generous donation from Dr. John and Elizabeth Christlieb of Bellevue, Nebraska. The Christlieb Collection… consists of approximately 170 bronze sculptures, 140 paintings and drawings, 100 other works on paper and several hundred photographs, and includes artwork by Albert Bierstadt, William de la Montagne Cary, Robert F. Gilder, William Henry Jackson, Frederic Remington, Charles M. Russell and Olaf Wieghorst. The library donated by the Christliebs is an impressive 4,000 volumes, which consists of several Western novels and many other fiction and nonfiction books about the West and the Great Plains.
  5. ^ http://www.nufoundation.org/Shop//showDivision.sp?cat=87
  6. ^ "College Sustainability Report Card 2008" (PDF). Sustainable Endowments Institute. p. 9. Retrieved 2008-09-22.
  7. ^ Dailyer Nebraskan receives approval - News

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