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Janae Riha knows she is living a dream by attending college. The Nebraska Wesleyan junior and her “dream team” are anxious to share their dreams with students at a nearby elementary school.

That’s just one project in the works for the residents of Nebraska Wesleyan’s new theme house — the Dream House.

When students return to Nebraska Wesleyan University on August 23, campus for the most part will look much like it did when they left in May. But summer was anything but quiet.

New theme houses were spruced up, a new outdoor track was built, new administrators got up to speed on their new responsibilities, and professors plotted out new ways to teach their courses.

The Board of Directors of the William Randolph Hearst Foundation has awarded Nebraska Wesleyan University a grant of $100,000.

The funds will be added to the existing William Randolph Hearst Endowed Scholarship Fund at NWU, bringing the contributions to the Hearst Fund to $300,000.

Students in a seminar on external ballistics sweated through a particularly warm morning on the shooting range at the Izaak Walton shooting facility. They each shot several different weapons through a chronograph to measure velocity and into ballistic gel to look at trajectory.

Three Nebraska Wesleyan University student leaders traveled to Washington, D.C. this summer for a lesson in student government 101.

“The most important part of my position as student body president is ensuring that the student voice is heard and that the student senate reflects that voice in our actions,” said junior Denny Vaggalis, who will take office in August.