Episode 14 — Father Markoe and the DePorres Club
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Episode 13 — The Most Notorious Book Thief: Part 3
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Episode 12 — The Most Notorious Book Thief: Part 2
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Episode 11 — The Most Notorious Book Thief: Part 1
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Episode 10 — The Fountain, the Mall and Suscipe, Creighton's nude sculpture
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Episode 9 — Returning to the Old Gym, 75 years later
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Episode 8 — The bomb, the boss and the Jesuit
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Episode 7 — Creighton's 2023 anniversaries (Part 3)
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Aaand ... here's the third and final part in our series of episodes on 2023 anniversaries. This one covers 1983 to 2022 and includes the arrival of the ‘Eternal Flame,’ the fake football team's national championship win and the first Creighton alum in space.
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Episode 6 — Creighton's 2023 anniversaries (Part 2)
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And here's part 2 of our series of Weird Creighton History episodes on 2023 anniversaries. This episode tracks anniversaries from 1948 to 1973, including the debut of the DePorres Club, the start of women’s sports and the arrival of air conditioning in Swanson Hall.
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Episode 5 — Creighton's 2023 anniversaries (Part 1)
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Another year, another list of Creighton anniversaries. In the first of this three-part series of episodes, Rick and Micah cover such historic events as ... the birth of the Bluejay, the start of the track team and the belated graduation of an alum whom Eisenhower called "the man who won the war."
info_outlineLaw-abiding library patrons Rick and Micah discuss Creighton's relation to the academic crime of the century: the Iowa man who stole 26,000 rare books and manuscripts from about 300 university libraries across the U.S. The collection — estimated at anywhere from $5.3 million to $40 million — made Stephen Carrie Blumberg the most prolific book thief in world history. After Blumberg's 1990 arrest, a group of Creighton librarians helped the FBI return thousands of books to their rightful owners. This drew Blumberg's ire, and he warned Creighton that the Reinert library would be the next target of one of his elaborate heists. More than 30 years later, as a Creighton archivist, professor and class of students recently discovered, this story is far from finished.
Read the story of the book bandit, the Omaha Project, and the Creighton detectives here.