Meet Nika Zuerlein!
Year in school: Senior
Major: Hospitality, Restaurant & Tourism Management, with minors in Business and Leadership Communications
Favorite part about being a Husker: Husker sports
Role for HC-UNL: Event Coordinator
Celeb crush: Ryan Sheckler
If you were a dessert, what would you be? Anything chocolate
Favorite thing to do on a snowy day: Bake cookies and watch Christmas movies
Favorite accessory: Bracelets
Favorite quote: “Don’t ever let somebody tell you you can’t do something. You got a dream… you gotta protect it. People can’t do somethin themselves, they wanna tell you you can’t do it. If you want somethin… go get it. Period.”
If you could switch lives with somebody, who would it be and why? Betsey Johnson. Because she’s crazy and wonderful, and I just want to know what goes through her head sometimes.
Favorite place to travel: New York
Favorite flavor of ice cream: Chocolate
Most prized possession: Necklace from my dad
First three songs when you put your iPod on shuffle: Electric Feel – MGMT, Ooh La – The Kooks, Chip Off The Block – Machine Gun Kelly
Biggest fear: Losing a family member
Favorite TV show: Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
Favorite movie: Pursuit of Happyness
Weirdest phobia? I have a velvet phobia. I hate it, and just thinking about it freaks me out.
Meet Olivia Rhoades!
Year in school: Junior
Major: Marketing
Minor: Merchandising
Your favorite part about being a Husker: I love the school spirit and academic opportunities. My favorite sports to go watch are wrestling and gymnastics.
Role for HC-UNL: co-editor-in-chief/co-founder/co-president
Celeb crush: Liam Hemsworth
If you were a dessert, what would you be? Something with a lot of chocolate. I’m a major chocoholic!!
Favorite Holiday festivity: my whole family does a DIY Christmas ornament exchange each year
Favorite accessory: Ahhh I love them all! I’m currently obsessing over slouchy beanie hats.
Favorite Quote: “Be weird. Be random. Be who you are. Because you never know who would love the person you hide.”
Favorite place to travel: The Bahamas
Favorite flavor of ice cream: chocolate marshmallow
Favorite joke: why did the tomato turn red? Because it saw the salad dressing!
Favorite TV show: Nashville and So You Think You Can Dance
What inspires you? Definitely my family.
Cats or dogs? Dogs
Weirdest phobia? That someone will be lying under my car waiting to cut my Achilles tendon. I’m petrified of that!!