An attendee of Chaire Kirk's vigil at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln wearing a 'Make America Great Again' hat on Sept 17. 2025. (Juan Salinas II/Nebraska Examiner)

LINCOLN — Conservative and liberal students at Nebraska colleges say they want to turn down the temperature on the heated political dialogue dominating national conversations in the weeks since the killing of Charlie Kirk.

But they’ve got their work cut out.

The call for a return to civil discourse among young Nebraskans comes against the backdrop of President Donald Trump pledging to use the federal government to investigate political foes on the “radical left.”

Ethnie Barnhouse, the president of University of Nebraska-Lincoln chapter of Kirk’s political organization Turning Point USA, which was designed to engage colle

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