After coming back to Lincoln from a trip together, Joe Starita and Roger Holmes stopped in the woods with another person they had just met. While talking with the man, Holmes said he realized Starita was missing, and the man responded that Starita was âprobably out interviewing a bear.â
To this day, Holmes says he swears this is the ultimate description of who Starita is as a person and a journalist.
In 2000, Starita returned to UNL after 20 years in the professional world of journalism. The last time he would plant himself at the university, he was a student. He was vulnerable to the vast opportunities that awaited him, to the people heâd interview and to a future as a professional journalist. But this time, he knew what awaited him.Â