We don't normally publish the Sun Star during finals week. Students, including our staff, are usually busy with final exams and end of the semester projects or heading out of town after wrapping up the term. But this week there seemed to be too much left up in the air to not print an extra edition.

First, the ASUAF presidential election took a turn for the ugly over the past couple of weeks. At press time last week, there was not an official winner. I'm not sure if anyone is truly a winner as a result of the recent, messy affair, but Sunday Thom Walker was officially installed as ASUAF president for the coming year. The grumblings I can still hear among some students seem to imply that the issue, though somewhat settled, is far from dead.

Then there are the four final chancellor candidates that have advanced far enough in the selection process to be invited to visit the campus, but not to have their names released with any resemblance of timeliness. I learned the name of the first candidate, and was informed of a community forum to meet him, not from Univesity Relations, that wellspring of campus information, but from a Chamber of Commerce email. The new chancellor will have a direct impact on the students at UAF in a myriad of ways, but it would seem that in the eyes of our own public information office, the campus press ranks below hordes of area moneygrubbers. Withholding the names, resumes and applications of the finalists for a public job at at a publicly-funded institution is shameful. We have a right to conduct a thorough inspection, as a service to our public, of the candidates. A right that the university has severly hampered by their witholding of information. I guess students will return in the fall to find out if the committee selected candidate number one, cnadidate number two, candidate number three, or the mystery man behind door number four. The unlucky fellow who will be visiting a student-less campus mid-May. If you are wondering why the fourth candidate is not given equal treatment in this week's story, it is because his name was not released until Friday afternoon, too late in the day for us to get in touch with any student groups on his current campus.

Finally, as if to validate our reluctant decision to run an extra issue this semester, basketball head coach Al Sokaitis announced his resignation.

So it has been a busy week, as far as news goes. We felt obligated to cover it. But this is the last issue of the Sun Star for this school year. No more. Really. From all of us here at the Sun Star…thanks for reading. And have a great life.