 |
      |
|
March 2, 2004 |
|
|
|
|
March 2, 2004 |
|
|
"Where is All Those Man-Eatin' Penguins I've Done Heard About?" Being a Kentucky native, my decision to come to Alaska was met with some significant naivety concerning the nature of Alaska culture and climate. According to my fellow Kentuckians, my decision to travel northward brought with it a land of perpetual ice and darkness dotted with igloos and ice roads, only to be traversed by the occasional dog team driven by a wild-eyed Alaskan hell bent on fending off the scores of ravenous penguins as they descended upon his or her freshly killed walrus. Nanooks win at home, athletes honored Last week was a great week for UAF basketball as two Nanooks earned GNAC player-of-the-week honors. Adrienne Taalak had an incredible 73 points on the week, including 37 in the team's big upset win against Western Washington. She finished with 11 rebounds, nine steals, 11 three-pointers, and perfect free throw shooting. Taalak is nationally ranked in four different categories, including sixth in the nation with an average of 3.0 three-point field goals made per game. This is her second time as GNAC player of the week, no doubt making the folks back in Nuiqsut very proud. The spring semester started off with a few good Fairbanks cold spells, perfect conditions for getting out and enjoying the thrills of wintertime in Interior Alaska. The short frigid days, curse of the dainty, are a playground for skiing, skating, snowboarding, snowshoeing, snowball fighting, snow-angel making, snowmachining, dogmushing, skijoring, ice fishing,... and, of course, winter biking. Sex and the cold weather advantage Is the campus-wide expression that, "All the hot girls come out in the spring" familiar to you? If so, you may be the product of the common misconception that the arctic temperatures of Fairbanks are detrimental to attraction and one's process of mate selection. Many students around campus seem to think that because the ladies shy away from exposing their silky smooth legs and buxom cleavage during the bleak winter months, that the sexes are at a disadvantage for lustful college relationships. On the contrary, the masking of biological assets with puffy down jackets and Carhartts can actually enhance your prospects of discovering a suitable mate. The beginning was a sound, then a rhythm, then a word. Anytime the word "accurate" is uttered in the same breath as Jesus, I always cringe. "Faithful translation," now there's something I can get behind. Any film can offer a "faithful translation" of the story surrounding Jesus of Nazareth; it simply depends on the works' ability to offer a cohesive line of thinking, usually based off of some previously constructed source material i.e. The New Testament, historical recreations, critical analyses etc. These translations are not, however, accurate. None of them can conform exactly to the truth for the undeniable certainty that, beyond the confines of faith, we don't have a strong grasp of who Jesus was. What we have is an idea of what he represented based on violently skewed and spotty accounts. The result of which is a two-thousand-year-old "guesstimation." Often
in life we only hear criticism; "No news is good news".
What a terrible philosophy!
What a horrible style of leadership! It is in that vein that I
would like to extend my deepest thanks to your paper for taking the time
to publish a critical review of the recent I'm eating humble pie, and Alex Grantham is getting pizza. I know…it just doesn't seem fair. Movie Review: "The Passion of the Christ" Mel Gibson's "The Passion of the Christ" is an absolute labor of love. You don't even need to tell me that he spent $25 million of his own money to prove that point—you can see his devotion manifest in every shot. Each scene, each angle, each and every image of this film is an intricately crafted work of art. Over 50 students from 11 campuses arrived in Juneau Feb. 21 with a 12-foot puzzle of Alaska to advocate for an increase in university funding. Fourteen members if the contingency were from the UAF campus and ASUAF has allocated over $7,000 dollars for the trip. And the winners are…the worst movies of the year! On a daily basis, UAF's e-mail server receives 50,000 to 70,000 e-mails. But according to the Department of Computing & Communications, approximately 10,000 of these messages are spam. Value
of School Suspensions Challenged in Study Temporarily
banning students from public school grounds may not offer the best route
to improved discipline and educational achievement, according to authors
of a recent report. This statement may take on more significance, since
the report also shows students who receive out-of-school suspensions are
on the rise in all of Fairbanks' K-12 grades. Those who missed Tim Wise on Monday or Tuesday missed a great deal. |