Movie Review: "The Alamo"

Texas: Fiercely independent, gun-toting ranchers; squabbling politicians shirking their military duties while egotistically sending lesser men to fight their battles in selfish, petty wars; big bulls, big beer, big spaces, big egos, and bigger lies.

Police Blotter

Spring ASUAF Presidential Election Heats up as Walker takes on Maitlen

The race for president of the Associated Students of the University of Alaska Fairbanks is beginning to become competitive, and both incumbent President Thom Walker who is running with vice-president hopeful, senator Abbie Stillie, and lone challenger Brandon Maitlen, with senator Allison Matter as a running mate, expect a close race. 

Film Club Seeks to Enhance Liberal Arts at UAF

Let's not fool ourselves; UAF is a school for "hard science."  The very fact that it humors certain Liberal Arts institutions like, say, the Theatre Department, is beyond many members of the governing populace.  Such a statement may seem brazen, but I promise you that any theatre major would gladly tell you dramatic vanilla like "Singing in the Rain" is far from desired.  But desires are irrelevant when your budget has been repeatedly butchered.

Letter to the editor

I watch the news on television and read the papers.  Gay marriage is an ever increasing debate in this country.  Honestly, I don't have a problem if people of the same gender wish to marry each other.  On the other hand, I do understand that many of you feel that homosexuality is wrong. 

Princeton Grade Curve

Princeton, the prestigious Ivy League university, thinks too many of its students are getting A's.

UAF to screen "White Snake"

Students looking for more exposure to foreign cultures and films can look forward to "The Legend of White Snake" this Sunday.

Water polo

As students place more emphasis on active, healthy lives, participation in intramural sports continues to rise.  Perhaps the most intense and demanding of all intramural sports is Water Polo, which is kind of like soccer in a swimming pool. 

A Revolution—frame by frame: An Interview with the first Iranian graphic novelist

You could call her the first graphic novelist from Iran. And like her subject content about life in that country in the late 1970's, you could call her revolutionary.