Regents raise tuition 10 percent

The University of Alaska Board of Regents approved President Mark Hamilton's 10 percent tuition increase request for 2006 on Wednesday despite student protest and opposition.

UA gets F for affordability, completion

The expression on Student Body President Thom Walker's face explained everything as he walked away from the Board of Regents 7-2 vote to increase tuition in 2006 following a previous 10% increase for 2005...

Police Blotter

UFD Does Part in Battling Summer Wildfires

It is a story as old as time. 

An ancient enemy, savage and relentless, that destroys both homes and forest with equal propensity.  A team of dedicated professionals, with the most up-to-date arsenal of weapons and equipment, and a duty to defend their territory at whatever cost. 

One on one with Joe Blanchard

Senator Joe Blanchard was recently elected ASUAF Senate Chair after Senator H.B. Telling stepped down from the position.  The Sun Star sat down with Joe to discuss the matters important to all of us...

Hamilton: Fewer freshmen become UA Scholars

UA President Mark Hamilton announced that participation of freshmen in the University of Alaska Scholars Program has decreased for the first time since its conception, but the program's administrator is not so sure...

KSUA puts DJ back on air

Scott Hornyak, AKA Spider Bui, is back. 

After a series of conferences between the DJ's lawyer and UAF officials, KSUA will allow Hornyak back on the air, as well as rescind his termination as KSUA business manager...

Editorial: We're listening

So once again fee payment has come and gone.

All of us have waited in lines, filled out forms, waited in more lines, begged, borrowed, and stolen our way into yet another semester of school...

Letter to the Editor

Nice to see two new administrative positions created, totaling over $200,000 in salaries plus benefits, on the same day that our tuition is being hiked.  I can already see the benefits that these two positions will add to my graduate career.  More over, they were appointed without the normal open job search and advertising for the "best candidate"...

Letter to the Editor

UAF has decided to reinstate my job and my show.

I was fired because I stated a controversial opinion.  It is my opinion that Ronald Reagan was a menace to the planet.  Whether you agree with me or not is irrelevant.  The right for someone to speak their mind is an essential freedom.  This is especially true in a time of war, in an election year, on a college campus.  It is not only a freedom, but a responsibility.

From the Depths of Hell: Doom 3 Review

Quite possibly one of the most anticipated games of the last five years, "Doom 3" hit shelves last month to less than overwhelming fanfare.  This, the third installment in the wildly popular first-person shooter series "Doom" by Id Software, is yet another in the company's brief line of products designed to raise the bar in computer performance.  But does the game itself challenge standards for the genre, or simply rest among an ever-growing pile of overpriced tech demos? 

UAF Goes Clubbin': Psi Chi

Psychology is so much more than mental health."  Or so says previous Psi Chi advisor Dani Raap.  Raap, a current professor at UAF and sustained force within the National Honor Society in Psychology (Psi Chi), continues.  "The APA (American Psychological Association) lists 54 different subdivisions for the field.  Counseling and therapy constitute four of them.  Everything from Aviation Psychology to Sports and Art Therapy currently exist.  As a career, psychology has grown dramatically over the last decade - and Fairbanks is no different." 

A Wicked Read: "Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West" Review

What if the Wicked Witch of the West was not all that wicked?  Such is the premise of Gregory Maguire's 1995 novel, "Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West," a continuation in his series of fairy tale conversions better suited for adults. Like his earlier novel, "Confessions of An Ugly Step-Sister," Maguire takes on the view of the villain.  This perspective refrains from the plaintive case of, "Well yes, I'm evil.  But can you really blame me when I'm pitted against someone so damn perfect?"  Instead, Maguire goes to great depth creating an entirely different world...

Bored, lazy, just plain lethargic?  Intramurals are the answer!

Now that the summer is ending and the fall semester is beginning, longer hours of study and lower temperatures tempt me to stay indoors and forgo physical activities.  With my class load and job, I just don't have time for exercise.  But research shows that an active lifestyle benefits mental acuity, so I figure racquetball will actually help me memorize my foreign language vocabulary!