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Harmon resigns amid sexual harrassment scandal Recently departed UAF Associate Athletics director and Fairbanks School Board elect Kip Harmon has a history of harassing women spanning several years, according to a police report obtained by the Sun Star through an open records request... Knowles,
Murkowski face off in Fairbanks Under the chandelier lighting of the Westmark Hotel, Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski and former Democratic Gov. Tony Knowles debated on issues including university funding last Tuesday... Backers say ballot initiative about privacy not pot Kenneth Jacobus doesn't smoke marijuana and thinks it
unhealthy. But he wants Alaskan voters to legalize pot on Nov. 2. |
Editorial:
Your vote does matter! I'm pretty sick and tired of hearing people say their vote doesn't matter... Guest Opinion: Don't be fooled, your vote doesn't count As the campaign is coming to a climactic close and the country nears choosing its next figurehead/leader, I have witnessed many endorsements for people to vote on Election Day. I think it is important not to go into this election blind, so I will be abrupt: your vote does not matter. Fairly pessimistic I must admit, however, I believe I am reasonably justified in my logic...
Staff Opinion: University and Harmon accomplices in the whole sordid mess The
strange and disturbing behavior of Kevin "Kip" Harmon has
pissed me off in more ways than one. It's bad enough that a creep in an
administrative position used his status to pursue female athletes –
clearly creating an unsafe learning environment – but what is really
insulting is that it looks like the university and his other employers
allowed it to happen. For
the time being Eielson AFB is not taking recycled paper from UAF to
produce pellets. Whether or not EAFB starts accepting paper waste from
UAF wouldn't it benefit everyone if UAF had paper waste pelletized at
EAFB and returned to UAF to burn as fuel?
Recently, Fire Chief Edie Curry dismissed the auxiliary firefighter program. The auxiliary program was basically part-time firefighters that trained with the department and were available to cover shift and to respond to large-scale incidents. However, just weeks after "letting go" the already-trained auxiliary firefighters, the department hired a new, untrained firefighter and placed him on auxiliary status... Having grown up in the south, lived on the Appalachian Trail (it was, no lie, Main Street in my town), I find Alex's commentary (Sun Star 9/7/2004) both weak and unfounded. His inability to experience the Appalachian "Thru-hike" experience is no fault of his own... This afternoon (Saturday, October 23, 2004) when I took my son to the SRC to work out, I was disturbed to see a pickup truck backed into a parking place along the road in the Nenana lot that was displaying a large "Joe Miller" campaign sign... |
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It's cold.
It's dark. Halloween
is just a scream away. 'Tis
the season for a few good fright flicks. Horror is, in many ways, a revolution. Its themes challenge (even if in a very small way) the rules
by which civilization is based i.e. murder, fidelity, security etc.
Here lies my personal list of holiday scares whittled down over
years of semi-intense scrutiny. So, turn off the lights, lock the doors, and welcome fear
back into your lives. After
all, it's just for one night. Right? I
really don't know what kind of relationship Mark Danielewski has with
his sister Ann (a.k.a. Poe), but I doubt that the first thing the
"House of Leaves" author had in mind when he set out to
promote his first published work was an hour's worth of half-assed
musical accompaniment. Then
again, I could be wrong... The
trouble with the modern horror novel is that few currently take the
genre seriously. Stephen
King has long since failed to provide any meaningful entertainment, and
profit-guzzlers like Dean Koontz pump out such a plethora of material
annually that the hackneyed plots inevitably begin to repeat.
When Mark Danielewski set out to stake his claim on the fickle
field of literary scares, he took the challenge as though he intending
to break the very code of fear. While
the final result may fall somewhat short of such a goal, it surpasses
nearly every similarly-themed contender within the last decade... |
UAF
primed to keep Governor's Cup Despite a less than stellar start this weekend in Anchorage, the Nanooks seem poised to once again take the prestigious Governor's Cup...
UAF athletes garner national attention The home crowds have been enthusiastic, but UAF athletes have been turning heads outside of Fairbanks as well... |
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