ASUAF spends student fees on personal pet projects, perks

ASUAF President Thom Walker partially vetoed Senate legislation that approved using $2,510 of student fees to travel to a leadership conference in Oregon after senators raised concerns that attendees might skip workshops and use the trip as a vacation...

South of the Border

Last November, ASUAF sent seven officials to the SDSU Leadership Institute Conference in San Diego. The conference took only three days, but according to Sen. Joe Blanchard, it was a "bad idea to begin with."

The Goliath Expedition

 Not all who wander to the Golden Heart of Alaska are lost, or trying to make themselves lost...

Professor with questionable diploma gives up senate presidency

UAF professor Michael Hannigan resigned his position as president-elect of the Faculty Senate following allegations that he received his Ph.D. from a "diploma mill."

TAB paralyzed by lack of student membership

A lack of students filling seats on the Technology Advisory Board has prevented the approval of technology proposals this year, delaying approval at least two weeks...

Police Blotter

Editorial : ASUAF Squanders student fees

It's insulting!  Who do they think they are?  Do they realize whose money they are wasting?

Letter to the Editor

Thank you Robinson Duffy for a thoughtful and thorough response to Kentrell Fruge's letter about depression and the death of one of our students...

Letter to the Editor

Pat Rivera made a great point in her 10/26 letter in which she encouraged UAF to pursue the use of waste paper pellets to mix with coal in order to generate electricity...

Quinton Harris: Space funk DJ extraordinaire

Quinton Harris is on an intergalactic mission to rock the world and boldly go where no master of space funk has gone before. He just isn't admitting all of that yet.

Paper Mario:  The Thousand Year Door  

You would think that at this point Nintendo's favorite mascot, Mario, would be old hat; a tired avatar better suited for the days of eight-bit adventures.  Quite fortunately for us all, however, this presumption would be more than wrong.  And no recent game containing the Italian wonder reflects this more than "Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door." 

UAF strikes hard against the Thunderbirds

The University of Alaska Fairbanks Nanooks swept away the Thunderbirds of the University of British Columbia in a two-game series this weekend, winning 5 to 0 and 5 to 3 in the first and second games, respectively...

UAF had a football team?

UAF students have been setting fires for Starvation Gulch for 81 years and stealing the Tradition Stone for 47. But for every successful tradition, there's at least one Ice Bowl...

'Nooks kill Seattle, fall to Western Washington

Playing the final home volleyball matches of their careers, seniors Carlin Smith and Mallory Bergstrom helped UAF defeat Seattle Pacific University on Friday, only to lose Saturday to Western Washington University...