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March 1 , 2005

 

 

Descending into the catacombs

The letters are blocky, the handwriting rushed: "We were here, Oct 1, 1964, JPM, JPL, JPS."

Poker Flat trio ready to launch

Three scientific rockets at the university's Poker Flat Research Range north of Fairbanks are now pointed skyward, loaded and waiting on their gigantic launchers for scientists to decide when conditions are right to fire them high above Earth...

Freshmen midterm reports hit the fan

Freshmen, be prepared, progress reports are on the way...

Police Blotter

Some notes from the Editor

No, you don't need to get the subscription for your glasses checked; don't worry, your cataracts aren't acting up. Last week's issue of the Sun Star was blurry...

Staff Opinion: How the Sun Star killed Hunter S. Thompson

"My god," I ask aloud, "What have they done?"

Letters to the Editor

 

 

Winter Shorts breathe life into UAF

I am forever amazed and in awe of Theatre UAF for surviving and nearly thriving within a college that appears to equate its Liberal Arts programs with "quaint additions." Semester after semester, the men and women of UAF's most conspicuous vendor for the arts continue to stretch an inch into a mile and produce shows worthy of attention...

Conversations with Chuck D

"These are not lectures. I'm not here to preach to you. We're conversing. We're having conversations."

A New Frat on Campus?

"For lack of a better word, we want to become a workhorse for student government and student activities [at UAF]," said Sven Gilkey, the man responsible for attempting to resurrect Alpha Phi Omega on campus...

"It's So HAAAAARRRD"

A hush took hold of the crowd, the overloud obnoxious buzzer sounded. Then silence, then: CLANG, CLANG, BADA, BADA, BADA, BUMP, CLANG, then silence. No swish, no cheering, only the empty sound of the ball hitting the wooden floor and a collective "ahh damn it!" from the crowd. The Nanooks hope for a miracle playoff birth (and we're talking parting-the-red-sea-type-miracle) was over. The Nanooks lost 58-59...

Rifle aiming for record-breaking championships

Get ready for a record-breaking seventh consecutive title from the UAF rifle team later this month as they move on to the NCAA championships...

 


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