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Whoa, what happened to your leg

Stephanie Hollman, Opinion Editor February 4, 2018

As careful as I was hiking down a steep descent on a mountain, all it took was a wrongly misplaced step to trip and fall on the rocky surface. To my horror, pain shot up through my entire left leg after...

Before becoming a profession, learn to teach

Bilal Suleiman, Opinion Columnist February 4, 2018

The way we prepare professors for life in the classroom is woefully inadequate. We can’t expect someone who studied in a lab for eight years, looking at petri dishes and memorizing formulas, to get...

UND head coach Brad Berry leads the mens hockey team in a practice last season at the Ralph Engelstad Arena.

Bye, Bye, Bye

Nick Erickson, Sports Writer February 4, 2018

UND sat idle on a bye week this past weekend and it seems to be coming at a good time for them. They’re 12-8-8 while being tied for fourth place with the University of Minnesota Duluth in the NCHC with...

Fighting Hawks forward Fallyn Freije signs her autograph for a young fan during Fan Fest at the Betty Engelstad Sioux Center this past fall.

Athletes are celebrities

Jill Morton, Opinion Columnist February 4, 2018

North Dakota is a great state in many ways, but for sports fans the state disappoints because of the lack of professional sports. We don’t have the opportunity to get disappointed year after year about...

Under the current NDUS employee insurance plan, birth control products such as birth control medications, IUDs, appliances or related services are not covered.

Birth Controlled

Diane Newberry, News Editor January 29, 2018

Passed in 2010, the Affordable Care Act caused controversy by requiring health insurance plans that covered co-pays on prescription medicine to also cover contraceptive methods. This provision of the...

Senator Heidi Heitkamp speaks as part of a discussion panel of the A Kennan Conversation: U.S.-Russia Relations and the Geopolitics of a Changing Arctic event held at Clifford Hall on March 31, 2017.

Heitkamp tries to resurrect net neutrality

Jacob Notermann, Staff Writer January 29, 2018

While internet outages and connection problems are regular complaints amongst UND students, there is an even greater internet battle being fought in our nation’s capital.  Net neutrality has become...

UND collaboration or UND competition?

Andre Marquis Washington
, News Writer January 29, 2018

The city of Grand Forks has become a paradise for the UAS industry.  Grand Forks is home of the United States first commercial UAS business and aviation park, and will host the 12th annual UAS Summit...

UND forward Ludvig Hoff (#27) watches goalie Cam Johnson makes a save against the Minnesoa Gophers earlier this season. Hoff was named to the Norwegian mens Olympic ice hockey team on Wednesday, January 24, 2018.

He’s Hoff to the Olympics

Nick Erickson, Sports Writer January 29, 2018

The NHL’s decision to not allow NHL players time off to play in the 2018 winter Olympics in South Korea is now granting childhood dreams of many players across the NCAA.   Will Borgen from SCSU...

Beneficial for some people for various reasons, makeup use can also have unintended consequences beyond skincare.

More than a pretty face

Bilal Suleiman, Opinion Columnist January 28, 2018

I don’t know much about makeup. I’ve never bought any, nor have I ever used any. Everything I know about makeup comes from what girls have told me and from my own experience watching girls put on...

Big Sky to Summit

Jill Morton, Opinion Columnist January 28, 2018

As a collegiate athlete, I spend a lot of time traveling. We are sometimes gone every other week for five days at a time and being on the road for so long puts a lot of strain on a student. The early morning...

UND Makes it hard to go green

Stephanie Hollman, Opinion Editor January 28, 2018

The University of North Dakota is well-known for a lot of things: ts championship winning hockey team, its ranking as being one of the coldest college campuses in the United States, and of course, its...

A league of their own: why I’m rooting for the XFL

Jacob Notermann, Staff Writer January 28, 2018

Just last week, WWE head honcho Vince McMahon announced that his selling of $100 million in WWE shares is being put towards the restart of the short-lived XFL.  When this news broke, a revolution in...

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