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Celebrating diversity

Celebrating diversity

Nick Sallen, Opinion Editor January 22, 2016

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. speaks in Montgomery, Ala. in 1965. Photo courtesy of parade.com 2016 marks the 86th birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King. He gave his life fighting for the civil rights movement...

Democratic candidates clash in another debate

Nick Sallen, Opinion Editor January 22, 2016

The fourth democratic debate was filled with a surprising amount of accusatory language. As Senator Bernie Sanders is catching up to for Sec. of State Hilary Clinton in the polls, Clinton opted to challenge...

DS VIEW: Rare earth elements

January 14, 2016

UND has now been awarded over $1 million in coal research in the last six months. The first research grant came in late August, when UND was awarded $400,000 to research coal conversion technologies. Officials...

Cold war tensions linger due to water and oil

Cold war tensions linger due to water and oil

Nick Sallen, Opinion Editor November 18, 2015

Cold war tensions are rising again. Photo courtesy of desire2learn.com The two most imperialist countries have been igniting tensions again. Russia is trying to reclaim the territory it lost when the...

DS VIEW: Nicknames

Editorial Board October 27, 2015

Alex Bertsch- Recently, I have heard a lot of negativity about the Sundogs nickname. People have treated it like it is a joke, however what more is a nickname than a joke. The best nicknames all began...

CNNs Democratic debate

CNN’s Democratic debate

Nick Sallen, opinion editor October 23, 2015

The pros and cons of each candidate's answers throughout the night Jim Webb, Bernie Sanders, Hillary Clinton, Martin O'Malley and Lincoln Chafee squared off on Tuesday, Oct. 13 in Las Vegas, Nevada....

New Netflix drama details infamous kingpin’s life

Nick Sallen, Opinion Editor October 15, 2015

4 out of 5 stars Netflix’s “Narcos” is more than just a story about Pablo Escobar, the wealthiest criminal of all time. Across 10 episodes the story of Colombia’s largest cocaine trafficker...

Expressing the sciences

Expressing the sciences

Nick Sallen, opinion editor October 15, 2015

Randy Olson gives a speech at the University of Missouri. Photo courtesy of wikipedia.org Hermes is the Greek God of messages. His responsibility is to be the bridge of communication between mortals and...

The benefits of simple living

Nick Sallen, Opinion Editor October 7, 2015

“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately.” Henry David Thoreau wrote these famous words in his book “Walden.” You see, Thoreau wanted to live a barebones style of life. By...

Flawed gender norms

Nick Sallen, Opinion Editor October 7, 2015

To be ‘unintelligible’ means to be impossible to understand. An example of this would be when your roommate comes back to your residence hall from the fraternity party across University Ave, and you...

Storytelling in Mythology

Storytelling in Mythology

Nick Sallen, Opinion editor October 2, 2015

Abe the Eskimo kneeling beside his buried family. Comic by Bill Rerick/ The Dakota Student Like all mythology, Inuit myths and legends are both entertaining and instructive. The Inuit designated...

Pacing the Wild Hog Half Marathon

Nick Sallen, Opinion Editor September 30, 2015

With a bang, a mass of people in shorts took off. Within the mass, I found myself pacing the Wild Hog Half Marathon. A pacer’s job is to run even splits and finish at a specific time. I was in charge...

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