I made the decision to wake up at 5 a.m. and drive out to the country to find a dark spot to watch the lunar eclipse Wednesday morning. Though I got crazy lost trying to find a good place to park, I’m...

There are people you know who are actively missing out on a large part of the human experience — compassion. It’s a feeling that’s 100 percent unique to human beings, and, still, so many people...

In the last couple weeks, a journalist was beheaded in Syria, a family home was torn to pieces by mortar shells in Eastern Ukraine, a woman in New York finally became pregnant after years of trying and...

Yes, we’re busy. But I’m not going to argue that we college students are these poor, abused souls struggling with every inch of our might to get through another round of exams at the cost of our...

For better or worse, UND has approved a new policy — taking effect Fall 2015 — that will require students to declare a major as soon as they complete 45 credits. The hope is students will be forced...

We’re all used to the cookie-cutter conversation you have a hundred times the same exact way when you go home after being away for a semester or so — the conversation you have with relatives, high...

There’s something really great about being woken up by the sunrise. I left my curtains up and my window open a bit last Saturday night as I fell asleep, and although the sun woke me up a couple hours...

I visited a couple friends at Carleton College in Northfield, MN — 30 minutes south of the Twin Cities — last weekend and subsequently had my mind blown. It wasn’t the dorms that look like Ritz Carlton...

I’m starting my third year of college this week, and it’s finally sunk in that saying “I’m a junior” feels less terrifying than I thought it would. Actually, it took sitting through the first...

Donald Sterling is a racist. On a side note, he also owns the Los Angeles Clippers. You wouldn’t think a person who owns an incredibly successful professional basketball team that only has two white...