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DS View: Riots

Will Beaton, Editor-in-Chief April 25, 2014

There’s been much talk — all of it hostile toward one group or another — about the “riots” at the University of Minnesota over the weekend of the NCAA Men’s Hockey Tournament. I visited my...

Provost promises to prevent library deficit

Provost promises to prevent library deficit

Marie Monson, Multimedia Editor April 11, 2014

Photo by Jennifer Friese/The Dakota Student. After students and faculty expressed concern over UND’s Chester Fritz Library potentially losing resources, university Provost Thomas DiLorenzo has clarified...

DS View: Success

Will Beaton, Editor-in-Chief April 11, 2014

Perceived cuts to the Chester Fritz Library have had students — especially graduate students and those who regularly use the library to conduct research — on edge all semester. But after sitting down...

DS View: Present

Will Beaton, Editor-in-Chief April 7, 2014

It’s that time of year when many of us are hearing back about the summer jobs we’ve applied for, and many others are scrambling, realizing we haven’t sent out any applications. It’s a tricky situation...

DS View: Kindness

Will Beaton, Editor-in-Chief April 3, 2014

Snow days can be a nice break from classes and studying, deadlines and hurrying and personal hygiene and abstract thinking, but I find them great for another reason. They remind me why we live here in...

DS View: Awards

Will Beaton, Editor-in-Chief March 4, 2014

The 86th Academy Awards happened this weekend, and it had us wondering: what are we really cheering for when celebrity after celebrity read the names of yet more celebrities to shower them with more photographs...

DS View: Awareness

Will Beaton, Editor-in-Chief February 24, 2014

National Eating Disorders Awareness Week is Feb. 23 to March 1 this year, and I’m very happy to see UND’s Health & Wellness Hub is hosting a few events to get people talking about eating disorders. The...

UND to host eating disorders awareness week

UND to host eating disorders awareness week

Will Beaton, Editor-in-Chief February 24, 2014

Professor Stephen Wonderlich. Photo courtesy of sanfordhealth.org. One UND professor is seeing major results of his efforts working under the university for the betterment of his field and the international...

DS View: Expectations

Will Beaton, Editor-in-Chief February 21, 2014

Though Robert Kelley has served as the President of UND since 2008 when I started my freshman year of high school in Grand Forks, I never met him until last week. I’d heard his name, of course — usually...

DS View: Diversity

Will Beaton, Editor-in-Chief February 13, 2014

Diversity is definitely not an “old, old wooden ship used in the Civil War era,” as our favorite anchorman would have us believe. What’s less clear about diversity is whether or not it exists...

DS View: ‘Rush’

Will Beaton, Editor-in-Chief January 31, 2014

In the middle of the coldest stretch of the year, a lot of student are taking a few nights out of their schedules to participate in spring rush at the sororities and fraternities on campus. “Rush”...

BLOG: The cold in LA

Will Beaton, Opinion Editor December 13, 2013

I lived in Los Angeles last year, and though I came back to Grand Forks over my winter break, a new song by The Killers had a profound effect on me this week when I first heard it. It’s called “Christmas...

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