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Will Beaton, Managing/Opinion editor November 7, 2013

We editors at The Dakota Student were discussing the idea of “home” last production as the night grew late. All of us, being in our late teens and early twenties, realized we’re in a strange time...

People willing to wait in line at new Panera

Will Beaton, Managing/Opinion Editor November 5, 2013

Customers wait in line during at Panera at its 6 a.m. grand opening last month. Photo by Will Beaton/The Dakota Student. Until Canadian doughnut and coffee shop Tim Horton’s opens on 42nd Street,...

Candidates promote student involvment

Candidates promote student involvment

Will Beaton, Managing/Opinion Editor October 10, 2013

UND Homecoming Court candidates Kyle See-Rockers, Katy Wilson, John Mitzel and Ken McGurran serve ice cream to students at Tuesday’s ice cream social. The Homecoming King and Queen will be announced...

Remembering a lost friend

Remembering a lost friend

Carrie Sandstrom, Editor-in-Chief October 10, 2013

UND’s Clothesline Project, which ends today at noon, in the Memorial Union Ballroom. The project comemmorates the stories of victims of familial abuse, domestic violence and sexual assault. Photo by...

Assassins

Will Beaton, Features Editor October 8, 2013

My fraternity, Delta Upsilon, partakes in a game called Assassins. I’ve learned that many groups on campus play a similar game, with varying rules. But beyond the slight dissimilarities, one general...

Why the coulee is cool

Why the coulee is cool

Will Beaton, Managing/Opinion Editor October 4, 2013

UND students enjoying the English Coulee behind Smith Hall in 1977. Photo courtesy of Panoramio.  Most UND students probably know the “coulee” as that dirty little stream that bisects campus along...

Journey for a Pinecone

Will Beaton, Features Editor September 24, 2013

If you read my blog last week, you’ll know that I have a thing for fire towers: those widely abandoned, rickety structures in the woods that were once used to watch for forest fires. Today, they are...

9/15/2013: Will Beaton

Will Beaton, Features Editor September 16, 2013

I’d like to take a moment to talk about how awesome fire towers are. Well, maybe the act of climbing fire towers, specifically. If you’re like me, you went to a pretty average elementary school in...

Jobs: Kutcher delivers

Will Beaton, Features Editor September 13, 2013

It’s not like we didn’t see it coming. As soon as Steve Jobs passed away in the fall of 2011, I’m sure every screenwriter in Los Angeles quit their part-time busing jobs to pour all their energy...

9/10/2013: Will Beaton

Will Beaton, Features Editor September 10, 2013

As a sophomore transfer to UND this year, I’ve realized that I think I have a weird perspective on UND and college in general. I’m from Grand Forks, so I’m obviously comfortable with the town, and...

Hypnotist wows again

Will Beaton, Features Editor August 29, 2013

Though he has performed at UND’s Welcome Week for 10 consecutive years, Kim Bromley’s hypnosis show has proved a unique experience every time. The Chester Fritz Auditorium was packed through to...

Buffalo in the Garden

Will Beaton, Features Editor August 29, 2013

Train whistles harmoniously mingled with the sounds of guitar chords and bass drums Tuesday night at the North Dakota Museum of Art behind Twamley Hall. The sculpture garden along Campus Road is home...

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