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Track performances on the rise

Madison Overby, Sports Writer February 11, 2018

The University of North Dakota track and field team spent the past two days competing at the South Dakota State University Indoor Classic in Brookings, South Dakota. The SDSU Indoor Classic is one of the...

Trevor Dufner, UND club baseball team captain and president, stands for a portrait in the Hyslop Sports Center.

Baseball dreams at UND saved with club team

John Gregg, Sports Writer February 11, 2018

As temperatures rise and the snow begins to melt, UND students anticipate the beauty of spring on campus and the opportunities that warmer weather in Grand Forks allows. While Fighting Hawks Spring...

Merrifield Hall hosts numerous programs, including language courses of all sizes and regions.

The magic number 12

Andre Marquis Washington, News Writer February 11, 2018

Contrary to popular belief, the most spoken language in the world is Chinese, followed by Spanish and bringing home the bronze is English. Considering the facts, in addition to modern trends of globalization...

The Price Is Right Live stage show came to the Chester Fritz Auditorium on Thursday, February 8, 2018.

The Price Is Right

Aimee Coons, Arts & Community Writer February 11, 2018

The Chester Fritz Auditorium buzzed with pure excitement as the audience waited with bated breath for the Price is Right Live to start. The auditorium was packed with people. The main floor seating...

Overhyped, why I hate the Super Bowl

Jill Morton, Opinion Columnist February 11, 2018

For those of you who live under a rock, the biggest football game of the year was played just last week in Minneapolis. The Philadelphia Eagles had a 41-33 victory over The New England Patriot. Personally,...

The Super Bowl is often the largest site of human trafficking in the United States.

Super Bowl attracting the wrong traffic

Madison Overby, Sports Writer February 11, 2018

Many stories about sex trafficking in Minneapolis over the week before and weekend of the Super Bowl have been circulating. There were warnings upon warnings telling women to walk with friends and be extremely...

Ayla Rubenstein (right) assists Kaycie Ebert with a paper at the UND Writing Center in Merrifield Hall.

Student fee breakdown

Andre Marquis Washington
, News Writer February 4, 2018

Is UND a research institution, hockey school or liberal arts university?  That was the question posed randomly to more than 300 UND students.  For some, the answer is obvious.  But for most UND...

UND forward Mimi Eiden sprints with the ball down the pitch at Bronson Field during a match against Idaho State earlier this season.

Mimi Eiden

Madison Overby, Sports Writer February 4, 2018

Mimi Eiden, a freshman on the UND women’s soccer team, made herself right at home this year.   After a short settling-in period she began contributing points consistently. Eiden ended up with...

Former UND forard Chris Wilkie transferred to Colorado College at the beginning of the season and will have to sit out a year due to NCAA regulations.

Making his return to the Ralph

Allyson Bento, Sports Editor February 4, 2018

Stepping into the Ralph for the first time is an experience most hockey players mark as their greatest memory.   It is the beginning of their journey with the University of North Dakota’s storied...

National bar passage rates drop; ND grads weigh law school options

National bar passage rates drop; ND grads weigh law school options

Diane Newberry, News Editor February 4, 2018

Sheilan Hamasoor has had an interest in law since high school, but it wasn’t until the news of the Trump administration’s immigration ban broke last year that she was sure she had found her purpose.  “I...

Little Bangkok recently opened in the former Terrace Dining Center space in the Memorial Union basement. Trevor Alveshere / Dakota Student

Little Bangkok

Maddie Ardelean, Arts & Community Writer February 4, 2018

Little Bangkok is a well known part of the Grand Forks/East Grand Forks downtown, and recently they expanded to a new location in the basement of the Memorial Union. This new addition to our community...

Liam Coons spars with a lightsaber combat instructor at LudoSport Grand Forks on Friday, February 2, 2018.

Move like a Jedi, sting with the Force

Aimee Coons, Arts & Community Writer February 4, 2018

I felt as if I were stepping into an alternate universe as the hum of lightsabers met my ears.  I watched the lightsabers glow and dance as I waited for my first lesson in lightsaber combat to start....

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