Guest opinion on proposed new athletic fee.

For years, UAF’s athletics department has been in fiscal trouble, struggling to meet the financial needs of Division I and II programs at a small public university. The department has simply been spending more money than it gets and digging itself deeper into debt...

Because I fly away for the bulk of the holiday season, I have never spent Christmas in Fairbanks. When the chill is especially nasty, I equate it with the land of Narnia from the book, “The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe,” where the cute forest critters complain that the witch has outlawed winter-time festivities. “It’s always winter and never Christmas,” they say sadly.

Dear Editor,

After attending the UAF hockey game on Saturday, December 1st and watching the Tradition Stone make a couple of laps around the Carlson Center Ice rink between the second and third periods, I was very disappointed to not see it mentioned anywhere in the school paper, particularly the article about the game. The game was fun to watch, but seeing the Stone again was a real kick.

Dr. Norman K. Swazo, Professor of Philosophy

In his grievance, Mr. Stepp appeals to the authority of university mission and declared commitment to equal opportunity as applicable standards of assessment. Ms. Bowden concludes that Ms. Anderson made a decision consistent with allowable “discretion” as hiring authority.

There’s something sexy about climate change.

The theories have been around for decades but it has only been in the last few years that the popularity has really caught on. The recent freak weather around the world has inspired trepidations of millions. If the meltdown continues, the world as we know it will eventually (we are not sure when) erupt in wild state of pandemonium.

Dear Editor:  

Four years ago, I unexpectedly found myself in the role of single mother.  I determined that the best thing I could do was return to college and finish my degree.  I chose UAF because of the programs offered, on-campus family housing, and most importantly because of Bunnell House, the on-campus daycare/lab school. 

Yes, I believe that humans are contributing to this global warming thing, but for Fairbanks I do not see this as a bad thing.

Dumpster diving is a lot more fun than shopping in Fairbanks. Generally, there is better variety. It is a lot cheaper, and there is the added excitement relevant to yard sales and treasure hunts where you never know what you are going to find. It is a system that works for a lot of people.