Sasha Solomonov - February 21st, 2008
On Monday, Feb. 4, after two weeks of coming home to homophobic phrases scribbled onto his whiteboard, Ash Arp returned to his 2nd floor Reilly dorm room to find a death threat.
The words “The dyke will die” were written in black marker in all capitalized letters over an old note Arp, a sophomore sociology major, had on the whiteboard. Arp, who identifies as transgendered and prefers the pronoun ‘he,’ quickly called his roommate Laura Bjork,…
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Robert Otsubo - February 21st, 2008
An ASNAU financially-secured project has been realized in the form of NAU’s SnowJack Express, a free ride for students from campus to Arizona’s Snowbowl.
Andy Bourget, coordinator of NAU Outdoors, said the club had been working to have the project realized for a significant amount of time.
“We have been talking about it in the past but it was never developed,” Bourget said.
Bourget said due to inadequate snow conditions in previous years, SnowJack Express was never brought…
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Alex Mudd - February 14th, 2008
Students frustrated about the cost of their textbooks might soon enjoy some relief from new proposed state legislation that intends to help reduce the price students pay at the beginning of each semester.
Senate Bill 1175 is the result of extensive research done by the Arizona Students’ Association (ASA). They found that students on average pay $816 to $950 for textbooks and supplies each year.
After surveying faculty at all three state universities, the ASA also found…
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Alex Mudd - February 14th, 2008
NAU hosted the Young Democrats of Arizona on Feb. 9 for their annual convention; its first convention on the Mountain Campus in recent years. The presidential primaries have motivated many young Democrats to participate and YDA leadership suggests this will be a continuing trend.
“Even though it’s all the way up in Flagstaff and some people had to drive four or five hours to get here, we had a lot of people coming out and that…
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Robert Otsubo - February 14th, 2008
On Sunday, the Arizona Commission for Post Secondary Education held College Goal Sunday in order to help individuals interested in attending college with the costs attached.
The 12th annual event was held at Coconino Community College’s Lone Tree and Page/Lake Powell campus, where volunteers from CCC and NAU aided incoming college students with the FAFSA process.
“FAFSA is not the easiest thing to fill out,” said Bob Voytek, director of the office of student financial assistance at…
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Blaine Hubbard - February 14th, 2008
The Arizona Board of Regents recently approved a cost increase for construction of a research and teaching facility at NAU’s branch campus in Yuma. The cost raised from the initial $4 million requested to $6.5 million.
Construction of the new building is intended to begin this month and should be completed in eight months. Once finished, the facility will add new research opportunities and will add more four-year degree programs such as biology and engineering.
Fred Hurst,…
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Robert Otsubo - February 14th, 2008
An influenza epidemic ravaged its way throughout campus this winter season; a year which has seen 6,924 cases of influenza nationwide.
“It is big this year,” said Dr. Timothy Fleming of Fronske Health Center.
Fleming said Influenza A and B, or the flu, is a specific respiratory virus not many students are familiar with. Symptoms include fever, headache, tiredness, cough, sore throat, runny nose and body pains.
“It is highly contagious,” Fleming said. “Especially in dorm situations where…
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Katie Clark - February 14th, 2008
New Belgium Brewing’s cycling circus Tour de Fat, which travels to 12 cities in the West and Southwest, will not be returning to Flagstaff this fall.
New Belgium Brewing announced it will cancel the yearly event, which brings bikes, environmental awareness and weekend festivities to Wheeler Park.
In a press statement, New Belgium Brewing said “It is with sincere regret that after eight amazing years, we have decided not to bring the Tour de Fat back to…
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Alex T. Mudd - February 12th, 2008
Super Tuesday decided one almost inevitable presidential nominee on the Republican side, but also added fuel to the heated rivalry that is still too close to call for the Democrats.
Mitt Romney, former governor of Massachusetts, would have to win 75 percent of the remaining delegates to stay viable in the race for the Republican presidential nomination.
After Romney’s poor Super Tuesday showing he decided to suspend his presidential campaign.
“I thought he would be too arrogant to…
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Alex T. Mudd - February 7th, 2008
More students attended NAU’s winter session than ever before, continuing a growing trend of students on and off campus trying to earn a few extra credits between semesters.
Blanche Johnson, an NAU distance learning business analyst, said 440 of the 825 students were from the Mountain Campus. This amounts to a 16 percent increase from the 2006 winter sessions.
Most of the courses during the winter session were offered online, making the winter session a responsibility of…
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On Monday, Feb. 4, after two weeks of coming home to homophobic phrases scribbled onto his whiteboard, Ash Arp returned to his 2nd floor Reilly dorm room to find a death threat.