The Alaska Native Sisterhood Executive Committee elected Millie Schoonover of Craig, Alaska as Grand President Emeritus, which is the highest elected position with the Alaska Native Sisterhood (ANS).

On Wednesday, March 8th, the Fresh Eyes on Ice field team, consisting of Chris Arp, Sarah Clement, and Allen Bondurant, departed for a 550 mile snow machine trip. The three began their journey with a delayed flight into McGrath, before continuing on to Shageluk, Koyukuk, and finally, Galena. Their route took them along the mighty Kuskokwim and Yukon Rivers, along the Iditarod Trail, and overland through through the western interior’s spruce birch forests.

A group of three guys from Minnesota, calling themselves “3 Old Guys” are giving adventure a run for its money. Rob Hallstrom, Paul Dick and Rex Hibbort are three guys from Minnesota that are taking on an epic journey, a 4,000-mile snowmachine ride from Grand Rapids, Minnesota to Fairbanks.

Fairbanks, AK – This Friday, March 31st at 12:00 noon, University of Alaska graduate student workers will march on campus to continue their campaign for a union. After filing a petition to form a union with the Alaska Labor Relations Agency, they are expressing their continued support for unionization and to proceed rapidly to a union election so they can confirm their choice to collectively bargain. Press is welcome to attend.

March Details:

• What: A march to show support for a union, and for proceeding rapidly to a union election.

• When: 12:00 (noon) on Friday, March 31

• Where: Wood Center, UAF Campus

• Who: University of Alaska graduate workers, community allies and campus supporters.

Seth Green is a ceramic artist who captures the structural and symbolic beauty of architecture with utilitarian pottery. During his sabbatical in the fall of 2022, Green took a detour from his artist residency at Red Lodge Clay Center in Montana to be the UAF visiting artist.

This past Friday I got the chance to sit down with the band Dilemma before their show at the Pub. We discussed their music career, and their experience as musicians in Fairbanks. 

This February, for the first time in years, The Sun Star is released a print issue! In addition, we are happy to announce the launch of The Sun Star’s new sister magazine, Moon Planet.

Rob made a resounding impact on everyone around him in his life. He spread compassion in a world where personal connection becomes more of a rare gem every day. He will be remembered for his patience, strength, and guidance.

Are humans responsible for repopulating species that have been eradicated by human interaction in the past decades or centuries? Is that a problem that we could solve or is it a mistake of the past that will be left in the past, buried, and never brought up again? Salute to the lost species, it was awesome to have you around, but your time here is over, see you never, I guess?

The Faculty Senate at UAF passes a motion complicating the process of adding classes and student government intends to challenge it.

Last Thursday, December 1st, the EPA released their Recommended Determination, Pursuant to Section 404(c) of the Clean Water Act for the Pebble Deposit Area in Southwest Alaska, prohibiting and restricting the use of certain waters to discharge and deposit dredged or fill materials associated with mining activities.

Now, with the release of the Recommended Determination, the EPA Office of Water has 60 days to affirm, modify, or revoke the decision. 

On Sunday, November 23rd, our Nanooks split their series with the Mavericks after losing 3-2 in a close battle on the ice. Omaha was able to cinch their second win of the season on a power play in overtime. Although they may not regret scoring a game-winning goal, there's a good chance they regret celebrating it in front of the Alaska bench.

The UAF community is introduced to its up-and-coming writers at The Pub’s First Year MFA Reading. With a variety of writers from all over the country (and further), the range of content is not one to miss.

On October 21st, 2022, The Sun Star held its official (re) Launch Party, where staff, columnists, journalists, friends from KSUA, and interested students came together to witness the official re-launching of the Paper (digitally, of course). After a two year hiatus, the room buzzed as the ribbon was cut and the website (that you are currently on) went live.

Highlights from Fairbanks Symphony Orchestra’s Season Opener and Pre-concert Lecture from Eduard Silberkant.

Indie-rock band Bad Bad Hats played The Pub at the University of Alaska Fairbanks Wood Center on October 15, 2022. The band's sound is a smooth mix of punk and pop with fun and often abstract lyrics.

Perhaps a prudent way to introduce this report is to give a brief overview of the governing structure of UAF and the UA system as a whole. The program has seen a massive interest since its conception, and the university –in partnership with the school board– is looking to expand the program to make it available to more students.

At 12:01 AM on November 1, armed only with their wits, a ridiculous deadline, and sometimes the vague outline of a story, more than 425,000 people around the world will set out to become novelists. Would you like to be one of them? November is National Novel Writing Month, or NaNoWriMo, the world’s largest writing challenge.

UAF’s Outdoor Adventures (OA) welcomed students with the Fall Wildness Welcome Orientation Trip, where students spent four days climbing, hiking, and canoeing in the Eastern Alaska Range.

In the communion of this year’s Starvation Gulch, just one pyre-night shy of its centennial, the burgeoning atmosphere among the clustering crowds is tenuous yet voracious, one of tentative rapture, with a cloud of uncertainty hanging above underclassmen, grad students, event staff, campus firefighters, and the present Fairbanks community alike.