Education and Liberation

The war stories Edward Inch heard as a child, at least the ones that influenced him most, dealt less with battles and more with children in prison camps being educated in secret. These first-hand … [Read more...]

Beyond ‘Brains’

Author and English professor Robin Becker is hitting the road this fall, returning to a route she took in the mid-1980s as a punk rock vagabond traveling the West Coast in a Volkswagen … [Read more...]

A Special Addition

Simale Kadir joined the University’s National Association of Black Accountants chapter mostly   because it was another club to join—not because of any overriding passion for accounting, … [Read more...]

Campus Life, Returned: ‘It’s Great to Be Back’

For the first time in more than a year the crosswalks at Stadium Road and Warren Street are routinely busy with students actively walking and crossing, by far outnumbering the cars waiting at the stop … [Read more...]

Gwen Westerman is Minnesota’s Poet Laureate

Minnesota State Mankato English professor Gwen Westerman has been named Minnesota’s Poet Laureate by Gov. Tim Walz. Westerman is the first Native American to serve as the state’s Poet Laureate. At … [Read more...]

A Day at the Fair

From the live music to the postcard-perfect sunshine to the hundreds of students on the campus mall Wednesday, the Campus and Community Fair felt like an unofficial ceremony of university life truly, … [Read more...]