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NMU acquires more billboards with new marketing plan

Maggie Saemann November 30, 2016

Northern Michigan University will spend an estimated $273,000 this academic year in a comprehensive effort to recruit new students with billboard advertisements. There are currently six NMU billboards...

Making a difference

Maggie Saemann October 19, 2016

Last year, more than 1,200 NMU students from about 150 student organizations came together to rake yards and clean up leaves on a rainy October day in the Upper Peninsula. On Oct. 22, NMU students will...

Looking at life through the window of a train

Maggie Saemann October 19, 2016

What’s an audience to do when the main narrator of a film is an unreliable alcoholic who is unable to remember the majority of the night the movie revolves around? Well, keep watching of course, which...

‘Month of Majors’ occupy October

Maggie Saemann October 5, 2016

About 80 percent of college students in the United States end up changing their major at least once, and on average, college students change their major at least three times over the course of...

Greeks lost their ground

Maggie Saemann September 14, 2016

Three months ago, TKE member Mike Hollenbeck knelt on the roof above his fraternity’s porch and hung three Greek letters, Tau, Kappa, and Epsilon, onto the red exterior of their home for the first time. The...

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