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IS IT AN ISSUE- You can almost guarantee that every student will complain about the parking at NMU. Is it a valid complaint, or one about a minute issue. Get the opinion from a commuting student,  whose entire education relies on finding a spot to park.

OPINION — Breaking down the campus parking issue from a commuter’s view

Antonio Anderson September 13, 2024

Parking at Northern Michigan University is frustrating, as a student I understand this. As a commuting student for nearly three years, I live this. This has been such an issue for so long, the dead horse...

OLD DOGS CAN LEARN NEW TRICKS- You've been a professor for a while now, and have taught countless students. Now this new generation came along and you have no idea how to reach your students. Read this guide to figure out how to solve that problem.

OPINION — NMU Survival Guide for professors

Antonio Anderson September 13, 2024

Another year has begun, and the time to teach a new generation of academics has arrived. Yet, even though some professors have been teaching for more time than some students have been alive, there is always...

Student post on social media app YikYak on Sept. 11, 2024.

Opinion — Campus continues negative streak on 9/11 with jokes spreading on YikYak

Megan Voorhees September 11, 2024

It’s been only one year since Northern Michigan University's Northern Lights Dining hall served students the sour meal of “sausage bombers” on the day when the nation remembers the thousands of people...

JUST AN IDEA - The fool proof main points a freshman should follow, at Northern Michigan University, to be successful.

NMU Survival Guide for incoming Freshmen

Antonio Anderson September 6, 2024

Wow, you did it. You finally have arrived at college, left your family, and moved into the dorms (some of you.) It is a big change and only the beginning. You will not come out of Northern Michigan University...

The legend of Sal- Grand finale

The legend of Sal- Grand finale

Dallas Wiertella April 26, 2024

The Legend of Sal: Grand Finale I have worked at the North Wind student paper since November of 2020. I started as a contributing writer for the sports section. I was able to move into a writer position...

Biology student Grace Charles shares her ideas on how to protect our birds on campus.

Photo courtesy of Grace Charles

Opinion–Protecting the birds at NMU

Grace Charles April 26, 2024

Here at Northern Michigan University, we have many great buildings that provide us with protection from the frigid northern winters to learn and live. Not many of us think about the impacts these buildings...

Opinion — It's okay to outgrow your college friends

Opinion — It’s okay to outgrow your college friends

Megan Poe April 12, 2024

When first coming to NMU as a freshman, I could see all of these vast horizons around me, all of these potential futures with their own sets of unique memories yet to be discovered. I felt like I was just...

Opinion — Quiet on Set: Nickelodeon’s cycle of abuse

Megan Poe April 12, 2024

A few weeks ago, streaming platforms like MAX and Discovery+ released a new docuseries causing a rift both in Hollywood and Gen Z’s perception of their childhoods. “Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids...

CONSENT — Amid the Gender Fair at NMU and the end of Women’s History Month, it’s time to discuss the danger of sexual coercion.

Opinion — Coercion is still sexual assault

Megan Poe April 11, 2024

When most people think about sexual assault, they imagine a brute act between a stranger and victim. However, 59% of sexual assaults happen to people who know the perpetrator, and they don’t happen by...

Opinion — Our unethical consumption of ‘Human Interest’ TV

Megan Poe April 11, 2024

As the great David Foster Wallace once said, “Television does a lot of our predatory human research for us.” The shut-ins watch the other shut-ins be shut-ins through a one-way apparatus, void of self-reflection...

Editorial — Is March Madness a gateway to sports gambling?

Editorial — Is March Madness a gateway to sports gambling?

North Wind Editorial Board April 1, 2024

With the beginning of March Madness and rising popularity of online sports gambling, this year’s question of the outcome isn’t which basketball team will win, but who will fall victim to the gateway...

Opinion — I haven't read the book

Opinion — I haven’t read the book

Megan Poe March 29, 2024

As Alia Atreides says, “You are not prepared for what is to come.” Denis Villeneuve’s second installment of the sci-fi series comes to theaters and goes home with its audience. Between the immaculate...

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