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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Seniors are buying their caps and gowns at the NMU Bookstore during the grad fair, and while this is an exciting time, it is laced with the dread of uncertainty.  Some of us are not concerned about...

On March 13, the House of Representatives experienced some of the quickest agreement they’ve had in years: the vote to ban TikTok in the U.S. unless ByteDance, the parent company of the app, sells their...

Growing up, I was always told “Megan don’t give up! Just keep trying and you'll get there!” Perhaps this simple saying worked with tasks like learning how to tie my shoes or even riding a bicycle,...

Don’t say I never sacrificed for student journalism, because I have sapling punctures up and down my legs that prove otherwise. Last weekend, I booked out the entire day to embark on a typical outdoor...