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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...

OUTRAGE — NMU Barstool posted this photo to its Instagram story on Sept. 11, 2023.

Opinion — NLD must apologize for serving “sausage bomber” sandwich on 9/11

Molly Birch September 12, 2023

Monday was the 22nd anniversary of the terrorist attacks that took place across the nation on Sept. 11, 2001. It is recognized in the state of Michigan as Patriot Day, and the United States as a whole...

Into the Archives: 20th Anniversary of 9/11, North Wind coverage, campus response

Into the Archives: 20th Anniversary of 9/11, North Wind coverage, campus response

Katarina Rothhorn, Features Editor September 10, 2021

Tuesday morning classes had barely begun when the American Airlines Flight 11 crashed into the north tower of the World Trade Center at 8:45 a.m. and the world came to a standstill. Eighteen minutes later,...

Good Samaritan laws necessary: Human life more important than policy

Andrea Pink March 14, 2013

Last week, 87-year-old Lorraine Bayliss died after collapsing in her Bakersfield, Calif. retirement community. Soon after, a 911 recording surfaced of an employee at the Greenwood Gardens retirement...

9/11 victims remembered by students

Marcellino Signorelli September 13, 2012

As 2012 marks the eleventh anniversary of the September 11 attacks, the NMU College Republicans and NMU College Democrats worked together to dedicate a memorial to the victims. The event started with...

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