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UND to switch to plastic with new Pride card
New program will disperse excess financial aid quicker than direct deposit, other methods.
The university will soon offer a new program with Higher One to help students get financial aid refunds faster with a UND Pride debit card.
Student Account Relations Manager Matt Lukach said that the marketing team and Student Account Services have been working to let students know about the changes.
Bakken may hold 3.6 billion barrels of crude
Williston Basin could contain largest continuous formation of recoverable oil in US.
The United State Geological Survey (USGS), at the request of Sen. Byron Dorgan (D-ND), released a report last week estimating that there were approximately 3.65 billion barrels of "technically recoverable" crude oil in the Williston Basin region of Western North Dakota.
More Springfest details released
Police officials say they plan on running things much the same as last year
Springfest is a time to come together and celebrate the end of the academic year - responsibly. In the past, small groups of people have nearly ruined the event for the rest of the city.
It is now a controlled event with the Grand Forks City Police Department on hand.
Group plans silence on campus today for cause
GLSEN is holding the event for the first time in the region this year.
The Red River Valley Chapter of the Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Education Network (GLSEN) plans to hold their first annual day of silence today, beginning at 8:30 a.m. at the Soaring Eagle statue behind the Chester Fritz Library.
The event is being used as a form of protest against the discrimination, harassment, and abuse suffered by lesbians, gays, bisexuals and transgender students, as well as their allies.
Event to address U.S. economic crisis
Financial expert will be on campus to discuss the current situation.
Today at 3 p.m. in Gamble Hall, nationally renowned financial expert Ed Kane will be giving a presentation entitled "The Making of the Sub-Prime Mortgage Meltdown."
According to C.K. Schultz, External Relations director of the UND College of Business and Public Administration, Kane was considered to speak originally at the Mellem Business Symposium, but due to prior commitments, he was unable to attend.
Job development will be topic of conference
NDPC is hosting the event on campus today and tomorrow
The North Dakota Professional Communicators (NDPC) organization is hosting a conference in Grand Forks today and tomorrow. The theme of the conference is New Tools for Success.
NDPC is an organization that works with the professional development of people who work in the print journalism, broadcast journalism, public affairs, public relations, creative writing, marketing and advertising fields.
Decision to be made on firearm policies
New group sets sights on changing UND's campus gun
In Sunday's Student Senate meeting Jae Baker, president of a new student organization aimed at empowering women and their second amendment right, Females for Firearms, made a statement in response to UND's gun control policies, including the current issue of the forbiddance of weapons in on-campus apartments.
Roster McCabe
Music never looked so good.
It's not very often there's something to do in Grand Forks on a Saturday night outside the 4-block radius of sub-par downtown night life, or a likely-to-get-busted house party on Cambridge Street. But this weekend, we're all in luck. The Loading Dock in the Memorial Union will be hosting a concert tomorrow night.
'Forgetting...' proves to be very memorable
Jason Segel cures heartbreak with lovable, raunchy humor and a bit of nudity.
On the surface, Forgetting Sarah Marshall, a romantic comedy from some of the minds behind Knocked Up, Superbad and "Freaks & Geeks", is one of those movies that would seem perfectly suited to flying under the radar, unnoticed. While that may still prove to be the case, it would be a shame if it does, as Forgetting Sarah Marshall is one of the funniest movies to come out since the beginning of 2008.
Women's tennis heads into NCC tournament
team boasts a 13-4 record going into the matches and have fared well.
The 13-4 Fighting Sioux Women's tennis team will put their record on the line tomorrow when they open with the first round of the NCC tournament. In St. Cloud, Minn.
In the latest Division II North Central regional rankings the women held on to the No. 3 spot, trailing only Truman, and Northwest Missouri State.
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TRACK & FIELD: Evans records top times of the season in Calif. meets
Fighting Sioux senior Heidi Evans (Roseau, Minn.) has been named by the North Central Conference as one of the league's Female Outdoor Track Athletes of the Week.
Evans took fifth place in the 800-meter run at the Azusa Pacific Invitational last Friday in Azusa, Calif.
Sioux softball on three game win streak
Team to compete in Mankato this weekend
After some early-week play the women's softball team won their second NCC game of the season, recording a sweep in the process.
Duluth
The first game of the double header was a rough game for the Sioux, as they allowed 9 runs while only scoring one during the five innings of play.
Turning over a new 'Leaf' in the draft
Ryan Leaf. To football fans everywhere, the name still brings a certain cringe and subsequent shake of the head as to how the NFL draft can be so torturous. You know the story. It was the 1998 NFL draft, and the top two prospects were cannon-armed quarterbacks who played big-time college football.
Q & A: Nicole Puerling, softball
Sioux's first basemen hits the hard questions while bringing in homers.
1. What is your favorite thing about being a softball athlete?
My favorite thing about being a softball athlete is playing with my teammates everyday. I live pretty far away from home but when I'm around my team, in a game or off the field, it doesn't feel like I'm far away from my family.
Cycling team gears up for growth in club revitalization
UND teams goes 1,2 and 3 at a recent meet at the University of Minnesota.
Though the history is sparse the UND Cycling Team is in what vice president Andrew Yost would describe as "one of the biggest revitalizations in about 10-12 years."
Yost is a member of the cycling club of which sports around 10-15 members and around six racers who make up the core of the group.