• Franz, Chapman and the Minard Hall Collapse Behind the Scene.
• NDSU, however one defines it, hasn't done anything wrong: only two individuals, one, the Fargo Forum's man of the year
• This coming Monday. the mostly unqualified NDSU Presidential Search Committee will announce which of the under qualified candidates it prefers to be NDSU's next president.
• Steve Swiontek , chair of the presidential search committee at NDSU, even though not being formally associated with the University, announced the finalists for the position.
• American's accomplishment should not be belittled. We scored in sports for which the podium had been only viewed from a distance by US athletes.
• Cormac McCarthy(Brokeback Mountain, No Country for Old Men), The Road, is no playing on the off Broadway screen at the Fargo Theatre.
• Obama Pays North Dakota Big in 2009 Healthcare Debate
• This decline has been going on at NDSU for well over thirty years, and I see it as a crisis.
• Condition of NDSU is Bleak....Creeping Meatballism
• Graduation North Dakota State University 2009

Recently, as we all know, Joseph Chapman unexpectedly and suddenly resigned as president of North Dakota State University.  There was, at the time, a controversy about cost overruns on his new house and his $22K trip to O’Bama’s inauguration.  However, the suddenness of the resignation and the speed with which the State Board iof Higher Education accepted the resignation makes one wonder... 

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Check out the Fargo Phantom tonight with live video direct from the fargodome. See whats it is like sandbagging in Fargo at 3 AM tonight. Interviews and video. Log on an put the fargophantom.com in your favorites. Check us out to watch the video feed from the dome.  Read More →

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FARGO, N.D. (FargoPhantom.com)–On Tuesday night, the NDSU Bison Men’s basketball won the Summit League tournament and thus qualified for the NCAA tournament.  This is indeed laudable, since this is the first year Bison were eligible for the tournament.  This has only been done once before (L:ong Beach State in 1970).  Even more impressive to me is that the Bison are primarily made up of... 

“there are no institutions of higher learning that have as part of their mission statements “entertain the local population by having athletic teams.” By:The Norwegian Explorer A recent local topic of discussion is the consideration of the North Dakota Legislature somehow requiring the football teams of NDSU and UND to play each other on an annual basis.  Even though I don’t... 

In our last installment, we discussed some positive signs in the race relations situation. I have now graduated from college and am hanging around Raleigh, taking courses and working for the Raleigh Recreation Department in preparation for graduate school in the fall.  This was the summer of 1963, called by some the “long hot summer,” or by others, the summer the police turned around. To... 

The new president has made a pledge to spend money on infrastructure across the United States because he believes it is a way to strengthen the economy. While the country is spending money to build/maintain roads and bridges, Caterpillar in North Dakota will reap the benefits of increased demand for their equipment.  Read More →

What’s going on in Gaza…Same as usual just more intense. Israel expanded its most lethal air offensive to date (some 300 air strikes since midday Saturday) against Gaza’s Hamas leaders yesterday. The successful attacks dolled out more damage than ever before, making rubble out of parts of the city. They are amassing what appears to be a large ground force attack as well  Read More →

“We were really busy leading up to the storm,” Thompson United for the Homeless Director said. “Some days we can get all of them in, some days we can’t.” Area shelters have similar ways of dealing with homeless who have to be turned away. The New Life Center can house about 100 men and serves 180 or more meals each day.  Read More →

Citing the usual suspects…credit crisis and dwindling sales, Chrysler LLC on Wednesday said it would shut down all of its manufacturing operations from the end of this week for at least a month.  Read More →

Lets Just Say Millers Spot on Here 10. Larry Craig 9. Ted Turner & Deepak Chopra 8. “The Pregnant Man” Thomas Beatie 7. Fischer Stevens “He Dumped Michelle Pfeiffer and he resembles a toad.” 6. Fidel Castro “Head Moran in Cuba” 5. Plaxico Burress  Read More →

Republican opposition killed a $14-billion auto industry bailout plan in the Senate on Thursday night, putting the future of U.S. automakers in doubt and threatening to deliver another blow to the economy.  Read More →

Watch Friends of the Phantom Working the Streets of Fargo North Dakota during Raging Blizzard Here Blizzard conditions made travel hazardous Sunday across the northern Plains as officials closed major highways and urged people to stay home.  Read More →

CHICAGO – President-elect Barack Obama asked the White House if his family could move to Washington earlier than normal, but aides say the White House couldn’t give them the official guest house as early as his family wanted.  Read More →

BREAKING NEWS: Gov. Blagojevich, wearing a black and blue jogging suit, appeared before a federal judge this afternoon on corruption charges. U.S. Magistrate Judge Nan Nolan set a $4,500 personal-recognizance bond for the governor, who was arrested at his North Side home this morning. Blagojevich and his chief of staff were arrested at their homes this morning in a probe involving the governor’s... 

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In the last installment, we discussed life in the segregated rural south in the mid 1950.s Now, I don’t want to leave the impression that I totally did not like the south or its people. In general, it’s a relaxed area of the country in which to live and the people an inherent gentility that we midwesterners can’t imagine. But on the issue of race they were at that time in my opinion...