The Undergraduate Student Government of MTU has opened voting for next year’s Executive Board and At- Large Representatives and encourages all students to participate. The poll can be found on involvement.mtu.edu. All of the candidates were asked four questions to provide voters with information about their ideas and qualifications. The questions were as follows: 1. Why are you...

Michael Cohen to testify Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump’s former lawyer, is set to appear before the House Oversight Committee for a public hearing on Wednesday, February 27. Cohen was President Trump’s lawyer throughout the 2016 election. According to Trump and himself, he facilitated the paying off of adult film star Stormy Daniels to stay quiet during the election...

The Michigan Tech concert choir and the conScience chamber singers are coming together this weekend to provide audiences with a beautiful concert in St. Joseph Catholic Church. This church provides amazing acoustics to allow the voices of the choirs to meld and mesh in such a way that they almost take on an ethereal tone. The choirs perform this concert to raise donations for the Society...

When the weather is cold and the snow is blowing, and it seems like all you ever do is stay inside and do homework, you need a break. Attending a comedy show might just be the kind of break you are looking for! In a place like Houghton, there is not always an oppor- tunity to attend such shows. Fortunately for Michigan Tech students, the university will be hosting stand-up comedian and famous...

The Michigan Tech Nordic Ski team put in a good overall performance at the 2019 CCSA Conference Championships. Several Huskies finished on the podium in their respective events, highlighted by Amanda Kautzer and Sarah Goble taking third place in the 15k Classic and the 5k Skate, respectively. Across the two days of competition, the Huskies took second place in the team standings, behind Northern Michigan...

The Michigan Tech men’s basketball team suffered a 79-53 Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference loss at Ferris State Saturday afternoon. The Huskies battled back from an early double-digit deficit to draw to within three points with just under 14 minutes to go in the second half, but the Bulldogs countered with a 10-0 scoring run to regain the momentum and pull away. “I’m proud of...

Is there a threshold an entire industry crosses when it does more harm than good? Michigan Technological University researchers set out to examine the question with numbers. A new paper published in the journal Social Sciences (explores two case studies focused on industries that kill more people than they employ. The study lays out the rationale for establishing an actionable threshold and offers...