Northern Review articles from September 22 2007

Northern Review archives from September 22 2007

There are history tells us.(Poem)(Brief article)
September 22, 2007... there are history tells us, millions of ways to die please I'd like to go quietly, "as virtuous men pass mildly away" a poet says mild suits me tho' virtue is something I've often chased...

Introduction.
September 22, 2007... Aron Senkpiel was associated with the Northern Review from the very beginning. We can think of no memorial more fitting than an issue of a journal that he nourished and loved devoted to his work and to the development of post-secondary...

Post-secondary education in the Yukon: the last thirty years.(Reprint)
September 22, 2007... This article first appeared in the Northern Review 12/13 (Summer/Winter 1994), 90-105. "In the North," goes an oft-repeated truism, "geography is the challenge." Yet, as intimidating as the region's geography may be, a second challenge...

Founding the University of Northern British Columbia.(Organization overview)
September 22, 2007... The creation of the University of Northern British Columbia (UNBC) remains one of the most important steps ever taken in Canada to promote teaching and research related to the Canadian North. Officially opened to great fanfare in August 1994 by...

The University of the Arctic: from vision to reality.(Organization overview)
September 22, 2007... At the beginning of the twenty-first century, access to post-secondary education in the Circumpolar North remains a significant challenge, particularly outside the Nordic countries. Underscoring this challenge is the often-noted observation...

How the frontier imagery of the Alaskan North shapes the people who come.(Essay)
September 22, 2007... Purpose Many of us who migrate to the northern regions of the world sense that we have become different people in the North than we would be if we had chosen to live in more populous and developed regions. In this paper, I offer a grounded...

"Such humble awareness": the emergence of a Northern vision in the fiction and non-fiction of Nancy Lord.(Critical essay)
September 22, 2007... For several decades these two views of the North [as frontier and as homeland] have been colliding violently. They have collided in virtually every arena: politics, history, economics, and even religion. Out of this collision a new literature...

Alcohol cultures in Finland and Alaska: explosive drinking patterns and their consequences.(Report)
September 22, 2007... Introduction Drinking cultures reflect collective behaviour and imply that changes within cultures generally occur in concert. (1) Historically-dominant uses of alcohol impact societies' alcohol cultures, (2) and research shows that the...

In the North, for the North, by the North: the extraordinary vision of Aron Senkpiel for the betterment of the North through education.(Essay)
September 22, 2007... Introduction In June 2002, Yukon College awarded Aron Senkpiel, dean of its Arts and Science Division, an Honorary Diploma of Northern Studies. It was entirely fitting that Yukon College should award him that particular diploma because...

"Deaning" in the North: personal reflections on the contributions of Aron Senkpiel.(Essay)
September 22, 2007... Aron Senkpiel, the founding dean of the Arts and Science Division at Yukon College, played a pivotal role in the development of higher education, first in the Yukon, and then in the circumpolar world. His achievements attest to the sincerity of...

Remembering Aron.(Aron Senkpiel)(In memoriam)
September 22, 2007... Julie Cruikshank Of the many stories I remember when I think of Aron, my favourite is a travel tale. It dates to early days of our friendship, perhaps 1980, shortly after Aron began teaching in Whitehorse. The Yukon College we now know was...

Elegy for bidding, boding, building mourning.(Poem)(Brief article)
September 22, 2007... Elegy for bidding, boding, building mourning Two days now, Two days, Eternal seconds, and as sloppy, Since you told me of your dying, A big tumour, Everything in twos, A fecal mound, Slopped In the...