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Changes approved to Koubek’s compensation package

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HOUGHTON — The Michigan Technological University approved changes to President Rick Koubek’s compensation package during Friday’s Board of Trustees meeting. Koubek will get additional compensation annually and at the end of his presidency, in recognition of his work over the full term, ...

MTU gets federal counterintelligence award

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HOUGHTON — In the national security field, success doesn’t usually get a public celebration. Friday was an exception. Michigan Technological University received the 2024 Jack Donnelly Award for Excellence in Counterintelligence during Friday’s Board of Trustees meeting. Out of more ...

Miles for Music happening today

Local News

Michigan Tech’s chapter of the Mu Beta Psi National Honorary Musical Fraternity will be hosting their Miles for Music fundraiser today, beginning at 9 a.m. Miles for Music is a run/walk charity event to raise money for the Dollar Bay High School music program. This year, Mu Beta Psi at ...

Michigan copper afflicted by copper cartels

Life

“In the kingdom of copper, there are two major provinces,” Time Magazine stated on Sept. 21, 1936. “One is the U.S., bounded by a towering tariff wall (4¢ per lb.). The other is the world outside.” In the “world outside”, the article states, copper men have low production costs ...

Be prepared, time doesn’t wait for anyone

Outdoors

“Autumn this year is gonna break my heart, leaves start falling and the feeling starts.” — Steve Forbert I remember fondly the olden times when I was a kid leaving the house on my bike for a day of fishing along the creek. My younger brother and I would stick the cork handles of our ...

What2Watch: Thank You, Maggie Smith

Arts and Entertainment

Friday, Sept. 27, 2004, less than three weeks after the passing of James Earl Jones, Dame Maggie Smith passed away at the age of 89. I can’t even pretend to have known the famed actor in any meaningful way, and yet I felt a great sadness reading the news. Similar to Jones, the reports that ...