Alaskans who are being told they must give up even more of their Permanent Fund dividends for state spending will be interested in the latest edition of The Northern Light student newspaper at the University of Alaska Anchorage.
It’s the Sex Edition, and it features sex poll results that inform readers about how much sex students are having at the university and just how kinky they like it. Your Permanent Fund dividend may go to paying for the production of this newspaper at a time when print newspapers are not exactly a growth industry and when there are fewer journalism jobs for graduates.
Among topics in the poll conducted by the staff is BDSM (bondage, discipline, dominance, submission, and sadism and masochism as a sexual practice).
Answers include “Submissive, dominant, Rigger (rope tying), Brat (physical force), Vanilla (no BDSM), Rope bunny (being tied up with rope), Switch (dominant or submissive role switching), Experimentalist.
In promoting the edition on Facebook, the newspaper wrote, “A closer look at how UAA gets their freak on | UAA had a lot to say about their sexual preferences — so much to the extent that we couldn’t include it all in the print. The Northern Light is here to share the rest of the results collected by the poll, starting with UAA’s favorite porn stars.”
Many students who are under the age of 18 attend the university, and are exposed to this on campus, sanctioned by the Journalism and Communication Department.
Numerous other posts on the newspaper’s Facebook page focus on sex topics, such as:
The Sex Edition comes at an awkward time for the university, which is facing possible budget cuts during the current 2026 state spending plan now being debated in the Legislature.
The total University of Alaska budget for 2026 includes $589 million from unrestricted sources, including $366 million for the state’s general fund.
The Legislature is grappling with a budget deficit of an estimated $500 million this year, and cuts will have to come from somewhere. The Northern Light may have made the university a target for deeper cuts.
While the student newspaper is funded in part by student fees, the underlying programs are funded by the public.
As a comparison, here’s the front page of the most recent edition of the University of Arizona’s The Daily Wildcat:
The student news paper is funded by student fees not the State. More misinformation from you. Coming from someone who worked 30+ years at UAA.
fun·gi·ble: of a product or commodity replaceable by another identical item; mutually interchangeable.
A couple of those in the staff photo look like they might be very difficult to funge for certain. Hey I get it; any port in a storm but holy moly…
Hmm, for someone who worked for 30+ years at UAA, I would have thought reading comprehension is a prerequisite. Yes, the student news paper is paid with student fees, however they do not operate in a vacuum. As Suzanne states, the advisors and the department of journalism and communication and others at UAA ARE funded by public money. If this is the kind of “hard hitting journalism” they teach, I am not sure UAA should get ANY tax dollars, as this publication is an indication of what kind of climate prevails at this institution.
Hey Senator W. there are $366 million dollars available now and your budget deficit just shrank to $134 million! (UAA is afterall a land grant school, if memory serves)
On university property with university equipment and university electricity. Nosmo.
and how much does that decrease your PFD? Number?
Where do the “student fees” come from?
The students who published this edition probably did it as a publicity stunt to get more attention. In their small minds, more attention means more money.
But not when its a free paper. As the article points out – and as most Americans know, print media is on its last legs. The students cannot really cry their “free speech” is being taken away after it’s been printed.
Maybe someone in some department thought this might bring a lawsuit that can challenge the First Amendment?
I’m not sure what the game is especially when Dan Savage has been “educating” college students for over 20 years in other free papers all over the nation.
Why does everyone in that photo look like they re-enact the human centipede every weekend?
I’m kind of worried about the individual in the front row on the left.
That’s Otto, from the Movie Airplane.
Now I cannot un-see that.
Maybe this is why Liz Cheney is coming to UAA
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Pay your student loans and STFU!
Move B4 Flight, so perfectly stated!!! Most of us are f@cking DONE with all this B.S.
Gee, let me guess… these people are in favor of “gender affirming care” for children…
Hope no one accidentally hacks into “The Northern Light”, turns it into “The Northern Blight”.
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Would anyone even notice?
Why am I not surprised that literally all the people in that photo look like they are one or more of the following: obese, unattractive, alphabet mafia, liberal, or corn addict? I’m sick of these freaks ruining our educational institutions. I went to UAF as a 13/14 year and UAA as a 17 year old and I would be EXTREMELY uncomfortable reading this drivel. UAA also paid for drag queens a couple years ago. The indoctrination has to stop. Go to therapy. No one wants to hear about your paraphilias.
I for one am glad to see free expression is live and well among our young folk. A bit weird sure but their other stories are good. Theres a funny columnist that writes about cars… Scort I think? anyways, not sure what this has to do with our PFD dollars, If we wanted more of that we could get rid of the clowns who run the PFD Corporation turning measly 4% yearly return. Or maybe we could get our government to get our fair share of tax from oil corps that rob us…
The person at the lower left is obviously some sort of Pitiable Trannie. Yes, I use that term. If it offends them, they are obviously not worried about offending US. Notice I placed “pitiable” in front of the term, because while they are weird, they are still redeemable. I await a Christian ministry that will someday open an office on campus, dedicated to rescuing them with authentic psychiatric treatment, supplemented by prayer.
If someone can be easily offended, they can also be easily manipulated and controlled.
Use this to your advantage. Build a business that panders to their delusions and make a bunch of money off them.
You know, like how politicians and MSM do to the gullible sheep.
“Dear poor and downtrodden trans and queer youth. Looks like the world is out to get you. You need protection and validation. I can provide that for you. I got everything you need to feel happy and safe. Come, let me heal what ails you, for a price. You are willing to pay this because you have no power. I can give you that power. Come.”
Easy money. Not only do you become more inclusive to them, but you also profit. Win win!
Is that even a real person in the lower left corner?
Yeah. Desperately in need of wisdom and understanding, the kind that comes from the one true God whom that so and so refuses to recognize.
Quite likely was ‘excited’ by the ‘poll’ inclusion in the paper, though. Little else to identify with when one confines oneself’s existence to a sexual identity.
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