The student-run Traditions Board leads the charge into the thick of the fall semester with Starvation Gulch. Starvation Gulch typically takes place during the last weekend of September, and is full of events, music, and community (and bonfire) building. Starvation Gulch 2023 is September 21st-23rd, with the bonfires starting at 9pm on Saturday the 23rd. For more information about participating or the schedule, check out the Traditions Board page on Nanook Engage!

In the communion of this year’s Starvation Gulch, just one pyre-night shy of its centennial, the burgeoning atmosphere among the clustering crowds is tenuous yet voracious, one of tentative rapture, with a cloud of uncertainty hanging above underclassmen, grad students, event staff, campus firefighters, and the present Fairbanks community alike.