NDSU grew dramatically during the oughts, and I love its expansion to downtown. NDSU should commit itself to the areas west of downtown, currently dominated by industry facilities.

This would:

Further the development of downtown.

Replace a blighted portion of what should be prime real estate.

Make NDSU a more hip and attractive location for prospective students and faculty.

In addition, fargo should use its growing clout to push for more equitable funding for NDSU, and to eventually expand to round 20k undergrad and 5k graduate students, from the current 13k/2k.

For the record, I am a UND grad.