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Student walk-out, protest takes place at State Capitol

Published September 5, 2008

Students from the Twin Cities area gathered at the State Capitol Thursday to protest racism, war and the Republican National ConventionâÄôs presence in St. Paul. Students, citizens and members...

McCain accepts GOP bid

Published September 5, 2008

John McCain accepted his partyâÄôs nomination Thursday night at the Xcel Energy Center , telling supporters heâÄôs got the American peopleâÄôs best interest in mind. In his acceptance...

The Anatomy of a Poll

Published September 5, 2008

Every major event has its signature trait âÄî Thanksgiving has turkey, baseball games have their first pitch âÄî and political elections have polls. ItâÄôs a staple of a political...

Obama says McCain is trying to run from Republican Party’s bad economic record

Published September 4, 2008

NEW PHILADELPHIA, Ohio (AP) âÄî Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama, pouncing on a top Republican aide's claim that the campaign is not about issues, said Wednesday that John McCain is...

Palin prepares for speech of her life at convention as McCain camp derides ‘faux media scandal’

Published September 4, 2008

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) âÄî Sarah Palin prepared for the speech of her life Wednesday as John McCain's campaign called for an end to questions about its review of her background and derided a "faux...

Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin waves to the crowd as she prepares to address the Republican National Convention on Wednesday in St. Paul.Charlie Neibergall, AP Photo

Palin accepts VP nod on day three

Published September 4, 2008

The Republican PartyâÄôs message Wednesday night was simple: America, meet Sarah Palin. In the first major address as vice presidential candidate, Alaska Gov. Palin introduced herself, addressed...

New Orleans reluctantly opens doors to residents who fled Hurricane Gustav

Published September 4, 2008

NEW ORLEANS (AP) âÄî Thousands of people who fled Hurricane Gustav forced the city to reluctantly open its doors Wednesday, while President Bush returned to the site of one of the biggest failures...

College presidents, experts debate lower drinking age

Published September 4, 2008

Across the country, 129 university and college presidents gave their support to a petition hoping to spark debate and legislation on lowering the legal drinking age from 21 to 18. University President...

Herbert Schoenbohm is representing the Virgin Islands territory as a delegate at the Republican National Convention. He graduated from the University in the early 1970s and now works for the Virgin Islands government.

Virgin Islands convention delegate shares U ties

Published September 3, 2008

The trip to Minnesota for the Republican National Convention is less of a vacation and more of a return for Herbert Schoenbohm , a delegate representing the Virgin Islands at the convention. âÄúWhen...

Minnesota represented at DNC by U student delegate

Published September 2, 2008

Editor's note: Some of the claims made by Charles Carlson included in this article were later found to be untrue. Several months after this story was printed, Carlson admitted he had lied about officiating...

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