Politics-DNU

U.S.-French relations complicated by history, culture and stereotypes

by Elizabeth Dunbar
Published March 10, 2003

The stereotype goes like this: The French artist dines on wine and cheese and talks diplomatically about war, while the self-reliant American cowboy cleans his gun, indifferent to a world of opposition...

FBI’s Rowley addresses supportive crowd

by Elizabeth Dunbar
Published March 10, 2003

Community members showed support for Coleen Rowley at Hamline University on Friday, days after the FBI whistleblower warned that the bureau was unprepared for the terrorist attacks that could come after...

U students protest budget cuts

Published March 7, 2003

More than 500 students began the day at Coffman Union.

U student antiwar group finds itself on watch list

by Josh Linehan
Published March 6, 2003

Local law officials included Students Against War in a list comprised of extremist groups.

Students to shoulder half of U cuts

by Libby George
Published March 6, 2003

The University's president predicted a double-digit tuition hike.

St. Paul ordinance would disperse student housing

by Nathan Halverson
Published March 5, 2003

Students will be dispersed in neighborhoods around the University's St. Paul campus if an ordinance proposed by St. Paul City Council member Jay Benanav, 4th Ward, is passed. Benanav proposed legislation...

Environmentalists protest nuclear storage plan

by Andrew Pritchard
Published March 5, 2003

University students and environmentalists rallied Tuesday outside the Radisson Hotel Metrodome on Washington Avenue to protest Xcel Energy's plan to expand waste storage at its Prairie Island nuclear plant. "Minnesotans...

Environmental agencies feel cuts

by Nathan Hall
Published March 4, 2003

Local environmentalists contend Gov. Tim Pawlenty's 14 percent cut in state environmental and agriculture spending until 2005 might come at the expense of environmental quality, such as clean water. "Gov....

Immigration agency extends deadline

by Elizabeth Dunbar
Published March 4, 2003

The Department of Homeland Security's immigration agency extended the deadline for certain males with temporary visas to get interviewed, fingerprinted and photographed. Attorney General John Ashcroft...