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Columns

Rogers: Reading for empathy between the lines

Rogers: Reading for empathy between the lines

by Kelly Rogers
Published July 24, 2023
Literary communities provide a rehabilitative escape for people experiencing incarceration.
The current exterior of Morrill Hall on the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities campus on Friday, July 3, 2020.

Mergendahl: The University as a neighbor

by Cal Mergendahl
Published July 21, 2023
Administration and students alike can do much more to build relationships with surrounding communities.
The Supreme Court decided a case that disadvantaged the Navajo Nations right to water. The decision will affect us all.

Molina Acosta: Supreme Court sets stage for climate change strain

by Paula Molina Acosta
Published July 20, 2023
The Supreme Court ruling against the Navajo Nation is a worrying sign of the climate change battles to come.
Western beauty styles have shaped how people perceive themselves. And its having effects on permanent appearances.

Fareed: The cosmetic surgery conundrum

by Mubina Fareed
Published July 19, 2023
Unveiling the influence of Western beauty ideals and cosmetic surgery.
The April report lays out specific ways the regents can work with the Native American community, yet they have been draggin their heels.

Rogers: The University must turn its land acknowledgments into action

by Kelly Rogers
Published July 18, 2023
The TRUTH report enables the University to repair its relationship with tribal communities. So why is the Board of Regents dragging its feet?
Any reform to high school education should include consideration of education other than college.

Torbenson: Bringing down the Schoolhouse

by Roscoe Torbenson
Published July 16, 2023
America’s education system is in desperate need of reform. Doing so requires innovating secondary education, not obsessing over Ivy League schools.
North Oaks is a community that thrives on seclusion.

Mergendahl: The secretive world of North Oaks

by Cal Mergendahl
Published July 16, 2023
What draws people to live in a community that’s gated in every sense but the physical?
The Surgeon General released an advisory in May to warn of the epidemic.

Fareed: The loneliness epidemic: a silent crisis

by Mubina Fareed
Published July 13, 2023
What’s making us so lonely?
The U.S. Supreme Court building on Oct. 29, 2022 in Washington D.C.

Molina Acosta: Culture war cases claim the Court

by Paula Molina Acosta
Published July 13, 2023
What the nearly 100 filed amicus briefs suggest about the Supreme Court’s affirmative action decision.
Black women are three times likely more to die from childbirth.

Fareed: U.S. healthcare system is failing Black mothers

by Mubina Fareed
Published July 9, 2023
The start of one life should not mean the end of another.

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