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The Minnesota Daily

Opinion

In this election cycle, cast your vote for Hillary

by Daily Editorial Board
Published October 26, 2016

After the third and final presidential debate, Hillary Clinton’s intellectual domination over Donald Trump has been made profoundly evident. Her knowledge and nuance in policy — both domestic and...

New sick note policy is ill

by Chance Wellnitz
Published October 26, 2016
Students who skip class will likely skip no matter what obstacles are in their way.

Visual sports are sports, too

by Kaylee Anderson
Published October 17, 2016

When you look around at a ballroom dance competition, everything you see screams money. From the specialty shoes to the rhinestone dresses, the travel expenses and the enrollment fees — nothing seems...

Kaler needs to make strong moves in support of campus minority groups in response to recent hate speech

by Lee Penn
Published October 17, 2016

Dear President Kaler,I’m writing to urge you to make a bold and visible response to the recent “Build the Wall” panel painted in the Washington Avenue Bridge walkway. A statement emphasizing the...

Bob Dylan won the Nobel Prize for Literature on Thursday.

Bob Dylan’s Nobel Prize win signals the shifting tide of “literature”

by Daily Editorial Board
Published October 17, 2016
The singer is the first musician to ever receive the award.

Expecting respect isn’t censorship

by Chance Wellnitz
Published October 17, 2016

Last week, I wrote a column discussing the lack of “pro-wall” voices in the coverage of the College Republican’s defaced “Build the Wall” mural on the Washington Avenue Bridge. The articles I...

End Trump and Our Old Notions of Romance

by Kate McCarthy
Published October 13, 2016

In the gob-smacking free-fall that is Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, his latest transgression is the least forgivable of them all: the widely-circulated phrase “grab them by the pussy.” It’s...

Why Students Should Vote

by Will Dammann
Published October 13, 2016

When I walk down the halls of the Capitol building in St. Paul, I make sure everyone knows I am a student. Sporting a light blue Patagonia hat with a backpack over my shoulder, I wear my maroon U sweatshirt...

How students can be engines for creative change in Haiti

by Anant Naik
Published October 13, 2016

Last week, Hurricane Matthew slammed into Haiti — a country already reeling from a cholera crisis that has killed thousands of people and crumbling infrastructure coupled with housing shortages from...

May I ask, why should we build that wall?

by Chance Wellnitz
Published October 11, 2016

By now some readers may be sick of seeing yet another column or story discussing the Washington Avenue Bridge “Build the Wall” mural and its subsequent defacement as well as President Kaler’s unsurprisingly...

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