Last month when riffing on the topic of climate change, Libertarian presidential candidate Gary Johnson said that “in billions of years, the sun is actually going to grow and encompass the earth, right?...
Last week, the Paint the Bridge event sparked controversy on campus. The University of Minnesota student group College Republicans painted a mural with the words, “Build the Wall,” featured prominently...
A student author published an article in the Minnesota Republic on Oct. 3 entitled “How the Bridge’s Vandalism Mirrors Rape Culture” that equated the following two experiences:- Navigating the societal...
Recently, this newspaper and members of this campus decided that some constitutionally protected expression was the worst thing ever. The cause of all this trouble was not a campus march by neo-Nazis...
Freedom of speech exists to support a liberal democracy which endows every member of society with the equally important rights of due process and equal protection.Conservative students who cry "Freedom...
On Monday, we printed an editorial that was critical of President Kaler’s response to the College Republican’s “Build the Wall” panel and free speech on campus. A number of members of the...
The message emblazoned on that now infamous bridge panel is so hateful it sickens me. In fact, it’s straight up racist, folks. I know it, you know it, we all do. The “Build the Wall” panel’s...
If this past year has been any indication, Minnesota has work to do to promote racial equality and cohesion. Just this year, the death of Philando Castile revealed an ugly bruise — one that narrated...
We live in tempestuous times, or so I’m told. I deleted my Facebook, so it’s sometimes hard to tell. But I’ve heard from my social-media-stalwart friends that there’s quite a loony election going...
