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The Minnesota Daily

Serving the UMN community since 1900

The Minnesota Daily

Serving the UMN community since 1900

The Minnesota Daily

Opinion

Smoking ban is just blowing smoke

Published September 18, 2003

I hate people who yap on their cell phones in front of University buildings. It irks me when people blast their headphones on the campus commuter. I find it disgusting when people eat tuna fish sandwiches...

Pleading with pervasive personal promiscuity

Published September 17, 2003

To dump or not to dump?" Had Shakespeare sketched Hamlet in 2003, the charming prince might be seen lightly pulling out a cigarette atop of the Washington Avenue Bridge, puffing not about "being" but about...

I don’t need more drug money

Published September 16, 2003

I wish someone would just tell President George W. Bush I don't need any more drug money; I have quite enough. I don't need more cash to go to the bars (though Bobby Z's is getting expensive) either. Yet...

Share good times at the University

Published September 16, 2003

Things are rolling pretty nicely around campus lately. Funding goals are being met, our president is getting nominated to special committees to oversee Fulbright scholarships and everything from the football...

Live out your environmental beliefs

Published September 16, 2003

One day in early September, I went to a park to study and, as usual, I biked there. Anyway, I passed one of those ridiculous H2 Hummer vehicles: a red one. It immediately pissed me off. A flurry of thoughts...

School choice should level the educational playing field

Published September 16, 2003

On Sept. 9, scheduled by Texas Rep. Tom DeLay to coincide with the Democratic presidential debate, the House of Representatives passed by one vote a bill to authorize school vouchers for Washington. While...

The ‘war’ on underage drinking

Published September 16, 2003

War" has become quite a ubiquitous term lately. One can scarcely turn a page of the newspaper without encountering the term at least once. Apparently, wars are being fought continually, even right here...

How not to spend $87 billion: Money spent on terrorism must be evaluated

Published September 16, 2003

In his nationally televised speech Sept. 7, President George W. Bush called on Congress to supply more money to secure peace in Iraq and to defend the nation at home from another terrorist attack. While...

Time to move past Arafat toward peace

Published September 15, 2003

When does a nation say, "Enough is enough?" Which senseless suicide bombing is the last straw? The bombing last March of a bus en route to Haifa University that killed 17 people and wounded 53, most of...

Arafat is not the cause of the problem

Published September 15, 2003

The story of Palestinian National Authority President Yasser Arafat's potential expulsion by Israel has been dominating the bits of news we get on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Arafat has done it again;...

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