In 1997, the Gophers athletics department hired Glen Mason to restore the football program to respectability. Six years and millions of dollars later, Minnesota still has not won a Big Ten championship....

Hate is probably the strongest word one can use to describe his or her animosity toward someone. It's the type of hostility that is, at times, drummed up against our nation's political leaders, and as...

Some of the most important experiences of college take place far from the classroom. They are not graded, tested or edited by any professor, and they carry more weight than any exam or paper. They mean...

Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore can't stay out of the news. During the night approximately two years ago, Moore hauled a giant monument of the Ten Commandments into the rotunda of the Alabama Judicial...

The University population coming back this week will find a number of not-so-pleasant changes. Students will receive much larger bills for their University fees, and they will encounter more populated...

Almost everyone agrees the opening of the Mill City Museum is a great thing for Minneapolis, but I believe it is even more than that. I am convinced the new museum is a great thing for the cause of historic...

In the toilet stalls, a bird-like, sanguine female voice tumbles out, "Oh yea, looks like it's going to snow REAL bad tonight. Wasn't yesterday just WONDERFUL?" My bowel movement stops and my abdomen clenches...

When I told friends I was hired as the new editorials and opinions page editor of the Daily, I received many congratulations. However, I also heard a few complaints about the Daily's opinions page, namely...

I was driving through areas of Nevada and California still recovering from forest fires that happened years ago when I first heard about President George W. Bush's "Healthy Forests Initiative." This eco-friendly...