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The Minnesota Daily

Opinion

Students, workers should unite at rally

Published September 29, 2003

Last week, hundreds of law students signed a petition urging University administrators to negotiate a fair contract with the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Local 3800, which...

Responsibility needs to lie with Minneapolis

Published September 29, 2003

News of three University students' deaths Sept. 20 hit especially close to home. Three weeks earlier, I had just moved out of one of the now-charred upstairs bedrooms in the same house. My roommates and...

Dyer punts, the administration fumbles

Published September 29, 2003

The glory days of University football might be lost and gone forever, set for eternal rest under the Radisson Hotel Metrodome and the McNamara alumni center. That is, if Minnesota Student Association President...

America needs to finish what it started in Iraq

Published September 29, 2003

Lately, it seems like everywhere I look, people have "Iraq Distracts" bumper stickers, the world news mentions the $87 billion we're giving to Iraq for the reconstruction, newspapers mention the rise in...

Operation NightCAP a success: No student will ever drink again

Published September 29, 2003

After weeks of intense party busting, ticket issuing and liquor taking-awaying, the efforts of the Minneapolis and University police departments through Operation NightCAP have paid off. In what I have...

What good journalism means and why it matters

Published September 26, 2003

Today's column marks my fourth year as a columnist for this newspaper. While four years hardly represents a distinguished career in journalism, I never expected to hold this position this long. I assumed...

Where’s a U cop when you really need one?

by Steven Snyder
Published September 25, 2003

When you think of the television show "Cops," what images come to mind? Police officers chasing criminals on foot through darkened alleys? High-speed car chases with helicopters in pursuit? How about drug...

Breaking into the academy

by Greg Corradini
Published September 25, 2003
New York dancer Doug Elkins brings his fusion of hip-hop and other styles the University.

‘Looters’ shirts threaten Dinkytown, possibly the world

Published September 25, 2003

It is a time of great upheaval at the University. There are students only now recovering from the harrowing two-week period without a Minnesota Student Association vice president. Also haunting the campus...

U’s gun policy puts students at risk

Published September 25, 2003

There have been a lot of complaints regarding Martin Wingard's possible action against the University in regard to its concealed weapons policy. A good number of these complaints are ignorant of the situation,...

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