It's sad. It's tragic. It's senseless, horrific, maddening, frightening, surreal, absurd, symptomatic, indicative, moving, complicated, gruesome, heartbreaking and inexplicable. Most of all, the shooting...

From blacks to women to the lower class, the United States has a long and egregious history of denying citizens the right to vote. Today, all mentally competent adults have the right to vote with one exception:...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...