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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

Bill unnecessarily restricts women’s access to abortion

Published April 15, 2003

MAshley Fuller onday was a sad day for the women of the state of Minnesota. Our state passed the first of a series of proposed bills designed to restrict and impede a woman's right to make her own reproductive...

University should change language requirements

Published April 15, 2003

LJason Sportel ike every student in the College of Liberal Arts, I have been forced to deal with the fact that I need to pass the Graduation Proficiency Test in order to graduate. Well, congratulations...

The elusive tax cheat

Published April 15, 2003

At the stroke of midnight, most U.S. residents will have filed their tax returns, marking the end of the annual ritual that allows us to share in the unfulfilling experience of interacting with our government's...

Rioters are hooligans, not hockey fans

Published April 14, 2003

Within an hour after the men's hockey team won its second-straight NCAA championship Saturday, hundreds of people descended on Dinkytown for what is quickly becoming an annual riot. The hooligans flipped...

Many people, one movement

Published April 11, 2003

TAdam Duininck he most frightening display of rhetorical distortion I have seen during this war is the idea that those who protest the decisions of our leaders are not supporting the men and women of our...

Compromising on energy

Published April 11, 2003

On the environment, green legislators are often torn between what is ideal and what is feasible. Such was the case at the Legislature this week as lawmakers consider how best to store nuclear waste at...

Madness at the Master’s

Published April 11, 2003

Hootie Johnson must be straight from central casting. The rich, old, Southern white man - a caricature of Boss Hogg meets Cletus the Slack-Jawed Yokel - said his elite private golf club, which hosts the...

Abstract knowledge of war leads to easy acceptance

Published April 11, 2003

AJohn Tribbett s I watched the Marines help topple Saddam Hussein's bronze image, I thought to myself, "Semper fie, do or die, by God, our boys have taken Iraq." As the scenes of jubilation unfolded on...

Online love does exist

by Roxanne Sadovsky
Published April 10, 2003

How's about we begin with the punch line? A good man is hard to find. Cutting to the fairy tale ending: I found one. And now, the story: I have always wanted to write the great American love column. I...

Winning the peace

Published April 10, 2003

As Baghdad fell, images of a U.S. victory went up. U.S. Marines toppled a statue of Saddam Hussein just moments after draping his head with the Stars and Stripes. With fingers in the dust, troops wrote...

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