When the Supreme Court rules on the issue of homosexual sodomy this coming spring, it will likely confront one of its favorite devices - the "rational-basis test." The test is extremely easy to meet. When...

SThis was not so unusual; however, the chant they all shouted out loud was. The chant consisted of mainly swear words and derogatory name usage that was put together in a sort of "catchy" way. I was appalled...

Although I sympathize with Steve Snyder's dismay in his Jan. 24 opinion column "University consistently fails to serve students" at having to wait for the One Stop Student Services Help Line - no one likes...

There was a mentally challenged kid in my high school the "normal" kids always made fun of. Kids would ask him to dance, and he would - thinking the laughter was with him rather than at him. During lunch,...

ABy Diana Fu re sweatshops the symbol of Uncle Sam's exploitative fingers under the disguise of globalization? Or are they the saviors of the downtrodden around the world? Ever since the U.S. economy globalized,...

This letter is in response to Austen Morris' stupefying argument against affirmative action in the Jan. 27 opinion column "Abandon academic affirmative action." Incredibly, Morris equates affirmative action...

Do you trust George W. Bush? It's a simple question, really. It's also not just rhetorical. According to a report in The New York Times, the White House believes that much of its case for escalating the...

I have worked in the Mayo Building for more than four years and I went to school here in the early 1970s. I'm frankly amazed that The Minnesota Daily and the people responsible for Coffman Union's renovation...

The opening of a branch of U.S. Bank in Coffman Union really shows how much the union has changed. As a student here from 1993-95, I banked at the University's Federal Credit Union's Coffman Union branch....

I am writing to agree with and add to Mark Byers' Jan. 22 letter touting Coffman as a colossal disappointment, "Coffman Union is a disappointment." Today, a fellow graduate student and I went there to...