After the Gophers won the NCAA hockey championship, the riots began. There was celebrating, vandalizing, fire-setting and car- tipping. The riot gear was deployed. But in the days since that chaotic evening,...

On March 14, my father was given 45 minutes by his employer to clear his desk and vacate his office. He was fired by the board of trustees of his company. The three trustees who orchestrated the action...

ABy Marisa Goedken s summer drew near, I used to count down the days until freedom. Gazing out the windows of my high school, I visualized the lazy mornings filled with cartoons. Time was a surplus; more...

In the wake of the hockey riots, a letter appeared in The Minnesota Daily last week in which reader Benjamin Koch expressed anger and disbelief with the fact that local media declared they were unwilling...

Beautiful "U" Day is an annual occasion to celebrate the natural beauty of our campus. It begins today with events continuing through Wednesday. To spruce it up, the University in recent years undertook...

ABy Jon Farnsworth s a white male, I have been born into a class of privilege. I do not have to walk down the street while getting dirty looks, worry about being pulled over by a police officer solely...

TBy Andrew Hamilton his year the U.S. Supreme Court has taken up, for the first time in 25 years, the question whether the U.S. Constitution bars elite universities from using race and ethnicity as factors...

Today is Earth Day 2003. Various environmental organizations will commemorate this day with reflections on more than three decades of environmental advocacy. Current and future threats to the environment...

WBy Leslie Reed (U-WIRE) TUSCALOOSA, Ala. ho's next? This is the question now asked in teahouses all over the world. As men puff at their hookahs and play backgammon, they speculate about the next regime...

Where are the weapons? As the war in Iraq winds down, this question is central on many minds, including those in the White House and Pentagon. Often used as a justification for the war, the U.S. forces,...