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Second language requirement

Published December 13, 2002

This is in response to both Sean Cahill's Dec. 9 column "Language proficiency tests should be dropped," and Sean Corcoran's Dec. 11 letter "Keep the GPT." I have to agree with Cahill's argument for eliminating...

SLC is effective

Published December 13, 2002

This letter is in regards to the Graduate and Professional Student Assembly and the Minnesota Student Association's criticisms of the Student Legislative Coalition. It seems that the current controversy...

Registration frustrates U students

Published December 13, 2002

T By Molly Kentala here comes a time in every college student's life when you are continually on-edge, extremely nervous and staring down the nearest clock. I am not talking about finals week - I am referring...

To chalk or not to chalk

Published December 13, 2002

While I agree chalking is a good way to exercise one's freedom of speech and a great way to advertise, the two letters to the editor I've read over this past week have been one-sided. They worried about...

You say goodbye, I say hello

by Roxanne Sadovsky
Published December 12, 2002

I frustrate easily at the tedious small talk - no less its felicitous brackets - that is taking over the thing we call conversation. Everyone I know feels the need to say goodbye. Waiters say, "Bye now"...

MSA and GAPSA did not withdraw from SLC

Published December 12, 2002

Seth Woehrle's Dec. 11 article regarding the Minnesota Student Association and the Graduate and Professional Student Assembly's reaction to the Student Legislative Coalition, "MSA follows GAPSA's lead,...

No need for apologies

Published December 12, 2002

Sraddha P. Helfrich has once again astounded me with her sanctimonious proselytizing on a wide range of subjects in the Dec. 9 column "Can we be at peace while creating war?" She feels we should go down...

Clean walls vs. free speech

Published December 12, 2002

At a time when any opposition to the George W. Bush administration's agenda is being labeled by some as unpatriotic or as an aid to terrorism, it is sad that the University seems more concerned about keeping...

Light rail

Published December 12, 2002

A quick reading of Shannon Fiecke's Dec. 11 column "Bonding roads is right direction" reveals the following: (1) Fiecke promotes spending for roads but describes light rail as "social engineering (that)...

Keep the GPT

Published December 11, 2002

This is in response to Sean Cahill's Dec. 9 column "Language proficiency tests should be dropped," regarding language proficiency testing here at the University. Cahill asserts that the required College...

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