Opinion

A worrisome dip in faculty salaries

Published April 17, 2003

As the state of Minnesota begins to tighten its collective budgetary belt, the University is already looking leaner. In a study presented to the Board of Regents last week, the American Association of...

Faulty contracts shackle students

by Karl Noyes
Published April 17, 2003

The University thought it hit the gold mine with long-term multimillion-dollar contracts with Coca-Cola and Aramark in 1996 and 1997. As a result of those contracts, all aspects of beverage retailing on...

Responsibility falls not just on rioters

by Matthew Brophy
Published April 17, 2003

The rioters are idiots; everyone acknowledges that. Criminally, they vandalized, stole and committed arson. They should be held liable and charged to the fullest extent of the law. On top of this, their...

GOP budget would unfairly burden state’s poor

Published April 16, 2003

The parties have weighed in. The governor and the state's two major parties now all have their proposals for eliminating the state's projected $4.23 billion deficit on the table. To avoid a special summer...

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...

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...

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...

Weapons of mass disintegration

by Scott Laderman
Published April 15, 2003

It is worth remembering that this was a war launched in the name of security. Of course, to those in possession of their critical faculties the claim was always risible. Even the Central Intelligence Agency...

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...