Opinion

Don’t lose sight of life

by Steven Snyder
Published March 5, 2003

Ask anyone about love, and you're in for a long story. As much as we pretend to be above it, love is still the one thing that drives us, changes us and creates our most potent memories. A few days ago,...

University budget cuts will ‘drain’ the state

Published March 5, 2003

GBy Sen. Lawrence J. Pogemiller ov. Tim Pawlenty's recently released budget proposal contains a 15 percent decrease for the University. This is a deep cut that will severely impact our University's ability...

Carlson dean indirectly supported campus Iraq vote

Published March 4, 2003

WBy Matt Audette and Jon Bottema e opened an e-mail from the University last week and found a shocking message from an associate dean of the Carlson School of Management, the school we attend as graduate...

Antiwar movements support political oppression

Published March 4, 2003

WBy Nick Busse hy is it we don't hear about Afghanistan anymore? We still have troops stationed there, engaged in roughly the same activities as they were a year ago, back when antiwar activists were condemning...

Letter from a Dormitory Cell

by Karl Noyes
Published March 4, 2003

Dear Gov. Pawlenty: While contemplating Henry Miller here in my dormitory cell, I was struck by the severity of your proposed cut to the University. Seldom do I pause from the work that is my education....

Media fanfare signals end of quality journalism

Published March 3, 2003

ABy Adri Mehra m I the only person who can separate Michael Jackson's face from his music? It seems to me to be a less than intellectually enthralling distinction. As NBC's "Dateline" reporter Josh Mankiewicz...

Bush ignores valued advisers

by Matt Telleen
Published March 3, 2003

When high school basketball phenom LeBron James was suspended earlier this year for accepting free basketball jerseys, commentators bemoaned the lack of guidance in the young man's life. Who were his advisers?...

Students should speak out against budget cuts

Published March 3, 2003

TBy Andy Pomroy he University is not a school for those who couldn't make it into a private college or some below-average school that is a drain on state resources. University students attend the premiere...

‘Dollars and sense’ rhetoric demands alternative student response

Published February 26, 2003

MBy Adam VanWagner aybe now it is time to get serious. With the Tim Pawlenty administration's budget proposal announced last week, the hard numbers have been laid before us, and history dictates they have...

How to price words and things

by Joel Helfrich
Published February 26, 2003

In 1988, a group of investors including Pat Riley, then-head coach of the Los Angeles Lakers, filed papers with the United States Patent and Trademark Office to register the sports word "three-peat" under...