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The Minnesota Daily

Serving the UMN community since 1900

The Minnesota Daily

Serving the UMN community since 1900

The Minnesota Daily

Opinion

A well-respected opponent

Published October 26, 2002

I feel a great loss over the tragic death of Sen. Paul Wellstone, his wife, daughter and the others in the plane. As a long-time Republican supporter and activist, I have worked against him. I worked in...

A fighter

Published October 26, 2002

I am writing this letter not as a resident of Minnesota, but as a resident of this nation. Just minutes ago, I learned that Sen. Paul Wellstone and two members of his family were killed in a plane crash. I...

Wellstone’s passion, fire inspired many

by Anthony Sanders
Published October 26, 2002

I'm not going to pretend to know much about loss or tragedy or remembering great men. Nothing like what has just happened to the Wellstone family has happened to me in my young, naive life. I do know about...

A man of compassion

Published October 26, 2002

The death of Sen. Paul Wellstone has caused this state, nation and world an incalculable amount of pain and sorrow. While it is perfectly healthy to feel these emotions following a death in our society,...

A unique political talent

by Dan Maruska
Published October 26, 2002

The death of Sen. Paul Wellstone is a historic, traumatic loss for the state of Minnesota as well as for the nation. Wellstone was truly one of his generation's most respectable political leaders, one...

An inspiration

Published October 26, 2002

Sen. Paul Wellstone lived so courageously and with such purpose and vigor. I was blessed with an opportunity to meet him while interning in Washington, D.C., last fall and was struck by his disarming demeanor...

Anti-war rallies

Published October 25, 2002

Our country is in the midst of making some of the biggest choices it has ever had to make. We are on the brink of war and we are in a time when we need to get together and show how American we can be. I...

An irksome date change

Published October 25, 2002

Well, along with many fellow students, I have been screwed once again by the University. Recently, students who are majoring in the College of Liberal Arts and are planning to graduate this December have...

Mascot should find new ways to reinvent itself

by John Troyer
Published October 25, 2002

In recent days, an important and vital debate has taken shape in the hallowed pages of The Minnesota Daily. Many readers of the popular press might think I am alluding to the question of gun control laws...

Ice cream politics

Published October 25, 2002

Being a politically-minded student of this university, I find the Wellstone Ben & Jerry's visit to campus ("Wellstone women, Ben & Jerry's court voters," Oct. 23) offensive and degrading to students. Whatever...

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