Opinion

University Dining Services’ food selection

Published November 21, 2002

This is in response to Katherine Adelmeyer's column "Dining service should offer healthier meals" (Nov. 18). While Adelmeyer raises some valid concerns that a number of University Dining Services goers...

Men can choose too

Published November 20, 2002

I agree with Matt Geimer ("Men should have a say on abortion," Nov. 18) that the decision to terminate a pregnancy should not always be up to a woman. Any man who finds himself pregnant should be able...

War on terrorism curtails privacy

Published November 20, 2002

President George W. Bush-appointed and former Iran-Contra scandal culprit John Poindexter, who heads the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency Information Awareness Office, is fervently working on...

Cost of executions

Published November 20, 2002

After reading Christen Wegner's Nov. 18 opinion piece on the death penalty ("Death penalty the clear answer for snipers"), I decided to check her figures on the cost of executions compared to the cost...

Media should also cover internal threats

Published November 19, 2002

The Nov. 15 article, "Bush administration wants to open hundreds of thousands of federal jobs to private contractors," appearing in the national briefing section of the Minnesota Daily was atrocious. Frenzied...

Remember resistance to war

by Scott Laderman
Published November 19, 2002

Consider this a plea for memory. Last week President George W. Bush exploited the occasion of Veterans Day to once again threaten an escalation of the American war against Iraq. "This great nation Ö will...

Men should have a say on abortion

Published November 18, 2002

Although I do not agree with everything argued by Michel van der Hoek in his letter "Abortion stance cost Democrats election" (Nov. 12), I must take issue with the reckless attacks in Jürgen Laun's...

Soften drug laws

Published November 18, 2002

Kudos to the University chapter of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws for teaching students how to avoid a marijuana arrest ("Promise of advice on skirting the law draws crowd to...

Dining service should offer healthier meals

Published November 18, 2002

T By Katherine Adelmeyer he semester is almost over, and I hear so many freshmen complaining about the extra pounds they have put on: "What in the world have I eaten to make me look like that inflatable...

Why we protest

Published November 18, 2002

If the possibility that a country possesses weapons of mass destruction is a justification for attacking that country, then the United States should be the first to be attacked. The United States manufactures...