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Friends of Israel responds

Published November 21, 2002

Friends of Israel, the fastest growing and most active student group on campus, has been under a lot of fire lately. It was attacked first in an irresponsible editorial by The Minnesota Daily, "Middle...

Choose 25% Social Security taxes – or privatization

by Anthony Sanders
Published November 21, 2002

OK, I've written this column before, and I'll probably write it again. It's a recurring tale of woe that only gets worse by the year. However, I feel I am duty bound to try to improve things, so, once...

Daily’s double standards on privacy

Published November 21, 2002

I found it interesting to read that The Minnesota Daily, which recently suspended its editor in chief, Todd Milbourn, has a policy which "prohibits further discussion of personnel matters." Keep in mind...

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...

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