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Serving the UMN community since 1900

The Minnesota Daily

Opinion

Coffman’s reopening will reunite campus

Published November 11, 2002

A By Chuck Hernick fter nearly three years of construction, an increasingly apathetic student body awaits the reopening of the Coffman Union. Frustration is high - an unavoidable consequence of student...

University gains president, loses ethics

by Joel Helfrich
Published November 11, 2002

Outrageous!" exclaimed many people here at the University as our Board of Regents announced last Monday that they would not abide by Minnesota's "sunshine" open meeting law. Days later, the board announced...

Police forsake friendship, prefer parking tickets

by Anthony Maggio
Published November 8, 2002

I remember my elementary school days at Our Lady of Grace School in Highland, Ind. Police officer Pete Nelson, "Officer Friendly," would come to my school and talk to my class a few times per year. On...

Less government is no solution

Published November 8, 2002

Anthony Sanders' Nov. 7 column "Republican trifecta offers party new opportunities" makes an astonishingly naive assumption: Reforms that entail diminishing the power of the federal government will benefit...

Stop bickering

Published November 8, 2002

This is in response to any article expressing views on the Israeli-Palestine conflict. I am tired of the back and forth retaliation. Some say there is no better way to get your point across than rebutting...

Pro-science, anti-abortion

Published November 8, 2002

Matthew Brophy ("Bush sneaks religion into science: Embryos are 'human subjects'," Nov. 6) feels the George W. Bush administration is "injecting religion" into science by defining human embryos as "human...

Students are voting

Published November 7, 2002

Although most students waited at least one hour in the cold and another two hours inside the Department of Health on Delaware Street, they were persistent in their resolve to vote. If apathy was once an...

Deceitful column

Published November 7, 2002

I was reading Scott Laderman's column "Deceit infects political discourse" (Nov. 5) and was absolutely baffled by the inclusion of President George W. Bush's name. The two "lies" that he is accused of...

Republican trifecta offers party new opportunities

by Anthony Sanders
Published November 7, 2002

Well, you've watched the TV, looked at all the analysis in the papers and, if you're like me, visited the "Drudge Report" at least 265 times. So I'm not going to indulge in too much breezy speculation...

Bush sneaks religion into science: Embryos are ‘human subjects’

by Matthew Brophy
Published November 6, 2002

Anti-abortion dogma is being smuggled into our scientific legislation. The George W. Bush administration recently slipped into a federal advisory committee charter the proclamation that embryos are now...

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