Opinion

Daily inflames intolerance

Published October 23, 2002

The editorial in last Friday's (Oct. 18) Daily, "Middle East tensions inflamed by intolerance," might aptly be retitled as: "Campus tensions inflamed by The Minnesota Daily." While it is noble of the Daily...

Bush avoids North Korea

Published October 23, 2002

For months, the George W. Bush administration has aggressively threatened war, held back only by a thin sense of propriety. However, even as Congress granted war powers to the chief executive and the U.N....

Goldy didn’t “endorse” homosexuality

Published October 23, 2002

As officers of the Queer Student Cultural Center, the student group responsible for hiring Goldy Gopher to appear at the National Coming Out Day rally, we feel the need to set the record straight, so to...

Telescopes in Hawaii

Published October 23, 2002

I am a former employee of one of the world's largest submillimeter radio telescopes. I was a telescope systems specialist and worked atop Mauna Kea for 12 years. I am writing as the president of Mauna...

Believe it or not: subscribing to the paranormal

by Matthew Brophy
Published October 23, 2002

A psychic told me Monday that my moon sign is in the House of Leo. I'm not sure what that means exactly, but she seemed to know. For 20 minutes, we stared at stones, cards and charts as she tried to divine...

Politicians should re-examine dying schools, Social Security

Published October 23, 2002

B By Austen Morris y now we've all been sufficiently pummeled by campaign ads. Politicians must know how irritating their ads are - especially the negative ones - yet they continue to shell out hefty funds...

Stoetzel needs to make up his mind

Published October 22, 2002

I would like to reply to the article written about Paul Stoetzel, the National Guardsman who is protesting the possible war in Iraq ("Once on tour, now anti-war, student soldier won't go to Iraq," Oct....

Second Amendment

Published October 22, 2002

Matt Telleen's Oct. 21 opinion column on the Second Amendment ("Loyalty to the Second Amendment is misguided") is flawed. The term "arm" in the Second Amendment is intended as "firearm." And as there are...

Gubernatorial candidates must think about energy

Published October 22, 2002

As the elections are only two weeks away, newly-elected politicians will soon be faced with big decisions on the environment and energy. One year from now, the Prairie Island nuclear power plant will have...

So-called Friends of Israel are anything but

by Scott Laderman
Published October 22, 2002

Last week, I had the good fortune to attend a campus forum featuring Na'eem Jeenah, a South African lecturer at the University of the Witwatersrand and a veteran of the anti-apartheid movement. Jeenah...