T By Martin Andrade he next University president needs to drink. I don't mean in the alcoholic sense, nor in a goofy, drunken sense. If the next University president is to be successful, he or she needs...

For many student athletes, especially those in high profile sports, college life comes with many advantages unavailable to the ordinary, Gopher-cheering student. Scholarships pay for much, if not all,...

What a time to be a part of the body politic. Last week Sen. Robert Torricelli, D-NJ, requested his name be taken off the ballot after he came under fire for allegations of ethical violations as the Democrats...

There has been quite a bit of discussion lately on how civil liberties are being infringed upon in the name of national security. The latest is a rule issued by the Department of Justice, in which Immigration...

Sen. Mark Dayton, D-Minn., epitomizes the hypocritical stance of the leftist faction of the Democratic Party. His column, "Congress would be wise to go slow on Iraq," (Oct. 3) presents a biased interpretation...

Stanley Milgram, a researcher at Yale University, was curious about why people obeyed the Nazis during the Holocaust. Believing he might empirically help to develop an answer, Milgram set out in the early...

Y Maggie Hessel-Mial ou hear talk about how people have become desensitized to violence. You read columns, articles and books about how people have become desensitized to violence. You turn on the television...

After reading Dan Obst's opinion column, "Technology leads to isolation from others, the world," (Oct. 7), I came to the realization of how much technology has affected us. But, in contrast to Obst's view,...

In late August, the Supreme Court ruled in Zelman v. Simmons-Harris that an Ohio school voucher program did not violate the establishment clause of the U.S. Constitution. The government would give parents...

I was not surprised to see that State Rep. Gregory Gray, a former auditor, won the DFL endorsement for state auditor last spring. I was shocked when he lost the September DFL primary to Carol Johnson,...