Serving the UMN community since 1900

The Minnesota Daily

Serving the UMN community since 1900

The Minnesota Daily

Serving the UMN community since 1900

The Minnesota Daily

Opinion

Pre-emptive attacks are prudent foreign policy

Published September 23, 2002

ABy David Simon ccording to Sean Misko's letter titled "Bush's U.N. speech offered no new reasons to invade" in last week's Daily, "never in its history has this country launched a pre-emptive military...

An attack would unsettle the Middle East

Published September 23, 2002

Attacking Iraq at this time will not just worsen the situation in the unstable Middle East, but it also will widen the gap between the Americans and Arabs. War will give fundamentalists a chance to pass...

Bush must respect previous U.N. resolution on Iraq

Published September 20, 2002

The United States and Britain have announced a plan to draft a new U.N. Security Council resolution requiring a strict new weapons inspection program in Iraq. Although a previous inspection program from...

On Iraq, don’t wait for the world

Published September 20, 2002

For the past weeks it has been impossible to read a newspaper without being overrun by constant calls for the United States to await U.N. permission to act against Iraq. I have read countless editorials,...

Standing up to police brutality

Published September 20, 2002

I am writing in response to the story ("U students accuse police of beating, kicking in arrest," Sept. 17) about the alleged beating of University students at the hands of the Minneapolis Police Department. I...

Racial preferences do more harm than good

by Anthony Sanders
Published September 20, 2002

It's becoming increasingly hard to deny that a struggle for equal educational opportunity is on display before our courts. In the case Zelman v. Simmons-Harris, the U.S. Supreme Court recently upheld a...

Fair Trade coffee is most equitable

Published September 19, 2002

This November, residents of Berkeley, Calif., will vote on a ballot initiative that would require all coffee sold in the city to be organic, Fair Trade or shade-grown coffee. Under Fair Trade practices,...

Don’t force values on others

Published September 19, 2002

While I believe that abortion is wrong, I will not allow myself to condemn those who believe otherwise. I will not point my fingers at those who are living differently than me. Instead, I want to live...

Become a holist: laugh, slow down

by Roxanne Sadovsky
Published September 19, 2002

This summer I went to summer school. Not the academic kind, but the self-help, feel-good, self-actualizing kind. No, I didn't spend the month at Hazelden; I took an improv class. In other words, I took...

Iraq’s ploy proves a dangerous game

Published September 19, 2002

NBy Kathryn Bailey ot so long ago, President George W. Bush stepped up to the podium of the United Nations and delivered a forceful and even powerful address. He took the United Nations to task for failing...

Accessibility Toolbar