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The Minnesota Daily

Opinion

Common humanity

Published September 23, 2002

As human beings, we need to be concerned about our brothers, sisters, friends and neighbors who, like us, desire to live a full and happy life, but whose only difference is that they live across an imaginary...

Racial profiling fuels community mistrust

by Matt Telleen
Published September 23, 2002

On the anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks Americans were reminded of the heroism shown by firefighters and police officers in the face of last year's tragedy. These brave men and women have reached a...

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...

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,...

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...

A loyal hockey fan’s plea

Published September 19, 2002

> Adam Schiff, Senior, Political Science/American Studies

Bring back the Brickhouse

Published September 19, 2002

With the football stadium issue being addressed once again at the Board of Regents meeting last week, I would like to point out an option that the University should seriously consider when it comes to...

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