When the Gophers abandoned Memorial Stadium for the Metrodome 20 years ago, proponents said the move would bolster recruiting, save money and, ultimately, help restore a failing program to its Bernie Bierman...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...