Dear UMN students,This summer, the former Interim President and Provost of the University of Minnesota, with the support of the Board of Regents, bowed to outside political pressure and stopped a professor...
In the wake of the Institute for Quality of Life naming Minneapolis one of the happiest cities in the world, praising its art, culture and cuisine, it is essential to acknowledge Minnesota’s recent advances...
Editor's note: The use of the word "scam" in this column is meant hyperbolically. We are not implying that the University is engaged in large-scale fraud against its students.For returning students,...
Walked around East Bank lately? You’ve likely had the misfortune of laying eyes upon Coffman Union. Surrounded by concrete and covered with scaffolding, the building sticks out like a sore thumb across...
In suburbia, everything is predictable.The street patterns. Each house’s facade. Your neighbor’s complaints when your grass grows any higher than permitted by the Homeowners Association.To...
A concept originally coined by sociologist Ray Oldenburg, a third place is a place separate from the home, your first place, and work or school, your second place. It is where you spend time in community,...
After starting hormonal birth control, I had no idea the extent of sadness I was bound to experience. My day-to-day lifestyle changed drastically. Any task, no matter how simple, feels too heavy of...
Weaving around a frantic mother trying to corral her younger children, I swing my Trader Joe’s grocery basket down the aisle and ogle at the bounty of snacks bursting from the shelves: Pizza Seasoned...
I hate Styrofoam so much that it is almost a personality trait.Even before I knew the sinister plastic foam’s real name, it haunted me as a child. The painfully synthetic texture of a foam cup made...
I have thought about killing myself for six years. My experience of suicidal thinking, clinically known as suicidal ideation, comes from Major Depressive Disorder (MDD). MDD is a serious condition...
