The Minnesota Daily’s Editorial Board endorsed Hillary Clinton for president earlier this week, citing their support for her positions on student loan reform, healthcare and taxation.As I read their...

Arguing the need to more thoroughly diversify campus, the independent student group Whose Diversity? recently published a manifesto in which it expressed a desire for “dialogue and negotiations”...

A multi-faith panel has condemned the content of a short film that will play in the National September 11 Memorial Museum, saying that the film’s inclusion of the terms “jihadist” and...

In a landmark decision, India’s Supreme Court recently recognized transgender rights as human rights, allowing people to legally identify as a third gender: transgender. Declaring that every human...

Comment threads erupted after National Public Radio published an April Fools’ Day article titled “Why Doesn’t America Read Anymore?” Ironically, the article was a joke, a five-sentence...

There is a war going on for your mind. Even now, the embers glow after last week’s multimedia dispute between the Stephen Colbert devotees and supporters of Internet activist Suey Park. The conflict...

The 1954 U.S. Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education laid the foundation for racial desegregation of schools across America, declaring separate institutions to be inherently unequal. Sixty...

In a move to reduce hazing, the fraternity Sigma Alpha Epsilon announced a national ban on pledging this month. Pledging is the period during which prospective fraternity or sorority members familiarize...

The College Board recently announced it will heavily revise the SAT. New measures, which would begin in the spring of 2016, are meant to better evaluate students’ college readiness. The reforms target...

Spring break is only two weeks away, and expectations are running high. The American ideal spring break has developed into a quasi-mythical rite of passage, not to mention a multibillion-dollar industry....

Over the past two weeks, I’ve addressed the nutritional and corporate aspects of college dining. In this final installment, I’ll discuss environmental issues, before addressing the individual’s...

I explored the nutritional aspects of college dining last week, focusing especially on the fat and sodium content of certain UDS menu items. The story of what’s on the menu was just the beginning:...

They say you are what you eat. If that’s true, then students across campus must be grappling with identity crises. University Dining Services feeds thousands of students every day. But do you really...

My cellphone started buzzing with a call from an unknown number at nearly 10 p.m. on a Monday night. Thinking someone must have accidentally dialed me, I didn’t pick up. To my surprise, the caller...

President Barack Obama recently commissioned a task force of senior administration officials to develop new efforts for combatting sexual assault on college campuses nationwide. The president gave his...

College students across South Korea have started a social movement by publicly posting lists of grievances regarding the country’s government and social inequality. This poster movement began in...

End-of-the-semester teacher evaluations are short, simple questionnaires, but they have the power to make or break a teacher’s career. Although the evaluations may seem like afterthoughts at the...

My favorite part of the holiday season is the nonsense that surrounds the supposed “War on Christmas.” I’m always hopeful that this year’s chaos will exceed last year’s. Thankfully,...

Last year, American consumers spent a record $59.1 billion on Black Friday weekend — well above the GDPs of Guatemala, Kenya, Yemen and dozens of other countries worldwide. Clearly, business is booming. This...

It seems University of Minnesota police send a new crime alert story every week, each with strange and terrifying tales of the gunmen, prowlers or thieves. The chill we get from reading these alerts is...

The first snowfall of the season sparks powerful emotions in the hearts of all Minnesotans — not least of all the homeless. While many of us northerners pride ourselves in surviving some of the harshest...

I say fan fiction, you say — what? Not long ago, there was a powerful stigma that surrounded fan fiction. Its writers were stereotyped as bizarre and introverted, and its products were considered...

Officials working at George Washington University’s admissions office have been misrepresenting the school’s admissions policy for years, according to GWU’s student newspaper. GWU’s...

Because October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month, I’d like to address the strain of domestic abuse people are the least aware of: abuse directed at men. For those of you who are still reading,...

For the moment, a portion of mainstream media is fixated on two stories pertaining to the Minneapolis Somali community: the reaction to last month’s terrorist attack in Kenya and the meteoric rise...

The University of Minnesota’s second-language requirement is elegant in its simplicity. Before graduation, students enrolled in the College of Liberal Arts must either complete four semesters of...

In August, Pope Francis alluded to the increasing liberalization of the Catholic Church’s adherents by saying that the church can’t afford to focus on social issues “all the time.” To...

Russian president Vladimir Putin agitated many Americans when he published an op-ed in the Sept. 11 edition of The New York Times. Putin’s article, which discouraged American intervention in Syria,...

Yesterday, the University of Minnesota celebrated homecoming week by unveiling a six-foot statue of our mascot, Goldy Gopher. The statue, which now stands outside of Coffman Memorial Union, cost $95,000 to...

As I was strolling across the Washington Avenue Bridge last week, I found a scrap of paper suddenly thrust into my hands. As I glanced down at my newfound possession, words like “dictatorship,”...

Mcor Technologies caused quite a stir when it discovered how to make three-dimensional prints at a mere 5 percent of the industry’s standard cost. In less than six months, several key patents in...

The Israeli-Palestinian peace talks are back in session , but their stability was already tested by an Israeli military raid that killed three Palestinians in a West Bank refugee camp. With continuous...