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May 22, 2012
Wed, 4/18, 2:14pm (1 month ago)
Eighteen students at the University of Texas have occupied the office of the university's president, Bill Powers. The students are demanding that the university join the Worker Rights Coalition and put an end to sweatshop abuses in factories that produce garments displaying the University of Texas's logo. The students have…
Tue, 4/17, 12:09pm (1 month ago)
Today, the AP Stylebook has set America on a course toward ruin. A tweet this morning from @APStylebook read “Hopefully, you will appreciate this style update, announced at #aces2012. We now support the modern usage of hopefully: it's hoped, we hope.” This is a travesty. “Hopefully” should mean only “in…
Thu, 4/5, 6:17pm (2 months ago)
In a recent Esquire Magazine piece, author Stephen Marche takes a stab at the widening economic gap between the Boomers in power and their children — a mix of Generation Xer’s, Generation Yer’s, and older Millenials. Considering the data from the piece, every generation from the mid-30’s and younger ultimately…
Thu, 3/29, 2:16am (2 months ago)
There’s an argument in the editorial "Admins don't need a raise" today that I think needs some elaboration—it’s often difficult to explain an argument as fully as one would like in fewer than 300 words. First, here’s the paragraph I want to expand on:
“Employees with frozen wages have watched administrative…
Tue, 3/20, 11:13am (2 months ago)
This past March 17 was the six-month anniversary of the beginning of Occupy Wall Street. Protestors marked the occasion with a march and a return to Zucotti Park, but it didn't go as smoothly as they had hoped. The NYPD was not afraid to use violence to kick protestors out…
Mon, 3/19, 5:36pm (2 months ago)
As a follow-up to my column today regarding the Greek economy and the country’s higher education woes, here’s the link to the Bloomberg article that I referenced.
An area that I wasn’t able to touch on in my column, but one worth noting is the electoral influence Greek students had on…
Mon, 2/27, 6:25pm (3 months ago)
After reading my fellow columnist’s Trent Kays’ “Saying, ‘My student can’t write,’ is a cop out,” I wanted to respectfully and briefly push back.
As has been suggested in the comments section, the inherent problem with students’ poor writing isn’t that their professors aren’t providing them constant and constructive guidance to…
Fri, 1/20, 3:36pm (4 months ago)
Public outcry has had quite the effect on PIPA/SOPA in Congress. After black-outs, etc., both bills have been buried. But what if the legislation comes back in another version? There's been plenty of chatter to encourage Internet users to climb on the anti-SOPA/PIPA bandwagon, but it's important to know why,…
Thu, 12/8, 4:00pm (5 months ago)
According to a Facebook event and at least one anonymous flyer in the West Bank skyway, an event called "Occupy U of MN" begins tomorrow, December 9, at noon in the Carlson School of Management. The event says it is in solidarity with Occupy Wall Street and other Occupy movements…
Wed, 11/23, 1:26pm (6 months ago)
Just in time to weigh in on what the best Thanksgiving food is (pumpkin pie, and it's not even close), the Minnesota Daily Editorials & Opinions section now has a Twitter account, @mndailyopinions. The account will be operated by the Minnesota Daily Editorial Board.
The Opinions page is meant to be…
Sat, 11/19, 2:11pm (6 months ago)
This video of police pepper spraying seated, non-violent student protestors at the University of California-Davis speaks for itself. This comes just more than a week after police beat student protestors with billy clubs at the Occupy Cal protest at the University of California-Berkeley. An assistant professor at UC Davis has…
Tue, 10/4, 5:22pm (8 months ago)
In solidarity with the Occupy Wall Street movement, students at a variety of colleges and universities may (somewhat ironically) not be occupying classrooms tomorrow. A website called Occupy Colleges has been calling for a nationwide student walkout at noon local time on Wednesday, October 5 to protest mounting debt and…
Mon, 8/8, 11:41pm (9 months ago)
International events don't usually fall under the Minnesota Daily's purview (thus only a blog post to discuss this), but given the many virtual eye-rolls and gut-reactions of disgust I have seen about the London and United Kingdom riots on Twitter and news story comment sections, the issue deserves some deeper…
Wed, 7/27, 12:01am (10 months ago)
In a letter published in today’s Minnesota Daily (7/27/11), Provost Tom Sullivan writes that total financial aid has increased from $81 million in 2004 to $152 million in 2010. At first glance, this seems like a large improvement, increasing by 87.6 percent over 6 years. But while this statistic is…
Wed, 6/22, 5:43pm (11 months ago)
Throughout his Presidency, Barack Obama has refused to call a war a war. It started with his administration’s almost comical re-naming of the Global War on Terror (which included the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq) to “Overseas Contingency Operations” in early 2009, and the trend has only continued.
According to a…
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Blog: @APStylebook seeks to destroy American way of life by accepting "hopefully" (note: slight hyperbole) t.co/B0n8WbgI
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