Posted on 30 November 2014.
Dr. Date,
My girlfriend insists that we open up our relationship and date other people, as well as each other, but I’m not sure about the idea. Sure, I’ve heard it can be really great for some couples, but it’s just something that’s really hard for me to wrap my brain around.
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Posted on 25 November 2014.
By: Haley Hansen
Some members of the University of Minnesota’s student government body question the level of accessibility for obtaining its president position, saying a requirement for those seeking election should change.
But at a meeting last week, members of the Minnesota Student Association voted against the proposal, which would have lowered the number of signatures required to run for president from 450 to 100.
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Posted on 25 November 2014.
By: Haley Hansen
Some members of the University of Minnesota’s student government body question the level of accessibility for obtaining its president position, saying a requirement for those seeking election should change.
But at a meeting last week, members of the Minnesota Student Association voted against the proposal, which would have lowered the number of signatures required to run for president from 450 to 100.
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Posted on 25 November 2014.
By: Parker Lemke
Chairing a University of Minnesota department takes acquired expertise — many years of practice in the field — and sometimes an ability to compromise personal research with the hope of bettering the entire program.
Three University researchers transitioned back into research and faculty roles after serving as department heads, positions they said made it challenging to focus on individual research and teaching but are sometimes a part of the natural progression as an academic.
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Posted on 25 November 2014.
By: Anne Millerbernd
Don Olson saw Dinkytown through some of its most memorable social and political movements during the 1960s.
As Vietnam War protests flared up at colleges across the country, the former student activist, who dropped out in 1967 to focus on activism full time, was at the front lines of the University of Minnesota’s movement. Around the same time, a fast food restaurant called Red Barn was proposed in place of five businesses in the area. Olson supported a protest of the establishment that would become one of the most famous in Dinkytown’s history.
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Posted on 23 November 2014.
By: Parker Lemke
The University of Minnesota has encouraged its researchers in recent years to report more of their innovations to the school’s Office for Technology
Commercialization.
To capitalize on new scientific breakthroughs, the OTC has ramped up its work of transferring innovations developed on campus — ranging from computer applications to new crop varieties — to industry partners that can manufacture and market the discoveries.
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Posted on 20 November 2014.
By: Jessie Bekker
Chloe Laabs estimates it will take 20 years to pay off her student loans.
The Minnesota Student Association member and University of Minnesota biology, society, and environment sophomore said she’ll graduate with about $41,000 in debt.
She’s not alone. The average Minnesotan undergraduate earning a bachelor’s degree last year left college with just under $31,000 in loan debt, according to new data released by the Project on Student Debt. University of Minnesota students averaged just over $28,000.
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Posted on 16 November 2014.
By: Jessie Bekker
Minneapolis basketball lovers celebrated on Friday night, as the under-construction Vikings stadium was announced as the venue for the 2019 NCAA tournament’s Final Four.
The city defeated competitors such as St. Louis, New Orleans and Atlanta for the chance to host its first Final Four since 2001.
David Mortenson, president of the company building the stadium, said at a press conference that the successful bid came after a yearlong period of “a tremendous amount of hard work and dedication.”
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Posted on 16 November 2014.
By: John Thomas
After a tumultuous first year, Minnesota’s state-run health care exchange opened for its second enrollment period on Saturday.
At a Friday event at the University of Minnesota, officials and experts in the field asked Minnesotans frustrated with the MNsure website failures to give the exchange another shot.
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Posted on 16 November 2014.
By: Parker Lemke
First experiments are underway in Amundson Hall’s new Gore Annex expansion — complete with new lab facilities, teaching spaces and a first-of-its-kind ultrafast electron microscope.
“We’re moving in hot,” said teaching assistant professor Mike Manno. “We got new equipment coming in every day, new things are being installed and the students are slowly coming in.”
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