Posted on 07 December 2014.
By: Nicola Brambilla, University student
This week, the University of Minnesota’s Board of Regents and President Eric Kaler will be meeting to discuss the budget of the University and plans going forward for next year. However, the Board of Regents will not be accomplishing one of their main goals, which can be found in the original charter of the University.
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Posted on 07 December 2014.
The Minnesota State High School League overwhelmingly approved a policy last Thursday allowing transgender high school students to participate in team sports according to their gender preferences.
We are pleased to see that this policy received such a great amount of support.
Despite the debate that surrounded the measure in the days preceding the vote, the MSHSL clearly understands the need for a specific set of guidelines to help form an inclusive environment for everyone in high school.
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Posted on 07 December 2014.
The Minneapolis City Council voted unanimously last week to ban indoor public use of electronic cigarettes, commonly known as vaping.
The ordinance, written by Ward 2 City Councilman Cam Gordon, will prohibit users from vaping in stores, restaurants and at work. It will allow people to vape at e-cigarette shops where sampling is necessary. This bill was proposed because of concerns of the unknown long-term health effects of e-cigarettes and their associated secondhand smoking effects.
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Posted on 07 December 2014.
Nearly two years before a white Cleveland police officer fatally shot a black 12-year-old boy, the Justice Department had begun a civil rights investigation into the city’s police department.
The inquiry’s outcome found a pattern of abuses, including “unreasonable and unnecessary use of force” that often ended with dangerous behavior by officers, the New York Times reported last week.
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Posted on 07 December 2014.
Michael Brown, Eric Garner and Tamir Rice: All three of these black individuals were killed by a police officer this year in ways that I and many other Americans find unjust.
Brown was shot multiple times by an officer. Garner repeatedly stated, “I can’t breathe,” after an officer put him into an illegal chokehold. Rice was just a 12-year-old boy playing with a fake gun in a park when police officers abruptly approached him and shot him down.
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Posted on 07 December 2014.
By: Ronald Dixon
The Internet provides a platform for millions of people around the world to openly express their opinions and contribute to the marketplace of ideas. An overarching freedom, though, inherently enables abuses from a minority of wrongdoers.
Online, these perpetrators are known as “trolls.” They derive pleasure from insulting and threatening others from behind fake profile names.
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Posted on 07 December 2014.
Dr. Date,
I’m trying to lose weight, and my boyfriend is making the situation tough. We’re constantly getting into fights because he’ll say things like “Are you really going to eat that?” or “Hey, how about you head to the gym for 30 minutes instead of watching this Keeping Up with the Kardashians episode?” I’d like to think his comments come from a good place and he’s trying to help me, but they don’t seem constructive. They seem mean.
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Posted on 04 December 2014.
By: Ethan Nelson
Lesa Clarkson started connecting Minneapolis’ middle and high school students with University of Minnesota undergraduate tutors last year.
As an associate director for the University’s STEM Education Center, she oversees a group of undergraduate and graduate students who prepare students citywide for the ACT.
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Posted on 04 December 2014.
By: Danny Chen
After racking up 25 first-place finishes at the Jean Freeman Invite last year, the Gophers are looking for a repeat performance this weekend.
The invite has been an annual event at the University Aquatic Center since 2012, in honor of legendary Gophers women’s swimming and diving coach Jean Freeman.
Freeman died at the age of 60 in 2010 after an ongoing fight with cancer.
She spent 31 years as the Gophers’ head women’s swimming and diving coach before retiring during the 2003-04 season.
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Posted on 04 December 2014.
By: Danny Chen
Coming off a victory against top-10 Oklahoma State, the wrestling team will look to continue its momentum as it heads to the Cliff Keen Invitational.
Among the 39 teams competing alongside Minnesota in the two-day event are Big Ten foes Indiana, Michigan, Ohio State and Nebraska.
Head assistant coach Brandon Eggum said his team knows all of the Big Ten schools very well, but it also expects to see different lineups at the invitational.
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