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Mar. 06, 2003
Members of the University group Students Against War were surprised to see themselves listed among groups law enforcement organizations should track in a story in Wednesday's Star Tribune.
Mar. 06, 2003
University students will bear at least 50 percent of the institution's state funding cuts in the form of tuition and fees increases, University President Robert Bruininks told the House Higher Education Finance Committee on Wednesday.
Mar. 05, 2003
University students and environmentalists rallied Tuesday outside the Radisson Hotel Metrodome on Washington Avenue to protest Xcel Energy's plan to expand waste storage at its Prairie Island nuclear plant.
Mar. 05, 2003
Students will be dispersed in neighborhoods around the University's St. Paul campus if an ordinance proposed by St. Paul City Council member Jay Benanav, 4th Ward, is passed.
Mar. 04, 2003
The Department of Homeland Security's immigration agency extended the deadline for certain males with temporary visas to get interviewed, fingerprinted and photographed.
Mar. 04, 2003
Gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender activists will meet at the State Capitol on Thursday to protest two controversial House bills.
Mar. 04, 2003
Local environmentalists contend Gov. Tim Pawlenty's 14 percent cut in state environmental and agriculture spending until 2005 might come at the expense of environmental quality, such as clean water.
Mar. 03, 2003
Opponents of new drunk driving legislation fear it will cripple liquor sales, crowd county jails and bankrupt local governments.
Feb. 28, 2003
Gov. Tim Pawlenty's budget plan for 2004-05 is $125 million short, according to the budget forecast the state Finance Department released Thursday.
Feb. 25, 2003
Students from 15 colleges across the state converged on the Capitol on Monday morning in an effort to sway legislators to vote against legislation regulating access to abortion.
Feb. 24, 2003
Violent or destructive actions by activist or terrorist groups are typically followed by claims of responsibility by the groups' representatives.
Feb. 24, 2003
School children expressing loyalty each morning to the flag is seen by some as an American duty - but others see it as an affront to the very ideals for which it stands.
Feb. 24, 2003
In early February, first lady Laura Bush canceled a planned White House literary symposium after learning that many of the poets she invited planned to use the platform to protest a possible war with Iraq.
Feb. 24, 2003
University junior Shelley Guthrie isn't just a busy student, she's also a working mother.
A part-time employee at the University's Student Parent HELP Center, Guthrie is raising her 2-year-old daughter, Amirah, while completing a double major in psychology and sociology.
Feb. 24, 2003
Last semester I wrote a column, "So-called Friends of Israel are anything but," Oct. 22, 2002, denouncing a document distributed by Friends of Israel, a student group at the University.
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