Tag: University of Minnesota
Lawmakers criticize U of M president for ‘lack of action’ on...
More than two dozen Republican lawmakers signed onto a letter they sent to the University of Minnesota last week blasting its interim President Jeff Ettinger for what...
Rosemount approves Meta data center despite residents’ concerns
Objections from residents didn't stop the Rosemount City Council from voting unanimously to allow tech giant Meta to move forward with building a new...
U of M professor: ‘I hope you seek to dismantle the...
At a recent event called “From Minnesota to Palestine,” left-wing activists and two University of Minnesota professors organized a panel discussion in which participants...
Pro-Palestine protesters disrupt U of M Board of Regents meeting
A group of students affiliated with the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities’ chapter of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) disrupted the monthly Board of...
2 dead, another injured in overnight Dinkytown shooting near U of...
Two people were fatally shot and a third was injured in an overnight shooting at a tobacco shop in the heart of Dinkytown near...
Minneapolis car prowlers captured on video in U of M off-campus...
Car prowlers were captured on surveillance video early in the morning Nov. 20 in the Marcy Holmes neighborhood of Minneapolis while appearing to take...
U of M faculty accuse Israel of ‘settler colonial violence,’ ‘genocidal...
A group of faculty members released a statement last month urging the University of Minnesota to “divest from Israel” while criticizing media coverage that...
Anoka-Hennepin educator willing to lose job in opposing controversial DEI training
An Anoka-Hennepin School District employee said she’s willing to risk her job to voice her opposition to what she described as a racist and...
Protesters disrupt Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett’s lecture
Protesters disrupted Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett’s lecture at the University of Minnesota Law School on Monday.
“Not the court, not the state, the...
U of M student group calls Hamas terror ‘the only option’
The University of Minnesota’s chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) called Hamas’ terrorist attacks on Israel the “only option left for the...