U of M denounces dubious “white student union” Facebook page
Across the country Facebook pages are popping up, supposedly representing white student groups. Among the 30-plus pages is one dubbed a White Student Union for the University of Minnesota, claiming to...
View ArticleBen and Kandi Lovin's book-banning crusade crashes and burns
Ben and Kandi Lovin's 11-year-old daughter toted home a book from the Rosemount Middle School library. Judging from the cover, it appeared to be solid literature. "Just One Day" by Gayle Forman was...
View ArticleCentral High student who allegedly choked teacher has been charged
A St. Paul Central High School student faces a felony assault charge after a cafeteria tussle rendered a teacher unconscious. Around 10:30 a.m. last Friday, a fight broke out between two students over...
View ArticleIndependent report absolves U of M in Norwood Teague sexual harassment scandal
This summer, former Gophers athletics director Norwood Teague resigned amid a flurry of sexual harassment allegations stemming from his behavior at a department retreat. One female coworker accused...
View ArticleRogers student who tweeted teacher make-out joke gets $425,000 settlement
It turns out that if you crack an internet joke about making out with your high school teacher, you might be able to get the school to pay for your college tuition. Okay, that’s not at all the lesson...
View ArticleSt. Paul Central teacher assault spurs strike talk
After a Central High School teacher was beaten and choked by a student last week, the St. Paul teachers union has renewed calls to improve safety and school climate. Denise Rodriguez, president of the...
View ArticleFargo teen's assault rifle senior portrait banned, dad gets pissed
For his senior portrait, Josh Renville couldn’t have settled for clutching a guitar or leaning against his first car. The Fargo teen wanted something that captured his interests, his passions. An...
View ArticleWhy well-read conservatives fall for conspiracy theories
We roll our eyes when they clog our Facebook feeds. They back their wild claims with articles from blogs no one’s ever heard of. With a magazine of dubious “truth” bullets always at the ready,...
View ArticleSt. Paul district leaders indifferent to teachers’ solution to school violence
With wildly escalating violence in some St. Paul public schools in recent months, teachers are desperate to find a way to keep students and staff safe without losing misbehaving kids to the criminal...
View ArticlePatrick Henry: What a North Side public school can teach Minnesota
When Margaret Campbell completed 8th grade, she knew she was bound for Patrick Henry High in North Minneapolis. Her father was a proud graduate. She didn’t really have a choice. Her middle school...
View ArticleThe Wrath of Mo
On the eve of her resignation, Superintendent Mo Chang looks up from the head of a long table in the basement library of Community School of Excellence. She peers into a crowd of cold stares. Seated...
View ArticleA minor slip in the Pledge of Allegiance cues the outrage at Prior Lake High
Prior Lake High School tried to stamp out a freak-out before it happened, and ended up pissing off a ton of people anyway. Last week a secretary reading the Pledge of Allegiance over the intercom was...
View ArticleVikings fan's "B4 the field goal" sign is hilarious, sad, misspelled
The Green Bay Packers and Arizona Cardinals played one of the most dramatic playoff football games of all time Saturday night. In the end, the Cardinals won a 26-20 thriller in overtime to advance to...
View ArticleFaculty file for union to bring the U’s focus back to the classroom
When Teri Caraway began teaching political science at the University of Minnesota back in 2002, she led required writing-intensive courses of about 55 students. With the support of two teacher...
View ArticleMound Westonka students in trouble for dressing suspiciously like Klansmen
Last week, a group of Mound Westonka high schoolers showed up to a dodgeball tournament wearing all white costumes, complete with pointy white bandannas on their heads and white bandannas for masks....
View ArticleObama is a communist traitor, and conservatives are too damn nice
Did you notice your conservative friends seemed both scared and emboldened coming into this week? Thank David Horowitz, conservative author and serial hyperbolist, who swept through town last week,...
View ArticleBald eagle replaces rifle in yearbook photo that will save America
Fargo high school student Joshua Renville already had the most memorable student photo in America's graduating class of 2016. Now he's one-upped himself. Renville's original yearbook photo depicted...
View ArticlePunk rockers to raise school supplies for Anishinabe Academy in Minneapolis
It wasn’t too many generations ago that Minnesota’s Native American children were forcibly enrolled in Indian boarding schools and taught to forget their traditions in favor of American culture....
View ArticleMilo Yiannopoulos proudly mansplains through feminist protesters
Milo Yiannopolous, the Ken doll of modern conservatism, stopped by the University of Minnesota for a speech last night. Yiannopoulos, a writer and editor at Breitbart.com, was the invited guest of the...
View ArticleWisconsin-Whitewater roiled by racist video, alleged "blackface" photo
Emotions are running high at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater around issues of race. The reasons for this tension can be traced to two social media postings that surfaced online last week. One...
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