The Wake

Where 21st Avenue ends across from the Pioneers and Soldiers Memorial Cemetery stands the Green Institute. This last stop destination conceals the center of environmental activism in Minnesota. The neighborhood surrounding the Institute is America: a hybrid of industrial, residential, and business life forming one community. Here reside the elements that compose human civilization and simultaneously endanger it. In the …

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With the current economic slowdown, and the exchange rate at about 1.5 dollars per euro, the closest most University of Minnesota students will come to something French this fall can be found
on the dollar menu alongside le rodeo cheeseburger.

Paris remains the greatest recipient of tourism worldwide; however, an increasing number of students are opting out of the classic study abroad in Europe experience in favor of countries with a lower exchange rate, the National Student …

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Photos by Matt Miranda and Scottie Tuska

D-day. Convention week. September 1st-4th. Republican Christmas. Call it what you will, the atmosphere in St. Paul that week was truly bizarre. Amongst the commotion surrounding the MSNBC Free Speech Stage® a Tucson cop buys himself a hocked McCain-Palin T-shirt. A man in a suit claims to be McCain’s second choice for VP. A group of antiwar feminists decry the nomination of Sarah Palin and a group of radical …

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