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Orange-jumpsuited torture protestors march to St. Thomas Law School

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By Bill Sorem, The Uptake

Why were people in orange jumpsuits silently filing through the Minneapolis skyways? The answer may be ten years old, but those in the jumpsuits will tell you the problem is not in the past, but is a current one.MORE »

University of St. Thomas, Robert Delahunty, Gitmo and the legacy of torture

By Eric Pusey, Minnesota Progressive Project

The University of Saint Thomas employs a man that I believe is a war criminal. Robert Delahunty teaches at their law school. Ironically, Delahunty teaches constitutional law.MORE »

Succeeding at college: St. Thomas' REAL program

By Maggie Clemensen, ThreeSixty

In the banquet hall at the University of St. Thomas in August, Courtney Brewster stood among tables set for dinner and directed 16 incoming freshmen as they set up slideshows, practiced dance routines and played the piano piece they would perform at their closing celebration that evening.MORE »

Tutu's "moral equivalencies"

By Richard Lee Dechert, Free Speech Zone
Many of those who heard or saw Archbishop Desmond Tutu in the last few days may have recalled that in the October 5, 2007 letter to his students, faculty and staff, University of St. Thomas President Dennis Dease said in part:

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St. Thomas reverses its decision to disallow Tutu

By Abdi Aynte, Minnesota Monitor
University of St. Thomas president the Rev. Dennis Dease said the decision to bar Archbishop Desmond Tutu to speak at its campus was wrong, and that he will take measures to invite him.MORE »

An open letter to Father Dease

By Aaron Ziegler
Fr. Dease-

I am an undergraduate student at the University of St. Thomas. I read with interest both the recent press coverage and your response in the UST Bulletin regarding your decision not to allow UST facilities to be used to host Desmond Tutu. Let me begin by saying I'm more than a little disappointed.MORE »

The Tutu episode -- whither academic freedom?

By Abdi Aynte, Minnesota Monitor
To avoid offending some in Minnesota's Jewish community, the University of St. Thomas scrubbed a plan to invite Archbishop Desmond Tutu of South Africa, to speak at its campus next year.MORE »

Free Speech Makes for Strange Bedfellows

By Stephen B. Young
Today’s Pioneer Press (Thursday, October 04, 2007) on pages 1B and 6B took me quite aback. I read there that Marv Davidov had taken a stance with which I fully agreed. This had never happened before. From my youth I have never had much truck with peace at any cost advocates, which is the camp in which I place Marv for his consistent, dedicated, anti-war, pro-peace advocacy. MORE »
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