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Protests at Columbia University over the Israeli-Palestinian conflict highlight escalating tensions and the campus community's deepening divisions. Read to learn more.

A new exhibit chronicling a controversial period at the University of Minnesota raises the question. The names behind the most egregious acts are some of the best known at the U, including former President Lotus D. Coffman and Edward Nicholson, who served as the U’s first dean of student affairs. Both served during a turbulent time when issues of race, equality, war and students’ rights roiled the campus. Both have prominent campus buildings named after them. Now, as controversies over Conf...

Written By: Josh Verges / St. Paul Pioneer Press | 6:53 pm, Feb. 20, 2019 × U of M logo ST. PAUL — The names of four former University of Minnesota leaders should be scrubbed from Twin Cities campus buildings, according to a task force appointed by President Eric Kaler. A 125-page report made public Wednesday, Feb. 20, says the four white men, who promoted racist and anti-Semitic policies at the university, were not simply a product of their times. Rather, they discriminated agains...