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The HUSC campaign season is coming to a close with elections from Monday, February 28 to Wednesday, March 2. It concludes after a February 17 informal debate for official presidential candidates and a February 23 formal debate. Current HUSC first-year representative Tawny Plenty Horse moderated the formal debate in Sundin Music Hall, where official candidates...

  Over one-thousand protesters took to the streets yet again to rally against police violence on Saturday, February 5. Minneapolis Police fatally shot 22-year old Black man Amir Locke 3 times, after serving a no-knock warrant around 7 a.m. on February 2. Police had been in the apartment for 9 seconds when an officer now...

CW: This piece contains frank discussion of ableism at Hamline University. If this is a topic that affects you, please read with caution. In her first semester at Hamline, Xyola Holm ran for a first-year representative position on HUSC and started working for the Wesley Center’s Spirituality Scholars. However, after winter break, Holm will be...

Hamline Undergraduate Student Congress, the Multicultural Alliance and the Hedgeman Center hosted the 2021 Diversity Summit on Sunday, November 14. Students who attended heard professors and former student Shona Ramchandani speak on the theme of “addressing and overcoming assimilation.”  For student leaders who attended, the Diversity Summit gave insight on how groups have dealt with...

*Content warning: this piece includes details of racially motivated and antisemitic incidents on the Hamline campus.*   With the 2021-22 academic year underway for a month and a half, the Hamline community has already seen two known incidents of hate speech, sparking a conversation surrounding school policies, institutional transparency and respect. On the night of...

Die neu eingeführte 3G-Regel wird mancherorts schon verschärft – Hamburg macht es vor, Baden-Württemberg will folgen. Dort heißt es Zutritt nur für Geimpfte und Genesene – nicht mehr für „nur“ Getestete. Doch was denken die Lübecker über diese Regel?

Young Minnesotans excited about Bidens pitch to cancel $10,000 in student loan debt Ryan Faircloth, Star Tribune © Star Tribune/Star Tribune/ELIZABETH FLORES • Star Tribune/Star Tribune/TNS Abdulaziz Mohamed is a sophomore at the University of Minnesota where he is majoring in political science and Economics. Mohamed, a graduate of Stillwater High School, said he has more than $10,000 in college debt. Abdulaziz Mohamed can hardly fathom the idea of having his student loan de...