An Apology
The article "The evolution of prejudice" has been removed due to its sensitive and offensive nature. The Metropolitan deeply regrets the pain and anger inflicted upon the entire university community by publishing the commentary. The Metropolitan also deeply regrets the irreparable damage this has caused to previous progress efforts to build unity made by the Anti-Racism Task Force and the university community at large.
The Anti-Racism Task Force and the A.A.S.A. encourage The Metropolitan to have a greater representation of the diverse Metropolitan State University community in the newspaper. The Metropolitan welcomes articles, commentary and signed letters to the editor from the entire university community for the upcoming and future issues. More information about deadlines will be posted as soon as it becomes available.
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Announcement:
May 5 is the deadline for the May/June special edition issue. The issue will feature responses received from publishing “The evolution of prejudice” commentary. All students, staff, faculty, alumni and community members are invited to submit responses for this special edition.
In the past an editorial board advised The Metropolitan on a variety of issues. The Metropolitan is going to revive the editorial board and is looking for people to serve on the board. If interested, please email Christina.Thury@metrostate.edu and Carol.Lacey@metrostate.edu.
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Overseas, protests over cartoons were hardly nonviolent. But the one organized by Twin Cities Muslims was deliberately different—peaceful—so peaceful that furor against Muslim violence seconded the furor over the cartoons, the subject of the rally in Minneapolis. An estimated 1,000 Muslims crammed into the Brian Coyle Center on Feb. 20 to denounce controversial caricatures originally published by a small Danish newspaper lampooning prophet Muhammad in an unflattering manner...
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Do your palms sweat during a test? Does your heart pound and your mind go blank? Do you feel pushed for time and worry if you are the last one to finish? If so, you might have test anxiety. Student Counseling Services (SCS) held a workshop regarding test anxiety on Feb. 15, 2006, at Metropolitan State University. Rae Hoesing, an intern counselor with SCS presented information to students to help relieve test anxiety...
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Project SHINE is now offered in 19 Metropolitan State University and Minneapolis Community and Technical Colleges courses, by 14-plus faculty members, as an alternative to research papers or other class assignments. According to its Web site, Project SHINE (Students Helping in the Naturalization of Elders) "links college students with older immigrants and refugees seeking to learn English and..."
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