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 Confederate monuments rage and names of slave owners are being removed from buildings, streets and lakes, the exhibit is likely to raise questions about whether well-known U administrators involved in discriminatory policies of the past should continue to be memorialized.
Stolen car chase ends with fleeing driver stonewalled
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An chemical stain on Division Avenue shows the spot where police say a stolen car was driven off a retaining wall while the driver was attempting to elude police on Monday night. NEWS PHOTO COLLIN GALLANT
Police say a Calgary man drove a stolen car over a retaining wall and crashed down onto Division Avenue in Crescent Heights to avoid capture on Monday night.
“We think it’s a matter of not being familiar with the city, thinking there’s an easy out and all of a sudden you’re going over a wall,” said Staff Sgt. Rod Thompson.
The estimated value of the seized drugs is $160,000. Our information suggested these suspects were trafficking drugs in the region, and also supplying methamphetamine and fentanyl toward Medicine Hat and Lethbridge, said Staff Sgt. Kelsey Fraser of ALERT Medicine Hat in a statement. Four residents of Didsbury were arrested and charged in connection with the investigation. Two residents of Medicine Hat were later arrested in Nanton. Three people 35-year-old Ryan Riley and 32-year-old Lori Ehrler of Medicine Hat, and 53-year-old Edward Nicholson of Didsbury have been charged with possession of drugs for the purpose of trafficking. Nicholson also faces 11 firearms-related offences and a charge of possession of proceeds of crime.
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Josh Verges / St. Paul Pioneer Press | 6:53 pm, Feb. 20, 2019 ×
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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 against students despite significant activism on and off campus and while other universities chose integration.
The 11-person task force, chaired by law and history professor Susanna Blumenthal and liberal arts dean John Coleman, argued that changing the building names will help the university come to terms with its past: