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February 12, 2007

SISTAHs

In the February 8, 2007 issue of the Minnesota Daily, Healther L. Mueller writes about the small group of black women who call themselves SISTAH (Spiritually Intellectual Sisters Together Achieving Harmony). The group was created in the hopes of gathering support for women of color on the Twin Cities campus. The group primarily deals with issues of school, dating, spirituality, sexism, and racism. One of the student members of the group expressed her feelings that "women need to stand together to build a stronger academic and social community for students of color."

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Same-Sex Marriage

In the February 12, 2007 issue of the Minnesota Daily, Justin Jagoe wrote about "The Right to Marry: Who is Really at Risk?". Jagoe is the treasurer of the Queer Student Cultural Center. Basically, he writes about the constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage. He speaks out in opposition to Christians against gay marriage saying "Your values as a spiritual person can only become stronger by testing what you believe". I guess, being a Christian myself, I found Jagoe's article to be offensive. While I might be in the minority when I'm a Christian and still consider homosexuality to be just another form of love, much like the love between a man and a woman, I disagree with Jagoe saying that we need to "test our faith".

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February 5, 2007

Choices

Who doesn't love procrastinating in class by reading the Minnesota Daily? I was doing just that when I found this article "Student groups celebrate women's right to choose" written by Amber Scadewald on Tuesday, January 23, 2007. The article talks about the University Pro-Choice Coalition's efforts to raise awareness about women's reproductive rights. The reason for raising this awareness: it's the 34th anniversary of the decision of Roe v. Wade.
The Coalition's main agenda at the second annual "Rock for Roe" concert was to get out the idea that "Seventy-seven percent of anti-abortion leaders are men, 100 percent of them will never get pregnant." The coalition wanted to make sure that students could realize and become aware of what it was like to live in a time when abortions weren't legally available.

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