A Student Columnist Faces Hostility for Questioning U.S. Policy

Scott Laderman, a columnist at The Minnesota Daily, took an unpopular stance with an article he published in the student newspaper at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities shortly after September 11. After his column, "Make No Mistake: America Far From Innocent," appeared, the graduate student in American studies received hundreds of critical e-mail messages even before noon.

Q. What did those responses entail?

A. There was a stack of Minnesota Dailies burned outside [the

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