Forum editorial: Chancellor ‘evaluates’ presidents

You’ve got to hand it to outgoing North Dakota University System Chancellor Hamid Shirvani. He’s enhancing the image of autocrat he created in his short tenure on the job.

Letter: Immigration reform vital to flagship universities

As the institutional leaders of North Dakota’s research universities, we are writing to encourage your support for our U.S. senators for reform of current federal immigration law.

Steve Stark cartoon June 20

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Forum editorial: Welcome to bishop of diocese

A warm Fargo welcome to Bishop-elect John Thomas Folda, who today will be ordained as bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Fargo. The 51-year-old Nebraska native succeeds Bishop Samuel Aquila, who was elevated to archbishop of Denver.

Letter: Behavior of ND higher ed board and some legislators despicable

Where were the journalistic truth-seekers when the North Dakota Board of Higher Education offered a $1 million three-year contract to a Californian with an already 90 percent disapproval rating on his previous attempt to implement his “vision”?

Letter: Sen. Heitkamp should be praised for her gun vote

Sen. Heidi Heitkamp, D-N.D., is to be commended, rather than criticized, for the vote she cast on firearms background checks (Forum “Leafy Spurge,” June 17).

Letter: Ball was dropped on Beck story

The Forum dropped the ball on the Travis Beck assault story.

Letter: IEA urges leaders to act on climate

On June 10, the International Energy Agency issued a report stating that global carbon dioxide emissions from energy use have risen 1.4 percent in 2012, which sets a record and could drive global temperatures far above international climate goals (“Redrawing the Climate Map,” June 2013).

Letter: With GPS, government can track our movements

If we decide that government collection of private telephone and Internet information is legitimate, what’s next?

Steve Stark cartoon June 19

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Forum editorial: Add crime to boozing on campus

It’s no surprise students on area college campuses drink, sometimes to excess. But a new study that links 89 percent of campus crime to alcohol should startle anyone who is concerned about the pervasive abuse of alcohol by young people.

Forum editorial: ‘Symphony of Soil’ airs today in Fargo

‘Symphony of the Soil,” a film about a resource as basic to agriculture as water, will be aired at 7 p.m. today at the Fargo Theatre. Go see it.

Letter: Critics of Bush were far worse

I was deeply moved by The Forum’s stirring defense of President Barack Obama against his many critics.

Letter: Crime editorial off-base, untrue

A recent editorial regarding crime in western North Dakota was off base. Top experts have supported this with extensive studies that show no evidence that western crime is any different than rates across the state.

Letter: Forum wrong to publish letter

It saddens me that I live in a world where a deeply offensive letter announcing Jim Ebsen’s bigotry with pride would be considered appropriate for publication (June 14).