Daily Breakdown

Wednesday, April 2, 2025

April 02, 2025

Good morning lovely people,

So here’s the rub: We have curated a metric “S” -ton of news for you to read today. That’s an official measurement. So, I’ve neatly divided it for you below into two categories. The stuff at the top is going to be your more hot-button, strict, current-happenings jazz, and the section labeled “Other News” is some equally well-reported stuff but with less of the issues of the day attached.

Here’s the short of it: Top Story and Campus Administration News = lawsuits, protests, institutional speech and policy changes.

Other News = Psychedelic mushrooms, Comedian Q&A and Basketball

Do what you need to do, but the only way you can lose this game is if you don’t play. Get to reading.

Take it easy,

Spencer White | Editor-in-Chief | [email protected]

Top Story

The Carlson graduate student has not been involved in campus activism, the lawsuit says. Pooja Singh | MN Daily

International UMN student files lawsuit for unlawful detention by ICE

by Hannah Ward | Published April 1, 2025

The University of Minnesota international student detained by Immigrations and Customs Enforcement officers (ICE) last Thursday was targeted for a DUI, according to a lawsuit filed by the student.

Doğukan Günaydin, an MBA student in the Carlson School of Management and Turkish citizen, pleaded guilty in March 2024 to driving under the influence in Minneapolis the previous year, according to court records. 

Günaydin had not participated in protests on campus or been vocal about political issues, the New York Times reported Monday. He was booked into Sherburne County jail in Elk River, 30 miles from campus.

The lawsuit alleges that Günaydin’s visa was unlawfully terminated and his right to due process was violated by detaining him without being charged with an immigration violation, Sahan Journal reported. He also reportedly “feared he was being kidnapped” by the plain-clothes ICE officers.

In an email statement to the Minnesota Daily, the Department of Homeland Security said Günaydin’s visa was revoked by the State Department for the DUI and “is not related to student protests.” 

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Campus Administration News

By Tyler Church & Mady Leick | Since the University of Minnesota’s Board of Regents approved a policy regarding institutional speech, many members of the University community, from faculty to staff and students, feel the Board’s decision infringes on faculty’s ability to speak on public matters. 

The policy requires University President Rebecca Cunningham to approve all statements written by the University, faculty governance and other units on behalf of the University on issues of public concern. 

Other News

By Hannah Reynolds | As Minnesota begins to shift its stance on psychedelics, the Psychedelic Education Club at the University of Minnesota is optimistic about potential policy changes. 

Legislation introduced into the Minnesota House of Representatives last week seeks to decriminalize personal possession of psychedelic mushrooms and legalize them for therapeutic use. These bills follow the recent recommendations of the Psychedelic Medicine Task Force, created by the legislature in 2023 to advise on the potential legalization of psychedelic medicine.