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The Minnesota Daily

Chris Tastad, right, shakes hands with State Rep. Joe Atkins, DFL-Inver Grove Heights, after a meeting at the Minnesota State Office Building on Monday, Jan. 28, 2013, in St. Paul.

Three students vie for open Board of Regents seat

by Alexi Gusso
Published January 31, 2013
One University of Minnesota student will serve a six-year term.

University $84 million tech upgrade chugs along

by Rebecca Harrington
Published January 31, 2013
The project is still in the planning stages after six months.
Haley Spencer swims the women's 100-yard breaststroke  Saturday, Dec. 1, 2012, at the University Aquatic Center. Spencer has won the 200 breaststroke in back-to-back years at the Big Ten championships.

Spencer, Smith carry on breaststroke tradition

by Nate Gotlieb
Published January 31, 2013
The Gophers have historically swum well in the breaststroke.

Legislators push Obama to act on climate talk

by Hailey Colwell
Published January 31, 2013

  The National Caucus of Environmental Legislators sent a letter to President Obama Tuesday asking him to address climate change during his second term. Among the 302 state legislators who signed...

Saying deuces to fashion faux pas

by Shannon Ryan
Published January 31, 2013

As a contributing writer to the fashion industry, I feel it is necessary to try out the majority of trends that surface each year, critiquing those that simply do not work and wearing those that simply...

President Obama coming to Minneapolis to push gun control agenda

by Brian Arola
Published January 31, 2013

President Barack Obama will be in Minneapolis Monday to look at steps the city has taken to curb gun violence. Obama is hoping to mobilize public support to get behind his gun control measures as Congress...

Garrett McNamara breaks world record surfing 100-foot wave

by Kelsey Shirriff
Published January 30, 2013

45-year-old Hawaiian surfer Garrett McNamara reportedly broke the world record for largest wave ever surfed after crushing a 100-footer in Nazaré, Portugal on Monday. If the claims are validated,...

Schiff’s mayoral campaign kick-off draws students

by Brian Arola
Published January 30, 2013

Roughly 100 supporters, many of them students, packed into Blarney Pub and Grill Tuesday night to support Minneapolis City Councilman Gary Schiff as he kicked off his mayoral campaign. Minneapolis rapper...

Dung Beetles Use the Milky Way as a Map

by Marjorie Otto
Published January 30, 2013

  I found another random thing on NPR yesterday. An Australian scientist teaching in Sweden, with the help of a team, discovered that dung beetles use the Milky Way the guide themselves. When the...

WCHA honors Räty, Brandt

by Megan Ryan
Published January 30, 2013

Two Gophers women's hockey players earned a WCHA conference weekly award Wednesday after the Gophers swept Wisconsin last weekend 2-0 and 5-1. The conference named senior goaltender Noora Räty its...

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