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The Minnesota Daily

Serving the UMN community since 1900

The Minnesota Daily

Minn. Secretary of State would support early voting legislation

by Alexi Gusso
Published November 28, 2012

Minnesota Secretary of State Mark Ritchie said Tuesday that he would support legislation that would expand early voting in the state, the Associated Press reported.  Ritchie said that he's confident...

Student entrepreneurs go head to head in Biz Pitch competition

by Marion Renault
Published November 28, 2012

  In a Shark Tank-style showdown, 8 finalists will make ninety second business pitches to a panel of entrepreneurs tomorrow at tomorrow’s Biz Pitch competition. Funded by the Gary S. Holmes...

Harms, Dixon make All-Big Ten volleyball team

by Megan Ryan
Published November 27, 2012

Two Gophers volleyball players made the All-Big Ten Conference team Tuesday. Big Ten coaches voted unanimously for junior middle blocker Tori Dixon  and senior outside hitter Katherine Harms to receive...

Kluwe, Parrish debate about same-sex marriage

by Alexi Gusso
Published November 27, 2012

Less than a month after Minnesotans struck down a constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage, Minnesota Vikings punter Chris Kluwe debated the issue with Minnesota For Marriage Campaign Manager...

The end of conditional admission

by Editorial board
Published November 27, 2012
New regulations pose unnecessary burdens on international students.
Spanish and Portuguese studies sophomore Tia Theisen, a tutor at the Magrath Library SMART Learning Commons, studies while waiting for students who come in for tutoring Wednesday in St. Paul.

Campus learning commons juggle tutors, student needs

by Hailey Colwell
Published November 27, 2012
The peer tutoring service has low demand at its St. Paul location.
 A crane lowers Big Mouth, the Minnesota Zoo's 1,700-pound beluga whale, onto an operating table.

In the mouth of the whale

by Joseph Kleinschmidt
Published November 27, 2012
Arnold Leonard helped save a beluga whale, one of the many stories he recounts in his book of medical history, “Through the Portals of Pigs and Manure.”

Wilhite makes Big Ten 2nd team

by Dane Mizutani
Published November 27, 2012

Gophers head coach Jerry Kill has stressed all season that he has a young football team. On Monday, some of the older guys on the squad took home a few accolades to close out their careers. Minnesota senior...

Rough and tumble nice guy

by Spencer Doar
Published November 27, 2012
Dave Fulton fell into comedy while training to be an alpine guide and wonders how he’s still doing it.

Dehumanize the terror, not the people

In the Nov. 21 issue of the Minnesota Daily, Norman Shamas wrote in his letter to the editor, “Dehumanizing Israelis and Gazans,” on the need to move from a rhetoric of justification to a rhetoric...

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