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The Minnesota Daily

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The Minnesota Daily

NCAA track day 2: Gophers’ disappointment continues

by Megan Ryan
Published June 8, 2012

The Gophers men's track and field team fielded two events on day two of the NCAA outdoor championships, and the result mirrored the disappointment of the first day. Junior Nick Hutton finished...

Survey: U.S. teens prefer marijuana

by Nickalas Tabbert
Published June 7, 2012

Marijuana is more popular than cigarettes among teens, a government survey says. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported Thursday that 23 percent of high school students said they recently...

NCAA track day 1: Minnesota suffers rough start

by Megan Ryan
Published June 7, 2012

The Gophers track and field teams endured a rough start to their NCAA outdoor championships. The women's team's only qualifiers to the meet -- the 4x100 relay -- finished five spots out of advancing...

Twins send former Gophers pitcher De Vries back to Triple-A

by Andrew Krammer
Published June 7, 2012

The Minnesota Twins optioned former Gophers pitcher Cole De Vries to their Triple-A club in Rochester, N.Y., the team announced Thursday. De Vries was 1-1 with a 4.20 ERA through three starts with the...

ACME Comedy Company’s new podcast, nolaughtrack

by Sarah Harper
Published June 7, 2012

The monopolistic mammoth of a comedy club now has its own podcast, hosted by Justin Severson of the KQRS morning show. Nolaughtrack is available for free online, and a newsletter I just got from ACME promises...

Voter ID headed to the courts

by Kevin Burbach
Published June 7, 2012

  The Minnesota Supreme Court will soon decide if a November ballot question that would require ID at the polls needs to be changed or removed. The contentious ballot question that Republicans...

Mammoth bones discovered in Iowa backyard

by Rebecca Harrington
Published June 7, 2012

A family in Oskaloosa, Iowa has unique decorations in their living room -- mammoth bones. The family found the first bone two years ago, Discovery news reported, but kept it a secret until they decided...

Five years later, we’ve got a new Jens Lekman album

by Sarah Harper
Published June 7, 2012

Jens Lekman, our favorite Swedish pop musician (sorry, members of ABBA), will release his new album on September 4. "I Know What Love Isn't" is the first full-length that the sweetest man...

Washington Ave. bridge closed this weekend

by Kevin Burbach
Published June 7, 2012

The Washington Avenue Bridge, connecting the East and West Banks of campus, will be closed for the next two weekends due to work on the upcoming light rail.  In a release sent to the University community...

Gophers’ Schleper and Pachuta awarded Big Ten’s Medal of Honor

by Andrew Krammer
Published June 7, 2012

Minnesota track and field student-athlete David Pachuta and women's hockey student-athlete Anne Schleper were awarded the Big Ten's Medal of Honor on Thursday.The honor, first given in 1915,...

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