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The Minnesota Daily

Serving the UMN community since 1900

The Minnesota Daily

Serving the UMN community since 1900

The Minnesota Daily

Freshmen lead

Published October 26, 1998

The Minnesota men's swimming and diving team kicked off its season this weekend with the annual Alumni/Intrasquad Meet at the Aquatic Center. A host of newcomers won several events for the varsity squad,...

WONDERS NEVER CEASE…

Published October 26, 1998

WONDERS NEVER CEASE Net: Another Homecoming has passed. The alumni have departed with the jarring memory of a Homecoming victory in their heads. What are you trying to do, Gophers? Make returning graduates...

Center’s closing has secular implications

Published October 26, 1998

There has been considerable speculation about the motives behind the closing of the Newman Center, the 73-year-old Roman Catholic student center on University Avenue. The Archdiocese of St. Paul says that...

Anti-Western sentiment hip, but blind

Published October 26, 1998

If you have a moment, could you please take the following quiz? It's simple enough; simply draw a line from each object in column A to either the "Hip" or "Un-Hip" found in column B (##1 is done for you)....

Hard-liners win national elections for key Iranian assembly

Published October 26, 1998

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Even the losers praised the election for an assembly of Iran's ruling clergy, calling it a triumph for democracy. However, the victory for hard-liners announced Sunday could set back...

Spirited parade sets celebratory

by Mark Baumgarten
Published October 26, 1998

Members of the University community lined University Avenue on Saturday to show school spirit and support the 110-plus community organizations in the annual Homecoming parade. University Avenue was closed...

New funding era brings changes for med school

by Melanie Evans
Published October 26, 1998

Editor's note: This is the first in a series of five articles examining a national funding crunch in medical education and the Medical School's efforts to grapple with the changes. Tuesday's article will...

Goofy goal boosts U against St. Cloud

by Tim Nichols
Published October 26, 1998

There were no black cats crossing the path of the puck, and the moon wasn't full. But still the men's hockey team's weekend series with St. Cloud State couldn't have been any more strange. Minnesota opened...

U snaps

by Murali Balaji
Published October 26, 1998

Maybe it was the aura of Homecoming. Or maybe the football gods decided it was time 22 years of Michigan State domination came to an end. Either way, Minnesota escaped Saturday with an exhilarating 19-18...

Ken Starr makes an appearance at Law School forum

by Kane Loukas
Published October 26, 1998

Kenneth Starr told a University Law School audience Saturday that although presidents have the right to withhold information from Congress, that right is subordinate to the needs of the criminal justice...

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