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The Minnesota Daily

Grad assistant stipends drop as tuition climbs

by Kelly Hildebrandt
Published October 9, 1998

Graduate assistant stipends are decreasing as tuition increases, Christine Maziar told the Board of Regents on Thursday at their monthly meeting. The Graduate School must stop the decreasing graduate assistant...

Fifth-place soccer still in Big Ten hunt

by Jim Schortemeyer
Published October 9, 1998

The race for the Big Ten soccer championship is as tight as ever. But for once, Minnesota is on the outside looking up. Four teams are within one game of each other atop the conference standings, with...

Sciences

by Amy Olson
Published October 9, 1998

A key Board of Regents committee voted unanimously on Thursday to approve a proposal to reorganize departments in the College of Biological Sciences. In what he called one of the "best faculty-driven efforts...

Regents ban any future investment in Total Oil

by Robin Huiras
Published October 9, 1998

Ending 10 months of public controversy, the Board of Regents unanimously passed a resolution Thursday to prohibit any future University investments in Total Oil Co., the French-based company with operations...

Gophers seek

by Michael Dougherty
Published October 9, 1998

Redemption is a hard thing to come by -- especially after giving up 692 total yards and 56 points to Purdue -- but the Gophers football team still spent the week asking for it. "Purdue is a totally different...

OSU’s Kirk wins appeal

Published October 9, 1998

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- Ohio State linebacker Chris Kirk, who was found to be academically ineligible, has been reinstated after the Big Ten upheld his appeal. Kirk, a junior inside linebacker from Westerville,...

Net: And now, back …

Published October 9, 1998

Net: And now, back to our regularly scheduled silliness.SQUIRRELS! From Squirrel Killer: I hate to say it, but after all of my long years here at the University, and all my long hours of trying to get...

Albanian rebels declare cease-fire in Kosovo to pressure Milosevic

Published October 9, 1998

BELGRADE, Yugoslavia (AP) -- Ethnic Albanian rebels fighting for independence for the Serbian province of Kosovo declared a unilateral cease-fire Thursday, putting more pressure on Yugoslav President Slobodan...

U hockey breaks the ice

by Tim Nichols
Published October 9, 1998

Put the little plastic goals back on the street. The cars have passed by, the offseason is over. Game on. The 1998-99 Minnesota men's hockey team opens the season in the 2nd annual Team Cheerios Icebreaker...

Students and ad experts scrutinize

by Kane Loukas
Published October 9, 1998

There's nothing like waking up to a cigarette, or at least a cigarette advertisement. University commuters who travel Huron Boulevard would know for sure, since a billboard for Camel cigarettes on Washington...

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