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Serving the UMN community since 1900

The Minnesota Daily

Portland House fight should meet halfway

Published April 30, 1998

As the heated dialogue over Portland House continues, opposing views of the house just can't seem to meet halfway. Since Brian Close's article appeared in The Minnesota Daily on April 13, the halfway house...

Administrators receive executive name changes

by Jeremy Taff
Published April 30, 1998

University President Mark Yudof adjusted his cabinet this week. The changes will require new nameplates for two administrators. The president removed "acting" from Carol Carrier's title, Wednesday, officially...

Death toll from landslides in Tajikistan exceeds 100

Published April 30, 1998

iggered by torrential rains have killed more than 100 people in this Central Asian nation, and scores more remained trapped in debris, officials said Wednesday. Abdurashid Khashimov, a deputy head of Tajikistan's...

Society goes both ways on questions of sex

Published April 30, 1998

PRINCETON, N.J. (U-WIRE) -- It's time to write about sex. A recent Daily Princetonian poll showed our campus evenly split between those who are getting some and those who aren't. I tend not to take polls...

Proposed bill helps students with children

by Coralie Carlson
Published April 30, 1998

Toddlers bounded from tube slides to sand boxes Wednesday afternoon at the day-care facility just off campus. While they skipped across a winding sidewalk leading to Toddler Parkway and Infant Lane --...

Softball team drops back end of key double dip

by Michael Dougherty
Published April 30, 1998

On Tuesday, the 23rd-ranked Gophers softball team won game two of a doubleheader thanks to some questionable strategy from Iowa State's coach. On Wednesday, some questionable strategy of their own might...

U graduate

by Michelle Moriarity
Published April 30, 1998

When Rolf Scholtz majored in political science and international relations as a University student, little did he know he would be designing and marketing bicycle racks within two years of graduation. Since...

Coaches: Prep hockey needs a boost

by Aaron Kirscht
Published April 30, 1998

After a storied college and professional hockey playing career, John Mariucci took over as coach of the Gophers hockey team in 1952. He helped turn an average program into a perennial national contender,...

Man claiming knowledge of a plot to kill Diana arrested

Published April 30, 1998

VIENNA, Austria (AP) -- A man who sought $15 million from Mohamed Al Fayed for documents alleging that his son Dodi and Princess Diana were murdered was arrested in a sting involving the FBI and the CIA. The...

Professor switches schools, not fields

by Ken Eisinger
Published April 30, 1998

When departures created an opening for a professor in the psychology department this year, program recruiters did not need to search nationally for a qualified candidate. They simply looked across the...

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