When Gertrude Stein said, "A rose is a rose is a rose," she probably wasn't thinking about a consumerist, market-driven economy. In a society where someone can walk into a grocery store and find at least...

Sleeping is a human need, but Gophers third baseman Matt Scanlon takes the necessity to an extreme. Freshman reliever Kurt Haring estimated his roommate averages 11 hours of sleep a day. But while Scanlon...

Editor's note: The following statements were submitted by candidates for the Minnesota Student Association, the University Senate and the Minnesota Public Interest Research Group when they filed for the...

Sabeen Altaf and Michael Hsu Altaf and Hsu want to improve the accountability and the credibility of the student association by achieving goals that affect the student body directly. "What makes it different...

A higher power has intervened, but not in the way Reggie White might have thought. The "Minister of Defense" shocked many in Packerland last week when he announced his retirement. Nonetheless, it seemed...

An unwritten rule in softball: Never intentionally move the go-ahead run into scoring position. But Iowa State coach Ruth Crowe broke that rule and paid for it dearly in game two of Tuesday's doubleheader...

Faculty members from the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities system voted on Monday to authorize a strike. Officials from the system, comprised of seven state colleges and universities, said the...

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) -- A tobacco analyst said Tuesday he expects the Minnesota lawsuit against the tobacco industry to be settled as early as this weekend for as much as $5 billion. "We've talked to people...

Pro-democracy demonstrators killed or imprisoned by the Chinese military during the 1989 Tiananmen Square incident is still fresh in the minds of many. The leader of that demonstration, Wang Dan, was exiled...

In its battle against a constant onslaught of litigation, the University is not alone. More than 230 cases against the University sit on the general counsel's docket at any given time and 70 percent of...