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Serving the UMN community since 1900

The Minnesota Daily

Serving the UMN community since 1900

The Minnesota Daily

Fake ID incidents proliferate police blotters

Published April 7, 1998

Since the drinking age in Minnesota changed from 19 to 21 in 1985, even more underage University students have enhanced their social lives by obtaining fraudulent forms of identification. Not everyone...

Baseball’s Selander wins weekly award

by Sarah Mitchell
Published April 7, 1998

Junior Craig Selander was named Big Ten Player of the Week after the Gophers baseball team's sweep over Iowa this weekend. Selander went 6-for-14 against Hawkeyes pitchers, highlighted by two home runs,...

Freebies surge past political concern

Published April 7, 1998

Hey, want a free T-shirt? A candy bar? How about a free bottle of Pepsi? Oops, make that a Coke. It's no surprise that advertisers are after your dollar. Yes, they even want your precious student dollar...

Law student captures Republican backing

by Brian Close
Published April 6, 1998

Two University students vied Saturday for the Republican endorsement for the state House of Representatives at the District 59B caucus at Northeast Middle School. Rob Fowler, a University law student,...

Late heroics cap sweep for U

by Sarah Mitchell
Published April 6, 1998

Members of Iowa's baseball team paced the third-base dugout Sunday at Siebert Field, desperately wanting to salvage one game in order to avoid a four-game sweep at the hands of the Gophers. On the other...

Albright calls for more cooperation in fighting drug traffickers

Published April 6, 1998

BLACK ROCK, Tobago (AP) -- Secretary of State Madeleine Albright called Sunday for more cooperation against drug traffickers and praised Trinidad and Tobago for leading the way. In 1996, Trinidad and Tobago...

Week honors grad students’ work

by Ken Eisinger
Published April 6, 1998

Have you hugged your TA today? Sunday kicked off Graduate and Professional Student Appreciation Week, marking the fourth consecutive year Gov. Arne Carlson has made such a proclamation. The observance...

Cartoons generate animated letters

Published April 6, 1998

A Brooklyn Park police lieutenant wrote to the Daily last week complaining about the "inaccurate representation of the police and the D.A.R.E. program," in Pete Wagner's Tuesday cartoon. The cartoon depicted...

Theater honors King’s legacy with production

by Kelly Hildebrandt
Published April 6, 1998

On Apr. 5, 1968, Warren Bowles was a sophomore in college traveling in Italy. He picked up a newspaper and, from the little Italian he knew, made out the headline: "Dr. King assassinated, Civil War in...

Another sharp quake hits central Italy

Published April 6, 1998

ROME (AP) -- Fans fled a soccer stadium in a small Umbrian town and tourists hurried out of St. Francis Basilica in Assisi on Sunday when another sharp earthquake struck central Italy. There were no immediate...

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