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The Minnesota Daily

Serving the UMN community since 1900

The Minnesota Daily

Forcieable future looks challenging

by Kristian Pope
Published June 20, 1997

Like a bad case of the flu, situations like this may seem to cloud around Pat Forciea. Professional sports teams uprooting their history and bolting for beaucoup bucks in unforgiving cities, craving the...

Tidy up for Yudof

by Chris Hamilton
Published June 20, 1997

As part of the more than $1 billion needed to repair and renew University facilities state-wide, officials are moving ahead with plans to spend $840,000 to repair Eastcliff mansion. The work underway...

Proposal may change loan eligibility

Published June 20, 1997

The Minnesota Higher Education Services Office proposed amendments to the rule governing its Student Educational Loan Fund program on Tuesday that would allow University students access to larger low-interest...

Several groups argue inconsistencies in compensation

by Jeremy Taff
Published June 20, 1997

Several University constituent groups spent Wednesday afternoon lobbying the Board of Regents for more money from the school's 1997-98 operating budget. Representatives from several committees voiced...

Toddler unearths dinosaur egg on camping trip

Published June 20, 1997

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) -- Don Shiffler didn't think much about it when his 3-year-old son insisted that the thin, green rock he unearthed with his toy backhoe was a dinosaur egg. Think again, Dad. Researchers...

Wisconsin students may need to pay surcharge

by Chris Vetter
Published June 20, 1997

Wisconsin students will pay more to attend Minnesota public colleges beginning in the fall of 1998, under an agreement reached earlier this month by the two states. Currently, Wisconsin and Minnesota...

Southern Baptists vote to boycott Disney

Published June 20, 1997

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Want to watch ESPN's Sunday night baseball game? That's off limits, if you're a Southern Baptist. Take the kids to a matinee of "Hercules?" Scratch those plans. Catch a rerun of "Home...

U approves funding for Asian-American studies

by Nancy Ngo
Published June 20, 1997

Although many of the University's ethnic studies programs have been in existence for 25 years or more, the school is still without an Asian-American studies program. But that might change when the University...

Costly layoffs if education funding bill fails

Published June 20, 1997

ST. PAUL (AP) -- It will cost the state $8 million to lay off some 540 Department of Children, Families and Learning employees if Gov. Carlson and the Legislature don't agree on a K-12 funding bill soon...

Slowing drivers is a dizzy task

by Jeremy Taff
Published June 20, 1997

In the movie "Speed," a bus hot-wired by a terrorist would blow up if the vehicle's speed dipped below 50 mph. In the driving simulator at the University's Human Factors Research Laboratory, scientists...

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