The Minnesota Daily

Students launch award-winning website for kids

Published May 28, 1997

Armed with $56 to start their own business -- the amount required by the state of Minnesota -- and a high-end computer, three University students and two students from St. Cloud State University have...

Harvey remains upbeat after injury

by Allison Younge
Published May 28, 1997

Early Friday morning, 11 Gophers men's track and field athletes walked away from a nerve-racking van accident unscathed. Unfortunately, there were 12 Minnesota competitors on board. Veteran pole vaulter...

Parking rates to increase

by Lynne Kozarek
Published May 28, 1997

Commuters will need to carry a little more change starting this summer. The cost of parking on campus is increasing again. Parking and Transportation Services on Tuesday afternoon announced the decision...

U’s politics buffs mull high court’s ruling on Clinton

by Chris Vetter
Published May 28, 1997

The United States Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday that the president is not immune from civil and criminal lawsuits, opening up the possibility that President Bill Clinton could go to trial. The Court's...

School children get taste of life at U

by Douglas Rojas
Published May 28, 1997

Amanda Montgomery, a sixth-grade elementary school student, wants to be a lawyer or a wild cat trainer after she finishes school. And on Tuesday, she had the chance to visit the University for the first...

Institute appoints professor for elite fruit fly research

by Peter Kauffner
Published May 28, 1997

An extra pair of wings might not help a fly soar through the air, but the mutation might help scientists. And with an appointment from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute to assist him, a University associate...

Air Force pilot seeks honorable discharge

Published May 28, 1997

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Air Force bomber pilot Kelly Flinn can appeal her general discharge but is unlikely to succeed, Pentagon spokesman Kenneth Bacon said on Tuesday. Flinn, who indicated through her attorney...

Cafe mixed both idealism and food

Published May 28, 1997

It was late last Friday, and University senior Angela Scharfenberger was tired. "I don't know what we could have done," she said. "Things were kind of a mess." Scharfenberger was about to talk about the...

State park is home to research station

by Kamariea Forcier
Published May 27, 1997

While tourists flocked to the headwaters of the Mississippi River to kick off Memorial Day weekend on Saturday, Daniel Traun sat on the front porch of his Lake Itasca State Park home, feeding jelly and...

Paper shouldn’t have exposed ‘angel’

Published May 27, 1997

Some days, I'm proud to be a journalist, and other days, I want to hang my head and cry. Like any profession, journalists suffer the reputation of "the media" when a few bad seeds ruin it for the rest...