The Minnesota Daily

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...

Youth shows for U women’s track

by Allison Younge
Published May 27, 1997

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- A single step by a Gophers sprinter became the determining factor in a seventh-place finish for Minnesota's women's track and field team at the Big Ten championships in Champaign, Ill.,...

Low-key White lets actions speak for her

by Allison Younge
Published May 27, 1997

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- At the University of Illinois Track and Field Stadium on Saturday a hurdle barrier was broken. The culprit: a quiet, low-profile sophomore hurdler named Yvette White. In the 100 meter...

Lone-Star Elmo

Published May 27, 1997

Elmo was disturbed. His favorite tree only had a few leaves. He wondered if Minnesota would ever have warm temperatures. He took out the paper to look at the weather report. It said that Tuesday would...

U men’s track eyes a top three finish

by Allison Younge
Published May 23, 1997

The Gophers men's track and field team will rely on field event specialists to anchor its scoring at the Big Ten championships in Champaign, Ill., this weekend. "The field events are going to have to...

The renaissance of Gophers baseball — 75 years later

by Tim Klobuchar
Published May 23, 1997

In the early 1920s Babe Ruth, with his prodigious home runs and personality, was well on his way to rescuing professional baseball after the 1919 Black Sox scandal had caused the sport's popularity to...

Crookston students master long-distance learning

by Peter Kauffner
Published May 23, 1997

Three Crookston students will be receiving master's degrees from the College of Education and Human Development today -- without ever having to be within 300 miles of their professors. Instead, the three...

Who will set the pace at Big Tens?

Published May 23, 1997

Staff Reporter Two months ago the Gophers men's and women's track and field teams took their talents outdoors. Improvement was seen throughout the season as Minnesota used each meet as a stepping stone...

Gabler, Hjarrand to take swing at the pro circuit

by Aaron Kirscht
Published May 23, 1997

On the outskirts of professional tennis -- far away from the glitz and glamour and Grand Slams -- lie the satellite circuits. And while it's not pretty out there, it's where a career in the pros begins. Success...