The Minnesota Daily

Police search for scam artists and flood victims

Published April 30, 1997

GRAND FORKS, N.D. (AP) -- Grand Forks Police put out the first alert for scam artists on Tuesday, while authorities to the north began searching for a couple missing since they tried to detour around the...

Star scanner is cataloging the universe

by Peter Kauffner
Published April 30, 1997

Cataloging the stars in the sky is not a job for the easily frustrated. Not only are there millions and millions of stars to be mapped, but the equipment breaks down, too. "Basically you have to smile...

Mondale welcomed back to U

Published April 30, 1997

Former U.S. Vice President and Ambassador to Japan Walter Mondale will deliver the commencement address to graduates of the University's Law School in a ceremony on Saturday, May 10, in Northrop Auditorium. Despite...

Chicago’s prize-winning columnist and critic dies

Published April 30, 1997

CHICAGO (AP) -- Mike Royko, the Pulitzer Prize-winning newspaper columnist whose biting sarcasm and empathy for the common man captured the gritty essence of Chicago for more than three decades, died on...

Senate votes to give prosecutors a rebuttal

Published April 30, 1997

ST. PAUL (AP) -- In a vote that could change a 19th-century Minnesota law, the state Senate voted to give criminal prosecutors the last word in trials. "Victims have to be remembered in this process,"...

Sergeant convicted of raping six trainees

Published April 30, 1997

ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md. (AP) -- A drill instructor was convicted Tuesday of raping six women trainees in the most serious case yet to come out of the sex scandal that has rocked the Army. Staff Sgt....

Panel: Drug laws should be more equal

Published April 30, 1997

WASHINGTON (AP) -- A sentencing panel recommended keeping harsher federal penalties for selling crack cocaine but said the wide disparity in current sentencing laws should be reduced. "Although research...

Gophers get bats on track at Siebert

by Tim Klobuchar
Published April 30, 1997

Whether Tuesday night's offensive explosion against Division II St. Cloud State has any carry-over effect for the Gophers baseball team this weekend in an important Big Ten series at Iowa remains to be...

MSA candidates must clean up campus, literally

by Tracy Ellingson
Published April 30, 1997

Triumphant celebrations and gatherings of the defeated officially mark the end of election campaigns. But like any other party, the hosts have to clean up afterward -- and for this year's MSA campaign...

Sinatra will receive Congressional honor

Published April 30, 1997

WASHINGTON (AP) -- "Ol' Blue Eyes" is headed for gold. Frank Sinatra, the recipient of numerous awards for an entertainment career that spans six decades, will add the Congressional Gold Medal to the collection...