The Minnesota Daily

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...

Department secretarydies unexpectedly

by Jim Martyka
Published April 30, 1997

An employee from the University's School of Journalism and Mass Communication died Tuesday, despite efforts from medical technicians as well as a University student to resuscitate her. Mary Ann Lukanen,...

Strong economy allows a reduction in the debt

Published April 30, 1997

WASHINGTON (AP) -- For only the second time in 16 years, the government plans to pay off a tiny sliver of the national debt this quarter. But the government will return to its borrowing ways in the summer. The...

Suspect chased by car, on foot

by Tom Lopez
Published April 30, 1997

Andrew Tellijohn A high-speed car chase led University Police from the West Bank campus to St. Paul on Friday night, and culminated in a 20-minute foot chase before it was finished. At about 5 p.m. on...

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...

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...

Annual bike, camping gear swap will be held next week

by Joseph Corbett
Published April 30, 1997

Students looking to revamp their camping equipment but without the cash to invest are in luck: A sale on the St. Paul campus will offer inexpensive new and used gear. Staff from the Outdoor Store, The...

Gophers get swept but stay in race for Big Ten playoffs

by Michael Rand
Published April 30, 1997

The result of the Gophers softball team's doubleheader at Wisconsin on Tuesday, particularly game one, has to make members of the squad feel jinxed. But the action at a different pair of games provided...

Accomplished CLA deanelected to arts academy

by Joel Sawyer
Published April 30, 1997

Steven Rosenstone, dean of the University's College of Liberal Arts, was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences earlier this month for his contributions to the study of American politics. "He's...

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...