With a week-old win over first-round opponent Northwestern in its hip pocket, the fourth-seeded Gophers women's tennis team looked like a solid pick to advance to the semi-finals of the Big Ten tournament...

The Minnesota Daily's Board of Directors chose current marketing director Heather Burgess as 1997-98 business manager. She will take over in June as the paper's financial chief operating officer, handling...

In Finnish, my last name means, "peninsula." The NiemelÑ side of my family hails from the northeastern part of Finland, which is striped by narrow lakes that mark an ancient glacial path. I imagine my...

Finally, two years after tragedy struck the Alfred P. Murrah federal building in Oklahoma City, the trial of former Army Sgt. Timothy McVeigh has begun. Memorial services are being held around the country...

STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) -- In the havoc of the 1960s -- and even in the quieter times of the '70s and '80s -- Penn State's Black Caucus was right there, staging sit-ins, making demands. The '90s have been...

Tunnels connecting the ecology building basement on the St. Paul Campus with other buildings used to be long corridors of dull space. Now, images on the walls depicting animal behaviors, plant communities...

Glen Mason measures success in degrees. As the new Gophers football coach, he expects nothing less than a complete 180 degree turnaround. But for now, Mason is just happy to see a small turn in the right...

Higher visibility of issues like the coming out of Ellen DeGeneres' character in this week's "Ellen" episode leads one writer to conclude that media are becoming more comfortable with discussions of homosexuality. Michelangelo...

In a seven-hour plane tour of the flood zone Friday, University President Nils Hasselmo and officials from the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities system promised their help in rebuilding schools...

Attorney General Janet Reno's decision not to appoint an independent counsel to investigate alleged campaign abuses in last year's federal elections has undermined the legitimacy of campaign finance laws....