The Minnesota Daily's board of directors once again chose a relative newcomer to lead the paper Thursday when it picked associate editor R. Scott Rogers as 1997-98 editor in chief. Like current editor...

A night of Timberwolves basketball, music and chatting with friends came to a sudden halt as the final tallies of the all-campus elections came in at Argyle House late Thursday night. Minnesota Student...

Golf has been a major part of sophomore men's golfer Bill Thompson's life since he was a toddler. He got his first set of golf clubs when he was just 4 years old and grew up playing with current PGA competitor...

An informal poll of Gophers softball players concerning the team's hitting in the past seven games would likely draw these results: "Unproductive" -- 0 votes. "Unproductive is not a strong enough adjective"...

A dejected Elmo sat in scorn as creatures all around him frolicked in the spring air. It was partly cloudy, and the high would be around 60 today. The beautiful weather of late had summoned life out of...

Ross Loel, who helped the men's tennis team win four straight Big Ten championships from 1992-95, stopped by to check in on his former team last week. When he was around, Loel asked to see the bracket...

When Rimon Bengiamin watches television footage of his hometown, he says, it doesn't seem real. A University sophomore and native of Grand Forks, N.D., Bengiamin said he has to strain to recognize well-known...

MA'RIB, Yemen (AP) -- When American diplomat Haynes Mahoney landed in the lair of Yemeni kidnappers, he was greeted with neither ransom demand nor brandished Kalashnikov. Instead, a poem was recited in...

Deferred maintenance -- a euphemistic term for years of neglect -- has left the University with a backlog of building repairs and renovations. The amount of money the University needs to bring decaying...

Sophomore decathlete Benjamin Jensen appears to possess all of the essential qualities of a world-class athlete -- a solid reputation of success, the hunger for heightened achievement and the focus of...