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The Minnesota Daily

Serving the UMN community since 1900

The Minnesota Daily

Balance of power shifts to U

by Tim Klobuchar
Published April 22, 1997

The Gophers and Ohio State baseball teams are fairly evenly matched, as the two games won by both teams this weekend would indicate. One aspect of the game that figured to favor the Buckeyes was power....

A Minnesota Daily voter’s guide

Published April 22, 1997

Corey Donovan and Kiaora Bohlool emphasize three main points in their campaign: a diverse University community, progressive justice and a belief in students. "We believe in diversity and that we can rejuvenate...

Yudof to import Texan to serve as his chief of staff

by Jim Martyka
Published April 22, 1997

University President-elect Mark Yudof on Monday appointed a fellow Longhorn as his new chief of staff to help in advising and implementing presidential policy. Tonya Moten Brown, who is currently assistant...

Grand Forks will survive the floods

Published April 21, 1997

ome home, Sammy. We're trying to save our city." Those are the words my mother said to me on the phone Thursday night. Idon't think I've ever heard that exact matter-of-fact tone from her before. I knew...

Russia’s streets fill with homeless children

Published April 21, 1997

MOSCOW (AP) -- When the authorities picked up Oleg and Sergei, the youngsters were sleeping in telephone booths with cardboard boxes for mattresses. Wild-eyed and filthy, as snapshots taken by social workers...

Crookston opens up to flood victims

by Lynne Kozarek
Published April 21, 1997

As the Red River continues to rise and wreak havoc on towns along the border between Minnesota and the Dakotas, about 3,000 people from the Grand Forks area have been evacuated to nearby Crookston, Minn. Between...

U’s Knaeble earns All-American honor

by Susan Filkins
Published April 21, 1997

The Gophers women's gymnastics team has managed throughout the course of the season to break just about every record it has ever set. This weekend, it continued to make history. For the first time ever...

As students move in, community moves out

by Joel Sawyer
Published April 21, 1997

Frank Zaragoza remembers a time when the Motley neighborhood of Southeast Minneapolis was a quiet place with a strong sense of community. "Forty years ago it was like a little village. Most people who...

U baseball’s bullpen gets burned by sun

by Tim Klobuchar
Published April 21, 1997

COLUMBUS, Ohio -- As Minnesota's Ted Zrust prepared to pitch to Ohio State's Jason Driscoll with the Gophers' tenuous last-inning lead in peril on Saturday, the sun slipped from behind the clouds, illuminating...

Credibility eroding, tobacco giants talk

Published April 21, 1997

Last week's revelation that Philip Morris and RJR Nabisco are holding secret settlement talks with plaintiffs suing the tobacco industry represents a critical development in decade-long efforts to curtail...

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